LiveSkippers on YachtPals - the Barcelona World Race
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Several YachtPals have been virtual sailing for the past several weeks starting in Barcelona and heading around the world non-stop, haveing made it through 3 gates and headed for the first ice gate before Cape Good Hope. Over 4000 virtual boats are sailing along with the 9 real double-handed Open 60s currently led by PRB, Vincent Riou (FRA)/Sébastien Josse (FRA), 18,460 mi DTF. YachtPals known to be in the virtual race are ricos0, sailsmith, and seageek (see screenshot).
It's not too late to jump in the virtual pond:
Any more YachtPals / LiveSkippers out there?
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Where's the wind?
Going 4.5 in 4.8 knots with genoa, heading 132, wind direction 185. Aiming for wind. Trying to head south toward the ice gate.
This is a fun game, thanks Rich!
I agree Thanks, Rich! I
I agree Thanks, Rich!
I just started last night. When and where did you start? I'm still up by the Canaries -- they started me a few miles before the line... Did you start at Barcelona?
What is the name of your boat, and how do we make our boat visible to each other, do you know?
I'm Laughing Matter, South of the Canaries,
Heading: 180
Speed: 16.8
wind speed: 12.8
Wind Dir: 59
Michael
Laughing Matter
How to show your friends at Live Skipper
Michael,
You show your friends with that little "show friends" box on the race page.
My heading 177, wind speed 10.9, wind direction 304. Heading south to the ice gate and promised big winds south of the cape. My speed 14.3 with spinnaker flying!
-Kim (seageek)
liveskipper
kidisgod is in the race. Next checkpoint Fernando de Noronha.
129 degrees off the wind
Just passed ice gate A, going 28.5 in 21.7 knots! kidisgod and laughing_matter looks like you two are right next to each other. sailsmith is ahead of us all near ice gate B.
Looks like your best speed is with the spinnaker, 129 degrees off the wind. Am I right?
yup - but 10 degrees further
yup - but 10 degrees further off usually gives you better vmg - especially if it's really blowin'. TIP - the 30 knot cap on boat speed keeps up as you crack off if there's enough wind!! I think that's right up your alley about now.
ricos0 (454) just passed safety gate tonight going for cook gate: wind 236@17.9 / heading 107@23.9
sailsmith (749) going for safety gate: wind 279@16.2 / heading 58@18.2
have started making beer on boat - how long does it take?
Another *hint*: Add some friends you don't know...
I found that by going to the rankings list and picking a couple of boas that are just ahead of you, you can add them to your friends list and use them to guage your progress.
I've been back and forth with some for weeks and even been messaging with a few of them (I tempted one Swiss guy to let me catch up so I could lighten my load and share some beer with him which is why I don't have any beer left and have to start making it). BTW now he's ahead of me again!
It adds another dimension to the game that really keeps the competition brewing (along with the beer).
Thanks for the tip. So, I
Thanks for the tip. So, I just have to pass north off the ice gate right? We've made beer in as little as 2 weeks before, but if ya want it to taste good it'll take ya 3
Yup - just pass some point
Yup - just pass some point on the ice gate or safety gate (same thing) line to starboard - soon as you make it the line changes from red to white <on the next update>. Guess they want to make sure you don't crash into antarctica and break off some more iceburgs.
On a rather sad note, boat speed in the virtual race has just been reduced by 1/3. Apparently making 30 knots on 25 knots of breeze was seen as a threat to virtual global warming (which should apparently be allowed to flourish along with real global warming).
So now you can relax cause you've been automatically throttled back to virtual reality. Not looking forward to the return through the doldrums...
BTW - hoping to sample new batch of kelp beer in 6 days 22.75 hrs (rapid yeast). Color and aroma are promising...however have to warm batch at night by lighting farts. We're not getting bored yet even tho the wind has dropped considerably.
Stiff competition between
Kelp beer goes really good with stale sailors biscuits.
I'll try not to hit an iceburg
Great News! boatspeed is back !!
Due to an overwhelming plethora of 4-letter words from participants, the liveskipper admins have reinstated the polars allowing us to achieve max boat speed. As a result, ricos0 boat (now at 393) is zooming along at 30 kts and only about 100 nm SW of real boat race leaders Paprec-Virbac and Hugo Boss,. We are biting at the heels of our nemesis threeeleven, who we have been following closely since before the first ice gate (he never sleeps). Virtual boat leaders are stalled on the way to the cook gate, so the second wave is hoping to catch them.
BTW, we like to think of the ranking in this race that every 100 virtual boats = 1 real boat, so that would put ricos0 boat at about 4th place overall. This concecpt will be modified when we get under 100.
Cheers!!!
Are you going through the
Are you going through the islands?
I'm closing in on Veolia Environnement!
Bass Stray-t
We finally made it up around Tasmania !! Perhaps a poor choice of tactics - lost a couple of hundred places and little wind was no help. Port watch crew attempted mutiny at one point turning the boat back when skipper was sleeping; losing about 40 hard nm very discouraging, so the floggings will continue until morale improves.
Now out into Tasman Sea with some wind on a course for Cook gate and hope new weather update tonight does not suck again. Notice you're catching up - good sailin'!
no more flogging <for now>
After an Xmas sleigh-ride accross the Tasman Sea, we successfuly passed the Cook gate at rank 299 just barely before the wind shifted and shut the door on everybody behind us. Whew! What a ride!! At that point, as my flogging arm was worn out, I told the crew that it was time to "splice the mainbrace" and try out the new batch of kelp beer. Then they told me they had already disposed of it without sharing any with me
! Admittedly, I may have overeacted to the "mutiny" <I'll attribute it to pre-Xmas syndrome>, but for them to...
???
At that point fortunately the Cook gate bumboats arrived alongside, and eschewing the taunts of NZ's finest working girls, we scored 12 cases of Steinlager for what was left of the Canary spliff <?????> Go figure....
Something good must have happened, because now we rank about 165 well south and trying again to reel in the leaders a few hundred miles ahead! News from "sailsmith not so good as they apparently sat in lite airs for a daydreaming session. SeaGeek is doing great and may catch up to them yet.
More news coming when we get to the ice gate...
Good job Rich!
165! Good job Rich!
I'm hangin' in there. This game is definitely a commitment, but fun, and I'm learning a lot about world wind patterns which is pretty cool.
Looking forward to stopping in at the islands for some ice cream. Virtual freezer broken, had to eat 20 kilos of frozen flying fish before it rot ;)
ricos0 in the top 100
I went to check my boat at LiveSkipper this morning and as usually checked around to see how the other YachtPals are doing.
Rich (ricos0) is now 67 in the rankings!!! That is out of thousands! Way to go Rich
FINISH LINE AHEAD!!!!!!!!
FINISH LINE AHEAD!!!!!!!!
36 boats to the finish [stop]
187 miles to go [stop]
please alert party girls in barcelona [stop]
love, ricos0 & crew [don't stop]
ricos0 finished 36th!!!
Way to go Rich!!! Looks like you finished 36, out of over 7 thousand virtual skippers? Amazing! Looks like that new captains licence is really paying off
we finally made it!!! 78d 0h 7m
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