Fastnet 2021

[yl75]

Anybody knows what happened to addictive sailing ? (a ts5 cat)

 

[terrafirma]

Skorpios 1NM ahead now and half a knot better VMG. The bigger boat dealing with the sea state a little better vs Rambler. 

 

[wildbirdtoo]

I think there's a tracking problem with Apivia- dropped off my official tracker completely, but still well ahead on marine traffic live

 

[yl75]

HB not impressive ..

 

[TPG]

Fastnet website just blew up. 

 

[staysail]

The official tracker is useless for us. LiveShips is our best option at the moment. Gitana just tacked to go between Guernsey and Alderney!

 

[staysail]

....and what have they done to Apivia? 18 and a half knots upwind in 24 kts breeze!

 

[TPG]

Looking at the tracker, looks like way more boats retiring.

 

[staysail]

The official tracker is useless for us. LiveShips is our best option at the moment. Gitana just tacked to go between Guernsey and Alderney!

Oops! meant to say VesselFinder. Seems quicker to update and you can see which boat is which more easily.

 

[Sidecar]

I think this is just badly phrased. The safety of the small boats with a 125ft boat short tacking through the fleet at the Hurst Narrows is a pretty valid argument for sending the big boats first. 

Having skippered a biggish boat when we started last, it was bloody terrifying trying to avoid everyone short tacking out of the narrowest point of the race course. 

^^^^^This. Even more scary for the little boats.

 

[wildbirdtoo]

....and what have they done to Apivia? 18 and a half knots upwind in 24 kts breeze!

They seem to have put afterburners on- he hasn't dropped much below 18knots for the last hour.  1-2knots faster than Charal. Amazing!

 

[ttc546]

Have got some cracking photos from the vantage point of Hurst Castle. Will edit and post tonight. Scorpios looked quite relaxed but going well. 

 

[spennig]

Not only is tracker pretty useless, thank's to Privacy Badger, Ublock-Origin et al. it's clear who's being tracked. It's not the yachts.

 

[SteveJH]

18 boats already out less then 3 hours into the race?

 

[yl75]

Not only is tracker pretty useless, thank's to Privacy Badger, Ublock-Origin et al. it's clear who's being tracked. It's not the yachts.

Indeed, and I have disabled everything but I still don't see anything from the "live blog".

That site is really crappy !

 

[SteveJH]

And now 23 retired, 6.9%. This is silly.

 

[yl75]

And now 23 retired, 6.9%. This is silly.

Where do you see that ?

For me the site is totally unusable (functionally I mean, but not much time to spend on it)

 

[SteveJH]

Where do you see that ?

For me the site is totally unusable (functionally I mean, but not much time to spend on it)

https://yb.tl/Leaderboard/fastnet2021?tag=51384&useRecentVMG=true%2F

And now 38 retirements if i'm counting correctly.

 

[yl75]

https://yb.tl/Leaderboard/fastnet2021?tag=51384&useRecentVMG=true%2F

Thanks ! I guess that's the only page I will look at ...

 

[Laser1]

This is silly.

Why ?

In a blow like this with short seas stuff breaks and people get seasick. 

I'm expecting to see a few unscheduled visitors in Falmouth tomorrow evening.