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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/05/2009 : 11:08:26

Steve,
France is ahead of us at GMT+1 & East Coast is GMT-5, so it's a six hour offset. When it's 6am in France, it's midnight on the East Coast, so their maintenance will take place between 11pm tonight & 1am tomorrow morning.

Heads up to us left coasters (GMT-8, at least through the weekend, then -7), that'll be 8pm-10pm tonight.

I try to think of where the sun gets to first. If somewhere gets their sunrise before you do, they're east of you and their time is ahead of yours. This analogy falls apart a bit at the international dateline, but you get my drift.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/06/2009 : 11:44:40

Thanks for the clear explanation David! I think I have it now.

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/06/2009 : 20:02:34

Not to complain but it is just wierd how I was able to pick the worst possible route. I see to get stuck in doldrums whatever I do. :-)

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/06/2009 : 20:06:25

Steve, it's a talent we seem to share, even my haven't-touched-since-I-created-it boat (Lepak on AP) is beating the pants off of me. What's worse is Rita's killing me.

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/06/2009 : 21:07:22

Look at the path of my boat, its pathetic! Looks like I'm changing directions/strategy every 2 hours. Nope, just trying to get out of the darn doldrums. It follows me no matter what I do. We need to stop playing games, all get 45 feet bluewater cruisers and do this for real!

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/07/2009 : 01:14:34

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Steve Blackburn
 Look at the path of my boat, its pathetic! Looks like I'm changing directions/strategy every 2 hours. Nope, just trying to get out of the darn doldrums.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">It's called "second guessing" yourself. My crew does it to me all the time! It was really tough to STAY THE PLAN early on when I was going N and everyone else was going S of the line, and watch those rankings drop like a rock at every update. If you have a strategy and think it's valid - stick with it. This is a looong race. Tacking every time you get cold feet costs big time.
Jim

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/07/2009 : 11:50:09

And just like that, I've gained 72k spaces in less than an hour. Who knows how they make their calculations.

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/07/2009 : 12:01:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by delliottg
 And just like that, I've gained 72k spaces in less than an hour. Who knows how they make their calculations.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Dave - looks like you passed your AP boat, too!
Jim

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/07/2009 : 12:50:53

Yeah, and cut Rita's lead to only 40k boats. Oh well, it keeps me a bit more interested in the race, but I'm suspicious of all of a sudden being drag shovel again.

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/07/2009 : 13:20:49

I've given up trying to figure out their ranking system, so I just look at where I am relative to the Cape and eyeball it from there. It'll probably be a drag race from there to Rio, anyway.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/09/2009 : 12:04:23

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">but I'm suspicious of all of a sudden being drag shovel again.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
And... just lost the 72k places again in between roughly hourly updates. How is this possible?

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Charlie Boomba
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Response Posted - 03/09/2009 : 23:04:50

Does the current mean anything?

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/10/2009 : 18:01:37

Dreaming of sandy beaches and cool ice cream cones, then someone kicks me awake only to tell me the urgent news....

Winds "Gone"!!!

At first all I could think about was the cabbage we ate last night!

Paul

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/10/2009 : 19:54:41

After 5 days straight of this damn Doldrum zone centered extactly on my boat following me around, I`m free! Going > 10 knots again in a straight path! Yoohoo!

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/10/2009 : 20:42:28

And...surprise, surprise, gained back my 72k today. Trying to get some easting on so I can clear the mark on NZ, maybe it'll get me out of the "can't-figure-out-what-your-place-is-so-we'll-randomly-change-it" zone.

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/10/2009 : 22:09:31

What I learned is that the zones without arrows are not good.

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/10/2009 : 22:34:15

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Tell me about it! One of 'em keeps following me around, no matter where I go or what the next forecast says. Crikey...

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/12/2009 : 13:56:09

That's excatly what I was complaining about for 5 days. Click on my boat and see all my direction changes trying to get out of it. I was constantly perfectly aligned in the middle at every wind change. Couldn't believe it!

