VOR Leg 1 Alicante to Lisbon

[chuso007]

Not really sure where folks are getting their weather data - but the way I'm seeing it, make as much distance via the northern route, taking advantage of Gibraltar effects, plan for 12 hrs of being in a parking lot, sprint to Lisbon in about 48 hours.

You know they are not going to Lisbon right now... Right

 

[bucc5062]

About 48 hours from now there will be almost no wind north of the rhumbline and on the nose at that, I think going south early might be painful for now but good in the long run (which is ultimately the one that matters!).

The helicopter livestream was pretty epic IMHO, good job by VOR media team.

48?  Even 24 looks ugly.  From the sublime  to the ridiculous or perhaps intensity in the fast lane to intensity in the slow.

 

[chuso007]

48?  Even 24 looks ugly.  From the sublime  to the ridiculous or perhaps intensity in the fast lane to intensity in the slow.

the 26th, the south looks nice...

 

[Elisa]

I’m sure it won’t be, but imagine this to be the final score of leg 1 then we would have gotten ourselves quite  a race... these 1,5 days were for sure exciting enough to firmly tune into this race . Kudos for Tienpont, but I do hope the yellow boat will catch up.

 

[Sea Breeze 74]

Can someone point me towards the tracker please. Cannot for the life of me work out where it is !!

Don't worry, found it. Volvo site is shit.

 

[Manfred]

Maybe you are...we were all happy here since you brought the shite up

 

[chuso007]

What's going on? No more updates?

 

[Miffy]

You know they are not going to Lisbon right now... Right

Yes, no matter how hard the teams are able to sail, they'll be parked east of Funchal, between 36-48 hours to round PS - in about 48 is when conditions will be right for Lisbon. GFS is a tad bit optimistic. 

 

[chuso007]

I just refreshed  the browser and I went back to before they gybed... Nice.

 

[stief]

Interesting--tracker reverted to 20:00 positions (before MAPF's gybe). Oh well: time to lurk on the Marine traffic website

 

[chuso007]

From VOR HQ:

We have now switched to position reports every six hours, at 0100, 0700, 1300, 1900 (all times UTC).
 
But the Race Experts will be keeping a close eye on the fleet and will, at times, publish intermediate position reports when there is a significant development.
 
When the teams get within about 24 hours of the finish off Lisbon, we'll switch back to live tracking.
 
That's the upside of having these "Race Experts".
And the last 24 Hours of the Leg will be Live-Tracking
 
Hope that they upload the Gibraltar Rounding on YT in better Resolution. That was a humdinger to follow

Well, that sucks...

 

[chuso007]

Interesting--tracker reverted to 20:00 positions (before MAPF's gybe). Oh well: time to lurk on the Marine traffic website

Is there a fast way to locate the boats?

 

[chuso007]

A link would be much appreciated too...

 

[Manfred]

Hope that they upload the Gibraltar Rounding on YT in better Resolution. That was a humdinger to follow

The resolution (helicopter shots) was perfect here, just nobody had time to clean the lenses on the boats cameras...

 

[Elisa]

Six hours is (too) loooooooooooooong, why not have 3 hours like last edition? 

Marine Traffic it is...

 

[stief]

Is there a fast way to locate the boats?

look up boats by MMSI at www.marinetraffic.com or www.vesselfinder.com 

takes a while, even after registering and setting up 'fleets'. Results are dependent on the boats being in range of a receiver, which can be rare much of the time.

MMSI    Vessel Name
244780246 BRUNEL
319060300 DONGFENG
224530860 TC6 MAPFRE
367616310 VESTAS 11TH HOUR    
319081500 TTTOP    
319122300 SCALLYWAG SUNHUNGKA
319119500 TEAM AKZONOBEL

 

[southerncross]

look up boats by MMSI at www.marinetraffic.com or www.vesselfinder.com 

takes a while, even after registering and setting up 'fleets'. Results are dependent on the boats being in range of a receiver, which can be rare much of the time.

MMSI    Vessel Name
244780246 BRUNEL
319060300 DONGFENG
224530860 TC6 MAPFRE
367616310 VESTAS 11TH HOUR    
319081500 TTTOP    
319122300 SCALLYWAG SUNHUNGKA
319119500 TEAM AKZONOBEL

Can you just post screen shots, say, every 10 minutes?  Thanks.

 

[stief]

Can you just post screen shots, say, every 10 minutes?  Thanks.

Snicker.

 

[chuso007]

look up boats by MMSI at www.marinetraffic.com or www.vesselfinder.com 

takes a while, even after registering and setting up 'fleets'. Results are dependent on the boats being in range of a receiver, which can be rare much of the time.

MMSI    Vessel Name
244780246 BRUNEL
319060300 DONGFENG
224530860 TC6 MAPFRE
367616310 VESTAS 11TH HOUR    
319081500 TTTOP    
319122300 SCALLYWAG SUNHUNGKA
319119500 TEAM AKZONOBEL

Thanks!!

 

[V21]

I caught some of the kerfuffle with ST, why are they now missing "three of their most experienced" who is off and why ? Who replaced them ?