Sydney to Hobart

[mcanderson]

90 mins of decent sailing tv.

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/videos/watch/25860020/sydney-to-hobart/

Hope it brings a smile in the middle of winter.

 

[sarabande]

and how ! The leaders are really covering each other; round the buoys stuff out in the Pacific

 

[sailorman]

and how ! The leaders are really covering each other; round the buoys stuff out in the Pacific

Who are the navigator / tacticians

 

[sarabande]

there's a woman navigating one of the supers. Is nothing sacred anymore ?

The others are all ex America's Cup. VOR, etc. Plus shore teams setting up grib forecasts.

 

[Dave-Shafa]

I've done Sydney to Hobart several times but it was on a Shaw Saville apple boat.

 

[estarzinger]

Who are the navigator / tacticians

WO's Nav is Juan Vila

And C's is Stan Honey

 

[stephenh]

"there's a woman navigating one of the supers. Is nothing sacred anymore ? "

Shhhhhh - don't let Mary Blewitt / Pera hear you say that !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1366813/Mary-Pera.html

But no Wikipedia entry........maybe that's for the boys only?

 

[sarabande]

Yes, I knew Mrs Pera back in the 70's in RORC. A fine lawyer as well as a distinguished navigatrix.

 

[sarabande]

Comanche seems to be slipping well behind WOXI. 32 miles roughly at present. Looks like long and thin beats long and fat ?

 

[Woodlouse]

Comanche seems to be slipping well behind WOXI. 32 miles roughly at present. Looks like long and thin beats long and fat ?

In lighter conditions, every time. Unfortunately Comanche has probably lost too much time to catch up now that the weathers becoming more suited to her.

Next year should be good. WOXI has a great advantage in that she exists almost solely to win this race and the team has a lot of experience in doing so. Comanche's only been on the water three months. Lets just hope Jim Clark doesn't throw his toys out the pram and carries on campaigning.

 

[st599]

WO's Nav is Juan Vila

And C's is Stan Honey

I thought Stan spent all his time with his TV gfx company.

 

[estarzinger]

I thought Stan spent all his time with his TV gfx company.

Stan's a personal friend. Absolute terrific guy BTW - smart and competitive as hell but still always a perfect gentleman.

He does quite frequent 'guest navigator' gigs. He also does a lot of ISAF/safety at sea stuff - is on the Vestas investigation panel and the structural scantlings group.

He actually has promised Sally he would take a break after the AC, and they would go cruising for a year, but somehow they got too busy to actually do it.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

I particularly liked when the camera crews left the two lead boats - jump off the back into the noggin at 18kts (?) and get picked up by a RIB !

 

[Woodlouse]

Forty miles to go and now the separation is down to 10 miles. Looks like it could be a really close finish.

 

[mcanderson]

Well done to Bob and the whole Wild Oats team.