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25 September 2023


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CONGRATULATIONS FreyjaUSA !!!
ONNITTELUT Smo !! FELICITATIONS 4242 !

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An operational error at the start of the summer in the Northern Hemisphere jammed up our TIMED - Results blogging machine. It has now been fixed, so here now follows in rapid succession, in 'timed' sequential order, the progressively less-delayed, five in number, blogs of our TIMED races since this hiatus, commencing with SOL's famous Iceberg Dodge.

Key to TIMED racing is of course finding that best window of near perfect wind, which usually needs to be blowing roughly at right angles to the dominant direction of the course and at at least 20kn in strength. In the case of the Iceberg Dodge, where 90% of the course is either roughly due west or due east, that means a southerly or a northerly. Whether that was the promise between the hours of 13:00 and 21:00 UTC on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 is no longer known (unless somebody has saved the grib), but what is known is that five SOLers ventured forth during that window and the best three quickly filled the podium, with the other two only just outside the prizes.

Quickly indeed, as these mariners went round the 35-odd nautical miles course in just over 5 hours, for an average VMC of slightly less than 7kn, which is good going indeed in a J-80! Best of those, starting at 14:13:05, roughly an hour ahead of his fellow podium-placers Smo and 4242, was FreyjaUSA, besting their circuit times by c 2 and 5 minutes respectively. Very well TIMED!

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