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  • 2018-02-10 02:02:30
    Re: SWR Leg 6 Finish
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    I don't really follow that logic. Instead of having a realistic finish or a shortened course for an appropriate finish to an ocean race, we have ended up with a course that will need numerous dcs to navigate a difficult mark rounding, avoid many islands and a 10nm final leg that will likely be upwind? The finish could have been 3nm east at the entrance to the inner harbour, where most of the local coastal and ocean races start and finish.
  • 2018-02-06 03:39:07
    SWR Leg 6 Finish
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    The last WP Motuihe Buoy is very unlikely to be used the real boats. They will go down the Rangitoto Channel and be seen from the suburbs on the North Shore. This is a historic course that has been used on many previous ocean races. Very few ocean races or even the longer coastal races would have a mark to the SE of Motuihe Island.

    The finish in Auckland should be revised with the WP (if needed) located off North Head. Good practice with ocean races such as this would be to have the finish in relatively open water to allow those who like sleeping or working to have a reasonable chance of finish with dcs. I suggest the finish is in Rangitoto Channel.
  • 2016-06-12 06:38:33
    Re: RIP Yachtyakka - Steve Alloway
    Board » In memoriam
    Very sad news. I sailed with Steve for a few years and he introduced me to SOL. He was always ready with an opinion and was a great sailor. Cheers mate.
  • 2016-06-09 08:46:31
    Re: timed races
    Board » Flag Officers » Race proposals
    Shetland timed race attached
  • 2016-03-20 23:47:31
    Re: RIP javaboat
    Board » In memoriam
    Very sad news. I enjoyed many a chat with Jim (javaboat). I'm looking across the blue sky and white caps on the ocean thinking of you, goodbye javaboat.

    Kevin (NZL Scotsman)

    --- Last Edited by NZL Scotsman at 2016-03-21 00:05:12 ---
  • 2015-04-07 01:45:37
    2015 Q2 Calendar ics version
    Board » Flag Officers » Race Calendar
    .ics version attached
  • 2014-10-01 23:55:18
    Re: Leopard by Finland in ARC
    Board » Flag Officers » Race proposals
    The calendar is quite busy late Nov / early Dec, but there might be capacity to include this. The SWR Leg 2 will be well underway and there are a few week races.

    Do you think timed or fleet?

    Kevin
  • 2014-09-26 01:56:05
    Q4 calender ics version
    Board » Flag Officers » Race Calendar
    ICS format of calendar attached.
  • 2014-08-21 08:21:00
    Re: timed races
    Board » Flag Officers » Race proposals
    Thanks RC, looks good. We might need to mention that the offshore mark means that the island can be passed on either side, before and after the mark.
  • 2014-08-13 09:57:25
    Volcano Tour
    Board » Flag Officers » Race proposals
    See attached

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Rapallo to Nador 2026


Welcome to Liguria’s Rapallo, there where Zarathustra spoke - at length - to Nietzsche, for our first race of nine to celebrate all things Mediterranean - fickle winds, history and olive oil. A number of our races in this new Magical Mediterranean series will be partnership with famous real-life races, but this first race is pure fiction - 780nm in refurbed IMOCA 60s, past or through the Balearic Isles and on into the Alboran Sea, to a finish off Nador on the Maroc Mediterranean coast.
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Red Eye - Melville Island PYOC 2026

Melville Island is the largest of the Tivi group opposite the port of Darwin in the Timor Sea. Tropically forested and thinly populated, not a lot goes on there, but let’s race around it anyway, lar- or starboard round, it’s a little more than 120nm, so, no matter where you are navigating from on the planet, you will be hard-pressed to complete the course aboard your J-80 in daylight hours!
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Cross the Convergence 2026 - Guam to Ouvéa


The third race of our series of ocean voyages across the World’s convergence zones takes us southeastward now down the Pacific, from Guam’s Apra Harbour at 13.5 degrees North, back across the Equator to the glorious New Caledonian resort island of Ouvéa, on the edge of the Tropic of Capricorn at 20.5 degrees South. It’s 2400nm, and there’s more than a few other islands in the way, so mind where you go in your Ocean 50s. Race #1981
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Lake Victoria TIMED Race 2026

This month’s TIMED race takes us inland to Lake Victoria in the heart of Africa. Starting at Rosebery Channel in Uganda sail the AC72v2 on a 196nm course around Bugala Island on the way to the finish line in Tanzania’s Speke Gulf. This is a TIMEDrace so you may RE-REGISTER HEREto try again after finishing a run. You will have 13 days and 11 hours to test your skill and decision making after the race opens.
Race #2018
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