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9 October 2020


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ΣΥΓΧΑΡΗΤΉΡΙΑ Zorba777!!!
CONGRATULATIONS calmxy!!
HERZLICHEN GLÜCKWUNSCH rumskib!

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Well that was fun! With only a light and dying underlying synoptic southerly zephyr, wrf modelled us some considerable variation in direction, which one suspects erven the best routing software in the world would have had difficulty analysing 100% correctly, and so it was 'seat-of-the-pants' supported or not by a router, that undoubtedly won the day. Thus, as we headed south west, tacking regularly to keep close to the Hatteras inshore beach, the wind, initially anti-clocking slowly, reversed completely and as we turned the western tip of the island, we were gybing and hardening up onto another beat this time north east and out to sea, for the wind to reverse entirely again, making the eastern end of the line quite favoured, and just about lay-able without putting in an extra gybe.

Read Satori's expansive report and Zorba777's slightly shorter but well-illustrated one under the buttons above. Extraordinary stuff, and apart from deciding how often to tack to hug the beach, judging when to tack and how to curve to your lay-points whilst easing sheets proved quite a challenge, which on this occasion Zorba777 managed best of all for his premier first on Sailonline, just pipping calmxy, who had led for much of the race, with the redoubtable rumskib coming in third. A very fine podium!

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