VOR '17-'18 - THE GAME

[Shorthanded 724]

22 minutes ago, Loon said:

Anyone know why my jib at 16 kts gives me a predicted distance that's twice as long as the heavy gennaker, which gives me 18.2 kts? Which should I choose? 

(Forgive me if this has already been asked. No time to look through 2,000 posts.)

Is your TWA locked or unlocked?

[Marty6 400]

23 minutes ago, Loon said:

Anyone know why my jib at 16 kts gives me a predicted distance that's twice as long as the heavy gennaker, which gives me 18.2 kts? Which should I choose? 

(Forgive me if this has already been asked. No time to look through 2,000 posts.)

If you mean with predicted distance the dotted line: Could the wind direction along the set heading become unsuitable for the heavy genaker and that sail thereby becoming ineffective or even useless?

i guess more details to answer correctly are needed: Which heading, which wind direction, TWA un-/locked ...? maybe just post your current location and the heading you wanted to go.

[Shorthanded 724]

23 minutes ago, Loon said:

Anyone know why my jib at 16 kts gives me a predicted distance that's twice as long as the heavy gennaker, which gives me 18.2 kts? Which should I choose? 

(Forgive me if this has already been asked. No time to look through 2,000 posts.)

Are you on our scoring list?

[Shorthanded 724]

1 hour ago, Mid said:

Nice lineup. 

[Mid 2,839]

1 minute ago, Shorthanded said:

Nice Rhum lineup. 

FTFY

[Marty6 400]

Going along the rhumbline, are we?

[Mid 2,839]

tad north

[Marty6 400]

So after the one day plunge my rank is back up to over 45000 and the DTL is back up to over 800NM. Strange measuring by VR.

[Mid 2,839]

wonder what zoom level the leader is using ?

[Loon 12]

42 minutes ago, Marty6 said:

If you mean with predicted distance the dotted line: Could the wind direction along the set heading become unsuitable for the heavy genaker and that sail thereby becoming ineffective or even useless?

i guess more details to answer correctly are needed: Which heading, which wind direction, TWA un-/locked ...? maybe just post your current location and the heading you wanted to go.

Boat name is Localdog (I'm Loon). I'm about 120 miles east of the southernmost Philippine island. I'm bearing 163 degrees, wind at about 20 degrees, blowing 19.7 kts. AWS is not locked.  I'm not on the scoring list? (Any room?)

Does the program predict my distance given conditions down my course? Or in future? Or neither. That would maybe make sense.  

 

[Shorthanded 724]

54 minutes ago, Loon said:

Boat name is Localdog (I'm Loon). I'm about 120 miles east of the southernmost Philippine island. I'm bearing 163 degrees, wind at about 20 degrees, blowing 19.7 kts. AWS is not locked.  I'm not on the scoring list? (Any room?)

Does the program predict my distance given conditions down my course? Or in future? Or neither. That would maybe make sense.  

 

I’ll add you to C group. 

[Shorthanded 724]

February sunsets are pretty nice around here. Although an August sunset taken when out on the boat are a touch better. 

[Shorthanded 724]

This laser has seen better days. 

[Your Mom 985]

2 hours ago, Loon said:

Anyone know why my jib at 16 kts gives me a predicted distance that's twice as long as the heavy gennaker, which gives me 18.2 kts? Which should I choose? 

(Forgive me if this has already been asked. No time to look through 2,000 posts.)

If you have autosails turned off, and HG becomes the wrong sail at some point during your projection line, then your projection line will continue to show whatever you'd achieve under HG (which could be awful relative to Jib if the wind is coming forward or dying).  If you have autosails on, then the projection line will assume sailchanges for the duration of the autosails activation.

Be careful, though, if you're flipping back and forth between Jib and HG to experiment...  each time you flip it (at least if a one-minute iteration passes before you flip back), you'll incur a penalty.  50% speed penalty each sailchange (or tack or gybe).  It lasts 75 seconds with pro winches, or a ghastly 300 seconds (5 minutes) without pro winches.

