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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 11:45:07

Keep in mind that all you have to hit is a 30 mile radius circle around Cochin, so when you get reasonably close you can adjust your course for best speed to hit close to the buoy. You don't have to hit it dead center.

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 12:09:14

Thanks for the tip Coach!

54 miles from the pin.

Paul

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 13:17:51

So are you saying that once we get to 30 miles we're done?

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 13:22:21

Exactly.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 13:37:01

Sweet!

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 14:55:00

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by GaryB
 Sweet!
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Agreed, I need a long hot shower and a cold one!

Paul

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 15:58:11

Congratulations Paul! I cut your lead down from 80 miles or so Friday evening to 34 miles when you finished at 3:55 PM CST today but alas, I just couldn't get to you quick enough!

Enjoy the shower and cold brew. I'll join you in about 6 hours or so!

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 16:24:32

Probably sooner than that Gary!
As Dave indicated, once I got past the 30mile mark (actually 29) I jumped to the finish bouy.

Not sure, but I may be addicted!

Paul

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 22:00:46

I was lucky enough to adjust for the wind shift before going to bed last night. Was able to aim directly at the pin and in the morning I was finished. Since they finished me at 29 miles I must have closed about 50 miles in six hours or so.

This is very cool. I hope to get some of my fellow racers in on the next leg.

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 22:31:54

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Gambit
 I was lucky enough to adjust for the wind shift before going to bed last night. Was able to aim directly at the pin and in the morning I was finished. Since they finished me at 29 miles I must have closed about 50 miles in six hours or so.

This is very cool. I hope to get some of my fellow racers in on the next leg.

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30 more minutes and I should be done! I'm down to 32 miles (2 miles) from the finish line.

What's the name of your boat? There's a boat named Gambit in the race that still shows 357 miles from the finish.

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Response Posted - 12/07/2008 : 23:08:46

Finished Leg 2!!!

39,723rd

22Days 18Hours 0 Minutes

1,390 positions and 7 hours & 7 minutes behind Paul (Joint Decision)

At one point before I went out of town for Thanksgiving I was down under
12,500th place!

Oh well, Leg 3 is starting soon!!!!

Good Luck everyone!

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Response Posted - 12/08/2008 : 05:40:56

Gary, I might forego thanksgiving sailing next year! We were out Thursday thru Sunday too.

Guys, any plans for leg 3? I visited that route (well, from south africa to singapore through the straights) several times onboard aircraft carriers.

I suprised there's no google usage! Found a few sites that claimed to show more info but none that worked much.

Paul

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/08/2008 : 12:50:44

After a couple of legs I've noticed a few things. The leaders tend to stay clumped together and a few of them have placed admirably in both legs, "Aldabra" in particular. Pay attention to how these guys are sailing and adjust for the winds for when you get to where they were (unless you're ahead, in which case we'll just follow you..). Also, you can't go wrong by "follow the yellow brick road", as long as you stay close to the plotted yellow line on your map, you'll do OK. I learned this the hard way on leg one. That doesn't mean there aren't advantages to be had by going off the reservation, it's just if you're like me, I didn't have tons of time to be analyzing every last bit of weather info all the time, I had to do it one breaks or before going to bed, etc. (rant)Now, of course, I have all the time in the world in between sending out resumes & searching CL for want ads, so maybe I'll do better this time around (/rant)

The next leg starts around 1am PST next Saturday morning so you guys on the east coast have it a bit easier. Hopefully they've got their servers up to speed & don't have to do a recall drop like on leg two.

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Response Posted - 12/09/2008 : 14:40:11

Finally got into port yesterday. I was camping all weekend with no internet assess, so the game had suffered. Thanks to all your help, especially Paul A. Now for the next leg.

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Response Posted - 12/09/2008 : 17:23:07

What's the name of your boat? There's a boat named Gambit in the race that still shows 357 miles from the finish.
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My boat is Gambit Cat 25. Finished 35342th place in 22 days, 10 minutes. They dropped me on the course with about 7 days left in 44,000th place.

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Response Posted - 12/09/2008 : 20:33:19

Kendall, it hurt to see you beached, I guess that was during your camping trip.

Hope the boat was not damaged

Dave, mo info on Leg 3!!!!!

paul

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/11/2008 : 23:49:37

Referring to your thread on the general forum can you detail what you're planning for winners?

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A bunch of us participated in the first legs of the volvo ocean race game (VOR)

The Association officers voted this evening to reward participants from this forum if they lead the group on any of the upcoming legs of the race.

If you are a member of this forum and join the catalina group on the VOR, and you complete the entire leg of the race (there are 7 legs left) then you could win either an Association Burgee (members only) or a free membership in the association for one year.

Visit the Racing Forum and go to the 'Is anyone else playing VOR?'

Get into the race now. Any questions, ask in the racing thread.

See you out there!

Paul<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

For instance, what if Rita's boat (Lard Butt) wins? We're already members (but we don't have a burgee), but she only reads the forum, and almost never posts.

What defines "leads"? Are you talking about in the race, or between the folks in the group?

What about overall standings, EG, currently I lead the group overall, but someone else (the site's not reporting correctly right now, but I think it's Avocado) lead leg two.

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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 07:14:55

David,
Intent: Promote activity on the forum during the quiet winter months (boats on hard/frozen waters, etc)
Method: Encourage participation in the VOR and give rewards
Rewards: Catalina/Capri 25s that participate and register with the group you set up could earn rewards. We would offer a reward for each leg.
Awarding: Qualified (see above) participants that arrive at the end of the leg with the smallest finish position would get either a burgee (members only) or a free membership in the Assoc. (non-members only)
Ceremonies: At the conclusion of each leg, we would run the report showing position in the group. The first arrivee in the group to be declared the winner of the reward.

We could hold an online event (post in the thread

with photo, review of the leg etc.)

Gotta be fun! But for the serious racers out there, we should consider limiting entries to the group to one per person.

So previous participation would not be an issue. It's on a per leg basis.

It would be nice if we could negotiate on the rewards for cicumstances as you point out.

Credits:
David got us involved in this and offered valuable help to those of us that got in after the start.
Paul brought it up at the Flag Officers meeting.
Russ had the idea of rewards.

Hope I covered most of our intent

Paul

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redeye
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 07:29:08

The next leg starts on Saturday 13/12/08 at 0930 GMT+1. Your boat will be started by the game automatically on the optimum heading. I suggest you log on sometime later to assess your situation.

I'd guess that would be sometime Sat am early (3ish) for me.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 07:31:26

Hmm.. what if we start a post for each leg?

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redeye
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 07:34:41

If you are new to the game.. register now.. and you will be started on Sat.

http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/home.php

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redeye
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 08:59:22

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: The starting time of LEG 3 will be 11:00 GMT+1 (instead of previously announced 9:30 GMT+1)

VOR just emailed this to everyone in the race.

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 11:25:33

Oh, what the heck, why not.

Short Bus is in too!

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 11:52:12

Group so far...
Name Catalina International Assn
Owner Lepak
Members Gambit Cat 25
LoonSong
Bailusout
Kendall
Avocado
Vida Nova
anger
Joint Decision
Lard Butt

Total: 9

To register within the Catalina International Assocation Group of the VOR, login to the vor site then click on My Account and then Click on 'Groups'. You have to get accepted into the group. David is in charge of that.

15 hours to start and counting down!

(but don't trust my time keeping

Paul

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millermg
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 14:55:07

Are there prizes this time for the Catalina 25 class?

Good luck everyone and see you all online at 2am PST!

Ps, I agree, someone should start a new topic for Leg 3.

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