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This is the seventh season that Sailonline will be associated with tall ships races organised by Sail Training International. This year’s events will shortly begin with the remarkable Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta. Sailonline will begin its programme of transatlantic tall ships races in Lisbon (Race 2 for the real ships) racing the Sailonline Clipper ship polar. The real fleet will be making a stopover in the Canary Islands, but in a bid to remain competitive with the fastest members of the real fleet, Sailonline will be sailing by the islands and continuing on to Bermuda. From Bermuda we head to Boston, where we leave the real ships to visit many ports in N America. Finally we rejoin the real fleet for a race back to Europe from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sailonline’s virtual sailing experience runs hand in hand with Sail Training International's mission - the development and education of young people through the sail training experience, regardless of nationality, culture, religion, gender or social background. Sail Training International and Sailonline both count heavily on volunteer support with financial gain excluded from the equation.
If you have never sailed on a tall ship, then your experience of navigating one on Sailonline will genuinely bring you a sense of how challenging it was for those who explored our oceans in days gone by. This is a wonderful opportunity to dive into the world of tall ships and tall ship racing and we hope you will join us. You can start by registering now (it's free!) and learning the basics of racing on the Sailonline navsim platform so you will be ready for your Clipper.
There are four classes of Tall Ship in the real races, ranging from the biggest Class A Square Rigged ships of more than 40m in length, down to training yachts of 9.14m. Sailonline has developed performance polars based on published data for several tall ships, and races to compete against Class A ships.
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AHOY ALL yachties and erstwhile sailors.... Sailonline is about to host a virtual version of a race that it is associated with in reality and which will race, in reality, next year from Melbourne to Osaka. Sailonline has been linked with this upcoming 2018 event since early 2016 and, as you can see, this time our marketing guy in Australia has bagged the podium three some prizes from Gill Australia.This could be an awesome race, so please do all spread the word!Here's the full info:
Sailonline.org is pleased to team with the organising authority of theMelbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race 2018 to bring to prospective entrants and armchair navigators, our 2017 'Prelude 2' of the real race. The lucky podium place-takers of the Sailonline virtual race will each win a prize supplied by Gill Australia as follows:With Sailonline's almost real time weather downloads from NOAA, this is intended to give prospective entrants in the real race a great opportunity to test their weather navigation skills. The 'Prelude' is timed to run at the same time of the year as the real race so weather patterns may be similar.The Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race is a 5,500 nautical mile 2 handed yacht race - one of the longest two handed yacht races in the world and the only one running from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. It encounters multiple weather systems and seasons as it crosses the Pacific ocean. The course takes the competitors into Bass Strait, up the east coast of Australia into the southeast tradewinds then through the doldrums on the equator. It then heads into the northeast tradewinds to the finish in the port of Osaka.The race, first held in 1987 to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the opening of the Port of Osaka, is held approx. every four years to celebrate the City of Melbourne and the City of Osaka sister city relationship. The 2018 event coincides with the 40th anniversary of this relationship and is a collaborative effort of three yacht clubs:Sandringham Yacht Club - the Melbourne HostOcean Racing Club of Victoria - administering the on-water activities, andOsaka Hokko Yacht Club - the Osaka HostFor the virtual 2017 M2O Prelude 2, Sailonline will be using the polar of a Class 40 yacht. Melbourne yacht 'Lord Jiminy' is a Class 40 and is already entered in the 2018 event. 'Lord Jiminy' and 'Nexba' are the 2 currently entered Class 40 yachts but two more are expected to enter the race.
The Sailonline race opened for pre-race practice at 2200utc on 28 March 2017 and the race itself starts on 1 April at 2200utc. -
Sailonline's Virtual RNI - if you can't get into the race yourself, why not join in with our buddied-with-SSANZ virtual event? An ideal opportunity to hone those routing skills!
Once every three years, sailors have the opportunity to pit their courage, their skill and their competitive natures in a race around New Zealand’s North Island. This is not an event for the faint-hearted –racing left-about the North Island, and contending with the swirl of the Southern Oceans mixing with the Pacific and the challenge of navigating the Cook Strait, where these waters are funnelled between North and South Islands. WX systems accompany these often turbulent waters, making Sailonline’s virtual event, using wind grib forecasts from NOAA downloaded four times a day and released into the game in 10 minute pieces, a truly realistic navigation challenge.
Sailonline is delighted to be racing the Virtual RNI for the third time in association with SSANZ and looks forward to sharing in the reports and tales of how the race pans out. The race will start from Auckland, at 0100utc on 25 February 2017 and Sailonline’s virtual event will be available for preview from 21 February and registration will open for pre-race practice on 22 February.
The real race has a formula by which race legs will open (after the initial one) which is explained here.
PLEASE NOTE: Sailonline will be competing as closely as is virtually possible with the real yachts but will at all times give a minimum of 24hrs notice of a start time. It is intended to close each leg promptly, in harmony with the real race, but there will be some allowance here. The aim is for the overlap between legs of the virtual race to not exceed 24hrs. As always, race ranking will be your position at race close for each leg.
