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Norwegian sailing magazine SEILmagasinet's pre-summer broadcast covers race coverage, boat tests, and a planned summer passage.0:22 The broadcast opens with coverage of the Ferdiseilasen regatta, where results were delayed after the Manage to Sail scoring system failed, forcing organizers to phone competitors to confirm finish times; KNS used weather routing for handicap calculations a second time, producing disputed results corrected five days later.0:38 Kristian Østby mounted Starlink and two cameras on his boat to livestream the race, with one camera failing in rain — a test run before his planned Race of the Arctic live broadcast.1:44 The XR 41, priced from 6 million to 8.7 million NOK (up to 10 million fully equipped), was tested shorthanded off the Netherlands; it reached double-digit speeds but never matched the Beneteau First 300 sailed the same day.16:01 The Jpk 1050, sailed with designer Jean-Pierre Calvert weeks after his Rolex Fastnet Race overall win, hit 20.5 knots surfing down waves.23:36 The BirdyFish foiling dinghy, weighing 30 kg and priced just under 300,000 NOK, was trialed at Moss Seilforening.6:59 Pia Dahl-Andersen and Nora Edland are interviewed after winning Norway's first 49er FX world championship and the country's first world title in an active Olympic class in 23 years.32:16 A crew member plans a solo summer passage on an Albin Sirius from Oslo to Bornholm via Læsø, Anholt, and Copenhagen.29:42

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