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2009-02-16 19:19:27 - Wrong distance to leader?
My present distance to the goal is 12211,1
The leader's distance to the goal is 11811,6, which means I am 399,5 behind
The measured distance between the two of us, using the measuring tool, is 278,3 nautical miles, which can't be true, especially as I am more beside than behind the leader. How is this possible?
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2009-02-16 19:49:51 - Re: Wrong distance to leader?
It might be correct anyway :-) We measure distance to goal by measure shortest distance to next rounding first and then the distance from that point to goal. That usually works pretty well but in some cases are not 100% intuitive. Have faith :-)
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2009-02-17 05:46:45 - Re: Wrong distance to leader?
But this time Jakob some more explanation is needed I think.
This morning, tuesdag 17/2 at 5.40 UTC, I got up and had 12040 nm to finish. The present leader had about 11580 nm to finish, and he/she was only some 20 nm to starboard. This boat was not even sideways in front but sideways behind me.
That needs some more explanation I believe.
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2009-02-17 05:58:49 - Re: Wrong distance to leader?
First I cal the dist to rounding, then dist from that to finish. When we are soooo darn far from rounding and the pole is involved, the point of rounding is moving around. Take a globe and play around with it and you will see what I mean. :-) The calcs are ok, but the concept of dtg is ambigous at the moment. Be cool and things will start to make sense as we come closer to cape.
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