VOR
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Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
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Topic: VOR
Posted By: Bootscooter
Subject: VOR
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 1:32pm
| Anyone else doing the Virtual Regatta Volvo Ocean Race? |
Replies:
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 4:16pm
| Well, I signed up earlier on, as they keep sending me emails..... |
Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 5:06pm
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Photo Gruitt
------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: Norbas
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 5:19pm
| I am. 'Norgerbas' |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 5:52pm
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I've got you both ------------- |
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 6:02pm
| forgot to mention - Fat Boy Swim |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 6:13pm
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added you.... I'm trying to time my gybe just right at the mo...
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Posted By: Norbas
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 6:18pm
| Same here. Trying to leave it as late as possible though. |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 9:33pm
| Left mine too late, can't work out how to get off the rocks! |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 10:22pm
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So far lost 13 miles and still stuck.
Pointing back at the start and still not moving. I feel the fun of this game might be short lived if I spend the next month 8 hours from Alicante. |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 11 Oct 14 at 10:24pm
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Phatphantom ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 9:42am
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Missed the start so fell a bit behind. Made up some ground overnight though. Racing as Washy71. ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 10:40am
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olisouth ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 11:28am
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Tom... you appear to be on the rocks. Head NW then SW (Gareth had an issue last night with not being able to zoom in enough on an ipad/iphone to see which way to go to get off). ------------- |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 12:45pm
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Bit new to this! Anyway to "play" using a browser on a PC? ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 12:57pm
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What's up Washy? ------------- |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 3:26pm
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Just wondering is all. ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 3:46pm
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I do mostly on my laptop... fairly simple to use.. ------------- |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 4:55pm
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How do you do it on laptop? All I could see on browser was a summary. This iPad app is a bit crap. ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 5:13pm
Hmm it seems to not show these rocks on my iPhone!!! ------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 8:07pm
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Washy - did what you saw have the map on the rhs and a control panel on the lhs?
If so, just click and drag the heading arrow on the "compass rose" to change direction... ------------- |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 8:35pm
Am all sorted now with dash on laptop. Much nicer than iPad/iPhone app! ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 12 Oct 14 at 8:47pm
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Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 13 Oct 14 at 1:18pm
You're certainly going well!  ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Norbas
Date Posted: 13 Oct 14 at 2:50pm
Aye, nice going.
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Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 13 Oct 14 at 10:38pm
Happy so far, but have the big decision on whether to go oceanic or hug the African Coast now....  ------------- |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 14 Oct 14 at 6:12am
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At the back of the pack it was possible to make some big gains (and losses) on the tripnto the atlantic. I think now the gains will be harder making the right decision much more important. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 14 Oct 14 at 8:52pm
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Have just started out, they seem to let you in mid fleet which is good so already ahead of Gruitt and Sargesail who seemed to have stop for a beer in Gib.
Said I was going to do this after the last Vendee but will give the first leg a go and see what happens, not going to pay for any extras and will only be checking a couple of times a day. Is it the same as last time in terms of wind and weather changes at 7am and 7pm? |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 14 Oct 14 at 9:20pm
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I think if you join part way thru they insert you at te 70th percentile (or some such). Yup, 0700 and 1900 wind changes (this'll change next weekend, yes?) ------------- |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 14 Oct 14 at 11:11pm
I'd binned it but I might have a look. Not sure what happened I thought I left her on starbaord tack heading for N Africa!
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Posted By: Delta
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 12:52am
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Anybody know what the difference is between the Black&grey and Blue&white boats apart from the colour!?
There is a team competition as well, anyone for team "Y&Y Formites" Currently chasing what I think is the position of the real life boat of the competitor that does the welcome chat. My boat name is Late Chaser. No upgrades. ------------- http://www.stopthetraffik.org/help/declaration.aspx" rel="nofollow - http://www.stopthetraffik.org/help/declaration.aspx |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 12:29pm
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SgtPepper_6084 Currently around 14000 after a late start. Currently climbing at 5000 places a day :) not for long I am sure!