[Milli 60]

@ Mom, Stufishing, Mudsailor et. al.: what exactly are you still doing up there? 

[JeSa-SA 181]

36 minutes ago, Shorthanded said:

This laser has seen better days. 

The laser can handle it (especially buried in the snow like that) - but I'm concerned for that windsurfing boom. Take it home with you!

[Marty6 400]

1 hour ago, Loon said:

Does the program predict my distance given conditions down my course? Or in future? Or neither. That would maybe make sense. 

Yes, to a certain degree. The weather updates (see qoute below) can change the line. For example my line predicted me to stay clear of an island 3 hours ahead but wind changes lifted my boat North just a bit and i hit the island.

Quote

Weather is updated 4 times/day. The update is incremental and new data is added as it becomes available from NOAA (both the game and zezo)

The schedule begins at 9:30 UTC (10:30 CET in winter) with 12 hours of data, then 24 hours worth of forecast are added every 10 minutes or so. At 10:30 UTC the first week is available. The full 384 hour forecast is available at 11 UTC.

The same process repeats every 6 hours.

 

[Marty6 400]

Pretty interesting route of the boat in the West in the screenshot as well:

[stufishing 217]

1 hour ago, Milli said:

@ Mom, Stufishing, Mudsailor et. al.: what exactly are you still doing up there? 

Good question!

 

[Mid 2,839]

3 minutes ago, stufishing said:

Good question!

Mom has answered up thread .........

 

the others probably haven't any way out currently .

[Shorthanded 724]

2 minutes ago, Mid said:

Mom has answered up thread .........

 

the others probably haven't any way out currently .

Your Mom started heading south earlier. I don't think he liked what he saw forecast-wise and gybed back over.

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

23 minutes ago, Marty6 said:

Pretty interesting route of the boat in the West in the screenshot as well:

Take a look at Andy Cap_1, they are in the same area as that boat, only further advanced.

[mkgsailor 201]

for tonight.

Rank	Group	SA Name	Boat Name	DTL
1	A,B,C	wpbeardsley	wpbeardsley	0.0
2	C		puckhead	3.7
3	B	Swamp	Swamp Rat	42.9
4	C	Loon	Localdog	47.4
5	A	Hike, Bitches	HikeBitches	71.0
6	C	Vin	Divided Sky	101.4
7	A	Rainbow Spirit	Rainbow Spirit II	101.6
8	B		spadadua	102.7
9	A	Lat21	Hamachi SA	108.6
10	C	rolltak	Awkward Turtle	110.1
11	A	Mike G	Mike Ventura	112.8
12	A	daan62	hutspot77	116.1
13	B	Rimike	rider1982	116.5
14	B		Iluvitar	119.6
15	A	Vibroman	Vibroman_SA	120.1
16	C	mred	mistered	120.6
17	B	jacksparrow	Malamute	121.5
18	C	Will Lee	Lorraine III	124.3
19	B	unplugged	Dcarr	124.4
20	B	gary	hschutz	125.8
21	A	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	126.1
22	B	sailon2	jahmbo SA	126.1
23	B	Mr. Fixit	Yodaman	126.6
24	B	N/A	Walkaround	128.5
25	A	From The Rail	A-Squared	131.9
26	A	Ozzy	Ozzy 85	132.1
27	B	mkgsailor	J2B2	156.1
28	C		Dirty Sea Rag	186.0
29	C	sailingk8	She Wolf	186.6
30	B		GrandbendOnt	239.2
31	B	Gufmiester	Gufmiester	581.0
32	B	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	591.0
33	A	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	591.3
34	B	Shorthanded	Shorty	591.5
35	A	BlueMountainsYC	shockwave11	592.0
36	A	Marty6	Cambodunum	592.7
37	C	JeSa-SA	JeSa	592.7
38	A	Breitling	Breitling_SA	592.8
39	C	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	594.9
40	B	Magool	Magool	595.80
41	C	Sambaopreis	Sambaopreis	597.2
42	B	Milli	Blitzquart	599.8
43	A	HKG1203	HKG1203	600.0
44	B	hmsmweasel	Stay Thirsty M 43	602.2
45	B	EquusAsinusDomesticus	ON9270	605.6
46	A	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	612.4
47	A	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	613.9
48	A	Golden Rose	Golden Rose SA	615.2
49	A	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	626.8
50	A	I Sail The Black Boat	Thistle1678	643.2
51	B	stanlutz	USA644RAVEN_SA	662.4
52	B	Tommmzzz	tommmzzz	815.1
53	B		cg_	871.0
54	B	Alpina	ColombaRacing	937.2
55	A	Mud Sailor	Mudsailor SA	996.2
56	A	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	1035.1
57	A	Wet Hog	WetHog-SA	1188.7
58	B	stufishing	Stufishing_SA	1237.5
59	B	CaptainSENer	CaptainSENer	DNS
60	B	RunSampRun	Samsonite SA	DNS

