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

[Breitling]

Breitling_SA back again after a looooong time disconnected from here. Late start both on VO65 and IMOCA, so I will spend some time to get used to all this stuff again.

 

[kea.nn]

Well after my brief stop for tapas early in the "cruise in company", i've now decide a (quick?) tour of the Canary isles is in order ... aka wasn't going to catch up following the leader.

Looks like i still won't by going this way either.
Looking forward to viewing the island's beaches and cliffs, will try to not get sucked in for a 'stay' tho'!

 

[Tunnel Rat]

In haste, let me know if you want me to add you in:

19-Jan
02:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Your Mom	11th Hr - Your Mom SA	871
2	Blue Mountain YC	Shockwave BK	0.17
3	viper43	viper640	2.15
4	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	15.8
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	18.1
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	39.4
7	12345	Siafu	63.8
8		Mozzie 2	75.5
9	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	101.9
10	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	131.9
11		tcross	144.6
12	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	162.1
13	Mike G	MikeVentura	193.3
14	gary	Hschutz	194.6

 

[Breitling]

In haste, let me know if you want me to add you in:

Yes please, Breitling_SA, both on VO65 and IMOCA.

 

[DRIFTW00D]

This leg has been active lots of changes. One boat Sapphire Girl - SPA I marked equal and was close but way back is at 500 and looking back at you mom. If only I did not over stand in the med that night… these boats seem to give you a chance to come back after a problem! And the real boats are still close?

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Hello, I have a bit more time this morning. Apologies to Breitling - no idea where you went on my list, also apologies to Mad/Sticky, I didn't scroll down far enough yesterday😜

The big mover today has been HelloKitty-Iceland who appears to have been sailing slow angles through the islands and has lost five places. For those on port gybe heading south there seems to be better pressure in towards the African continent, although that may be compromised by a better angle further west.

Viper seems to be attached to Your Mom with Shockwave a very close third. I have about 48 hours to go. Nailing the gybe by the western tip of Africa will be key to setting up for a fast angle to the finish. Enjoy.

TR

Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Your Mom	11th Hr - Your Mom SA	529
2	viper43	viper640	0.95
3	Blue Mountain YC	Shockwave BK	3.3
4	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	15.1
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	15.7
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	50.8
7	12345	Siafu	85.3
8		Mozzie 2	104.5
9	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	110.9
10	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	145.5
11		tcross	149.3
12	Breitling	Breitling_SA	149.6
13	Mike G	MikeVentura	161.6
14	gary	Hschutz	170.2
15	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	184.2
16	mad	Sticky	274.5

 

[Sailing My Cubicle]

Cubie your looking fast out there….

Is that when I stopped in Morocco for breakfast.

Forgot how much fun this game is.

 

[Your Mom]

This is killing me... I was leading after Gibraltar. It all came down to when to gybe through the Canaries. I went with the West option and was wrong. I'll be lucky to finish in the top 200. That's the nature of these events, but it's still a real bummer after thinking a couple days ago that I was in great shape for a potential win.

On to leg 2...

 

[12345]

SIAFU here, sailing with out the full pack.

IMOCA only

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Hello, doing this at home from my phone. Not sorted. Most people should be finished this time tomorrow. Hopefully the south pays for the mid fleet.

Kung Hei Fat Choi to you all.

Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Your Mom	11th Hr - Your Mom SA	46.2(DTF)
2	viper43	viper640	3.16
3	Blue Mountain YC	Shockwave BK	1.94
4	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	13.2
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	16.2
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	50.5
7	12345	Siafu	99.9
8		Mozzie 2	176.1
9	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	168.3
10	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	199.1
11		tcross	192.7
12	Breitling	Breitling_SA	184.1
13	Mike G	MikeVentura	194.2
14	gary	Hschutz	185.2
15	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	222.5
16	mad	Sticky	334.3

 

[DRIFTW00D]

This is killing me... I was leading after Gibraltar. It all came down to when to gybe through the Canaries. I went with the West option and was wrong. I'll be lucky to finish in the top 200. That's the nature of these events, but it's still a real bummer after thinking a couple days ago that I was in great shape for a potential win.

On to leg 2...

Welcome to the also rans…
next up is the next try and pay or not to pay…. Full pack makes it faster no brainer Zezo race… no $ is more like the real thing no sleep changing slow sails late and loosing lots of boats every fuckup…. Always Trying to catch up.

MOM how dose this add thing work? I just got 350 points for one .. 10 more is about a full pack free To me… can we game the game?

