[Closed] Virtual regatta

AAAAAAAAAAARGH

Lost nearly 2000 places 🙁

I guess that's what happens when you spend most of the day drinking 🙁

Drink Sailing guys - it's not cool!!!!

I decided more than one race at a time was a bad idea!

I've been playing it cagey over the last couple of days, just making best speed due south. Decided last night to go for broke and try to pick up the westerlies down south.

As expected, dropped nearly 2000 places overnight to my worst position in weeks, but hopefully it'll pay off!

Looks like my trek almost all the way to S America is about to pay off BIG time 8) See you all in Capetown.

I came up about 10miles short of getting into that air-flow. Becalmed for the next few hours, but I think I'll still get going in time. i.e. still ahead of Doug. 😉

And the weathers changed again 🙁

I'll dig around and find some sort of prize I'm sure.

I've been sailing around in circles all afternoon, planning on eating my stock pile of beans to generate some wind though.

The upgraded sails do work, if there's wind....

so here's an idea.. the prize value will increase incrementally with the more sponsorship I get for my London - Paris ride next year,,, [url= http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/jockonabike ]give me all your money![/url]

Massive Error,

Thought I'd try and pick up the stuff at the south, then realised I would effectively have to go below Africa and sail back up.

Balls.

Oh well, I guess I'll be having fun tacking through the wind for the next few days.

Thought I'd try and pick up the stuff at the south, then realised I would effectively have to go below Africa and sail back up.

I just missed the weather window the other day and ended sitting still for the best part of 24hrs. In it now, but annoyingly the weather system is moving faster than I am and I'm struggling to stay in the best winds!

17knots is not to be sneezed at though!

Short of the swift deployment of a torpedo, looks like Doug's got it sewn up for the STW group. Fair play for going for it - I'm blaming some bad luck with the weather off the coast of Brazil, but if I'd been more decisive about going south it wouldn't have mattered!

Tilter is still a few miles ahead, but I'm going to back myself for 2nd place!

[Deploys anti torpedo nets]

Currently fighting it out for a top 200 SO finish 😯 . Anyone know when the next leg starts?

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Currently fighting it out for a top 200 SO finish . Anyone know when the next leg starts?

No idea. The overall classification is on "points" (combined position over all the legs, with the worst leg not counted) so they need to let a good chunk of the field finish, but they surely can't wait for everyone? (Given that at least 3 of the STW group alone aren't likely to get there any time in the current decade!).

Just realized, they'll probably restart when the real race does. 🙄

12th December apparently. Mrs is going to love me over Xmas.

I just want to make it to Cape Town before the cut off. Shesh, one bad decision took me from jumped me a decimal point to the right with the overall positions..
Must do better next leg

12th December apparently. Mrs is going to love me over Xmas.

Just in time for the start of the winter season! Expect to see me making extended straight-line sprints followed by irregular radical course changes!

I've properly ballsed this up 🙁

Still hopefully I'll be better next time.

buggeration,, a two day business trip to Northern Ireland has seen m yacht turn north and sail away from the finish with a nice strong tail wind,, 😥

oh well, looks like my decent start has come to naught, fingers crossed for the next leg

Doug, where did you get that image from?

i think parkerkr is gona be the first with the no pro sails option. I cant get south quick enough.

Im hoping for the southerly but it is staying SE

It seems having a new job is not conducive to making the regular course changes necessary to be any good at this! I'm hoping a few days actually paying attention may mean some good places made up, but I appear to be heading towards a rather still patch!

Picture [url= http://vr-annexe.akroweb.fr/carte-sat-velux101.php?lang=en ]here[/url].

No XTR sails on my boat.

I've read on the forums to turn off your angle of wind steering for wind changes and to use nav points instead if you have to be away from the PC for several days.

Surely you still need the upgrade to do that though? Which is just as bad as the sail upgrade!

I don't have any upgrades. I was just suggesting to BigG why his boat had gone haywire whilst he was away.

Check the SO (Bog Standard) standings [url= http://vr-annexe.akroweb.fr/velux101.php?page=4&key=d09cf1c667 ]here[/url].

Do we have a finisher yet?

looks like next 3 will be Steveo/PKRecliner/me

Aye, finished last night!

Yup should finish in the next 24 hrs. Awe-some result from Doug to get top 200 without XTR sails. West was definitely best!

(ParkerKnollReciner)

Yup should finish in the next 24 hrs.

Brilliant. Braii in Cape Town tonight then 😆

(Phones favorite Stelenbosch vineyard to deliver to docks)

I cant bloody finish - the wind is driving me south. Hopefully get a header to tack on for the final straight.

*opens another bottle in Cape town* 8)

Finished earlier this evening. 3rd STW boat home.

Well this is the only time I will ever beat Njee20 in any kind of race 😈

hic...

another 36 hours for me I think

It'll be a little longer for me. Should be done by sunday i think 🙄

Yes, I was right up with PKRecliner for a while but got dropped off in an area of calm in the South Atlantic and then took a wrong turning at Crewe so will limp in some time this weekend.

Hoping Mrs Ratadog's real life sailing knowledge of New Zealand waters may help in next leg

Finished 33days 23hrs 6mins - 13281th - quite pleased after entering a day late. Managed to make up a lot of places in the last week after turning and heading east to Cape Town

Rubbish bloody thing wouldn't let me login, after I'd created a boat and everything. Is there a SS Elfinsafety drifting about aimlessly near the start somewhere?

It's crap and I don't want to play anyway. 🙁

Smoke me a kipper. I will be there for breakfast.
Or should that be smoke me a Herring in case there are any pedants reading?

Or should that be smoke me a Herring in case there are any pedants reading?

At long last, finished. Really regretting my two days away from the laptop really screwed my chances of a decent result, struggling to get excited about being 12017th. Oh well, better luck on the next leg.

Think I need to spend the next couple of weeks scrubbing off the barnacles and fine tuning the XTR sails.

I am gutted,

Was away for the weekend, expecting to finish on Saturday evening, when I got home last night I found I had sailed right past the finish line into South Africa 🙁 🙁 🙁

19454th

RUBBISH! Must do better next time!!!!! Bring on the 12th December!

Whats the leader board for non XTR sails?

Doug 1st
PKR 2nd
Me (carbon337) 3rd

Fill in the rest as you know it.

100km to go! was going great guns till I went on holiday first week November - bobbed around the coast of west africa going nowhere for 5 days straight!

Finished - glad of a break until 12 Dec!

17695th!

Doug 1st
PKR 2nd
Me (carbon337) 3rd
Uphill 17098 th place

 

here is the way i see it.

Doug 1st
PKR 2nd
carbon337 3rd
Wrigoletto 4th 13606th
Bawbag(me) 5th 15798th
uphillcruising 6th 17098th

jockonabike came in before wrigoletto but i think he had some pro options.

not sure if i have missed anyone or not.

well done all.