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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: catman] #165262
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Currenty 111111th place. I got all the ones laugh.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: catman] #165267
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Last night i was in place # 123456, it was sooo cool.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: F-18 5150] #165441
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Ok, I have a question a/b the game...

Does anyone know if it actually is faster to follow the rhumb line that they give us or "cut the corner".

I mean in the game, not in real life.

Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: Will_R] #165460
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Originally Posted by Will_R
Ok, I have a question a/b the game...

Does anyone know if it actually is faster to follow the rhumb line that they give us or "cut the corner".

I mean in the game, not in real life.


Depends on what the wind does.

Thier line is the great circle route I believe; so in absence of any wind issues it would be the quickest route; however; the wind changes!


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: scooby_simon] #165464
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Originally Posted by scooby_simon
Depends on what the wind does.

Thier line is the great circle route I believe; so in absence of any wind issues it would be the quickest route; however; the wind changes!


Not to sound snarky, but I understand wind velocity variations for the route. I just wondered if the shortest distance truly is the line they give us (great circle). I should have said, "shortest route" instead of "fastest".

I did find this in the FAQ's but I did not see it last time I looked.

"Is the world flat?

All yacht positions are calculated using spherical trigonometry formulas.
So the world is round."

Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: Will_R] #165468
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Will,
google "great circle calculator", you should be able to find something to compare to the dotted line. I haven't been worrying too much about the line myself, especially this far out.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: KevinRejda] #165484
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If you were a power driven vessel the great circle route would be the way to go. Sailing, stay as close as possible while still sailing fast. Racing sail boats.....Good Luck.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: catman] #165904
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IMPORTANT POLAR UPDATE!
Fri 23 Jan 2009

Today at 19.00 GMT +1 the Polars will be adjusted. We've received a lot of player requests on this subject since the last update. After carefully reviewing the current situation we came to the conclusion they indeed need to be adjusted to improve the gameplay.These changes will affect the behaviour of the sails within the 30 degrees wind angle. So be sure to check it out.

Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: Tony_F18] #165966
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Checkout the Maximum Wave Height data from the real boats:
[Linked Image]
Waves well above 10m, some even peeking at 14m!
Imagine sailing upwind in 14m seas and 50kt winds on a boat that is designed to surf downwind.

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Tony, where did you find that info?


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: catman] #165983
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Originally Posted by catman
Tony, where did you find that info?

From the Volvo Ocean Race Data Centre
Click on the Data Graphs tab, then click on "edit" a bit down the page to select which graphs you want displayed.

Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: Tony_F18] #166715
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Well done Simon - 1st of the Catsailors home.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: Dermot] #166732
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Originally Posted by Dermot
Well done Simon - 1st of the Catsailors home.


Thanks;

I lost around 1000 places in the last 3 hours as I was teaching at the time I might have made the to 2K.

Next leg is a big one and a must-count. However I am away Skiing for a week so I'll be down the pan.... frown


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: scooby_simon] #166759
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Scooby If you need a replacement skipper I'd fill in for you till the 20th then Im going to be gone. I'll be back the 23rd . Im me if you want to have me start your boat.


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: F-18 5150] #166792
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Originally Posted by hobie18rich
Scooby If you need a replacement skipper I'd fill in for you till the 20th then Im going to be gone. I'll be back the 23rd . Im me if you want to have me start your boat.


Might take you up on that one. Lets see how things go; I might just leave the boat on autopilot via the tow-boat and then pick it up when I get back; Anyone no expected length for the leg? I'm assuming about 4 weeks?


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Re: I'm finished and waiting to catch your docklines!!! [Re: scooby_simon] #166806
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Originally Posted by scooby_simon
Originally Posted by Dermot
Well done Simon - 1st of the Catsailors home.


Thanks;

I lost around 1000 places in the last 3 hours as I was teaching at the time I might have made the to 2K.

Next leg is a big one and a must-count. However I am away Skiing for a week so I'll be down the pan.... frown

Neil (Brainwave) was 2nd to you, but went down very early in the leg.


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Re: results so far. [Re: Dermot] #167749
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The top ten, and overall.

1. Brain Wave 35
2. Trebor 392
3. Tony VSK 672
4. Roxy Volvemous 2048
5. Blow Boat 2264
6. Grizzly Cat 2490
7. Scooby Simon 2594
8. Walawala Bam Bam 3221
9. Warob 3719
10.White Hare 3826


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Re: results so far. [Re: catman] #167751
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Preliminary results, still a few legs to go smile
Next leg should be very interesting going from Qingdao to Rio.

Re: results so far. [Re: Tony_F18] #169238
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It's getting very interesting now.


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Re: results so far. [Re: catman] #169249
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Originally Posted by catman
It's getting very interesting now.


I'm hoping that the next 4-5 days are kinda interesting. I'm now gaining hard, but left it a bit late to come south as I was just behind INC LLC but decided to go more east than he(or she). I'm now catching about 600 places an hour so need a few days to catch up 69K grin

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