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And my damn boat stopped. Lost 10,000 places overnight AR5E!
I had that the night before and lost 10k places. Bloody annoying. gee, whats your boat name? I'm Risk Sailing, made 9k places back up over last night.
Likewise. Last two nights. I'm well off the pace now 🙁
I am The Pink Panther, have just caught up 257 places.
Its the second time this leg that has happened ... last time was 88k places ...but that was very early on so all were much closer.
Oh well, its just a game.
Carbon, I tried to add you as a friend (there is the whole STW fleet out there) but coulnt find you under Risk Sailing
Monster, are you following me ... your boat is right up my chuff!
Gee-Jay... That does appear to be the case. Unintentional bit of drafting on my part by the looks of it
I may tack
Infact I may just "flush the head" get rid of all that unwanted weight .... so sorry if your boat gets a bit mucky 😆
I seem to be steadily falling backwards through the fleet - lost about 20k places over the last 24 hours, now every decision I make seems to lose me more.
I'm called - the bow is the pointy end
heading come now - fingers crossed - pop another tack north
[holds nose] Phewee! [/holds nose]
is it just being a bit random this time around?
kikapu
I think the autopilot thingy is working OK now (or at least it has for me this leg).
Got up to 800th place last night before heading right at 10pm, losing places all the way but hopefully will be OK in a day ot two.
Nice one sharkbait .... you will be sipping G&T while the rest of us are wallowing about on the Oggin 🙂
Haha M0nster, was my "flotsam" that bad 🙂
Hot Diggity is currently sailing along nicely at 13 Knots in 12166th place.
anyone got the danglies to go up the western side of Taiwan? Don't think it would work to to be honest but could be interesting
- "bigger stronger faster harder"
Y-H, the actual volvo racers appear to be doing just that
What the **** are you on about? I've got a model yacht, didnt think they were this popular though...?
YH: I'm considering going west of Taiwan..... depends on wind direction.
Please? Anyone? Lnk?
BucksFiz is trailing, but I'll catch up...
Oh bloody hell, why oh why did I read this thread.
I've just got over a Travian addiction, and am trying to wean myself off mob wars and mafia wars - now this. 😮
Reckon I can get through the islands on the right without crashing?
[url] http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/news.php?id=303 [/url]
Explains it a bit..
Well my tack over to the right cost nearly 11,000 places but Shark-Bait is now heading north again in 32 knts with the jib up!
Wind angles pretty good so time will tell.
Anybody else using VRTool? I've found it helps a lot.
Buggerit, why am I so slow? I was doing fairly well but I'm playing catchup all the time. Was fairly sure I knew enough about sailing to get by fairly well on this one!
Coffeeking: Get VRTool......... shows you actual wind angles so you can make informed decisions about which was to go.
Hmm doesnt work for me, error 403 (access denied) when trying to get boat or wind data. ****ing arrrr
I'm gaining places at about 100 every 10 minutes, but the rest of you seem to be flying ahead.
Flying ahead?? I finished last wednesday or something!! 😉
If you cannot download VRTool contact me via my email (in profile), I'll send it to you.
sharkbait - I know! I did only start at the rear of the field about the time you finished!
Cheers, I can download and install VRTool, just dont get any wind, boat or anything else data due to the 403 error 🙁