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Posted By: Norbas
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 1:24pm
| I can't get over how realistic it is. Just like a normal race in that despite managing a good start I'm slowly falling back down the fleet. |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 2:26pm
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The leaders are in the best wind right now helping to extend their lead! ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 2:29pm
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Of course the forecast said to expect as much but I was already too far behind to get into the right place! Its a long game!
------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 8:31pm
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I'm coming for you Oli! ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 15 Oct 14 at 11:05pm
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You're next sawman.
This is much more interesting now that I've added you all and have people to chase and people to run from. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 7:05pm
I think you have got past me for now - but as a miracle sailor I am used to finishing behind and relying on banditry to get a good result
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 8:31pm
| Please could this thread get moved to another location that's vaguely relevant. |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 8:47pm
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Give over Jim. I posted it here because it's the only section with significant traffic, that would give me a chance of linking up with others competing..... same as posting "who's going to the Bloody Mary" etc. ------------- |
Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 9:47pm
Could have put it in the 'Sailing games' section of the general forum area??????? |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 9:59pm
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Yup.
Last post....09 Dec 12 at 12:27pm I'm sure we'd have found each other there... ------------- |
Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 10:09pm
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I guess it depends on how you use the forum. Not sure if Im an odd one out, but I always click on 'New Posts' in the top left corner, so I'd of seen it.
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Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 16 Oct 14 at 10:16pm
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I very rarely look anywhere other than Dinghy Development.
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Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 6:06am
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I'm not looking forward to checking in this morning. After making significant progress over the last couple of days I started haemorrhaging places from the 7pm weather update as I hit the light wind area around the canaries. I elected to gybe and go round the east side rather than straight through it which looked to have even lighter airs.
Why does the VOR go all the way over to south America on its way to cape town? ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 6:53am
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Ditto. Lost about 140 miles to bootscooter so far.
But we shouldn't really write about it here in case people who aren't interested keep reading it just to annoy themselves. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 7:21am
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OK Mark, Mags, seems you may as well delete all the other forum sections and we can just have everything dumped in dinghy development because bootscooter doesn't look anywhere else...
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Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 7:42am
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I trust you're getting equally indignant on the training, capsize, Bart's Bash, and age threads. I would check, but I tend not to open threads I'm not interested in.
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Posted By: Roger
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 8:31pm
Only way to use this forum in my opinion, log in, click "new posts" and see whats being talked about. |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 8:53pm
Shouldn't 'how to use the forum' be in the Technique forum? 
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Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 17 Oct 14 at 11:12pm
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I only ever look in this section so only came across this game when BS put up the Virtual Vendee thread a couple of years ago and enjoyed that one apart from going on holiday for a few days in December, missing an Ice gate and spending 3 days going back.
Would not have been doing this one without spotting the thread on here, although I would be doing a bit better if it had the name @Virtual Volvo@ rather than VOR as I only opened it 3 days after the race started so missed all the fun the med
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Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 18 Oct 14 at 10:16am
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Beached on Tenerife since midnight and dropped at least 5000 places. FAAAAAARRRRRRKKK! ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 18 Oct 14 at 12:46pm
| Thought you must have gone nightclubbing |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 29 Oct 14 at 10:21pm
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Good to see the leaders of our little group have sailed into a large hole. Serves them right for paying extra for the fast boats and getting there first Hopefully us cheapskates at the back will be able to go round it, it is tempting to start trying to creep east but I think it may be best to wait until level with Rio before making a decision
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Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 03 Nov 14 at 12:50pm
| So I have worked my way up to around 3200 now, where is everyone else now after the drama of the ice gate??? |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 03 Nov 14 at 2:19pm
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Around 1600 at the mo'. Looking fiddly getting to the finish though. 1018 miles to go... ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 03 Nov 14 at 2:36pm
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climbed up to 6295 having been around 12000th for most of the race, now with 1617 miles to go. ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Nov 14 at 4:23pm
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Anyone broken a virtual pushpit yet?
