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    TOR Leg 7 - final leg

    Si-fi said explicitly they'd "rather win this race on the water" and he also mentioned looking at redress. Maybe I'm assuming too much but it feels like their initial assumption is that the repairs are too significant to turn around in time (by the way - what is the maximum period they can...
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    TOR Leg 7 - final leg

    I saw that they did that - but not enough video, or close enough to say why or whether it made any difference. Will be interesting to see what the Race Committee make of it all.
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    TOR Leg 7 - final leg

    I wasn't watching Live - any idea who was at fault? I assume Guyot? (If so I'll be Charlie is regretting lending his spare mast!)
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    The Ocean Race Leg 6: Aarhus (DK) to The Hague (NL) via Kiel (GER)

    Not for long - they seem well placed now
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    The Ocean Race Leg 6: Aarhus (DK) to The Hague (NL) via Kiel (GER)

    It's like they missed the instruction about the extra loop? They've lost a lot of distance in just under 3 hours - from 0.2nm ahead to 5.8 behind with two gybes to put in. Very odd
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    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    I was wondering the same thing. Not sure what we gained from double points on this leg - and now the spread on the results table is such that it's realistically a two boat event for the remainder of the race. (Perhaps it always was!?).
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    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    Weekly would have been a luxury. Mainly it was a monthly service and in winter even that could not be counted on. They had emergency supplies for an extra two weeks - but sometimes had to wait longer than that! They all seemed to like the job though. And onshore they were well respected...
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    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    Fair Isle is between Orkney and Shetland. The larger island (on olo.0815's post) looks like Sule Skerry - there's a whacking great lighthouse on it (and the smaller, to the SW, is Sule Stack, I believe). My wife's grandparents were Light Keepers - and that wasn't an especially great posting to...
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    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

    I was confident the outright record was up for grabs but by this margin is seriously impressive - 640.9! TM's earlier 4 hour run of 113.8, as noted above, is also astounding.
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    The Ocean Race Leg 5: Newport RI to Aarhus DK

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

    He was on the live Eurosport coverage - such as it was. Very magnanimous, good to see him there.
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

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

    Looks like 11th hour back on track - sail change probably. Malizia live data showing significant reduction in wind speed....but they don't yet appear to be picking up much speed. Next 2-3 hours will be interesting (in fact the next 24 hours will be!)
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    In their latest video Will says that they are at 120% of their original polars - which, understandably, he was pretty pleased about.
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    Video of the actual dismasting now on Holcim's site. Something parted up front.
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    Can't see any immediate obvious reason for that on conditions - some odd failure perhaps?? Like you...eagerly waiting for more news
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    They are definitely not experiencing what either the models on Windy or the Tracker are predicting
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    The Ocean Race Leg 4: Itajai, Brazil to Newport RI

    I'm wondering the same thing right now, and whether we may see a split? Keen to see Herman etc's latest routings.
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    The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itajaí, Brazil

    The news update published on the OR website by Charlie makes me think they realise the writing is on the wall. Although I'm not sure how Botherm will sail on starboard and at least half the remaining distance will be on that tack.
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    The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itajaí, Brazil

    Good to see Malizia cross the line first. They earned that win and it helps to keep the scoreboard at least a bit more interesting for the rest of the race. Still a lot of following to do on this leg though. I'll be interested to see if there is anything up with Holcim-PRB - were those last...



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