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buts it's my view these photos are all library shots.
*shrugs
Well Nick in true sailing fashion the new wind has come in from behind ( 😯 ) and your route through looks great now 🙁
Is there a way of storing a list of "friends" yachts. I've found you one at a time but that is by searching. I know I'm missing something obvious
Currently doing jus over 5 knots in just under 3 knots of wind
I'm worried about what the 20:00 forecast update will bring
I have found this useful for visualising the wind. Although of course the game wind isn't exactly the same
@ampthill - you can save friends. When you select a boat (either by clicking on it or searching for it), look for the small 'head-and-shoulders' profile image at the bottom left. Click that and the boat gets added to your list of friends.
Nick
So Alex has just set the record to the Equator, beating the previous one by 1day & 4hours!!
Thanks Nickb I'll try that later
Good to be through the Doldrums
Tangy has abandonned 🙁 mast not repairable to take on the Southern Ocean.
Looking forward to getting round the Cape and a better idea of where we all stand in the race. I #think# I have more less caught up with Jambalaya and theCrouset with Amp miles off over the horizon.
Uphillcursing what is your boat called?
I've just taken a gamble. The forecast is that the winds will break up in the area we are sailing into. SO I have born away and gone for spped to try and get far enough South to hit the narrow bands of southerlys before they dissapear
Uphill my boat was called Jambaiaya Racing as Jambalaya was taken but I never left the dock as the app kept crashing - so that's not me
The videos look more foreboding, darker skies and a bit more wind 🙂
I'd be wary of beating away, starting east ends to be beneficial at this point. Although the winds may get a little lighter they're singing further north so the boat speed will stay well up (maybe faster than the wind speed).
Oh and that pic is fantastic, I'd love to be on there.
Oh my God....
Beating = bearing
Ends = seems
Singing = swinging
!
Turned that autocorrect nonsense off, still post rubbish mind 😉
Beats 3 times round the cans then back to the chartroom for a beer 😆
windmonkey is the name of the fine vessel I am steering poorly.
Beats 3 times round the cans then back to the chartroom for a beer
Ahem. 😳
I may have landed in trouble with the race committee and club commodore for not waiting to return to dry land, or end of race, or in from trapeze before opening a couple of cold ones once.
Ahem. 😳
Woohoo, bounce, bounce, bounce, weehee...
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😆
Closer to flying.
Ekranovendee?
Alex is getting the job done 130 miles ahead and better boatspeed. LeClech is nicknamed "the wolf" for hunting people down but the gap is starting to look comfortable and if Boss is indeed faster in heavier air ... 🙂
Those lead boats are sailing into a very strong well directed but narrow band of wind. Those who catch it in the real or virtual race will be I uncatchable. The record is still on.
Be I'm about to loose the 100,000 places I gained since the Canaries failing to find the high that is forming in front of us. Should have followed Footflaps advice and stayed East. I'd have hit the light winds but with less distance to sail
My only worry now for Alex is, well, he keeps his head clear and calm... 😐
Ah, I spoke too soon.
He's hit something that was submerged, broken the tip of his Starboard foil off but seems to have damaged the foil casing too. He's fine he says, the boats still cracking along all be it lower and a bit slower. Full damage assessment to come,
😐
🙁
I did suggest suggest not going west Ampthill.....
OK I turned West and admit defeat. Places lost. Light winds ahead. If I get into this I'll try the Volvo next year
The wind direction is more important than the speed most of the time with these boats.
Bad news from Alex. 🙁
Down but not out. Starboard side foil is gone but after Cape Town they should be predominently on the other tack/gybe. Slow (still 18 knots) for now and the damage will change his routing but he has a lead/cushion at least for now
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/16315/down-but-not-out
On another note, Bens won the LVAC regatta in Japan!!
"Erm, lads..oi lads!!.. over here.. anyone seen my foil?"
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Alex creating his own rainbows..
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Made up 40k places!! Not heading to far west worked.. for now
I've been as high as inside the top 5000.Ans as low as 160,000.
Currently sat somewhere between the 2.
Its weird. I'm loosing places to people on here but gaining hugely overall. No idea where everyone else is going.....
What is the big red line at the bottom of the map?
Edge of the world.. Don't sail off the edge
[i]>>What is the big red line at the bottom of the map?[/i]
Ice exclusion zone. Don't go below the line!
@ampthill - looks like we are on a collision course - will be very close in the morning!
Nick (Kapow)
Vincent on PRB is out - hit something/fell off a wave/something gaveway and his keel is separating from hull it seems.... 🙁
Merde !!!
Tres merde!
Becoup de la tres merdez, innit.
It really is a race of attrition...
I do wonder if a non foil boat will survive better. Certainly the skippers will....the noise and motion on the foilers must be awful for three months...
Matt PRB was an old style foiler, ie they are straight down rather than sticking out. TBH so far Riou had done a brilliant job and shown that perhaps the new foilers wouldn't have it all their own way.
In more positive news Thompson/Boss is doing a stellar job holding his position
Duuffff!
New record to the Cape, 17days 22hours...
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Bosch 😉