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Voyager
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Initially Posted - 12/18/2016 :  19:10:20  Show Profile
Been tracking the daily doings on the Vendee Globe competitors. YouTube has daily reports in English. Lots of stories and travails for the sailors. The Southern Ocean is very unforgiving. But the competitors and their boats are very tough.
Bruce Ross
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Response Posted - 12/18/2016 :  20:03:32  Show Profile
Saw a video clip the other day, maybe from Sail mag, of one boat in a monster low in the Southern Ocean--storm jib and triple reef doing 20-something knots through the gale... The guy didn't want to go up into the cockpit but opened the companionway or whatever enough so we could see what was going on outside... He was in King Neptune's washing machine! He said he was not racing at that point--just trying to preserve the boat and himself--a loooooooong way from nowhere! I guess radar and AIS were sufficient down below, but good grief!! (40' seas probably present a lot of radar targets!)
Dave Bristle
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PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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Response Posted - 12/19/2016 :  06:36:06  Show Profile
With smartphone video and live interviews with racing commentators the daily digests put you the viewer out in the action on the Southern Ocean - if only vicariously. In addition to reports about horrendous weather conditions the competitors talk about their boats and their gear. Often about gear failures. One gent was talking about his sails holding up well in spite of days of rough conditions and another cursing the autopilot software vendor for releasing defective code that caused the boat to zag and made him accidentally gybe. This caused the boat to do a 360°. He didn't say whether it was a yaw or roll, but he did comment that the vendor should be arrested for criminal negligence.
I just did a YouTube search on Vendee Globe and now I've got daily coverage among all the cat videos and "classic fails".
Bruce Ross
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/23/2016 :  19:02:52  Show Profile
• The spread between the front runner and the trailers is about a continent wide. Some are out in the S Pacific SE of New Zealand's southern island while others are still out in the Indian Ocean coming up on Australia and Tasmania. The boats seem to plane across the water so boat speeds are much more than hull speed. And mostly the boats are running before the westerlies or on a broad reach. It looks wet and wild in the onboard videos....
Bruce Ross
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Response Posted - 12/23/2016 :  20:46:19  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Voyager

...One gent was talking about his sails holding up well in spite of days of rough conditions and another cursing the autopilot software vendor for releasing defective code that caused the boat to zag and made him accidentally gybe. This caused the boat to do a 360°. He didn't say whether it was a yaw or roll, but he did comment that the vendor should be arrested for criminal negligence.
The negligence is at least in part attributable to the end-user who didn't test that system in representative conditions before venturing into the Southern Ocean alone. This ain't Pokeman Go! or the Apollo 13 mission we're talking about! He's extremely fortunate that all the rest of his technology is there to save him or facilitate his rescue.
Dave Bristle
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PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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