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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 15:00:48

Paul,
Thanks for the clarifications.

The start is 0200 PST tomorrow for us on the west coast. Keep in mind that the start's not 1100 India time (GMT+5:30), it's 1100 France time (GMT+1) (where the game's administered), so do your time calculations accordingly. Since Rita & I are late night folks, the 2am start time's not too onerous, you guys further east of us have it somewhat better.

Here is the poop from the official email just sent out. It includes the leg information, mark to round, etc.

LEG 3
Length 1 950 miles
Start Köchi / Cochin
Finish Singapore
Start Date Saturday 13 December 2008
Start Time 11:00 GMT+1 (corrected)
Course Gate Waypoint
The Pulau We scoring waypoint is a line true north of position 05° 50.000 N - 095°20.000 E leaving the Island Pulau We to starboard.

Exclusion zone
As opposed to the real VOR, there will not be any exclusion zone for the Virtual Race

Finish Line
The mark will be set @ 01°15.830 N - 103°36.010E
The finish area is a large circle of circa 30nm in radius

Good luck to everyone, see you out there.

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Kendall
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 15:47:12

I think I am going to wake up at 5am to get the best possible start. No, im not obsessed.

I plan to make this leg count. What about you all?

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RitaHG
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 : 16:03:49

I plan to be awake for most of this leg. Singapore is my hometown and I want to be the first to reach home.

Lard Butt

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 19:05:47

just asked for an invite....

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 19:11:05

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by RitaHG
 I plan to be awake for most of this leg. Singapore is my hometown and I want to be the first to reach home.

Lard Butt
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Rita, I'm looking forward to this port too. Last time there was in 1988, previously 1969 & 1970.

Now go wake Dave!

Paul (skipper of Joint Decision)

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 19:32:27

Finally logged in and registered. Would have done it sooner but the local slopes opened yesterday at 1pm...

Is this a just a high level overview 10 minute refresh or is there more to the game that I am not seeing?

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 19:58:00

Duane, it seems most of the game is strategy.
On the last leg from Capetown to Cochin, the courses that players followed differed wildly, literally hundreds of miles from the shown route.

Those that figured the wind (or hit it with plane old good luck), were the winners. Even in the real race, they were talking of the decision where to go for the best winds daily.

It's pretty simple as you suggest, select your course, sail plan, and head to the wind and finish.

You can see the wind forecast for 0,12,24,36 hours (note the time that the winds are based upon.)

Stay away from land, if you hit it (and you can zoom in to see those little islands that hinder progress) then you'll come to a stop. If that happens, then you need to reverse course about 180 from the shore line and wait till your boat comes off.

Seems you can't hit another boat, just as well as there is currently 100,000+ boats within a 10mile circle!! (cocktails anyone?)

You can join the group and Dave can post messages to the group, we can message each other.

If you look at your standings, you can get an idea of where you stand to the rest of us, Avocado is right out there!

If you ignore your boat, you can easily lose thousands of positions even in this early stage of the leg. But similarly, you can gain if you happen upon a friendly wind.

Currents have no effect though they are shown in the oceans.

If you add us as friends, then you can see our positions, otherwise you'll just see the random display of other boats on the course.

Paul

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 20:04:57

Thanks, I'm currently trying to break free of a bunch of people and get to the good wind.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 20:05:47

I think I added you as a friend along with joining the group too

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 20:44:25

Duane,
I've added you to the group, good luck on the leg.

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millermg
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Response Posted - 12/13/2008 : 22:19:04

Many of you may have figured this out quicker than I, but after I did, it certainly helped w/ navigation. The map is a cylindrical projection, and each wind arrow represents one degree of latitude, and one of longitude. This means there are 60 miles between each line of latitude, but of course there's less than 60 miles between each line of longitude arrows (even less, the further north or south). Though this makes the heading deceptive, a quick sense of scale does help with figuring out what time to setyour alarm clock!

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 : 02:42:42

I've learned to just use the red dots to project my course out 12 & 24 hours, then use the predicted winds to judge which is the best direction.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 : 11:23:18

There is something very weird about this game. I was cooking along with at 9.5 knots with something like 7.5 knots if wind from the NE and in a ten minute refresh window suddenly my winds dropped to 0.5 knots and my speed to 0 with the winds from 141 degrees (even though the map shows the wind direction still from the NE) until I made a change in course. I'm now back up to 2.2 knots with 0.5 knots of wind still from 141 degrees. Everyone very near me is showing at least 9.2 to 10.3 knots of wind from the NE and their speed has not changed appreciably.

During the last leg someone on the course had the wind coming at them at about a 25 degress angle from the front, they were flying thier spinnaker and moving forward at 5 or 6 knots. I didn't know you could fly a spinnaker with the wind coming from in front of your boat.

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millermg
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 : 11:32:07

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by GaryB
 There is something very weird about this game. I was cooking along with at 9.5 knots with something like 7.5 knots if wind from the NE and in a ten minute refresh window suddenly my winds dropped to 0.5 knots and my speed to 0 with the winds from 141 degrees (even though the map shows the wind direction still from the NE) until I made a change in course. I'm now back up to 2.2 knots with 0.5 knots of wind still from 141 degrees. Everyone very near me is showing at least 9.2 to 10.3 knots of wind from the NE and their speed has not changed appreciably.

During the last leg someone on the course had the wind coming at them at about a 25 degress angle from the front, they were flying thier spinnaker and moving forward at 5 or 6 knots. I didn't know you could fly a spinnaker with the wind coming from in front of your boat.
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You've just hit the next "wind square". The arrow marks the center of the square, but the edges of the square are 1/2 the distance between arrows. If you look at Avocado, I'm on a 90 degree heading just north of the .5kt wind square (hoping to figure out when it's safe to turn south again!) And yes, you usually can move into the wind w/ the spinny up in this game, I guess they assume you're mainsail has some drive in that case??

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 : 14:04:03

Thanks Garner, I'd have never figured that out on my own!

Looks like everyone else is falling into the doldrums now too except for a few boats that went SW. If I hadn't changed my heading early this morning I would have been in that pack. Looks like they will be able to skirt around the SW corner of the 0.5 wind box and jump way ahead.

I was going to go down to the boat today but I'm so addicted to this game I've decided to try and figure out away to get back into the good wind. Looks like I will just have to ride this out until the next wind update in a few hours.

Looks like the next few days could be interesting with winds coming out of almost due East after 24 hours.

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Charlie Boomba
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 22:00:11

Greetings, I just signed aboard and am looking forward to the start of the next leg. I am on Sun Star.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 02/12/2009 : 22:21:46

John,
Have you added requested to be added to our group in the race? I'm trying to logon to check, but having a hard time.

Just a head's up to everyone else, the next leg kicks off at 9pm PST tomorrow (Friday the 13th).

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