Glad it's not a pain for others, using the desktop version as not sure it's worth putting the app on for just this race.
But back to the action.. looks like Edmond de Rothschild is soon to make the turn
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But back to the action.. looks like Edmond de Rothschild is soon to make the turn
Ripple Rider
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Edmond de Rothschild is first around The Rock and heading home, very quick.
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Marine Traffic is another site that seems to update more quickly than the official Fastnet Yellow Brick Tracker site, at least for me anyway.
terrafirma
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Apivia is stalking Skorpios. Amazing stuff by Apivia who either has new foils or has a new mode the others don't? Yeah Rambler is not going as fast up there but I'm tipping Butterworth said no use following a 125 Footer around the course.! So they maybe taking a gamble with the hope it will pay off. They are behind Apivia who is going faster than them by quite a bit too. Apivia will need pressure to hang on Skorpios so if it goes light I expect the big beast to extend. Great to see Skorpios still on the track as you said they could have easily been an early retirement...
t.rex
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From the YB tracker, it seems Edmond de Rothschild got around the Fastnet rock at 08:03.
That's just short of 21 hours. She seems to be picking up speed going past the TSS.
Wonder if she'll make it home to Cherbourg before sunset?
That's just short of 21 hours. She seems to be picking up speed going past the TSS.
Wonder if she'll make it home to Cherbourg before sunset?
Rainbow Spirit
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Apivia is match racing a boat twice her length (Skorpios). and has left the other Imocas in her wake, have they finally found a way to make a foiling Imoca sail fast upwind?
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terrafirma
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Apivia is foiling a lot of the time and she is now only 3 miles astern of the Beast. She seems to be around a knot or 2 faster every now and then. The other Imoca's are way back Hugo Boss will be 100 miles behind within the next couple of hours.
staysail
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Always did love Apivia. Just looks the business, but this performance so far is just incredible.
terrafirma
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She's doing 18.5 Knots vs 14.9 for Skorpios..! We may have an Imoca win line honors in this race for the 1st time..?
Yeah I agree, the wind doesn't veer until after I would expect them to reach the rock so they'll be sailing tighter angles than Skorpios but the tracker now shows a lot of boats doing the same dive down to leeward/North of this zone. I guess the slightly higher angle of fetch to the rock beats extra miles flogging to windward? So far all of the rest of IRC0 are lining up to slot in North like Rambler did plus some IMOCAs so this could be the only routing split we see for the race.
Watching her at the start when they footed off and just blew past HB to leeward was pretty awesome and they just haven't stopped since then. I think Charlie may feel the need to stamp his authority on the fleet after having the overall win snatched away in the Vendee (not saying it wasn't justified, but it must have hurt to be first home but not first)
The boys on Allegra are having a good one so far in MOCRA, just taken the virtual lead back from Argo.
Gitana is just fucking sending it, 50nm ahead of Sodebo
terrafirma
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Nice 53 second clip of some of the action so far.!
aussieinlondon
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i thought these conditions would have put skorpios much further in the lead ?
Brand new boat, it's impressive they've made it this far considering how little time they've had sailing since launch especially in big conditions like this. They won't be pushing at 100% but Rambler will...
WTF is happening with HB? They're having a shocker.... Sam Davies on Initiatives Coeur and 11th Hour are both putting solid runs together so far, they've dipped down North of the TSS away from Arkea and Charal so we'll see how that split plays out.
Fiji Bitter
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Not leading anymore!
They were match racing Apivia for a little while, but... (check the tracker).
Amazing feat by Apivia, and really hope they can keep the lead, Charlie and team deserve this one.
And what are all the celebrity pro's on Skorpios thinking right now?
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aussieinlondon
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foils have changed the game
why would you build a new yacht without foils ?
why would you build a new yacht without foils ?
Matagi
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By this point: an actual owner's quote, I presume
Kidding aside: that's the first outing of a very complex machine and the race is not even 24 hours old.
Still, we've seen similar things with Leopard (anyone remembers that one?) and Comanche, where scaling up the size did not correlate automatically with speed and line honours.
I suspect it might be a game to win for the smaller yachts in the overall this year, with the larger boats getting parked in the Baie de Seine in <10kts off Scilly tomorrow and the Channel Islands on Wednesday, while the smaller yacht have a bit more breeze later in the race.
Fiji Bitter
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What do you mean? Skorpios has got foils!
But they are C-foils (like HB, uhm...), and are they using them, or otherwise why not?
Ask JK perhaps...
aussieinlondon
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Good one, he might be sueing the bloody lot already...By this point: an actual owner's quote, I presume
Not fair, I know, he's got to be a good oligarch for having the desire to own such a fine sailing yacht!
