Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 SO I got up early and had a look, VB starting to make it look easy. Link to post Share on other sites
Murky 3 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Haha, I have been starting to think the opposite: a 63 nm deficit and the boat they are chasing has only 215 nm to go. There is certainly a huge boatspeed difference between the two but - as Rocket said last night - the amount of runway left will be the issue. A bloody entertaining battle either way. The pack seems to have come up on Wired too. Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Well from a spectator point of view, this keeps it interesting. When I spoke with Simon Hull a couple of weeks ago he did say that Camper would be the boat to beat. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I have them level in about 5 hrs and the Camp boat 12hrs from the finish. Link to post Share on other sites
benny14 6 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Vision must be finished now... Cruising boats must be stoked to be there before the big boys! Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 It's certainly going to be close. As long as TVS can maintain a 5kn diferential, I have them beating camper comfortably. If it drops below that, then things get very close.. Great armchair sailing! Link to post Share on other sites
BelowPAR 0 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Simon Hull a couple of weeks ago he did say that Camper would be the boat to beat. No way. In any medium conditions, Vodafone will sit on 22/23, and Camper max at about 16/17. A third-ish of the race is in trade-winds which in this case are pretty average conditions. Extra heavy or extra light, maybe something like coastal where you can have pretty similar conditions the whole way, then fair enough. But I think Vodafone have been taught an old school lesson by a bunch of the best yachties in the world (including weather routing guys/software), but now have superior boat speed to make it up. Certainly interesting, makes for brilliant exam study procrastination. Link to post Share on other sites
BelowPAR 0 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Not sure how accurate the old tracker is, but interesting to see the large changes in Vodafones heading. Keeping hulls and apparent up i suppose, vs Camper plowing due north ish. Study break over. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 new updates.... getting more interesting all the time..... i have VF beating camper by 30 minutes now,....... its going to be close breeze looks to back and lighten in the next 12 hours. Link to post Share on other sites
Zoe 8 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Just received this in my inbox from Jon Bilger of PredictWind.com: Vodafone has closed the gap to 50miles…. Latest routing showing Vodafone winning by around 2hrs. Exact numbers depends on accuracy of polars on both boats/Forecast. Finish time between 5:30 and 7:30pm tonight…. Depending on which forecast is correct. So long as Fiji Vodafone roaming is working (should be) should be getting live pictures, and 1min tracking/data pictures off the boat between 4:30 and 6:30pm at http://forecast.predictwind.com/trackin ... fullscreen Link to post Share on other sites
Murky 3 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Squid, this finish could potentially do more for the site stats than naked women. Can't believe I said that. Link to post Share on other sites
Marshy 30 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Naked girls finishing a fiji race? Link to post Share on other sites
Murky 3 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Yellowbrick currently showing TVS down to 17.6 knots and Camper up to 15.6. Someone send that fat lady back into the cupboard, it's not her time yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Simon Hull a couple of weeks ago he did say that Camper would be the boat to beat. No way. In any medium conditions, Vodafone will sit on 22/23, and Camper max at about 16/17. A third-ish of the race is in trade-winds which in this case are pretty average conditions. Extra heavy or extra light, maybe something like coastal where you can have pretty similar conditions the whole way, then fair enough. But I think Vodafone have been taught an old school lesson by a bunch of the best yachties in the world (including weather routing guys/software), but now have superior boat speed to make it up. Certainly interesting, makes for brilliant exam study procrastination. Yeah yesterdays "tack back across and get back in touch with the race boats and get between the next boat and the mark"......we teach that to green fleet opti sailors Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Rocket Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I think the lesson was more about stay on the making board - would love to know what the respective weather routers were saying as they left Ak. Using programs to drive your course feels too mechanical to me - a great input to tactics but slavishly following it doesn't seem right to me. I want to believe there is still a bit of "art" involved... Link to post Share on other sites
Mothership 6 Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 Squid, this finish could potentially do more for the site stats than naked women. Can't believe I said that. That'd be our fault. He's been a little obsessed since we gave him real-time viewing stats for the site. Essentially what you get with Google Analytics, but with heatmaps, a few other extras, and in real time. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I asked how the computer woukld have shown the race had they started as scheduled: I did not keep the exact data… but if the had started the race on Saturday routing have Team Vodafone finishing in around 2.5 days, and Camper 24hrs later. But as you know….start of this race was light upwind, so Camper conditions. Jon Bilger Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Looks like Vision are just about at the Island Bar already. Well done guys. I'm sure Vasiti and Lavinia have the fridge fully stocked with Fiji babies for you. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 You ask , I deliver Link to post Share on other sites
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