[Hike, Bitches! 272]

thanks MKG.

[Loon 12]

Thanks for the advice, folks, and for adding me to Group C.

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

What's with the background sounds when playing off the map? There is a wave sound, plus twittering birds, twittering birds in the middle of the ocean?

[Your Mom 985]

2 hours ago, Milli said:

@ Mom, Stufishing, Mudsailor et. al.: what exactly are you still doing up there? 

I've been routing to a point NE of Auckland all along.  Trying to get to a position where I can avoid the worst of the doldrums and approach the finish on a downwind angle.  I do NOT think it's going to work out well.  I might wind up 12-20 hours behind the winner.  But I shanked the first day and the truth is that between this and the Clipper race, I'm really tired of dicking around in light and shifty doldrums and was ready to do whatever I have to in order to avoid that.  So...  if I finish 20 hours off the winner, in 3,000th place, having rarely sailed in less than 10 kts of breeze and just having sailed too far, so be it.  And if I get lucky find a good end-around lane a week from now, then...  :-)  But I'm not expecting it.

49 minutes ago, Shorthanded said:

Your Mom started heading south earlier. I don't think he liked what he saw forecast-wise and gybed back over.

I'm actually mostly following Zezo's routing at the moment, but with a destination NE of Auckland.  The wind is shifting such that a few gybes are necessary to play the angles correctly, and also there are diminishing returns on getting more wind once you have more than 27 kts.  So I'll probably have a few more gybes in the next several hours, and then at some point tomorrow (US time) will start a more persistently ESE track.

For the moment, my main goal is to stay ahead of Mangina and catch leg winner RQ-Naos.

[Your Mom 985]

4 minutes ago, Rainbow Spirit said:

What's with the background sounds when playing off the map? There is a wave sound, plus twittering birds, twittering birds in the middle of the ocean?

I turned all of the sounds off in all of my devices a long time ago.  F'ing annoying.  ;-)

[Hike, Bitches! 272]

38 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I turned all of the sounds off in all of my devices a long time ago.  F'ing annoying.  ;-)

+1

[JeSa-SA 181]

42 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I turned all of the sounds off in all of my devices a long time ago.  F'ing annoying.  ;-)

I'd be surprised if A SINGLE PERSON plays with those sounds on. That poor sound effects designer is not getting any royalties, that's for sure!

[stufishing 217]

I am really struggling to find any good in front of me now. I can't see a lane through with consistent wind which is what I was looking for. The plan I had two days ago has not panned out. I have had three weather changes vs forecast now go against me, I reckon I'm due for a good one soon! Unless conditions change unexpectedly, the next twelve hours should see me reach my northern most latitude

However, one light ahead of me; the angle I have always planned to approach Auckland from will still yield me the shortest time possible in the Doldrums.

[FromTheRail 64]

2 hours ago, Rainbow Spirit said:

What's with the background sounds when playing off the map? There is a wave sound, plus twittering birds, twittering birds in the middle of the ocean?

