Rounding the mark to port

[Steve Clayton]

Game control have woken up and applied penalties. A lot of unhappy skippers out there.
IMO; the rules are there for all to see so they should stop wingeing and learn from their error.

 

[Carolwildbird]

???? I can't find any information about this. What mark and what penalities?

 

[Spyro]

Maybe the VOR offficial race?

 

[Steve Clayton]

http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/news.php?id=152
you might have to scroll down

and the latest comment (arrived via email last night)

Boats who did not round the Mauritius mark

There was a handful of people who did not round the buoy without getting a penalty. Many sailors noted these people and reported them to the helpdesk. We started investigating these mysterious ghost ships. It turned out that there was a technical problem that was causing the penalty not to be applied correctly. Normally those players would have been unable to finish, but because a relatively large number of these sailors had connection problems, due to their local providers, we have decided to give them a penalty instead.
This means that all boats which did not round the buoy properly and did not get any penalty have been placed behind the pilot boat as a compromise.

 

[ParaHandy]

".... a relatively large number of these sailors had connection problems, due to their local providers, we have decided to give them a penalty instead."

harrumph .. i spent the best part of a day beached on the Canaries in leg 1 due to a "connection problem" .. i hadn't worked out that their server fell over quite regularly and a re-boot was the only way to re-gain control orra boat ...

 

[fireball]

No reported problems in SOLine!!