Virtual Vendee Globe...

[Godot]

Troublesome times.  I log on every few hours and find out I'm going REEEEAL slow, so I change sails/course and go back to life, just to come back a few hours later and find I'm going real slow again.  Loosing ground, quick.  Hard to believe I was somewhere around 22,000 place at one point.

[Tim]

I hear you Adam I thought I one point a week or so ago I was going to break 10,000 :( Now I am just trying to keep under 50,000 :o

Unfortunately it looks as though it is going to get worse before it gets better.

[skylark]

I'm going to gamble and try to make it across the future low wind zone.  I need to cross 7 degrees longitude between now and 5am, if I fail, I will wake up to 4kt winds.  If I succeed, 15kts and lots more wind in the direction I am going.

*rolls dice*

[dnice]

Winds are pretty good out here today ;D

still working to avoid the future lows though...looking better for next day or so.

[ronc98]

I can not believe I waited so long to join this.   sure makes the ice outside a little easier to deal with.

[Godot]

Dead in water ... again (third time in 24 hours).  It's so easy to lose position, and so hard to gain it back.

[dnice]

I can not believe I waited so long to join this.   sure makes the ice outside a little easier to deal with.

whats your boats name?

[Pablo]

I just got into this race as well.  I am sailing the Pilgrim_Shadow

[ronc98]

sv hope

[Tim]

I guess the real advantage to paying for the "extras" would be in times like now when the site is apparently down.  ???

Hope I don't wake up in Sri Lanka  ;D

[ronc98]

Who would have thought how addicting this thing has become!!!!   I have learned quickly you need to pay close attention to the wind forcast or you can find yourself dead in the water quickly!!!

[Tim]

You got magic CapnK!!  ???

Here's a screen shot of how you with almost double the wind in your sails that is available to us mere mortals.  ;D

[skylark]

SHENANIGANS!

[Tim]

I don't get it, Magnus and CapnK show available wind of about 26-28 knots. My boat sitting between the show 20. For some reason I don't think my wind tables changed at last change. I also don't know if I am actually going the speed it says I am, which makes adjusting the sails VERY VERY difficult ;)

[dnice]

I don't get it, Magnus and CapnK show available wind of about 26-28 knots. My boat sitting between the show 20. For some reason I don't think my wind tables changed at last change. I also don't know if I am actually going the speed it says I am, which makes adjusting the sails VERY VERY difficult ;)

I see what you're talking about, and I have the same wind tables you do... I think what is happening, is that what gets reported to us about other boats, isn't always what is really happening. Meaning on Capn'K's screen it probably shows something completely different (and more accurate).

I'm guessing this because I often mouse over my own boat, and it shows something different than what my personal screen shows...

But then again, that is a pretty huge wind difference, there aren't any 26knt winds anywhere around those boats on the chart.

as far as adjusting your sails goes, Just keep working with whatever your screen shows for your boat...

I think its just the mouse-over numbers that are incorrect.

This is a new version, as of yesterday I think... so maybe the huge difference is just a new bug in their reporting.... i dunno, we'll see.

[Joe Pyrat]

There is something seriously wrong with this sim.  If I'm ahead of the red boat I'm ahead of the blue one, but not according to the ranking.

[ronc98]

I wonder how they define positions?

I started so late in the game and am so far behind, I am passing boats like crazy.   I will never catch any of you guys unless I come up with some sort of magic.

[Tim]

Well it appears my readout is completely off, I checked my profile and is says I am moving only 3 knots no matter what I do! My wind speed doesn't match what I am seeing on the screen either, so I do not have a clue to what I am doing :-\ and losing 100 or more places with every refresh.  I guess all I can do is point the boat in the direction I want to go and hope for the best. :o

[Joe Pyrat]

The pass thing is confusing, unless there are submarines in this race.

[Zen]

MIne says I have no gone 0 miles, yet I've been traveling for over a week and keep passing and being passed. Like I'm doing to cape Hope right now.