I switched mine off, no need for that shit

[HKG1203 306]

Stu may i ask why you chose the far north option for this leg? I know looking in retrospect its easy to comment on but im just thinking more in terms of fleet management. Although the three of us were pretty stuffed from that northern option. There is still 24 hours left before we break through the front which has been slowing the leaders down meaning 24 hours to get back into the front row of the race as such. My plan was that i knew the leaders could not extend with the front so i may as well follow them and allow my better pressure to put me back in the game. Was the northerly plan just more of a fun banging of the corner to see how it goes?

[Mid 2,839]

annoying that the noise defaults to on and you get to turn it off every time , specially when you are trying to sneak a peep in the middle of the night

[stufishing 217]

Its a sad tale really! I was always going to run a far northern route.  when i was offline a couple of days ago i was heading for much too long at 80TWA and ended up closer to  Kochi than i wanted and lost touch with the front. Then i had to go NE at pace to get back to it. Then the last two forecasts have moved it back out of reach. And the lane of solid breeze I was slotting into level with Tokyo now has a whacking great hole in it!

[HKG1203 306]

10 minutes ago, stufishing said:

Its a sad tale really! I was always going to run a far northern route.  when i was offline a couple of days ago i was heading for much too long at 80TWA and ended up closer to  Kochi than i wanted and lost touch with the front. Then i had to go NE at pace to get back to it. Then the last two forecasts have moved it back out of reach. And the lane of solid breeze I was slotting into level with Tokyo now has a whacking great hole in it!

ah right i see! That's rather unfortunate :/

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

I'm still thinking that Markos and any others in that area are currently in the box seat.

[Sapphire Girl 123]

4 hours ago, Mid said:

annoying that the noise defaults to on and you get to turn it off every time , specially when you are trying to sneak a peep in the middle of the night

Go to settings on the home screen before you select VOR. Set music and sounds to off. Same place you can choose between km and nm. You never need to hear sounds again!

[Mid 2,839]

ahoy Marty6 ,

 

come ang get ya Frigate back

[HKG1203 306]

Everyone starting to get back onto the front row for tomorrow's reset. Game On!

[Loon 12]

Another question, folks. What's the formal name of the Group C yacht club? I want to sign up to follow rankings. Thanks.  

[4010 37]

Another day on the pond

[Shorthanded 724]

31 minutes ago, Loon said:

Another question, folks. What's the formal name of the Group C yacht club? I want to sign up to follow rankings. Thanks.  

Group C is just the group of sailors that I keep track of. We’re only able to follow up to 25 boats and we now have around 60 total that we’re scoring.  I volunteered to follow the group C boats when the first two groups, followed by Tunnel Rat and mkgsailor, maxed out. We take screenshots of each of our groups every day at 0100 UTC and then publish them in this thread. See above for the last posting. It’s just for fun and we encourage more people to sign up as I still have room for more. 

[Loon 12]

Got it - thanks again.

[Shorthanded 724]

1 hour ago, 4010 said:

Another day on the pond

4010, are you on the rankings list?

[Breitling 129]

Fuck...  all effort thrown overboard. We start again.

[Shorthanded 724]

30 minutes ago, Breitling said:

Fuck...  all effort thrown overboard. We start again.

And the forecast suggests that the boats to the SW of us will get a fresher breeze when the E-NE wind fills in. 

[daan62 270]

after a 3.5 hour brunch on a tiny island my routing completely changed... somehow it seems to turn into a good thing... everything is still possible...

hutspot77

[Shorthanded 724]

12 minutes ago, daan62 said:

after a 3.5 hour brunch on a tiny island my routing completely changed... somehow it seems to turn into a good thing... everything is still possible...

hutspot77

I wanted to dislike, but that wouldn’t have been very nice. 

[daan62 270]

4 minutes ago, Shorthanded said:

I wanted to dislike, but that wouldn’t have been very nice. 

honesty is worth something, too....

 

Hutspot77

[HKG1203 306]

this leg reminds me a bit of the one to Melbourne. I feel your pain breitling. Especially with how well you've been positioning yourself over the last few days. Been looking to be in the top 20 was my guess

[HKG1203 306]

Stop Press: We are now further south than Hong Kong!

