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  1. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    Every time I check on Biotherm, they're going even slower... I realize they have a shroud problem and need to preserve the mast, but I hope they can find enough speed to get to the finish before they starve and/or miss the in-port...
  2. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    Too bad none of them went up the coast of Cape Cod, west of that big exclusion zone. That coulda been quite interesting.
  3. Your Mom

    Mom!

    Thanks! Love ya too!
  4. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    A couple random thoughts... -They've only suspended racing. Might as well finish under jury rig, if they can, if they don't expect to be able to get a mast for the next leg anyway... Get a couple points, get the sponsor some exposure with images of the arrival under jury rig, etc... -If they...
  5. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    The standings finally look right.
  6. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    It comes down to... Do you care if you finish 900th versus 3,000th? If you do, then you probably need to follow the router and take your medicine. If you don't, then stick to your plan and hope the forecast comes back. Personally, I don't care about results outside the top 100 or so, so in...
  7. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    Mom doesn't have a plan at the moment. Just playing out the current route to see where it goes. Won't be doing anything exotic unless the current route gets hopeless.
  8. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    FWIW, I usually sleep 6-8 hours, and rarely wake up for the 4:30 AM wind update. Usually just in volatile conditions or tricky coastal stuff. Staying awake all night is like buying expensive sails for your real boat, or buying expensive golf balls... it'll only help if you sail to the right...
  9. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itajaí, Brazil

    A nice side-benefit of winning the leg... two more days of rest and repairs before the next leg.
  10. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    That was a pretty intense finish. Nice job, guys. Several great finishes from the SA squad. I've been off my game a bit lately, and this one brought some of the intensity back for me today.
  11. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    This one is going into the "better lucky than good" category.
  12. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    :)
  13. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    If you execute the gybe (or tack) in the same minute as the sailchange, there are two benefits: -Both get executed with the same stamina, instead of the second one being executed with the stamina reduce from the first one. -The percentage speed losses are compounded... so instead of getting two...
  14. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    I screwed up. I was moving up despite sailing a real world regatta. On the way home, I did a gybe sumlutaneously with a sailchange to LG, which is beneficial if done correctly. When I got home, I decided to turn autosails back on. Unfortunately, 2 minutes later, I briefly sailed into more...
  15. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    The stamina thing produces situations where going beyond ideal VMG angles can sometimes be better than short-gybing. I'm not very good at figuring out when to do it... I'm going with the herd on this particular call.
  16. Your Mom

    WSSRC Crowd weather routing

    Thanks. I'm pretty good with using zezo.org for routing virtual races... and I've done plenty of real world sailing including some real world offshore stuff... but I've never actually used a router on a real world boat.
  17. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itajaí, Brazil

    I meant it as a real question, yes... but these guys are pros so presumably the answer is no.
  18. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    I see what you did there....
  19. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itajaí, Brazil

    So... 11th hour went behind the scoring line after Biotherm had crossed it... Does Biotherm had an argument that they should pick up the point? Or is the scoring gate result locked in upon first crossing?
  20. Your Mom

    The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

    Over the next few days, we should see the "shortest course to Cape Horn" swing more and more away from south angles across the ice limit and Antarctica toward actual East courses... so hopefully the rankings and DTFs will get more useful. At least we finally got past the point a few days ago...


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