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2010-09-09 20:38:15 - The Great Tea Race
Some may have noticed, that since some times SOL is capabal of sailing "historic" Ships.
This lead me, amongst others, see FR_Marco_zz, to the Idea of using these ships to see how we are doing nowadays against their Sailors having no GPS, no VHF and, of course, no Weatherforecast other then their eyes.

This is the first one based on the Tea Race of 1866.
Some more are to come on occasions.
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2010-09-10 17:51:46 - Re: The Great Tea Race
Er...102 days! Three months!

Even with the 125' cat, that's a long slow way to go.
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2010-09-11 16:40:03 - Re: The Great Tea Race
Yes it is a long race... a very long one... and it is inteded to be.
Because no one is able to keep 3 Month on the helm, all shortterm tactics are allmost worthless, it is a race of allmost pure Strategy.

I should add, that it is not implicitly intended to be done in the near future.

Considering the length, updating every 10 min or so would be absolute sufficient, so this could be run in the Background inducing only little serverload. I don't know if it is possible now, but it might be somewhen.

I personally would also prefer, doing this in a different Kind of Weathersystem, where predictions are limited to Eye-sight range, like it was back in 19th Century, which is definitly impossible now.

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