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I do not know what this has to do with the weather to which I was and still am referring to...

Why? Because they “knew” right from the start they will have an excellent weather window all the way through the Indian Ocean and even more? Even with most powerful computers doing weather modeling there are no “reliable” forecasts for more than 10 days, so there is no way they knew this at the...

Sure... just like saying they want to break JVT record without breaking any segment record. Theoretically it is possible, but very unlikely. And when planing, why not break the record of the segment, where weather forecast ist the best? I do think that the last run from IDEC was 90% luck and...

Well, guys, IMOCAs should also be waaay faster now than they were last time around, but hence what... they will be nowhere near current record. They will probably not be even close to second or third best time. Probably all due to weather.  Sodebo is also the latest generation of ultim and...

And they went hero to zero within couple of days... damn it is easy to be a couch sailor... ;)

Sad... Does anyone recall what was the highest advantage of Sodebo?

They need to look out for some oncoming traffic... ;)  

Wow. The situation is really agonizing.  We have seen Sodebos’ advantage vaporize in Indian Ocean, so I think they might pull the plug within next couple of hours. For sure if they will be significantly behind by the time they get to Equator.   

Every hour, like one or two minutes before full hour. 

8 nm in 4 Hours. That hurts.   

Any concerns about the high in the middle of south Atlantic?

I know they were ahead of Idec, but not ahead of their or Sodebos position at last attempt...

Does anyone have some data from previous attempt? Where were they last time compared to idec after 2-3 days? IIRC at the moment they are at least 100 nm behind... but they should have some nice weather coming.

Are they breaking their attempt? Negative VMG?

Nice... but that does not look to neither controlled nor exceptionally fast. They need to speed up if they want to be what, 9-12 hours in front of Joyon by equator. BTW, this was probably in TSS... going in wrong direction ;)

https://www.sailingworld.com/rules-for-boats-in-traffic-separation-schemes/ I do not know if I understand this correctly, but the TSS has to be upheld by everyone, is it?

I really hope this will work out for Sodebo, but they could end up hundreds of miles behind by the time they get to New Zealand... They only entered Indian ocean and have already lost more than half of the initial advantage. Now I understand, why it was critical for Gitana to reach Cape of good...

Huh... I do not know if this is only a glitch, but their speed dropped significantly... and they are heading almost DDW...

I do not know if this was mentioned before, but Sodebo will have to speed up to have any chance of success... IDEC Sport: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEC_SPORT

Hi guys. Could anyone post some photos of flying sails for a Pulse? Or any other mods? Currently I am using kind of genoa for light wind conditions and under 12 kts performance has increased significantly, but I can sail nowhere near as high as with a jib... but for the sailing I do it is just...