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Arbitare has withdrawn but going to sail with the fleet down the West Coast. They will decide dependent on weather whether they go to Waikawa or home port of Wellington.

SSANZ have let them keep the YB tracker so they will be visible on the tracker.

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Is Drinks Trolley doing a buffalo girls around the high?  the inshore boats are in for some mean breeze rotation towards land. Which way would you go? big blocking no wind high about to land splat all over the race course?

 

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10 minutes ago, Guest said:

What’s with the almost luffed kink in Wired track when they tack? Iron tops’l getting the keel across?

Think it’s just the tracker updating, happens with quicker boats. Equlibium has similar for some of their tacks to

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Tracker only pings the position every 10min then uploads these every 30

so if you tack between pongs you get a track that looks like that. 

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5 minutes ago, ex Elly said:

Next leg starts 4pm today. They will be heading back up the west coast, even though Katana just proved that East can be done.

 

Your not suggesting that the east coast would be a good idea for the race are you? The navy have said their boats got bashed going round there to help. 

An incident requiring assistance (from a Provence in a SOE) would be a PR disaster for a race which has good PR and reputation, and for sailing / sailors in general.

 

From Katana’s blog - hardly sounds like he’s in race mode.

4knsb

Tue Feb 28 2023

The other advantage of going slow is to avoid damage if I hit a log. Just seen a few big ones. Had hoped 30nm offshore would be safe…mmm

East Cape

Wed Mar 01 2023

Easy night with only a mainsail with 3 reefs. Trying to go as slow as possible in case of logs. 5-6 nm/hr Shame…great surfing conditions. We’ve passed or seen 7 big logs, generally within 20 meters of Katana last one just a few minutes ago, 25nm off East Cape. Probably same again reasonable size branches. I talked on the radio to the Wellington yacht Gannet. They were closer to the East Coast and lost count of how many they’d seen.

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