 

[Mid]

Yes please, Breitling_SA, both on VO65 and IMOCA.

fok me , look what the cat dragged in

 

[Breitling]

fok me , look what the cat dragged in

A few years older but here I am again

 

[JeSa-SA]

In haste, let me know if you want me to add you in:

Hi TR,
Back at it and finished leg 1 too (phew!). Would you mind adding me to the rankings? Thanks
JeSa-SA, sailing as JeSa

 

[kea.nn]

My result:
5d 23h 50m 56s
2184.9nm
717th

After my early grounding for 90+min, I'd made up some distance to the fleet, before attempted lets see what happens by heading to African coast before the Canary's. , didn't work tho., think i lost time overall.

Anyway, just under 1hr behind YourMum, so not a bad outcome considering!

cheers to TR for throwing the status (results?) table up on the thread

.kea

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Interim finish times, again not sorted. I’ll post final rankings when I go back to work on Thursday.

Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Time to Leader
1	Your Mom	11th Hr - Your Mom SA	5d 22h 52m 23s
2	viper43	viper640	8m 32s
3	Blue Mountain YC	Shockwave BK	6m 50s
4	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	47m 30s
	JeSa	JeSa	57m 57s
5	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	58m 33s
6	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	3h 27m 50s
7	12345	Siafu	6h 12m 20s
8		Mozzie 2	14h 21m 50s
9	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas	12h 47m 11s
10	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	15h 28m 46s
11		tcross	15h 31m 21s
12	Breitling	Breitling_SA	11h 47m 11s
13	Mike G	MikeVentura	14h 10m 23s
14	gary	Hschutz	14h 55m 06s
15	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	+27.3Nm
	Sailing My Cubicle	SailingMyCubicle	4h 47m 21s
16	mad	Sticky	+90Nm

 

[DRIFTW00D]

South to wind!

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Good morning boys and girls,

Firstly here are the final results from the first leg. Some very close results, JeSa sneaking ahead of kea.nn SA by 36 secs seems to be the smallest separation. Hats off to Mom, Shockwave and Viper who were a step ahead of the rest.

For the overall result I am planning a low point scoring system with no drops. Any objections will be dealt with by the PR Department.

26-Jan
Final
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	DTF	Days	Hours	Minutes	Seconds	Overall Finish
1	Your Mom	Your Mom SA		5	22	52	23	105
2	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave11		0	0	6	50	157
3	viper43	viper640		0	0	8	32	168
4	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine		0	0	47	30	606
5	JeSa-SA	JeSa		0	0	57	57	709
6	kea.nn	kea.nn SA		0	0	58	33
7	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA		0	3	27	50
8	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle		0	4	47	21	2,755
9	12345	Siafu		0	6	12	20
10	Breitling	Breitling_SA		0	11	47	11
11	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas		0	12	47	45
12	Mike G	MikeVentura		0	14	10	23	7,742
13		Mozzie 2		0	14	21	50
14	gary	Hschutz		0	14	55	6
15	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel		0	15	28	46	8,716
16		tcross		0	15	31	21
17	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland		0	18	24	14	11,402
18	mad	Sticky		1	0	20	22	18,404

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Hello,

On to Leg 2. A quick piece of info is that I am only dealing with IMOCAs, if someone else wants to play with the 65s, please feel free.

Leg 2 has seen a few old faces dragging their arses off the sofa and out to play - welcome.

The initial rankings mean very little, apart from where everyone is setting up to try and cross the equator. I have shelled out for the Full Pack, which means I have high hopes, but low expectations! I'm aiming for a point in the western S Atlantic, I've seen too many horror stories of the coast of Africa, light head winds are not fun.

Any way, here are the current rankings, bring it on!

26-Jan
03:00UTC
Place	SA Name	Boat Name	Dist to Leader
1	Mike G	MikeVentura	3874.3
2	Driftwood	Me Rongo Rekohu SA	2.12
3	SailingMyCubicle	SailingMyCubicle	3.31
4	Your Mom	Your Mom SA	3.37
5	prettyhatemachine	prettyhatemachine	3.38
6	viper43	viper640	3.54
7	Kapt'n Kirk	prowler_1-SA	4.12
8	Breitling	Breitling_SA	4.42
9	JeSa-SA	JeSa	4.74
10	kea.nn	kea.nn SA	5.28
11	Tunnel Rat	Mongrel	5.67
12	mad	Sticky	6
13		Mozzie 2	6.72
14	Blue Mountain YC	shockwave BK	7.45
15	Jean-Baptiste	HelloKitty-Iceland	10.6
16	Gybe Turkey	Gybe Turkey	13
17		tcross	14.8
18	12345	Siafu	18.1
19	Kenny Dumas	SA_ Kenny Dumas
20	gary	Hschutz

 

[Tunnel Rat]

BTW, if any knows how to turn auto sails off, or prod it into changing to a better sail, please let me know, I'm stuck on Code 0, while Light Gennaker would be faster........ Hmmmmm!

EDIT, OK, it finally changed, but quite a while after optimal!