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 04 Nov 14 at 3:12pm
| What is the deal with breakages? I have seen a few people complain about them on the VR forum but I don't know if it is tongue in cheek comments or are people really getting messages saying "oh dear, you have a broken halyard" or whatever....? |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 05 Nov 14 at 1:47pm
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No idea about breakages. Just broke the 500 miles to go barrier. The rich certainly got richer towards the end. I've struggled like hell to keep in wind last few days but those guys (who were only 40 miles away from me a few days ago) just managed to get far enough south to pick up a ton of wind and stick with it. They're now only 30miles from the showers! ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 9:58am
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That's me done! 26D 21H 22M 1589th. How's everyone else done/doing?
------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 12:57pm
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well done washy! great effort. still have 337 miles to go so sometime sat eve / sunday morning for me depending on how much the wind drops ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 6:26pm
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Well done chaps. I'm bloody miles away trapped in the st Helena high it seems. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 7:15pm
| well done you chaps - still 1100 miles for me |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 07 Nov 14 at 8:57pm
Well done guys, 1193 to the finish for me, I think I am about 5 grids due south of you Sawman. Possibly in better breeze at the moment but the breeze is dropping from behind me so may get caught in a hole again! 
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Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 08 Nov 14 at 12:05am
Well 3 days of going nowhere sent me from hero to zero (story of my life!).... still a few days to go  ------------- |
Posted By: sawman
Date Posted: 08 Nov 14 at 8:31am
I see you there, with miksbrick, one of the pistonheads contenders. I think I probably should have stayed closer to south america for a little longer. but I lost my nerve. I have just pointed the snout at cape town and will hope for the best. The iphone app seems to have stopped working for me, so I can only set courses when I am in the house!
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Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 08 Nov 14 at 5:28pm
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Yep, only been looking twice a day which in most of the time in the Atlantic trade winds is all it needs, might get a bit more tricky in other areas but I think that is why they offer options to pay for extras which let you plan sail changes and course changes when you are not around (not going to take them up though). Where are we heading for next and when? It would be good not to miss the start this time
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Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 08 Nov 14 at 5:54pm
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just finished, 28days 5hours 38mins, in 4972nd ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 9:59am
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3328 - 27D 15H 47M - I will take that having started 3 days after the start in about 30,000th! |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 10:05am
| Thought I could just point it at the finish and go to bed. Spent 4 hours aground having randomly changed heading!! |
Posted By: Happilyover40
Date Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 10:15am
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Seems to have stopped working on my Iphone and Ipad Anyone else having the same issues? I can log in displays the world map then bombs out. Tried removing and re-installing but to no avail. Graham |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 10:26am
| IPhone app is terrible. I can use my android tablet, but the information you can get via a PC is much better. |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 12 Nov 14 at 8:55am
| Macbook Pro is my weapon of choice, has pretty much taken over from tablet use for me. 13 inch with retina display and the solid state drives. Boots up in 5 seconds, so as quick as a tablet to use and it runs VR! |
Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 12 Nov 14 at 12:53pm
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I've finished!! Finally I can go back to a normal sleep pattern.
------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 12 Nov 14 at 12:56pm
| Tom, you only need to check it twice a day, once at 7am and once at 7pm. The wind doesn't change between those times. |
Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 12 Nov 14 at 2:21pm
It does if you sail through different wind direction/speed arrows... ------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 12 Nov 14 at 6:45pm
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When you are in the trade winds twice a day isn't to costly but when the wind is more mixed up you run the risk of spending a few hours stuck head to wind or going DDW or with that old familiar chestnut when you log in in the morning and discover 'you have been sailing with a bad sail for 5 hours 23 mins'
Finished a couple of days ago at 10578, made a big gain by heading close to the ice gates in the south Atlantic as I crossed the equator at about 20,000. Tom,I think you followed within a couple of grids of me most of the way from just north of the Canaries up until deep into the south Atlantic when I went a little further south. |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 14 Nov 14 at 8:13am
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Ah see I cheated and paid for auto sails and the programmable headings so that I could have some sleep from time to time! |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 19 Nov 14 at 10:22am
| So off we go again this afternoon, everyone ready? Tricky leg this one, get too far south and the trip north becomes hard, go too far north and eastward speed is an issue. |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 19 Nov 14 at 10:46am
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Just deciding if I can be bothered to do another one!
