Leg2 is go.

[Alistairr]

And a lot of different tracks already.

Very interesting.

Good luck everyone.
Al.

 

[fireball]

And Brendan headed up too soon ....

 

[Alistairr]

And Brendan headed up too soon ....

Oops

 

[Pye_End]

Oops. Too busy trying to get the Christmas tree organised. Already ranked 551! Got to go out in a bit as well, and this bit needs a bit of attention.

 

[BrendanS]

And Brendan headed up too soon ....

Drat, set a delayed command to start, and got the angle slightly wrong, only just got online again.

 

[Whitelighter]

Very pleased with my position so far, but I suspect the real decisions will be after we round the tip of SA and have to decide West or East of Madagascar

 

[Fantasie 19]

Going to come howling through shouting "starboard" in a minute...

Well done to the guys up front - I suspect my 'angles' were not good enough... 764th already!

 

[Dipper]

I ran aground whilst at the helm. I cut close to land and even though I was still in water I stopped. The draught on these things must be massive.

 

[fisherZ]

Very pleased with my position so far, but I suspect the real decisions will be after we round the tip of SA and have to decide West or East of Madagascar

West is not an option.
East of the waypoints is the route.

 

[Whitelighter]

West is not an option.
East of the waypoints is the route.

Hadnt spotted the course change, the pre-race warm up definitely showed it would be an option

 

[Whitelighter]

Why are so may people going south? I just cant see the advantage with the wind forecasts.

Mind you, Im not so chances are its the right way to go...

 

[mjcp]

So what are your boats called? (or is it rude to ask )

I'm capitalistlayabout in 46K'th place make that 44Kth

mjcp

 

[Spyro]

So what are your boats called? (or is it rude to ask )

I'm capitalistlayabout in 46K'th place make that 44Kth

mjcp

In the boat list box just put YBW and you will see them all.

But you are on the wrong game, we are all playing SOL
www.sailonline.org

I'm YBW_Booby_Trapper

 

[pendlecats]

I almost missed it this year.

However I believe setting off late can be an advantage

 

[mjcp]

right, I'm on that race too now, profile is YBW_mjcp, can't rename the boat alas.

Just about to pass Cape Agulhas.

mjcp

 

[Martin_J]

mjcp - If you send an email to crew (at) sailport (dot) se then you might just be able to get your boat name prefixed ybw_

They are quite accustomed to doing this!

 

[sarabande]

I fancy picking up some of these fabled Westerlies a bit further South - but not as keen on the icebergs. Gambling man !

Any suggestions as to why the leading bunch are heading dead towards that strong patch of head wind ?

 

[Martin_J]

Hopefully because the wind will be just off the port bow as we head East.. .. then should give a northerly tack at some point in a few days time... Rather than heading NE now and being dead into wind..

 

[Martin_J]

Sara.. . just realised... you're in that Southerly bunch!

 

[Martin_J]

And in 20-30 hours time we'll be heading more north than south as we head East...

Rgds ybw_mjm