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Champipple
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Response Posted - 03/20/2009 :  12:09:10  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
George -

Just shoot me an email and we can set up a time to talk. I have tons of advice on various companies, itineraries, restaurants and everything in between.

dw
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/23/2009 :  11:52:26  Show Profile
OK get this... I'm in 71 knots of wind but my boat is not moving.

Hmmmmm.... I guess I'm sunk and my LONG anchor rode and anchor are holding....
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/23/2009 :  11:53:19  Show Profile
Oh.. my boat is Bailusout.

I guess I named it appropriately!
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/23/2009 :  11:58:39  Show Profile
Call 911.... get out the propane.. I need to melt this iceberg!
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/23/2009 :  13:38:01  Show Profile
Sooo.. they said I was in a storm and cannot bear off until winds are below 50 knots.

and I was headed into the storm to go faster!
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/23/2009 :  14:04:35  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redeye</i>
<br />I'm in 71 knots of wind...
<br />...and I was headed into the storm to go faster!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Cojones, man, cojones.
Or <i>suicide</i>...

Edit: Hope you stocked up on those 'Sail Repair Kit' options!

Jim
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/25/2009 :  12:10:56  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
So I changed course about an hour ago to head directly in the "right direction" on my heavy spinnaker. Currently making nearly 30kts. Just checked again: "Places lost: 72444", so I'm in the back of the pack again. I have no idea how this works any more.
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/25/2009 :  13:12:42  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by delliottg</i>
<br />"Places lost: 72444", so I'm in the back of the pack again. I have no idea how this works any more.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I gave up putting much (if any) faith in that ranking system long ago.

There was one point fairly early on in this leg where I was listed as about 150nm behind another boat, but they were less than 1 quadrant (net) away on the chart (~60nm). I neglected to run a lat/long distance on it, so can't give "actual" distance. Sometime the next day they were farther ahead on the "rhumb line", but the ranking sheet said they were about 30nm ahead. Whatever.

Find you, find the mark, find the competition. Go from there...

Jim
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/25/2009 :  13:41:23  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Yep.

Just gained it all back, plus a bit, so now I'm roughly where I was (standing wise) as about two hours ago. Yay.

At least I'm doing &gt;30kts in the right-ish direction, and I haven't blown out any sails (Rita's blown out both her spinnakers this leg, and she's still thousands of miles ahead of me).
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 03/25/2009 :  19:14:09  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
Looks like a great race going on between Lard Butt, Sun Star and Sanger; with Gambit and Sparky's Beotch not far behind!
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Kendall
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Response Posted - 03/26/2009 :  20:34:23  Show Profile
Hypothetically, If one were to blow their light spin, and <s>I were</s> he was to cheap to buy a repair kit, <s>could I</s> would he get a new sail at the start of the next leg?
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/26/2009 :  21:23:59  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Kendall</i>
<br />Hypothetically, If one were to blow their light spin, and <s>I were</s> he was to cheap to buy a repair kit, <s>could I</s> would he get a new sail at the start of the next leg?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">My understanding is that you start every leg with new sails.
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/31/2009 :  12:31:02  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
You can also buy repair kits.
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Kendall
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Response Posted - 04/05/2009 :  21:34:01  Show Profile
&lt;worlds smallest violin playing softly in the background&gt;

I hadn't checked on my boat in about a week, so I log on today, and WOW! Paul thought I might be getting cold, because Im 100 mi offshore of Antarctica and in 147000th place.

I think this leg is too long. People (like me) have short attention spans. Five weeks is a long time. I know that the game is based on the real race, but I also lost interest in the race. Which is a shame because its a an awesome race. I will try to refocus my attention for the next leg.

On a side note, five weeks <u>is</u> a long time and with the five weeks this country has had I'm sure there are people who would rather be in a boat offshore in the Chinese sea Even if no ones watching.

&lt;/violin&gt;
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