[JeSa-SA 181]

2 hours ago, Shorthanded said:

And the forecast suggests that the boats to the SW of us will get a fresher breeze when the E-NE wind fills in. 

They will, but will also need to pinch more to stay in the breeze and make the mark...

[Shorthanded 724]

8 minutes ago, JeSa-SA said:

They will, but will also need to pinch more to stay in the breeze and make the mark...

That’s a very valid point. Time will tell, eh!

[daan62 270]

3 minutes ago, Shorthanded said:

That’s a very valid point. Time will tell, eh!

it ain't over until the fat lady sings...

[Your Mom 985]

13 minutes ago, HKG1203 said:

Stop Press: We are now further south than Hong Kong!

Maybe you are.  Zezo just told me to go north for an additional 6 hours instead of being able to settle in for a week without gybes.  That probably isn't good news.

Ultimately, my plan is contingent upon the doldrums being unavoidably god-awful.  There have been times when I've considered jumping to the escort frigate, as its position isn't terrible with the whole fleet ramming into a wall...  but I keep telling myself the forecasts from PNG to Tonga will change dramatically with every update and a path through there that looks good right now might look terrible in 6 hours.  My path East of Tonga should be much more reliable.  Just a lot longer.

[Shorthanded 724]

16 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Maybe you are.  Zezo just told me to go north for an additional 6 hours instead of being able to settle in for a week without gybes.  That probably isn't good news.

Ultimately, my plan is contingent upon the doldrums being unavoidably god-awful.  There have been times when I've considered jumping to the escort frigate, as its position isn't terrible with the whole fleet ramming into a wall...  but I keep telling myself the forecasts from PNG to Tonga will change dramatically with every update and a path through there that looks good right now might look terrible in 6 hours.  My path East of Tonga should be much more reliable.  Just a lot longer.

Admit it. You’re island hopping looking for rum. 

[Marty6 400]

Found the parking lot

[stanlutz 8]

8 hours ago, I Sail The Black Boat said:

Was there one? for a while we were encouraging everyone to join "Savannah Yacht Club:" for the whole fleet! 

20ish more spots open in SAYC. JohnBoy is in the lead.... Hold on. The time it took to check back & snap a screen shot, the commodore got lapped.

 

[Loon 12]

Just signed up for SAYC--despite having lost 20,000 places while asleep last night. Ah well.

[Shorthanded 724]

I just switched over from Grand Rapids Yacht Club to Savanah. There were only a handful of people in GRYC anyway. 

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit 112]

Mom it's looking like you have a polar route to the southern hemisphere going there. 

[mkgsailor 201]

Here are tonight's rankings. More big changes in the last 24 hours. 

 

