The Ocean Race 2023 / GAME / One More Time - Around The World

[Tunnel Rat]

Hello,

It is a bank holiday today, so I am doing this at home in my phone. The high is shifting off to the east, while the low if starting to bring its influence to bear. This means that there has generally been more pressure behind which has closed things up.

More reaching in the near future.

Mr Turkey seems to have set his heart on visiting the Mediterranean. Why not?

Pretty hate 2110.2
Me Rongo 0.04
Shockwave 0.41
Mom 0.42
Mongrel 2.1
kea 2.98
Sapphire 3.43
Mr Cubicle 7.5
tcross 13.1
Mike V 18.2
Mozzie 26.4
Siafu 33.8
MikeMike 61.4
Mr Turkey 311.6

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

Our weather is currently being dominated by a small low off the west coast of Scotland. The leaders are running in strong westerlies, Zezo is suggesting a gybe in towards the S coast of Iceland to keep in better pressure. The routing is taking us N of the Faroes and Shetland. Once we get close to the Skagerrak the weather will start to get a bit more complicated with passing lanes opening up.

Around three days before that post finish beer in Aarhus.

Current standings

29-May
01:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	961.4
2	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	0.8
3	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	2.7
4	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	3.6
5	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	3.9
6	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	5.1
7	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	8.3
8	Mike G	MikeVentura	29.6
9		tcross	42.3
10	12345	Siafu	54.4
11	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	59.2
12		Mozzie 2	81.9
13		MikeMike	105.9
14	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	742.9

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

We have reached our most northerly point and we are sliding ESE just past the northern coast of the Faroe Islands. The main weather system is a high which has stalled off the West coast of Scotland. A series of mini highs and lows are forecast for southern Sweden in about 36 hours. I would hazard a guess that the forecast will not model them correctly, I expect thigs to change rapidly.

Today holds a slide to the SE and then a gybe in towards Southern Norway.

Getting to the crunch time.

30-May
00:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	625.03
2	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	0.27
3	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	0.37
4	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	0.73
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	2.86
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	3.98
7	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	19.1
8	Mike G	MikeVentura	39.1
9		tcross	72.2
10		Mozzie 2	83.8
11	12345	Siafu	95.4
12	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	106.1
13		MikeMike	125.6
14	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	859.1

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

Less than 24hrs to the end, so the next update should include some finish times.

The leaders have gybed and are shmoking in towards the southern end of Norway. The complicated weather over southern Norway and Sweden has come to pass, but there are forecast to be quite consistent westerlies, although with significant pressure gradients.

There is a bit of a north-south split, with Me Rongo at the southern end and Mom at the northern end. There is currently more wind in the north, but they will need to run deep and slow, or gybe early. kea is climbing all over the back of me, but I have the elbows out trying to keep him in his rightful place.

I'm mildly concerned that the end of the race will be in the middle of the night for me, when some tricky coastal navigation will be required including a short sharp beat from Stensmark into Aarhus. I've even contemplated setting an alarm, but that sounds way too serious.

31-May
01:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	217.81
2	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	0.36
3	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	1.37
4	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	3.85
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	4.26
6	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	9.5
7	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	10.9
8		tcross	60.7
9	12345	Siafu	70.5
10	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	78.9
11	Mike G	MikeVentura	87.5
12		Mozzie 2	141.1
13		MikeMike	188.1
14	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	1057.9

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Hmmmm, I think most of us have missed the opportunity, but I was just wandering around the map on the Dashboard and noticed that the river/canal system through Aarlborg is open. I wonder if anyone is going to try it. It seems to cut out a lot of distance, but is very windy.

It would be fun to try if you had a second boat playing.

 

[DRIFTW00D]

Not a good time to drive through Canada No Coverage so at least I missed the beach that’s a good thing. Cost me 1000 boats so far, and it’s going to be a way point finish.

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

Well played to prettyhatemachine - it was a fun coastal section for the last part of this leg.

The first seven have finished, no real cliffhangers. Mom has extended his overall lead over shockwave. I have got back some places on Driftwood, but only because he was driving across Canada.

The next four are quite closely bunched and all very close in the overall. Should be a good race to the finish.

I think most people should be finished by tomorrow - when I will do a wrap up.

Lastly I take it back about using the canals - there is a bridge at Aggersund that will not allow you through - glad I didn't try that!

