Your Mom
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Suddenly Guyot down to 11 kts and everyone else doing 20+.... East side winds faltering?
The Ocean Race 2023 leg 2: Cabo Verde to Capetown
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despacio avenue
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Yes, it was the Sudacrem fiasco. SA blew up over it. It was primarily Witty and his #1 sidekick, who got the boot shortly thereafter.
Swanno
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They didn't get the boot and they shouldn't have either.
Only the people onboard had the right to be offended by anything that took place.
despacio avenue
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I was referring to Steve Hayles who was shown the door. And Scally posted the video of the episode, so, anyone who saw it had the right to be offended, and were. Off thread, anyway, sorry, so I'm done.
Rocky
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The German „Yacht“ posted and interview with Stanjek about his learning curve on an Open60 and skippering Guyot for the second leg, with Dutreaux skipping this one. He says how difficult it was for him to adapt to the boat and that he couldn’t imagine sailing it alone. They are mostly sailing the boat by looking at numbers, which is new to him. The most important thing to keep the boat going fast, staying on the foils, is trimming the main actively, which is super hard to do. Looking through the tiny windows you only get a rough view. He’s aware of the speed difference between his and the newer boats and happy about how the doldrums crossing played out.
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The Ocean Race: Robert Stanjek erklärt wie sich “Guyot Environnement” segelt
Boots-Vorstellung mit dem Skipper selbst. Wir haben uns gemeinsam mit Robert Stanjek "Guyot Environnement" vor The Ocean Race genauer angesehen
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JeronimoII
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weather to reach Cape Town is indeed extremely tricky. Guyot going the upwind road?
Schakel
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On board documentary Holcim
Looks like fun. Easy does it.
Looks like fun. Easy does it.
despacio avenue
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Holcim-PNB îs sailing at twice the speed as Guyot as they pass Salvador de Bahia (great place to visit) and sail towards Rio (ditto but for other reasons), almost twice VMG, gaining miles every tracker update. It is still very early in the race but a good showing by Holcim for sure.
despacio avenue
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I have probably watched this video a dozen times in the past couple of days. It always makes me smile. Kevin is a hard working guy esp for a skipper; upbeat, just as he was on DongFeng. I would be inspired to crew for him. His enthusiasm and professionalism is contagious.
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Fabricensis
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Haven't seen this mentioned yet:
In a video yesterday Will Harris said they had damage on their starboard foil
Things keep getting better and better for TM
In a video yesterday Will Harris said they had damage on their starboard foil
Things keep getting better and better for TM
shebeen
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they said damage but not sailing full throttle yet either. Without scanning it I'm guessing their is a an edge with a little crack or something?
Fabricensis
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They also said it might not need repair at all, sounds like a chip that might just be in the paint
It will be a problem in any case since they will now be more careful and not go full throttle on that side anymore
LeoV
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PRB almost a 500 Mile a day run.
Seems Guyot hit a light patch.
Seems Guyot hit a light patch.
Fabricensis
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Guyot now almost completely stopped despite them having the best wind of all the boats according to the tracker, they lost 30 nm to the field in the last 4 hours, most of them in the last 2h.
That sounds like they have a major problem
Edit: The field is going about twice as fast as the wind according to the tracker tho, so the wind overlay might just be wrong
That sounds like they have a major problem
Edit: The field is going about twice as fast as the wind according to the tracker tho, so the wind overlay might just be wrong
Herman
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Nope. And as the teams present their sail inventory list for the leg only to the race organization, we don't know which boat has which sails to use onboard anyway. Except by watching pics and vids.
Also, wave conditions are not taken into account either. I check that myself what sea state is applicable.
If I had twice the time I put in weather routing now available I could take a swing. But not so.
Rocky
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Yacht.de asked Boris Hermann about the foil problem this morning and he said that it is not serious.
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The Ocean Race: Erneut Foil-Problem bei “Malizia – Seaexplorer”
Rückschlag für Boris Herrmann und sein Team Malizia: Gestern bemerkte die Crew einen “kleinen Schaden am Steuerbord-Foil”. Wie ernst ist er?
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wonderbrom
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They bloody love him. He is Christ reborn to resurrect German offshore sailing. Good for us, we get more (biased) coverage.
