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    Posted: 18 Nov 12 at 6:54pm
Originally posted by andy101

I am less sure now, we are all heading into a large hole tuesday and the answer will probably be which side the wind fills in from first.......probably the opposite of where you want it to!  
 
Is Bootscooter intending to cross or keep going down the coast?  
 
I'm going to try and ghost along the coastline - doubt if it'll work but I've made my bed.... LOL
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I had dropped 150k places by the time I gybed. Now well clear to the West of the Cape Verdes with some good downwind angles, so really hoping to make up some places from my current position of 235k.
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Originally posted by getafix

was west-of-rhum, now working towards east-of-rhum line, picking up places as I go... can see Dougal going way left.... hhhmm, not so sure about that.. think I will weave through, or just to the east of the cape-verde islands
 
I have just gybed - I went a little further west than i intended but frankly I had better things to do on a Sunday afternoon than sit on the computer waiting for the moment to gybe!  I will probably end up carving through the cape verde's now.
 
Getafix - what is your boat name? 
 
 
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remember 4yrs ago, thinking I'd been very clever and avoided a massive hole... it moved, twice, on subsequent forecasts and sat all over my course for 3 days in the end... hope they've improved the model somewhat since
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was west-of-rhum, now working towards east-of-rhum line, picking up places as I go... can see Dougal going way left.... hhhmm, not so sure about that.. think I will weave through, or just to the east of the cape-verde islands
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I am less sure now, we are all heading into a large hole tuesday and the answer will probably be which side the wind fills in from first.......probably the opposite of where you want it to!  
 
Is Bootscooter intending to cross or keep going down the coast?  
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120k places lost since yesterday evening - is that a record?  I still think West will pay in the long run.
 
 
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Originally posted by jharvey

Not sure rb_stretch was a bit to the west of me this morning and closer to that line than me and almost level but possibly slightly South of me but was behind in places.
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Blimey, John having chatted to you this morning at the club, you gave no indication of doing this.

Unfortunately I find myself heading South, even though I want to go west. To go west I'd have to be sailing WNW and dont really want to have to go N at all.
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Well going West has so far cost me 120k places, so quite frankly the placings are rubbish for judging progress. Maybe when we are in the southern ocean they might make more sense.

Still going west as well, to make sure that I can clear the cape verde islands. Harder to judge this one as the winds will get lighter as we turn south and will therefore harden up the sailing angles ( if these boats perform like real ones that is).

 Half the fun of the game seems to be learning how the boats work, but I can't say that I actually know what I'm doing just yet...if only we had polars for the boats!!
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Not sure rb_stretch was a bit to the west of me this morning and closer to that line than me and almost level but possibly slightly South of me but was behind in places.
I'm in it as sparks23
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