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2011-01-06 16:44:58 - Routing the new polar vs IRL
Summary of the race so far:



We match up pretty closely in the conditions encountered to date! You can see that Virbac-Paprec made a mistake W of Gibraltar that let us sneak past to the South but if not for that we'd be neck and neck.

We might be a bit fast in 10-16. Hopefully we can fill in some of that data on the way South. We'll have some catching up to do in any event ;-)
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2011-01-06 23:47:51 - Re: Routing the new polar vs IRL
interesting. The IRL fleet is extremly wide spead but non of us could keep the pace of their leaders.
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2011-01-07 01:05:36 - Re: Routing the new polar vs IRL
The nature of after-the-fact routing adds a bit too... UC, TeamITA and Viking sailed a *very* fast race, but they were still a few hours behind the "perfect" time with our old polar.

Expect the IRL leaders to give as a run for our money too. VB3 would still have beat us to the current pos, but it wouldn't have been so drastic. Granted they were lucky as well!

The new boat is hedged a tiny bit. I don't think we can catch the IRL fleet, but we should keep pace.
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2011-01-07 12:33:51 - Re: Routing the new polar vs IRL
My concern was: with a current of 3 to 5 knots in the strait they still are beating us for about 150nm.
I agree, money buys speed and they are using much more sophisticated software. On the other hand, we have to freedom of buying speed without taking money in our hands. Just change the polar :-D And its more fun to beat them..... :-)

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