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See the winner of the first leg has reached Cape Town.
What happens now?
Does the next leg start straight away with everyone carrying on, or does the b*****d wait for us all to reach Cape Town before the next leg starts?Think I’ll hide behind a ditch off Brazil and sneak out for leg 2. Ain’t worth my while trying to get out of the whirlpool I seem to find myself in.
Under the events tab on the page there’s a list of the legs, their start dates and length…
Cape Town Leg 2 START 15 November 2008 4,450 Nm
Seems we have 12 days to make port….otherwise there’s no crew rest……
I’ve also noticed that the PI group have well spread out now. Where we were a matter of 100km separating most of us, it now looks like there are hundreds of km between us :-S
I reckon they’ll gradually increase the wind speeds to get everyone
home in time.I have little sympathy.
Looks like he put a little too much trust in his autopilot while he was enjoying some hanky panky in the cabin.
I think the auto pilot got some duty free rum and a few big cigars
Cathal
Wasn’t hardly any movement where I thought there would be so I’m heading south to faster windy bits – which probably won’t be there when I arrive.
Thinking of registering two more boats for the next leg, so I can try various options and see which does best.andy mcinroy wrote:
hanky panky in the cabin.
Is that a widely-known nautical term?
Perhaps a derivation, such as way-hey-hey derived from anchors aweigh.
Perhaps you meant get underway, or shake a leg or perhaps he was on his beam ends.
In any case, perhaps he trying to be large but nobody liked the cut of his jib.
Good idea Mick
I might start 360 boats and send them off in 1 degree intervals on autopilot. Hopefully one will drift in the right direction.
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andy mcinroy wrote:
Good idea Mick
I might start 360 boats and send them off in 1 degree intervals on autopilot. Hopefully one will drift in the right direction.
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Drift is the operative word at the moment. I can’t get up to 5 knots.
I haven’t’ got a clue what I am doing, but after clicking all over the screen for days now, I think I am moving… not moving up the places though… but I can see some of you lot ahead of me… looks like I am heading to a cyclone or something there…
The wind forecasts are sh1t3. You set sail to somewhere that is schedueld to have high winds in the right direction. Then they change 180 degrees. Not even UTV gets the forecasts so badly worng.
Any sailors able to advise if this is normal? I’m thinking of asking my 5-year-old to predict the winds. Bound to provide no less accurate information that the game.
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