Rank	Group	SA Name	Boat Name	DTL
1	A,B,C		spadadua	0.0
2	C		puckhead	6.2
3	B	Rimike	rider1982	21.5
4	A	Rainbow Spirit	Rainbow Spirit II	27.0
5	A	Lat21	Hamachi SA	44.6
6	A	daan62	hutspot77	49.3
7	B	mkgsailor	J2B2	49.3
8	C	wpbeardsley	wpbeardsley	50.4
9	C	mred	mistered	53.5
10	C	rolltak	Awkward Turtle	62.1
11	B	gary	hschutz	63.7
12	A	Hike, Bitches	HikeBitches	66.7
13	B	hmsmweasel	Stay Thirsty M 43	67.0
14	A	Vibroman	Vibroman_SA	67.7
15	C		Dirty Sea Rag	69.5
16	B	unplugged	Dcarr	70.2
17	A	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	70.4
18	A	BlueMountainsYC	shockwave11	70.6
19	B	Shorthanded	Shorty	71.1
20	C	Will Lee	Lorraine III	71.2
21	C	JeSa-SA	JeSa	71.2
22	A	Breitling	Breitling_SA	71.5
23	B	Gufmiester	Gufmiester	71.6
24	A	Marty6	Cambodunum	71.7
25	B	sailon2	jahmbo SA	71.7
26	B	jacksparrow	Malamute	71.9
27	B	N/A	Walkaround	71.9
28	B		Iluvitar	71.9
29	B	Mr. Fixit	Yodaman	72.3
30	A	HKG1203	HKG1203	72.5
31	C	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	73.0
32	B	Milli	Blitzquart	73.2
33	C	Sambaopreis	Sambaopreis	74.3
34	B	Swamp	Swamp Rat	74.8
35	A	Ozzy	Ozzy 85	77.3
36	A	From The Rail	A-Squared	81.6
37	A	Golden Rose	Golden Rose SA	82.5
38	C	Loon	Localdog	82.6
39	A	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	82.8
40	A	Mike G	Mike Ventura	84.8
41	A	I Sail The Black Boat	Thistle1678	85.5
42	C	sailingk8	She Wolf	100.0
43	B		GrandbendOnt	236.1
44	B		cg_	395.8
45	C	Vin	Divided Sky	421.7
46	B	Alpina	ColombaRacing	435.7
47	B	Magool	Magool	438.60
48	B	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	441.3
49	B	EquusAsinusDomesticus	ON9270	461.5
50	A	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	468.6
51	A	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	470.2
52	A	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	473.9
53	B	stanlutz	USA644RAVEN_SA	481.0
54	A	Mud Sailor	Mudsailor SA	922.8
55	A	Wet Hog	WetHog-SA	973.8
56	B	Tommmzzz	tommmzzz	1074.0
57	A	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	1077.1
58	B	stufishing	Stufishing_SA	1124.6
59	B	CaptainSENer	CaptainSENer	DNS
60	B	RunSampRun	Samsonite SA	DNS

[Your Mom 985]

Well, I passed RQ-Naos today, so I'm hoping I'm at the front of my route now, for whatever that turns out to be worth in the end.

I find myself wondering what angle the buoy 1 validation occurs at, and whether or not I might be the first one to validate it, from a bazillion miles away...  Not that it matters.  I'm leaving Tonga to starboard.

[Mid 2,839]

riddle me this ?

why spend money on cards ?

 

all from the yoghurt tub freebie

[stufishing 217]

You only have enough cards to program two turns in succession or three separately. Cards suck, they cost a lot to buy. I would be in a far better position if I had ponied up for 2 navigation packs near Japan instead of sailing the wrong way for 6 hours..

Was just wondering if anyone will beat me on distance sailed this leg!

 

[DtM 529]

Your Mom !!!

[Sapphire Girl 123]

Collecting cards means you have very few at the beginning of the leg and then they start throwing useless ‘Help’ cards at you. It takes quite a while to build up anything useful in the yoghurt tub, which is fine if you’re sailing in a straight line in trade wind conditions.

[Your Mom 985]

8 hours ago, DtM said:

Your Mom !!!

Yarrrrr!!!

It's getting annoying how many people are asking me every day in the game "where are you going?"  "what's your strategy" "are you going to Alaska"?  I'm starting to wish I had taken the doldrums route.  The good news is that 48 hours from now, I'll be East of Auckland and heading pretty close to due South, so the answer to those questions will finally be self-evident.

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

Just  two questions about how the game plays for me on my PC, and the things that annoy me, I'm wondering if this happens to others.

It seems that about 50% of the time now on login I have to sign in with my email address and password, then go through the tutorial, even though I have ticked the do not show me the tutorial again box many times. It used to be a straight login without the sign in, now it is getting worse.

As well, once on the game screen I have problems clicking onto my friends boats and other random boats that appear so I can see their performance details.  I know my connection speed (ADSL2) is slow, (would you believe around 2-3 mbps if I'm lucky). Thanks, RSII.

 

 

[Sapphire Girl 123]

Just been having a look at the run in to Auckland. With a number of tropical storms floating around the South Pacific and patches of nothing in between, it looks tricky. That could well be the point when Your Mom flies through at a more favorable angle...