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Once every three years, sailors have the opportunity to pit their courage, their skill and their competitive natures in a race around New Zealand’s North Island. This is not an event for the faint-hearted –racing left-about the North Island, and contending with the swirl of the Southern Oceans mixing with the Pacific and the challenge of navigating the Cook Strait, where these waters are funnelled between North and South Islands. WX systems accompany these often turbulent waters, making Sailonline’s virtual event, using wind grib forecasts from NOAA downloaded four times a day and released into the game in 10 minute pieces, a truly realistic navigation challenge.
Sailonline is delighted to be racing the Virtual RNI for the third time in association with SSANZ and looks forward to sharing in the reports and tales of how the race pans out. The race will start from Auckland, at 0100utc on 25 February 2017 and Sailonline’s virtual event will be available for preview from 21 February and registration will open for pre-race practice on 22 February.
The real race has a formula by which race legs will open (after the initial one) which is explained here.
PLEASE NOTE: Sailonline will be competing as closely as is virtually possible with the real yachts but will at all times give a minimum of 24hrs notice of a start time. It is intended to close each leg promptly, in harmony with the real race, but there will be some allowance here. The aim is for the overlap between legs of the virtual race to not exceed 24hrs. As always, race ranking will be your position at race close for each leg.
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SAILONLINE RACE START:Sailonline is delighted to be hosting the virtual version of this year's Coastal Classic New Zealand classic race although instead of our trusty Seacarts, this year sees us racing the Young 11 polar.Sailonline sorely misses SOLer yachtyakka who regularly raced the course on Promise and who had been readying the Pied Piper, BeepBeep for racing this year before his early death. Cast a thought to the skies and yakka’s memory as you race up the coast this time.Sailonline's Race Description:With the N Hemisphere sailing season virtually over, racing in New Zealand never stops and as we head into summer here, it is time for the running of this year's iconic N Island coastal race from Auckland to Russellin memory of Steve Alloway, SOLer yachtyakka.INFO by brainaid.de
Young 11mod Particulars
WX Updates: 0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC
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If anyone is not going out on the water... remember... Sailonline is racing Y88s in the virtual race(s) this year
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Racing in the blue waters of the Pacific always fires up the imagination, so it is with great pleasure that Sailonline is once again partnering with Royal Akarana Yacht Club, to bring you the virtual version of ANZ Sail Fiji 2016.
Sailonline's race is now open for pre-race practice.
VO70v4 Polar
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and.... Sailonline has the Virtual Race open for pre-race practice already - we are racing VO70s this time with a view to (trying to) beating Giacomo.
If it has been a while since you raced on Sailonline OR you never have but fancy honing your nav skills (including learning how to use routers) then why not hop over and join in!
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Sailonline is delighted to announce that it will be partnering for a second time with Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, one of the oldest sporting clubs in Hong Kong, for the running of the 2016 Rolex China Sea Race which starts in Hong Kong on Wednesday, 23 March at 1320hrs local (0520UTC). Sailonline's virtual race is now to allow ample time to practise.
At the time of writing, 33 yachts have entered the race ranging in size from the Swan 82 'UBOX' to the Jeanneau SunFast 3600 ' Ymir'.
In cooperation with the Race’s tracker provider, YB Tracking, Sailonline will be displaying IRC 0 and IRC 1 yachts on its virtual racing screen so armchair navigators can see how they are faring against the real fleet and in particular the two TP52s.
Why not come and test yourself against the best at Sailonline in this free-to-play game
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Sailonline's Race Committee has now published the exciting Q2 Racing Calendar and, going from strength to strength, there are some exciting buddy-ups, where Sailonline is the non-commercial virtual partner with real racing organisations - including the Rolex China Sea Race (Royal Hong Kong YC), the Melbourne to Osaka Prelude race (Ocean Racing Club of Victoria), racing a Viking Longship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, on her way to N America, Sail Fiji and racing off San Diego in the SoCal300.
For many of these races Sailonline brings the live track of the real boats on to the virtual racing screen, and by choosing to sail a polar with a performance similar to one/some of the real fleet, the challenge of wind navigation becomes a truly realistic competition.
If you haven't already checked out Sailonline, and if you want to hone your wind navigation skills, both manual and using a router, this is definitely the place to do it. Sailonline remains free to play.
See you racing!
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Sailonline will be running the virtual race, as is now our custom, this year, though, we are racing our Seacarts so should have some fun with the multihulls! The race is already open for pre-race practice.
Here's the link to the Introductory Blogpost: http://www.sailonline.org/blog/2015/oct/19/pic-coastal-classic-yacht-race-2015/
and here's the race info:
PIC Coastal Classic Yacht Race 2015
As the S Hemisphere heads into summer, we are back in New Zealand for the running of this year's classic coast race from Auckland to Russell. This 115nm race up the east coast of North Island is an icon of New Zealand yachting.
Race #875
NORfrom brainaid.de
Seacart 30 INFO
WX Updates: 0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC
ALT. CLIENT:Classic
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Just a heads-up... Sailonline is back again as the virtual partner for SSANZ for this year's trio of races and... we'll be racing our Y88 Polar in the hopes of competing against entrants from the Y88 Association!
The virtual course for the NZ Spars and Rigging 60 will be open for pre-race practice from 2110utc tomorrow, Tuesday, 7 July and you'll see the Race Description on the Homepage from 2110utc today.
Do tell all your chums who can't race in reality... the competition on Sailonline is getting tougher as folks are getting more skilled in the art of wind navigation.
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