capnsensible
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Hope his alarm clock goes off........ :ambivalence:
Hope his alarm clock goes off........ :ambivalence:
Here's the Livetracker plot of his recent track changes....
It rather looks like he is navigating with both precision and prudence. More than a little impressive, given the sea state and conditions for astro.
It seems he saw the shape of the islands in the dawn, which is what we'd all hope for, and shaped his course accordingly.
''The more I practice, the luckier I get.'
Much as I'd love Suzie G to amazingly win the race I sincerely hope Jean-Luc continues to amaze us and brings his damaged craft home to win.Determination, or what!
So much for the sextant navigation....
'They [the GGR racers] are given their accurate position (from their trackers) as part of their weather forecasts. '
'JEANNE: Please note - they get their positions from talking to radio contacts daily on SSB - the fact that skies are overcast for days on end, preventing sextant sights being taken, does not stop them from knowing exactly where they are from other people who can see their tracker positions! They don't have to wait to find a ship in their vicinity to talk to on VHF any more...'
https://www.facebook.com/goodoldboat/posts/2351393134902402
Whole lot should be disqualified........
But the original GGR entrants had access to SSB or Ham nets didn't they?
But this was one of the glaring achilles heels of the original GGR race concept. Digital cameras and videos were banned (despite making for much better film coverage), because it was too difficult to police the GPS embedded in all these things these days.
But it was obvious that more significantly, they wouldn't be able to police the whole of the amateur ham SW world to stop someone from mentioning positions and locations of competitors. Nor could you stop them 'discussing' the weather in a way that would greatly simplify route choices, even it not actually breaching the 'no external routing' rule.
So significant was the advantage of being connected via the amateur bands, that getting a licence and being really au fait with using HF equipment was in the top 3 of things to do in getting ready for the race.
I'm convinced that the predominately smooth route that Jean Luc is taking is because he is anticipating the weather systems due to 'good' quality weather information over the HF amateur bands. As you go further back in the fleet, the tracks become more torturous in direct relation to the declining value they're getting from their 'chats' over SSB.
Well yes, but the people on the other end of the radio couldn't relay their exact position from a tracker.