[Sapphire Girl 123]

I’ve been having problems clicking on boats via the iPhone app too

[4010 37]

For the IPhone; zoom in ; then punch the boat

[Marty6 400]

53 minutes ago, Rainbow Spirit said:

Just  two questions about how the game plays for me on my PC, and the things that annoy me, I'm wondering if this happens to others.

It seems that about 50% of the time now on login I have to sign in with my email address and password, then go through the tutorial, even though I have ticked the do not show me the tutorial again box many times. It used to be a straight login without the sign in, now it is getting worse.

As well, once on the game screen I have problems clicking onto my friends boats and other random boats that appear so I can see their performance details.  I know my connection speed (ADSL2) is slow, (would you believe around 2-3 mbps if I'm lucky). Thanks, RSII.

Usually i don't have to log in/sign in with the EMail on the the PC or the tablet. It only occurs very seldom and i suspect it's after i used another device the time before. And yes, the settings including tutorial/sound/music are always gone with the new sign in. Did maybe some privacy settings (cookies) change for your browser?

I also can confirm the clicking issue with the latest version on both PC and tablet. Changing the zoom level helps to make those boats clickable but it's still annoying.

Your connection should be fast enough. I have "only" twice your speed since several months and before had the same so i feel your pain.

[JeSa-SA 181]

13 hours ago, stufishing said:

Was just wondering if anyone will beat me on distance sailed this leg!

 

There was a Swedish boat yesterday spinning around at a fixed 110 TWA in the cyclone vortex east of the Philippines. He might have twirled around a gazillion times in there and leapfrogged you in distance-sailed

[Marty6 400]

A lot of reefs and islands ahead and a challenge in little over 24 hours.

[daan62 270]

26 minutes ago, Marty6 said:

A lot of reefs and islands ahead and a challenge in little over 24 hours.

and they only show when zooming in... already had an unplanned stop (3.5 hours) this leg...

Hutspot77

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

Keep a lookout for all those light blue areas, lots of hidden islands lurk there.

A few days ago I was in the 48000s, today it looks like I'll go sub 2000!

[Shorthanded 724]

51 minutes ago, Marty6 said:

A lot of reefs and islands ahead and a challenge in little over 24 hours.

Wouter bumps

[frostbit 112]

Spadadua checking in. The position Spadadua is currently in is entirely the product of semi-blind luck and a lot of traveling with little time to fuck up things that are actually working. No worries true leaders, I'm sure the Spadadua will soon work its way back to its usual mid-SA Fleet position... 

Also Mom, talk about banging the corner! Holy crap! Seeing you up there is someone intimidating. Like a bomb about to drop through the fleet. 

[Golden Rose 35]

On 2/10/2018 at 6:37 PM, Marty6 said:

There is something seriously wrong with the ranking within the game. A couple hours ago i went from rank ~46.000 to ~35.000 and also the DTL (without the leader changing) went down from ~900NM to ~250NM within several minutes. I saw the same for a couple friend boats around of me (Shorty, Ozzy, ...) while the some a little more north of me (Breitling, ...) have the old data.

Same thing happened to me! Said I'd made over 500 NM in less than 24 hrs....don't think we are in the Southern Ocean yet!!!

[Golden Rose 35]

On 2/11/2018 at 2:40 AM, HKG1203 said:

I use both but tend to bring my computer with me so i can use routing (yes i have lost all my friends since the race begun ) If i can't bring my computer then i'll use my phone. Been also using predict wind a bit for routing in this leg and the portugal to South Africa leg where it is useful to use the ECMWF model as well as i find it tends to be more accurate at long range forecasting although that may just be BS.

Use my phone, tablet and computer; just depends on where I am and what I'm doing.  Has anyone else notice a difference in Zezo's routing if they use Chrome or Firefox?  I'm seeing some major differences and can't explain it.  Anyone else experiencing this??  Thanks!