1-Jun
01:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	DTF	Days	Hours	Mins	Secs	O/A Finish
1	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine		10	4	48	32	97
2	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel				6	29	217
3	Your Mom	Your Mom SA				9	13	277
4	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11				10	29	301
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA				32	3	584
6	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl				48	13	741
7	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA			1	22	21	988
8		tcross	78.8
9	12345	Siafu	5.8
10	Mike G	MikeVentura	7.3
11	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	7.6
12		Mozzie 2	18
13		MikeMike	65.6
14	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	1104

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Errrr..... calling tcross - parking it on the first available island is a great way to close things up!

 

[prettyhatemachine]

Well played to prettyhatemachine - it was a fun coastal section for the last part of this leg.

Thanks, I think that was my first time inside the top 100. Pretty cool.

When I woke this morning I thought I was toast. Heading up to the top of the peninsula I was running a bit north (with less air) than the eventual lead group to my south. The additional gybe in Jammerbugt region I was able to gain back some lost ground.

I made a big leap at the end. It looked like some boats double sail changed from C0 > Staysail > Light Jib heading to weather. Luckily, I was on manual and went straight from C0 to Light Jib at the turn west.

Thanks as always for the daily standings and commentary, TR. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say: we really appreciate it.

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

All except two boats have finished. There was quite a tussle between Siafu, tcross, Mike V and Mr Cubicle. There were numerous lead changes, only one grounding, but all the positions changed from the last ranking report. A bit of a nail biter between SMC and Mike V - only 46 secs!

I am assuming that MikeMike and Mr Turkey will finish in their current positions.

2-Jun
00:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	DTF	Days	Hours	Mins	Secs	O/A Finish
1	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine		10	4	48	32	97
2	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel				6	29	217
3	Your Mom	Your Mom SA				9	13	277
4	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11				10	29	301
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA				32	3	584
6	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl				48	13	741
7	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA			1	22	21	988
8	12345	Siafu			16	9	20	2,130
9	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle			16	28	33	2,543
10	Mike G	MikeVentura			16	29	19	2,577
11		tcross			16	33	55	2,775
12		Mozzie 2			22	27	13	10,274
13		MikeMike	23.2
14	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	1094

 

[Tunnel Rat]

So here are the overall results. Mom has extended his lead by a single point. There is some fairly regular spacing between 3rd and 6th, then a whole mass of boats fighting for 7th to 12th all rammed into a five point spread.

Remember a DNC gets you 25 points and there are no discards. Two more legs to go, the next one looks like quite a complicated coastal leg with seven marks down the Langelandsbaelt and back up. It looks like a tricky start at a silly (for me) hour.

See you there.

Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Leg 1	Leg 2	Leg 3	Leg 4	Leg 5	Total
1	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	1	7	1	1	3	13
2	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	2	3	4	3	4	16
3	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	4	6	13	2	1	26
4	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	6	5	10	5	5	31
5	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	7	10	7	4	7	35
6	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	15	9	5	9	2	40
7	Mike G	MikeVentura	12	11	16	7	10	56
8	12345	Siafu	9	13	17	11	8	58
9	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	8	18	14	10	9	59
10	viper43	viper640	3	1	6	25	25	60
11		tcross	16	14	11	8	11	60
12	JeSa-SA	JeSa	5	4	2	25	25	61
13		Mozzie 2	13	16	15	13	12	69
14	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	25	25	8	6	6	70
15	Breitling	Breitling_SA	10	2	12	25	25	74
16	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	25	8	3	25	14	75
17		MikeMike	25	12	20	15	13	85
18	eliboat	Hoople	25	17	9	12	25	88
19	mad	Sticky	18	19	18	14	25	94
20	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	17	20	21	16	25	99
21	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	11	25	25	25	25	111
22	gary	Hschutz	14	25	25	25	25	114
23	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	25	15	25	25	25	115
24	sbpoint	Sbpoint	25	25	19	25	25	119

 

[Sapphire Girl]

I did do legs 1 and 2 but only made comments here after that. If not too difficult to add Leg 2 = 569/49171; leg 2 = 658/48894. Not too serious if it is a mission.

 

[Tunnel Rat]

I did do legs 1 and 2 but only made comments here after that. If not too difficult to add Leg 2 = 569/49171; leg 2 = 658/48894. Not too serious if it is a mission.

Seeing as you ask so nicely - I have given you the finish position that you would have got, but I haven't adjusted everyone else, as that would be quite a lot of work - even though you have jumped me in the rankings , but you have also jumped Driftwood so that's OK!

Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Leg 1	Leg 2	Leg 3	Leg 4	Leg 5	Total
1	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	1	7	1	1	3	13
2	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	2	3	4	3	4	16
3	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	4	6	13	2	1	26
4	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	4	7	8	6	6	31
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	6	5	10	5	5	31
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	7	10	7	4	7	35
7	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	15	9	5	9	2	40
8	Mike G	MikeVentura	12	11	16	7	10	56
9	12345	Siafu	9	13	17	11	8	58
10	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	8	18	14	10	9	59
11	viper43	viper640	3	1	6	25	25	60
12		tcross	16	14	11	8	11	60
13	JeSa-SA	JeSa	5	4	2	25	25	61
14		Mozzie 2	13	16	15	13	12	69
15	Breitling	Breitling_SA	10	2	12	25	25	74
16	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	25	8	3	25	14	75
17		MikeMike	25	12	20	15	13	85
18	eliboat	Hoople	25	17	9	12	25	88
19	mad	Sticky	18	19	18	14	25	94
20	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	17	20	21	16	25	99
21	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	11	25	25	25	25	111
22	gary	Hschutz	14	25	25	25	25	114
23	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	25	15	25	25	25	115
24	sbpoint	Sbpoint	25	25	19	25	25	119

 

[Sapphire Girl]

Thank you! Appreciate all your hard work

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning,

Well that didn't go according to plan. Not one, not two, but three groundings in the first 11 hours.

Light downwind conditions prevail, interesting to see who takes the western buoy at the gate!

The only way is up!

9-Jun
01:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	669.7
2	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	0.73
3	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	1.25
4	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	1.79
5	Mike G	MikeVentura	2.11
6	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	5.19
7	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	6.83
8		tcross	7.25
9		MikeMike	8.55
10		Mozzie 2	9.29
11	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	10.9
12	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	13.5
13	12345	Siafu	15.4

 

[12345]

Hope I can manage this virtual boat while we get Chicago NOOD underway

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good afternoon,

Lots of place changes, the leaders are now out into the open sea, no more turning marks, but quite a lot of tricky decisions to be made.

Just over 24hrs to the finish. Difficult with real life getting in the way.

10-Jun
06:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11	384.8
2	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	0.2
3	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	1.21
4	Sapphire Girl	Sapphire Girl	3.41
5	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	4.73
6	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	6.16
7	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	20.6
8		tcross	21.5
9	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	21.7
10	12345	Siafu	101.5
11	Mike G	MikeVentura	109.7
12		MikeMike	233.9
13		Mozzie 2	294.2

 

[kea.nn]

I know all too well about stuff getting in the way ....
Early on i added a maint item for The Hague ... must refurb keel bulb, after "minor" grounding 2x !!
But then it all when to shite somehow due to "distractions"...
A small sample of my track ...See if u can figure out what happened here.

larger pic ...

yep somehow forgot to round the gate & kept going, only for the eventual turn around also going back through gate, instead of around it.. = turn around again!
Oh

At least i've sorta manged to halve the 4hours lost/wasted to the leaders of our merry band.

 

[Your Mom]

Difficult with real life getting in the way.

I know all too well about stuff getting in the way ....

I've been sick as hell the last 3 days... some kind of awful congestion. Couldn't breathe at all. Couldn't sleep. Slept maybe 3-4 hours the night before the race and 3-4 hours the first night of the race. Finally slept well last night. Feeling much more human now. Oh, also my wife was out of town so I was single parenting a toddler... oh, and then there's employment. It's been a rough patch but my wife is home and it's Saturday and I can breathe, so all good now.

About kee.nn's rounding. Pretty good, but better is possible. If you make your sailchange and tack coincide exactly, then both maneuvers start with the same initial stamina, instead of the second one occurring with whatever stamina was left from the first one. Also, it compounds the two penalties instead of applying them sequentially, which is a little less of an impact. But... getting around that buoy in this manner was difficult. You had to come in at TWA 140, and then go all the way around to about TWA 030 on the opposite tack (a turn of 170 degrees, with the buoy inside the 10 degree angle you've formed), and then bear away to TWA 045 after clearing the buoy. Almost impossible to do without using waypoints and the map in the dashboard tool. If anyone wants to get into "next level" stuff like that and doesn't know what the dashboard tool is, I can clarify. It's also essential for close coastal sailing.

 

[DRIFTW00D]

+1

Difficult with real life getting in the way.

I know all too well about stuff getting in the way ....

Mom said “I've been sick as hell the last 3 days”

Sick kid 12 hr road trip to help, no time and or no service… no chrome…so no zezo…then playing on a phone screen .. Soo it was a easy race just waypoints the whole thing, the rounding, the beats, the parade, every thing. easy race really lots of sleep…

I pulled a rat move missed the start. Worked to the top of the pack then no time.. just straight lining it…