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  • 2013-07-17 17:09:02
    Re: Tall Ships Racing 2013 - Cruise in Company
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    So, what is this Cruise in Company (CinC)?

    Since 1964 the pattern of a Tall Ships’ Race series has usually been a Race followed by a CinC and then a second Race.

    The series is designed for some 3,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 25 from some twenty or more countries. In port at the end of the first race, and partly as a result of the crews having experienced challenge and competition, many friendships are formed among the crews.

    Before the start of the CinC, Captains are encouraged to “swop” some of their youngsters with some from another ship, preferably one of a different type and nationality. There is also some “buddying up” between groups of ships who then arrange to overnight together in a chosen port on route.

    Often they choose somewhere remote so that they can have barbeques on a beach and have a change from the buzz of the more formal programmes at the terminal ports.
  • 2013-07-05 16:43:27
    Re: Tall Ships Racing 2013
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    Oh - sorry, I was logged in as Sol!!
  • 2013-03-10 16:33:40
    RORC Races
    Board » General Discussion
    Are there any Solers who are members of the Royal Ocean Racing Club?

    My reason for asking is that, as some of you know, SOL wanted to buddy up with RORC for one or two of their races.
    Because of the group of SOLers participating in the Fastnet Race 2013, we had wanted to run their two qualifying races using the official name. On behalf of SOL, as I am a long-standing member of RORC (now overseas), I approached RORC to this end. Unfortunately, they felt that it would be inappropriate for SOL to run the qualis as the Fastnet race itself would be off-limits (due to an already existing virtual partnership).

    Apart from these races, RORC has a really good racing calendar and it would be great if SOL could still buddy-up for the "less prestigious" ones.

    We can't force RORC to visit our site and see the degree of involvement of our participants and the sophistication of our software but I was thinking that if several SOLers are members of RORC, we could perhaps write a joint email to the Race Committee and invite them to look at SOL? We need more weight behind our approach if we are going to get any attention!

    My email address is jhham@telus.net
  • 2012-07-09 22:47:56
    Re: The Tall Ships Races 2012
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    The start of the Tall Ships race from St Malo to Lisbon is unusual but not unique. Square-rigged ships are very vulnerable when sailing along a lee shore and the North Brittany coastline is potentially hostile. It was therefore a wise choice to allow the ships to claw out of the English Channel and into the Western Approaches by using their engines if needed, and getting themselves into a more favourable wind pattern.

    The accuracy and availability of the GPS system has made a race organiser’s job much easier in that Waypoints can be used as course markers rather than having to rely on fixed navigational marks.

    I remember having to start a race after thick fog had descended on the fleet while they were maneuvering for a start. I took a similar action and directed each class to pass through a mythical ‘box’ delineated by waypoints.

    Competitors always have to take their own Finish Times so this crossing of an 'imaginary' Start Line and recording their Start Time requires a similar code of honesty.
  • 2012-07-05 15:15:36
    Re: The Tall Ships Races 2012
    Board » Flag Officers » Races
    Sorry, 'twas me. I got my login muddled.
    J_H

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Welcome to the third of four virtual Tall Ships Races in European waters which are concurrently being organized in-real-life by Sail Training International . This third race is from Antwerpen back up the North Sea to Stavanger in Norway – another proper tall ship training adventure of circa 450nm, online again in Sailonline’s classic Clipper 240.
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Lake Ontario 300 Challenge 2026

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Tall Ships 2026 - Harlingen to Antwerpen


Welcome to the second of four virtual Tall Ships Races in European waters which are concurrently being organized in-real-life by Sail Training International . This second race is from Harlingen in Friesland down along the coast of Holland and Friesland to Vlaanderen’s famous port of Antwerpen – circa 150nm in Sailonline’s classic Clipper 240.
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Race #1993
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Alaska to Easter Island 2026

Welcome to yet another all-new series. The initial leg of the RNW (Round the New World), Alaska to Easter Island, also part of our Ocean Championship. The first race of OCQ3 2026. This race will be sailed in our revised 'version 2' Imoca 60 Foil. Race #2042
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Cross the Convergence 2026 - Sao Tomé to Tristan

The fifth race of our series of ocean voyages across the World’s convergence zones takes us back south down the Atlantic from Sao Tomé on the Equator to Tristan da Cunha on the edge of the Roaring Forties. It’s 2500nm; in your path the Benguela winds and current along the south west African coast, and behind that the St Helena High stretching halfway to South America. So, mind where you go in your Volvo OD65 version 3 (based on sampled real-life race data by kroppyer)!
Race #1985
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New Ice Age 2026 - Neumayer Station to Scott Base


For a second-half of long-distance ice-boating, we take our DNs to Antarctica for a circumnavigation of that continent in two legs clockwise, in harmony with the prevailing winds (such as there are), beginning with a race from Germany’s Neumayer Station to New Zealand’s Scott Base. It’s about 3500nm, which, if there’s wind at all, should, well-wrapped in your DN-cockpits, not take you much more than five days. And remember: charts down here are unreliable – what is land and what is ice?!
Race #1970
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