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2013-11-14 14:40:01 - Round White Island Race 2013
Sailonline will be again buddying with Royal Akarana Yacht Club for this race next week. Here is the current entry list:

White Island Entries

which boat from our list/Boathouse do you think will work best to keep us relatively competitive vs this IRL fleet please?

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edited to correct url to boathouse list

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2013-11-14 14:59:17 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
VOR70 I reckon
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2013-11-14 15:53:44 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
I agree that Volvo OR 70 would be a good choice!
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2013-11-14 17:05:25 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
I've never really bothered to think about how our polar compares to the real boats, but in this case I think VO70 (or open 60, or IMOCA 60) is a little too fast. There are mostly boats of 35-45ft on the entry list.

There is a first 44.7 on both lists
There is a farr 11.6 aka farr 38 on both lists
I think swan 36 might be a match too (little slow maybe), and there's more on the entry list that are probably more similar (than VO70/open60/IMOCA60) to the real boats in the SOL boat house

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2013-11-14 17:27:22 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
Link to boathouse doesn't seem to be working..I guess VO 70.
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2013-11-14 17:37:40 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
I've corrected the link to our list of boats.

I was going to go with a Farr 38

The First 44.7 hasn't been used much and has a useful polar.

Looking at the Calendar we have the VO70 in the Christmas Ocean race.



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2013-11-14 17:47:10 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
Agree with Kroppy, nice to have average boat of the fleet not the fastest one. Would add FinnGulf FG43.
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2013-11-14 18:28:04 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
Big & fast boats are always fun, but I'd vote for kropp's idea; a not that big nor fast boat: Swan 36, X35 OD or, new this summer, 11 metre OD.
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2013-11-14 18:50:59 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
well we've got a First 44.7 and a VO70 in our boathouse. There's 1 of each in the race IRL. I'd say one of those 2
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2013-11-16 09:20:14 - Re: Round White Island Race 2013
Thanks guys.. First 44.7 it shall be :-)

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