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Posted by A2 Posts 347 Registered at 2009-10-26 00:39:42	2013-11-27 19:31:22 - Lac Manicouagan Rond
	" Platu Barada Nikto " None so blind
Posted by Tyger / Robert Neilson Posts 108 Registered at 2012-05-28 15:07:00	2013-11-28 00:47:15 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	A2R - There's no limit to what Gort could do, so sailing would be simple but robots are outlawed on SOL. “We may have arrived on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now!” Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted by bonknhoot Posts 96 Registered at 2013-08-06 21:35:15	2013-12-02 09:49:59 - ManicLac Report
	ManicLac-2013 Knowing I would be travelling all day Sunday, I decided I’d start the manic race anyway. “In for a penny, in for a pound”. Not really my motto for life, but hey ho. From the get-go we all knew it was all going to be about cornering aka BBQ-avoidance. As a learner-SOLer I am of the opinion, I can still improve on this. I have a tool to assist me, but, as this race proved, there are some real cornering-pro’s in our fleet, particularly one or two of direct descent. The other feature of the race, as it was nearly bound to be in such restricted waters, was the need to tack/gybe regularly when the course took us up- or downwind. As this invariably had to be done in a strongly bending wind with inevitably a coast on the inside of the bend, the frequency of such tacks at gybes demonstrated by some competitors was stupendous. Again chapeau the Irish and also eventual winner A2R! I didn’t indulge in this, and to be honest I’m still not convinced the shorter distance sailed thus obtained compensates for the performance losses ditto. Certainly when it goes accompanied by quick but regular BBQs, has to be debateable. Anyway, after a few good tacks, I got the fourth or fifth one wrong, BBQd briefly and was thus fairly immediately out of the van into the pack. She who must be obeyed not being happy I was doing three races simultaneously, at 2400 UTC I set some DCs, prayed and went to bed. They worked well. How that happened and what the wind did I have no idea. But, like in IRL, the mistakes of others dragged me up the table. On Sunday as I travelled down the M1, A14, M11 and M20 to Dover, I stopped every now and then to execute a manoeuvre via a restaurant wifi. I kept gaining, whilst the race kept getting longer (in the dimension time), taking it into Monday morning. How good it is not to have to go to work anymore! And so, it came to pass, as I head for the last corner before the finish, that our world champion Rumskib made a rare mistake and took his eye off the course for a bit of shuteye to let me through to what is looking like a 7th place finish; my best to-date. Thank you all for daring to race this boathandlers-only course with me. And congratulations to A2R and the other two ‘podi-ists’ RhodeRunner and NelsonMoore (was there some teamwork involved, Nelson?) for a display of true stamina. _____________ hope this attaches --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2013-12-02 10:07:04 --- Clipping along Attachments LogManicLac-2013_2.docx (14.2 KB) LogManicLac-2013_1.docx (14.2 KB) LogManicLac-2013.docx (14.2 KB)
Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2013-12-02 10:05:14 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	Fab!!! thank you I will upload what you have written into you post and then can link to your post after putting the first para or so into the results blogpost! Merci - danke viel mal! Lac Manicouagan from space (STS009) ___________ --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2013-12-02 10:28:45 --- --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2013-12-02 10:29:29 --- Attachments 240px-STS009_Manicouagan.jpg (23.6 KB)
Posted by nelsonmoore Posts 1 Registered at 2011-10-03 19:05:41	2013-12-02 11:13:45 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	Yohann, fantastic result especially considering your travelling. Just to answer your question re teamwork, there was none involved between the Irish boats, in fact we both had some bbq's ! Congrats to everyone who finished the race - it turned into a very long 138nm !
Posted by gatorsailer Posts 20 Registered at 2011-10-19 12:39:09	2013-12-02 23:42:15 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	you are not joking about the race stretching out. still a fun little race. no bbq's on my end, but I think my helmsman fell asleep a few times and drifted off course to the unfavored side while heading south on the east side of the island...
Posted by bonknhoot Posts 96 Registered at 2013-08-06 21:35:15	2013-12-03 11:36:23 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	Nelson, thx, and well done you too. The thing was those first few hours, it just seemed uncanny how you and the Fakhir/Fecker/Wh'ever were tacking in sync along those hostile (Indians!?) shores, being mates and Irish and all. But I guess it was just all those years of training dodging the tides! Clipping along
Posted by bonknhoot Posts 96 Registered at 2013-08-06 21:35:15	2013-12-03 11:39:15 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	Gator, hi. If only we didn't need to sleep and could multi-ask habitually, and.. etc. X2X race is easier on the daily lefe, s o f a r !? Clipping along
Posted by gatorsailer Posts 20 Registered at 2011-10-19 12:39:09	2013-12-03 12:18:10 - Re: Lac Manicouagan Rond
	Yohann my biggest problem with the long cross the ocean type races is i over think the weather and then forget about the race and end up bobbing the ocean going 1-2 knots since I forgot to check in on it...

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