The Ocean Race Leg 6: Aarhus (DK) to The Hague (NL) via Kiel (GER)

[Herman]

@Herman I‘m sure you are preparing a routing just now, right? 😉

Nope, I will proably wait until the boats are heading north again towards the Great Belt Bridge. Currently 1 nm DTL between the top-4 is not worth routing. So enjoy the tracker show for now.

But note that the whole leg will be (very) light winds sailing with max 15 kts (excluding some gusts a bit higher) or so according to GFS. No nasty LP moving in. In this lighter weather we know that 11th Hr and HPRB do mostly better than Team Malizia.

 

[Herman]

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Good news, live report on Eurosport starts later.
Gert Jan Poortman will be doing the commentory.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd-Jan_Poortman
He was aboard the winning ABN AMRO two (Black Betty)

And Team Brunel in 2018.

 

[Fiji Bitter]

Watched the start on YouTube during breakfast, thank you Boomer. Now off to a meeting, and 'm sorry to miss Schakel's running commentary. Not much else going on here, where are all the fanboys?

 

[Slark]

Watched the start on YouTube during breakfast, thank you Boomer. Now off to a meeting, and 'm sorry to miss Schakel's running commentary. Not much else going on here, where are all the fanboys?

No one is up for trash talk with boats a few hundred meters apart.

 

[JV88]

Malizia having problems? Came to a full stop from first position and now in last doing 9 knts..

 

[JV88]

Malizia having problems? Came to a full stop from first position and now in last doing 9 knts..

Haha 5 minutes laterand everything is ok. Tracker had a small glitch I think.
Never mind

 

[Varan]

Watched the start on YouTube during breakfast, thank you Boomer. Now off to a meeting, and 'm sorry to miss Schakel's running commentary. Not much else going on here, where are all the fanboys?

Okay, Holcim-PRB leading, so I should chime in. But this race does try ones fanboy patience. So many months, so few boats. Plus, our own sailing season is now well underway. But come Vendée time, oh yes! Le Cam rules.

 

[dg_sailingfan]

Okay, Holcim-PRB leading, so I should chime in. But this race does try ones fanboy patience. So many months, so few boats. Plus, our own sailing season is now well underway. But come Vendée time, oh yes! Le Cam rules.

I am massivly nervous buddy! I don't think they can hold a lead all the way to The Hague with that relativly new Crew!

You should use AIS to track the Boats which I am doing. Much easier to follow them particularly on this coastal Leg!

 

[dg_sailingfan]

HOLCIM has just lost the Race as they massivly went through the TSS Zone!

edit: They are apparently allowed to sail into that Southbound TSS Zone. Everyone sailed into it. I did not know that!

 

[terrafirma]

Malizia dead last.! Did they have problems or is it slow and light conditions where they don't perform well.!

 

[terrafirma]

Haha 5 minutes laterand everything is ok. Tracker had a small glitch I think.
Never mind

Tracker glitch and they are dead last so I'm not sure everything is ok?

 

[ALL@SEA]

I am massivly nervous buddy! I don't think before I post they can hold a lead all the way to The Hague with that relativly new Crew!

You should use AIS to track the Boats which I am doing. Much easier to follow them particularly on this coastal Leg!

Fixed it for you.
Why don't you and Schakel (or are you one in the same?)go and get a room together and stop wasting space on these threads?

 

[Mrnogen]

Fixed it for you.
Why don't you and Schakel (or are you one in the same?)go and get a room together and stop wasting space on these threads?

I find it easier if I read the posts using Murray Walker's voice.

 

[giegs]

Malizia dead last.! Did they have problems or is it slow and light conditions where they don't perform well.!

There's a 7.5m 5.7m separation with 700 to go. Deep breaths.

 

[symbio2]

I really wonder why Nico Lunven is not onboard Malizia.
While he has amazing proficiencies for such leg.

 

[Schakel]

The race between the two fleets is not entirely fair. The Imoca's have to tack towards Kiel and The VO 65's blaze downwind towards Skagenrak. (Channel north of Denmark).
Two seperate races that has nothing to do with each other

 

[terrafirma]

There's a 7.5m 5.7m separation with 700 to go. Deep breaths.

Perhaps deep breaths will help Malizia fans they are now 6.0m miles behind. Hopefully that's not a trend.?

 

[Herman]

HOLCIM has just lost the Race as they massivly went through the TSS Zone!

edit: They are apparently allowed to sail into that Southbound TSS Zone. Everyone sailed into it. I did not know that!

Dude, just delete the post if it’s really inaccurate.

 

[terrafirma]

The race between the two fleets is not entirely fair. The Imoca's have to tack towards Kiel and The VO 65's blaze downwind towards Skagenrak. (Channel north of Denmark).
Two seperate races that has nothing to do with each other
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You do realize the fleets are different.? The Imoca's are capable of 640 Miles in 24 hours. Why should they sail the same course. Also the race is not fleet against fleet so the VOR65's are not racing the Imoca's and vice versa. The race is not the VOR65 fleet against the IMOCA fleet.! So your comments of UNFAIR is not relevant.! The Schakel strikes again.!

 

[Fiji Bitter]

Fixed it for you.
Why don't you and Schakel (or are you one in the same?)go and get a room together and stop wasting space on these threads?

Why? They are just too funny, sort of...
Put them on ignore if you like, but not 2-way ignore please, to avoid double posts.

And indeed, they could well be half bros, from the same milkman, or actually I think Shackle could be Danny Boys' natural father.

Enough trash talk for now, just came home and catching up with the help of a bottle of Broken Shackle, not lying.