Fastnet 2021
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Your Mom
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I may be wrong, but I think they rounded the rock to port and then turned aggressively to pass between the rock and the TSS. I'm not defending going to the wrong side of the TSS if the other side was mandatory... Just saying I don't think they went the wrong way around the rock...
Thisnametaken
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Which begs the question: have prior iterations of the race instructions also designated a TSS and, if so, was it to be left to port? It's one thing to not completely understand the race instructions - inexcusable at this level - but most of these guys have done this before.
They have had TSS’s for a while now. None of the other TSS’s seem to have a required rounding side, as evidenced by many other yacht tracks, so I wouldn’t expect the Fastnet TSS to have a required side either, but I then haven’t read the SI’s….
Sodebo and Actual are interesting. Which ever way the tide is running, Actual is in more current. Not uncommon to see 5-6 knots at the top end of Sark….I don’t trust the tracker, the currents displayed in the central channel seems to be on permanent ebb, although the tracks and speeds of Maître Coq and Obportus IV would suggest that it is ebbing….
Looks like max ebb current pretty soon. Low water St Peter Port 0244 BST.
https://www.rciyc.com/navigation/
Sodebo and Actual are interesting. Which ever way the tide is running, Actual is in more current. Not uncommon to see 5-6 knots at the top end of Sark….I don’t trust the tracker, the currents displayed in the central channel seems to be on permanent ebb, although the tracks and speeds of Maître Coq and Obportus IV would suggest that it is ebbing….
Looks like max ebb current pretty soon. Low water St Peter Port 0244 BST.
https://www.rciyc.com/navigation/
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DamnSkippy
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Pretty easy to look at all the boats track on YB. Butterworth must have had his eyes closed as dawn was coming
Bill E Goat
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Have to leave the Fastnet TSS to port in both directions
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Bill E Goat
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Appendix A just defines the Lat/Long of each corner of each of the TSS zones
Foiling Optimist
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Look up the thread, it's all there, appendix A gives the positions of the four points that define each TSS.
Not at the time, by now there are a few in the usual media.
Should only take a day or two for RORC press releases to catch up.
terrafirma
Super Anarchist
Well Well Well, Look whose winning Line Honors, IRC Zero and IRC Overall..! Surely not a boat with C Foils...? WTF.?
If it stays this way, ala big boat race, what a debut it would be for Skorpios..!
If it stays this way, ala big boat race, what a debut it would be for Skorpios..!
Ripple Rider
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Looks like Rambler cannot read the SIs, sack the naviguessor?
I imagine the bowman would have told them which way to go but as per usual the bowman (who knows everything) isn't listened to by the apparent "brains trust"! Haha
terrafirma
Super Anarchist
Wow I didn't notice this on the tracker. I just assumed they rounded the Rock and kept the TSS on Port.!
enigmatically2
Super Anarchist
Double handed. Offshore in 25-30knots.
I don't recall tea being an option. We must have been doing it wrong
terrafirma
Super Anarchist
(Not Talking to you Monkey, this is for Hugo Boss) Non Vendee Conditions.? Gotta love that. So what the fuck was Apivia designed for.? How about going fast at nearly everything? What a misnomer that is. Nowadays in a climate changed world the boats are experiencing everything it just blows my mind how Apivia went beneath Hugo Boss like they were standing still. (Watch the Imoca Start). Charlie and his design team have got it right. Alex isn't acknowledging his current Fastnet performance of being basically last and I don't believe it's solely a design issue. It sounds like they really don't give a rats and have conned the sailing public into believing they are still relevant, quote someone else in these forums.!
Thisnametaken
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This. Alex has proven he's a player with the right ride. This ride is a dog. And the minute that ride was doing well, it started to fall apart. But has he lost faith in the ride and therefore his mojo?
JSoup
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Foiling Optimist
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Sodebo? Bring back Crepes Whaou!
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