[Rainbow Spirit 284]

Zezo doesn't always work for me in Chrome, so I have to use Firefox, and yes there is a difference to the routing, especially towards Auckland.

[Shorthanded 724]

I’m using the computer, iPad and iPhone all at once. One entry on the iPad  and the other on the computer (to follow Groups A and C). The iPhone is to take screen shots of the computer. Getting pretty high tech up here.....

[Golden Rose 35]

On 2/11/2018 at 9:30 PM, FromTheRail said:

I switched mine off, no need for that shit

Think the sound engineer has never been at sea!  Sounds = super annoying!!!

[Shorthanded 724]

Lots of company out here 

[Golden Rose 35]

16 minutes ago, Rainbow Spirit said:

Zezo doesn't always work for me in Chrome, so I have to use Firefox, and yes there is a difference to the routing, especially towards Auckland.

Thanks....nice to know I don't have gremlins living in my 'puter!

[stufishing 217]

3000 Nautical miles covered, 4400 to go.......

[mkgsailor 201]

Rank	Group	SA Name	Boat Name	DTL
1	A,B,C	4010	grimlin	0.00
2	B		spadadua	1.6
3	A	Rainbow Spirit	Rainbow Spirit II	13.4
4	A	Lat21	Hamachi SA	24.9
5	C	mred	mistered	33.3
6	B	Rimike	rider1982	34.3
7	B	mkgsailor	J2B2	36.6
8	B	gary	hschutz	38.3
9	A	daan62	hutspot77	40.4
10	A	Vibroman	Vibroman_SA	42.3
11	C	rolltak	Awkward Turtle	42.8
12	B	hmsmweasel	Stay Thirsty M 43	49.2
13	B	N/A	Walkaround	52.6
14	B	Shorthanded	Shorty	54.8
15	A	BlueMountainsYC	shockwave11	55.6
16	A	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	55.8
17	B	jacksparrow	Malamute	55.9
18	B	Gufmiester	Gufmiester	56.6
19	B	unplugged	Dcarr	56.6
20	B	Milli	Blitzquart	57.1
21	C	JeSa-SA	JeSa	57.2
22	A	HKG1203	HKG1203	58.1
23	C	Will Lee	Lorraine III	58.3
24	A	Breitling	Breitling_SA	58.8
25	C	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	60.3
26	C	Sambaopreis	Sambaopreis	60.4
27	B	Mr. Fixit	Yodaman	60.6
28	B		Iluvitar	60.8
29	A	Marty6	Cambodunum	61.1
30	B	sailon2	jahmbo SA	62.0
31	A	Golden Rose	Golden Rose SA	68.7
32	A	Ozzy	Ozzy 85	69.2
33	A	From The Rail	A-Squared	70.8
34	A	I Sail The Black Boat	Thistle1678	71.5
35	C		Dirty Sea Rag	78.0
36	B	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	88.3
37	A	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	94.7
38	B	Magool	Magool	97.70
39	A	Mike G	Mike Ventura	125.5
40	A	Hike, Bitches	HikeBitches	136.9
41	A	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	138.4
42	A	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	138.4
43	C	wpbeardsley	wpbeardsley	140.3
44	B	EquusAsinusDomesticus	ON9270	141.6
45	B	stanlutz	USA644RAVEN_SA	144.0
46	A	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	145.1
47	B	Swamp	Swamp Rat	165.1
48	C		puckhead	168.8
49	C	Vin	Divided Sky	192.7
50	C	Loon	Localdog	204.5
51	C	sailingk8	She Wolf	231.1
52	B		GrandbendOnt	282.7
53	B		cg_	296.4
54	B	Alpina	ColombaRacing	387.7
55	A	Mud Sailor	Mudsailor SA	912.1
56	A	Wet Hog	WetHog-SA	918.8
57	A	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	1023.8
58	B	stufishing	Stufishing_SA	1061.6
59	B	Tommmzzz	tommmzzz	1399.3
60	B	CaptainSENer	CaptainSENer	DNS
61	B	RunSampRun	Samsonite SA	DNS