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Herman
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Herman
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Well got that rough ride for Dalin right it seems - he can relax a bit more now, but not too much.
Herman
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Herman
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Nice work again by the French Navy. In a couple of days time probably back in La douce France.
Herman
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Weather update
So Dalin and his boat survived that cold front passing last night. Now calmer weather projected as the front moves away. Nice reaching conditions. See pics 1 and 2 for IR clouds and ECMWF wind/pressure. Moderate Tropical Storm Bongoyo is projected by the Mauritius Met Service to move SE. If it goes more south it could impact the back end of the fleet, so I've plotted it. The LP coming down +/- Friday between Australia and the AEZ can be seen top left of Australia.
Sea is calming down a bit to 4 meters (pic 3).
As my weather routing just crashed 3 times in a row, I'll skip the routing for today.
So Dalin and his boat survived that cold front passing last night. Now calmer weather projected as the front moves away. Nice reaching conditions. See pics 1 and 2 for IR clouds and ECMWF wind/pressure. Moderate Tropical Storm Bongoyo is projected by the Mauritius Met Service to move SE. If it goes more south it could impact the back end of the fleet, so I've plotted it. The LP coming down +/- Friday between Australia and the AEZ can be seen top left of Australia.
Sea is calming down a bit to 4 meters (pic 3).
As my weather routing just crashed 3 times in a row, I'll skip the routing for today.
LeoV
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https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/20927/charlie-dalin-on-this-morning-s-call
Some news over his storm tactics, remove the wind layer on the computer...
Some news over his storm tactics, remove the wind layer on the computer...
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JLC talks to Seguin via VHF. Plenty of info there. There are french subtitles, auto-translate should work.
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cortosam
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cortosam
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Nice to see Armel Tripon flying again and he has perfect weather conditions for the next days
cortosam
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They talk a lot about nose diving when too much sail power is set.
A lot of good infos on the scows in this vidéo
There are subtitles and then you can use Deepl to translate
https://youtu.be/GrACYYXGVN4
Herman
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Self quote - I stand corrected. After looking into Bongoyo with GFS, and more updated info from the Mauritius Met Services, it stopped moving SW and is projected to move WSW the coming day. See their synoptic chart as overlay with 11:30 boat positions and GFS pressure.
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I guess he is facing the same situation that JD/TR are: the non foiling Omia is a laughable 340nm back after ... how many weeks of racing? 4? 5?
The announced incredible speed bump for the latest gen of foilers is not materializing, how good is a boat design that only shows its advantage in conditions that are almost never encountered during the whole VG?
Herman
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Weather routing part two
Fixed the plugin, I was too curious how it looks now the top-8 have relatively better conditions. All boats doing +/- 14-17 kts again. Only Ruyant has significant lower boatspeed. He has less pressure and wind compared to the others. And I'm not sure if he is sailing currently on the bow with the broken foil too.
Interesting to see, again, that the fleet is projected to converge behind Dalin. See pic 1 with all 8 routes. If zooming into the Saturday projection in pic 2, you can see 7 boats parallel chasing Dalin who is close to the AEZ. The pack converging can be seen too in the routing table in pic 3.
But when comparing that table to the older table for Dec 7th, Dalin will expand his lead over Ruyant (delta 4 hrs @ dec 7) and the others (delta 13 hrs @ dec 7) significantly to 18-19 hrs roughly. This opens up possibilities for Dalin to sail in different weather. And as always, the rich get richer.
Inte
Fixed the plugin, I was too curious how it looks now the top-8 have relatively better conditions. All boats doing +/- 14-17 kts again. Only Ruyant has significant lower boatspeed. He has less pressure and wind compared to the others. And I'm not sure if he is sailing currently on the bow with the broken foil too.
Interesting to see, again, that the fleet is projected to converge behind Dalin. See pic 1 with all 8 routes. If zooming into the Saturday projection in pic 2, you can see 7 boats parallel chasing Dalin who is close to the AEZ. The pack converging can be seen too in the routing table in pic 3.
But when comparing that table to the older table for Dec 7th, Dalin will expand his lead over Ruyant (delta 4 hrs @ dec 7) and the others (delta 13 hrs @ dec 7) significantly to 18-19 hrs roughly. This opens up possibilities for Dalin to sail in different weather. And as always, the rich get richer.
Inte
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Reminds me of a more detailed account of this mission to St Paul. I haven't yet found it on google yet, but here's a brief outline I found from facebook - "The island itself is a collapsed volcanic caldera, accessible via a shallow bar. The interior of the caldera is said to be crawling with southern fighter crayfish and pre WWII the French operated a cray fishing operation there. Following the outbreak of WWII the dozen men who manned this operation were stranded on St Paul's for the duration of the war. Over the next six years all but one man succumbed to the effects of scurvy. The island then remained abandoned for the next several decades, visited infrequently by French patrol boats.
This changed when a couple of enterprising individuals from West Australia decided to re establish a cray fishery on the island. The only problem was they had no license from the French government to do so and nor did they ever apply for one. They were going in totally illegally, as poachers.
So, this incident is not something we condone or are attempting to glorify but it is a very interesting story of (illegal) adventure.
They purchased a large, aft wheelhouse steel vessel called the Miss Boomerang as well as a number of small, 20-30 ft ex cray boats from West Australia powered by water jets which they craned on to the front deck for the long steam to St Paul's. Upon arrival they craned these small vessels into the water and began fishing for crays.
Having been untouched for the best part of forty years the waters around the island swarmed with crayfish. Every pot came up full with crays which were stored on deck until they overflowed the gunnels at which point the catcher boats returned to the mother vessel and unloaded their crays by cargo net onto the deck of Miss Boomerang. Soon a mountain of crayfish covered the deck and our poaching friends worked around the clock to tail every lobster and freeze them down in the hold. One rumour puts their results at forty ton of cray flesh for ten days fishing with 100 pots.
Upon filling the Miss Boomerang the catcher vessels were simply sunk and the Miss Boomerang sailed for Singapore to sell its ill gotten cargo, which was a very profitable pay day indeed.
Encouraged by the success of their criminal venture they launched another raid the year afterwards but with a different mother ship called approppriately enough, Southern Raider. Unfortunately for them things didn't go as well on the second raid. There are conflicting stories about what happened. One story has it that French intelligence were informed of their activities in Singapore and became curious as to where they caught all that cray flesh. Another story has it that it was purely by coincidence that a French vessel stumbled across the Southern Raider, detecting it on radar as she lay just offshore the island awaiting her catcher boats. According to this story Southern Raider also detected the French patrol vessel on radar and attempted to flee to the safety of international waters before the French could catch her. An act which was rather unappreciated by the abandoned catcher boat crew...
Southern Raider off course was too slow to out run the French patrol boat which apprehended the vessel and crew upon boarding her. The French quickly deducing what was happening jailed the whole crew aboard their patrol boat and promptly sunk the Southern Raider out of hand. No messing around.
The catcher boat crew were rounded up afterwards and everybody hauled off to Mauritius, or St Reunion, I'm not to sure. The crew were actually released and deported back to Australia quite quickly but the vessel master was detained for some months awaiting trial upon the French island, during which time he was allowed free reign of the island. Here the story takes another interesting twist. One day he simply disappeared while windsurfing. An air and sea search was launched but no trace was found off him. Sometime later he reappeared home in Australia. The story go's he arranged to be picked up by friends on a sailing boat and faked his disappearance to the French.
Nowadays the French maintain a fishery of their own on St Pauls to deter any more would be adventurers/poachers. The island is also home to greenlip abalone.
There is said to be video footage existing somewhere of the Miss Boomerang's activities at St Paul"