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/12/2009 : 14:19:57

IF the 2300h forecast holds I might be able to squeak out from underneath by tomorrow am. Too little, too late, I'm afraid...

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/12/2009 : 14:57:53

Well, hopefully I can reach for the next week or so & not even touch the UI.

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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/12/2009 : 15:43:22

This was posted on SA:
<hr noshade size="1">Not Funny!
Bouwe Bekking gives anarchists the latest from the VOR on board Telefonica Blue.

Some people will laugh their heads off when they see our position compared to the other teams, fair enough. Broken headstay or not, we didn’t do a good job once leaving the New Zealand coast behind, and we should have stayed closer to the other ones, especially with the good pace we had.

Right now we are getting another whammy, as we get swallowed up by a high pressure system, which will bring the range to the leader well over a thousand miles, maybe even closer to 2,000 miles as they keep zooming away in good pressure. A bit depressing, I have to admit, and right now not much we can do about it, just trying to stay patient. The light air will stay with us for at least another 24 hours, but then it looks like a fast trip at least until the Horn. Some here onboard are a bit jealous on the Green Dragon, who have been seeing now several times icebergs. Seeing ice is something really fascinating and magic, and a thing that attracts guys to do this race. But how beautiful they might be, once you have seen them, you know how difficult they are to spot, especially in a big breeze. They actually start scaring the *** out of you when you know ice is there and you are sailing 20 knots through the middle of the night. The further east we go, it should become a less of a hazard, but you never know. Two years ago there were icebergs spotted well north of the Falkland islands, says enough to me.

The good news is that the last couple of days of relative relaxed sailing hasn’t drained the guys. Plenty of good sleep and proper eating, so our bodies don’t suffer too much, that is the only advantage we have over the other boats, who have sailing on the edge for several days. As well time to go over analysing the performance gains we made, since we put the new rudders in and the changes made to our sail inventory. These results are every promising and give us good hope for the reminder of the race. The breeze just dropped another couple of knots, and we are doing barely 8 knots, and that in the famous southern ocean. But for sure in a couple of days time, Neptune will give us the real screaming fifties experience, and some of us might by then prefer the conditions we have now. You can’t have it all. One thing we have to do is to make sure nothing will happen to our rig, and that we arrive in one piece in Rio, plenty of points to grab from there on.

Cheers,
Bouwe

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"Right now we are getting another whammy, as we get swallowed up by a high pressure system, which will bring the range to the leader well over a thousand miles, maybe even closer to 2,000 miles as they keep zooming away in good pressure. A bit depressing, I have to admit, and right now not much we can do about it, just trying to stay patient. The light air will stay with us for at least another 24 hours"

I don't feel so bad, if it can happen to THEM...

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 03/15/2009 : 10:31:57

I'm back....a vacation plus a death in the family had my proxy captain busy for 7 days longer than expected. He mentioned many of you tried to contact me via IM - I wasn't ignoring you, I just wasn't here. Now it seems I've gone too far south due to not paying attention and have to work my way back up North to get that mark.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 03/18/2009 : 07:27:13

Anybody home? HELLO!!!

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/18/2009 : 09:15:05

Duane, I think, like most of my crew, the teams are asleep at the helm.

Hardly logged into my boat the last few days, gearing up for launch of my new site.

Of course, going nowhere fast also has an impact... south america looks a long way off still!

Paul

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Gambit
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Response Posted - 03/18/2009 : 23:45:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Champipple
 Anybody home? HELLO!!!
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Duane, hey some guys have to work for a living.

Glad to see you back, your sub did not answer hails much. I thought he would only talk to people that were within 1000 miles or so.

Sorry to hear about the death in your family. Not a great way to end your charter week.

I hope the sailing in real life was good for you. We plan to go in November so I might pick your brain a bit. The virtual world has been confounding at times. Always finding the next hole somehow.

This week is more exciting though and hopefully we can compress this field a bit before the home stretch. It was cool this morning to clip along at 32 knots and reel in some of the leaders a bit.

Only about 28 days to tax deadline and 38 days to launch, Yeah!

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