Brings back happy fruits de mer memories of 40 years ago. First “date”with my (still) wife was doing the delivery trip from Cherbourg after a RORC race…..
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Fastnet 2021
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frozenhawaiian
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you're probably right. boat has been in the water less than a month. boss would be pretty pissed if you broke his new toy the first time out.
Thisnametaken
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Gotta say Rambler looks like they pull off a nice move there at the end.
Fiji Bitter
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Congrats to your wife, well done. When my Ex married a French Vaginator my mates were teasing me with a lunch cut, but I explained that I was simply recycling her...
Anyways, back on subject, a classic and disgusting French food film is this one, bet you know it.
Here the long version for the gourmets:
https://youtu.be/GKwUTBB-GG4
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Agreed. They seem to be playing the currents more aggressively-differently than their competition.
Still remains to be seen if they know
Jethrow
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Having never done a Fastnet, or even sailed in the area, seeing the TSS block off Lands End there seems to be a huge wall in the course. Is this just to avoid shipping turning the corner or is there something else in the area they are trying to keep boats away from?
Rainbow Spirit
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HB might be a dog up wind, but they are hauling arse at the moment.
P_Wop
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Yes, it's one of several traffic separation areas that must be avoided. Rather simpler back in the old days (I did eleven of these things) as all you had to do was to dodge rocks. And ships of course.
Fiji Bitter
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May be because of this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-39197075
The story was that the Captain took the distance/miles off from a chart laying under the top one, bloody paper charts...
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DamnSkippy
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Rambler 3miles to the finish…… waiting to see how RORC and better yet the internet scores it.
DamnSkippy
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Soon…
The great unwashed
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Just to pile on, “line honors” means “first to finish.” That goes to a small bunch of hotshot French sailors on a fast as hell trimaran. The Scorpion folks are “first to finish if yu don’t count any of the other boats we don’t want to count.”
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Next up…..
Sailbydate
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Ripple Rider
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It will be really interesting to see what the Race Committee do now with Rambler since it appears they sailed the wrong course?
Or does it take a protest from another competitor?
Maybe the Rambler Navigator knows something we don't but every other boat seems to be keeping the Fastnet TSS to port.
Fiji Bitter
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Line horrors goes to a multi , line honours to a proper yaaht...
But amazing performance by the Froggies nevertheless!
Sailbydate
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Puddle Jumping
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HB on a late charge, past Veruna now, gap closing on the leading IMOCAs
terrafirma
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Varuna the Ker56 winning IRC Overall at the moment with around 100 miles to go. This is an impressive boat, extreme design and the team well sailed. Waiting to see what happens with Rambler. Skorpios finished some 8 hours ahead of her.
