Golden Globe Race

[Kukri]

Before she moved closer inshore and re-anchored.

Of course, everyone knows that CQRs don’t work any more, least of all in Australia!



Incidentally, why is the French commentary so much better?

 

[zoidberg]

Brexit dividend, courtesy of Les Grenoilles....


Edit: They DO work, as thousands of users over many decades know full well. They just need some 'situational awareness' and good ol'-fashioned seamanship.

 

[zoidberg]

She's off!

 

[Kukri]

Well done her; it can be hard to get going again after a couple of days in shelter. The hard dodger must add quite a lot of windage.

 

[zoidberg]

Well done her; it can be hard to get going again after a couple of days in shelter. The hard dodger must add quite a lot of windage.

Reading a couple of her SMS texts reported on the 'Day To Day' part of the GGR site, it certainly seemed she'd love to have a 'Beam me up, Scotty' card so she could just go being tourist for a while. Considering what she's just managed to fight through, and knowing that some more of that's somewhere up ahead, it speaks volumes for her that as soon as the winds eased, she 'upped anchor' and pushed off.

I won't be alone in wishing her 'fair winds'.

 

[zoidberg]

Istvan's on the move, now, too.

Will he take the inshore passage, or go outside?

I'd go inshore, for the scenery, greenery, and rest for the senses.....


Update: As of midnight UTC, he's well on his way up the Inner Passage - the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Great Bay. There's a large marina up there at Oyster Cove/Kettering, so I imagine rather a lot of Tassie crews will head out, in large and small boats, to have a look at Istvan's bright orange 'Puffin'.

 

[Kukri]

Agree with both above posts. You can get quite sentimental on seeing a bit of greenery after a while at sea.

 

[capnsensible]

Agree with both above posts. You can get quite sentimental on seeing a bit of greenery after a while at sea.

Actually, anything more than 25 feet away will do if your specialist subject is 'Underwater Death Delivery'.

 

[zoidberg]

Apropos my recent comment that Susie G. was running low on motivation - which is entirely understandable - and from his video-interview, so also is Istvan Kopar, this tweet emerged today..

Susie #Goodall (via satellite) SITTINatANCHORTOOKAWAY ALLDESIRE2 SAILRTW. /"Enattenteàl'ancragepourrepartir toutdésirdenaviguer."

 

[zoidberg]

It seems most of them are suffering quite badly from goose-barnacle encrustation..... apart from Susie Goodall and Mark Slats, both of whom went over the side and scraped off what they could, and Jean-Luc VDH, who reportedly 'salted' his antifoul paint with copper powder as an extra biocide.


http://www.mysailing.com.au/offshore/barnacles-the-scourge-of-solo-circumnavigators


What can we do about barnacle growth? Prevention? Cure?

 

[zoidberg]

Oh dear!

At 1500hrs UTC 5th NOV. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede called GGR Founder Don McIntyre to advise that his Rustler 36 Matmut had been knocked down badly to about 150° which had damaged the connecting bolt attachment to the mast that holds all four lower shrouds. The mast was not in danger of falling, but it was not securely tensioned. The bolt has slipped 5cm down in the mast section and slackened the rigging

I can't visualise the setup and how this is possible. Can someone enlighten me, or post a pic /diagram of the arrangement?

 

[Seven Spades]

Wow has anyone used Copper coat I would love to know how that has stood up or was it banned by the rules?

 

[SV Kittiwake]

Oh dear!



I can't visualise the setup and how this is possible. Can someone enlighten me, or post a pic /diagram of the arrangement?

I couldn't get it either, unless the bolt has pulled through the aluminium turning the hole into a long oblong... seems a bit unlikely though. Also the write up makes it sound like he will be demoted to Chichester class for stopping in Chile but presumably he'll anchor and fix it himself, so wouldn't be demoted?

 

[capnsensible]

Bad news for the for so long race leader...... Suzie now third if he drops class.......

Good luck to them all.

 

[Motor_Sailor]

I can't visualise the setup and how this is possible.

I can't either. The typical 'through bolt and tangs' arrangement has a compression sleeve (25mm OD) around the through bolt that bears on the mast tube and then there's a large stainless steel plate that takes the through bolt (16 -19mm OD) which is pop-riveted to the mast.

For that arrangement to move 5cm down the mast, the 25mm compression sleeve would have to sheer a long slot down the mast and for that to happen the 6 or 8 x 6mm pop rivets would all have to sheer off the face plate.

Odd.

 

[Applespider]

I wonder if he drops a class, whether he'll drop out like Peche did. He has nothing to prove after all having been around the globe a few times. Having said that, if he plans on sailing her home, he may as well keep going and get the GGR support around it.

Is there not a closer port that he could go into - it feels like it's a long way north?

 

[robmcg]

JL VDH has a shorter than standard mast for his Rustler 36, apparently it allowed him to go down one size in mast section to save weight. Could this have exacerbated this failure?

 

[capnsensible]

All I can see on the Rustler ad is that there are 4 lower shrouds. Fair one. But however they are attatched (yup dont get it either) rolling the yacht in a 150 degree knockdown in big breaking seas is going to ask a question of the arrangement.....

 

[capnsensible]

No comfort but they are breaking boats in the Rhum race already.

 

[auditdata]

By my count of the 11 who made it to the Southern Ocean 5 have either lost their rigs or have had them damaged beyond repair. Happy to be corrected if this is wrong. This seems a very high attrition rate but then again only one made it back the first time!