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Vendee Globe 2016?
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CARBONINIT
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Brexit means Brexit, gybe back, DOH.
southerncross
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The next 24 hours will be like watching a slow poker game played by drunks.
Alex will dance around gybing down the left hand lane when he can, some will follow him some won't. The light westerly is currently stopping him do too much at the moment other than power up and maintain BS. There appears to be more breeze closer the coast late tomorrow so I doubt any of the leaders will go too far away from that or in HB's case give away the leverage he has built up. The back markers and boats on the second row will crashing the party courtesy of fresh westerly tomorrow that will go NW and lighten as the fleet compresses through to Thursday
They will start to see the first puffs of the NE trades Thursday. Question is who is going to be jumping aboard that train first and with the best angle. It is going to be an interesting 36 hours.
Alex will dance around gybing down the left hand lane when he can, some will follow him some won't. The light westerly is currently stopping him do too much at the moment other than power up and maintain BS. There appears to be more breeze closer the coast late tomorrow so I doubt any of the leaders will go too far away from that or in HB's case give away the leverage he has built up. The back markers and boats on the second row will crashing the party courtesy of fresh westerly tomorrow that will go NW and lighten as the fleet compresses through to Thursday
They will start to see the first puffs of the NE trades Thursday. Question is who is going to be jumping aboard that train first and with the best angle. It is going to be an interesting 36 hours.
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Hitchhiker
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Great!
I now have three trackers going with two different results!
I seriously thought about firing up Exp and running routing as well, but my clients will be so pissed off when their survey reports come in late!
Sailbydate
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That high has gone a lot more South than Alex had anticipated. If he gybes back to the coast, it will be straight into a BIG hole. Best to take the loss and get back up to that Westerly front from here I'm thinking.
Hitchhiker
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Ok, again this question shows how little attention I've been paying to the new IMOCA rules.
Can the foils be moved inboard/outboard?
Roleur
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You could go plenty close to the wind if you didn't swing the keel, no? So, much less of a penalty in light air, than heavy.
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southerncross
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Dont despair HB fans ...the car crash hits everybody ...for Alex sooner than others ....when that small amount of breeze backs right the left side should be favoured.
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nkb
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Stopped for a coffee on our drive down to Spain this morning, first thing on the TV news was an update on the VG.
Doug Lord
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The Boss is in third and doing 11knots. Go Alex!
