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2021-02-23 10:46:12

Monsoon experience

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As a possible 2nd race to experience different winds, following up on Bora experience, I was thinking about this course around Taiwan and some Japanese islands. This is an area where we don't go very often.

The East Asian monsoon affects about one third of the world's population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_Monsoon

In this race we go from the Penghu islands, around Taiwan towards Miyakojima and passing several other islands in Okinawa prefecture, before returning to Penghu around the North side of Taiwan. That should offer plenty of variation in monsoon winds, which are predominantly East to Northeast (attached wind stats)

Distance: 800 NM
Could be done with the new Fareast 31R polar or similar, which would make for a 4-5 days of racing.

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2021-02-02 06:53:20

Re: 2021 Lake Winnebago - Bgosh Memorial

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Sorry to hear. I didn't get the chance to get to know Bgosh, but it sounds like a character I would have liked to meet. Will be there for the Lake Winnebago race and look forward to hear some anecdotes.
2021-01-31 08:39:08

Re: SOL-itude - PICS OF WHERE WE SOL....

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Work from home

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2021-01-04 13:43:30

Re: Bora experience

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Excellent suggestion for Dubrovnik finish. That's where more local knowledge is useful. I will adapt the route accordingly.
As for real Bora experience, I have seen some videos and it looks really rough. But that's one of the advantages of virtual sailing races, we can do routes that would be highly dangerous, if not impossible to do, IRL.
2020-12-19 14:00:31

Re: Dyer Dhow Derby 2021

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Is there a picture of the special polar you made for this?
2020-12-07 15:08:46

Re: The Balloon Race

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I like this idea.. Could be done on the existing or on a new track. How long did this race take on the previous occasion(s)?
2020-11-22 13:28:37

Re: Lady Barron's Dogs

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Would make for a good timed race too. Personally I would probably have left out that last waypoint on Little Dog East, and just allow for many possible ways back to the finish line after rounding the WP at Doughboy.
2020-11-22 13:14:48

Re: Astypalaia RTI

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Nice one. Probably best done in summer when the meltemia winds are usually strong.
2020-11-01 06:02:31

Re: QtVlm polar for Trireme O

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Thanks David/Renegade. Excellent.
2020-10-29 09:40:04

Re: QtVlm polar for Trireme O

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@Renegade The V1 only differs from V2 on wind speeds below 2 or 3 kts. So, if you didn't have any problems with AGL during Leg1, that polar should work most of the time for this leg, because we have strong winds.
I never got the polar to work in AGL for race 1388, so I used the mentioned workaround.

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