------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 19 Nov 14 at 4:02pm
| Surprise surprise! Server is down due to the load of everyone trying to start the race... typical! |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 19 Nov 14 at 5:17pm
| Working now, first couple of days on this leg I think having the course change options will be a big benefit as it could reduce the distance sailed by quite a bit until we can properly go east. |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 21 Nov 14 at 8:30pm
| Yes, certainly got me around the cape a little quicker than some others. It says I am at around 17 or 18 thousandth at the moment although when i start heading north i expect to pop out at around 200-300th. The big gains in this leg will be made heading north into the gulf and through the soft stuff before we get to the trade winds again. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 22 Nov 14 at 11:35am
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Yes, I have messed up and gone North far to soon, saw a bit of a window in a forecast which then quickly changed 24 hours later and I didn't cut my losses
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Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 12:05pm
| Well it's all gone a bit wrong for those who went south. It seems that the current leaders are going to be the ones to get going north first and fastest. I'm currently being nailed by left hand shifts and the next few days look very painful! I think I will be lucky to finish this leg in the top 10k if things carry on like this! |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 12:27pm
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Yeah, I'm well south. Not really paying attention to this leg though. Still fairly early days mind ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 12:46pm
| I went north just early enough to get a whacking great header all of today whilst the people east of me are sailing at 110 true. I am stuck going northwest upwind. Tomorrow i should have more wind than those east of me and will then only be losing out to half the fleet! |
Posted By: Washy71
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 12:47pm
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Yeah I'm ESE of you. Not looking pretty next few days. ------------- D-Zero GBR71 |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 7:20pm
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Finally had the kite up today after about a week of going slowly upwind. If I miss the 7am course change tomorrow I will run aground on the coast of Madagascar at around 9.30! I think however I will be stuck in a headwind again in the next couple of days.
Phatphant is in a good place further ahead and may get around the mark and start heading north before the wind goes against us again. Who is Tedros? I think we collided at some point this afternoon, can you do a virtual 720 please?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 7:48pm
Were you a day early starting?! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 9:38pm
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So far so good but the next 24hrs will be painful. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 25 Nov 14 at 10:07pm
| Seems like a week. Almost everyone else put on their virtual bobble hats and headed for the roaring forties whereas I put on the virtual suncream and followed the direct route at about a third of the speed, they have temporarily slowed down but I think they will hook into more following breeze when I get another headwind in a couple of days. |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 27 Nov 14 at 7:11am
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Looks like the gamble to go north early might have just paid off, but only just. My positioining wasn't great heading south east for the first few days and now I'm somewhere near the front. Last night I dropped out of the top 1000 for the first time in 3 or 4 days and sgtpepper took at least 100 miles out of me.
Finally though I'm heading north again only losing fractions of a knot to sgtpepper but still losing places overall. Can't wait to pass mauritius and start heading down wind again. I'd be stuffed though if it wasn't for the true wind angle autopilot and the auto sail change extras though. No doubt about it. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 27 Nov 14 at 7:24pm
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Ouch, currently stuck in 1.7 knots of breeze and barely going to move one grid in the next 24 hours.
Did you have those extras for the previous leg as well Kev? I seem to recall being quite close. Think I may have to shell out for the next one! |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 27 Nov 14 at 7:27pm
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I bought them just as we were heading for the gybe mark off brasil. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 27 Nov 14 at 9:40pm
| Ok, think I will leave it for this one as I have messed it up anyway but may go for it on the next one |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 30 Nov 14 at 6:03pm
| all getting tricky again now! I am favouring a course way west of the rhum line for more breeze over the coming days but it may come and bite me in the backside when the wind comes from the north east later in the leg and i end up putting a tack in. Hopefully I can stay far enough east before that shift so that i can fetch the mark further north. |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 02 Dec 14 at 8:16pm
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Still not any clearer which way to go, left was looking better a day or two ago but less obvious now don't really want to go straight up the middle but if undecided for to much longer that is what will happen
Has anyone got a better weather site they are using? |
Posted By: GybeFunny
Date Posted: 02 Dec 14 at 8:19pm
| Try www.zezo.org for a computer routing, it is currently suggesting going right is faster. |