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Board » General Discussion » VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?

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2009-02-14 23:10:04 - VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?
Help, Can I sail north of the US, instead of going south around the cape?
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2009-02-15 04:23:53 - Re: VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?
You can go any way you like but if you read the sailing Instructions for this race, you will see that the course is:

"The legendary Cape Horn to PORT"

So as long as you do this, you are OK.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough!
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2009-02-15 08:15:15 - Re: VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?
Not only as Paul says - the map will not operate very far to the North - your boat would just stop at the game boundary where the wind display ends or before it.
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2009-02-15 10:41:33 - Re: VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?
Thanks Zembu.

I really like the warning once printed at the edges of the world on ancient charts:

"Beyond here live monsters and dragons"
If it breaks, it's not strong enough!
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2009-02-15 10:50:55 - Re: VOLVO leg 5 can I go North through the NW Passage?
Hi Paul - In the Hobart practice I had a chat about that as I inadvertently sailed to the edge, where the edge was before the end of the wind display - see http://www.sailonline.org/board/thread/1264/?page=1#post-1264 That was when I was even more of a beginner than I am now!

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