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  • 2023-09-09 11:03:50
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2023
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Arrgh... Feared across the seven seas and known for ruthlessness and sword fighting (but not necessarily sailing ability), I'll once again take the mantle DreadPirateRoberts

    Avast, ye brave soul! Yer wish of the name "DreadPirateRoberts" be granted, and ye shall be known as such across the seven seas. Set sail with pride, me heartie, and may yer reputation for ruthlessness and swordsmanship precede ye on every swashbucklin' adventure!

    --- Last Edited by Patrick70119 at 2023-09-09 13:15:32 ---
  • 2021-09-11 11:54:01
    Re: CARIB RUM RUN 2021
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Dread Pirate Roberts be my name. ARRRGH!!!

    Ye be mighty welcome back again, yer moniker be one well recognised!
    ________________

    --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2021-09-11 12:59:14 ---
  • 2020-09-08 14:10:04
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2020
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    If there be enough characters, I'd be DreadPirateRoberts For the race to pillage and drink all the rum!

    Brewman

    yer moniker is safe, yer boat needs to be afloat, though
    _______________

    --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2020-09-08 14:24:21 ---
  • 2018-09-13 13:19:16
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2018
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Arrgh - Ye better change my name to Brewbeard, or suffer the splash to Davey Jones Locker!!!

    be yer challengin' me yer bespittled gargoyle? Ye be Brewman orlright!
    ____________

    --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2018-09-14 09:35:28 ---
  • 2018-07-02 03:06:58
    Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    SOTP for me!!!
    Enjoy my full night's sleep...
  • 2018-06-12 10:55:33
    Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I pledge to sail SOTP for these races. Not a big commitment as it is how I always sail.
    Hopefully all entrants will sail SOTP so that we won't be able to check our individual dead reckoning against those that use routers and other aids.
  • 2017-08-16 20:54:15
    Cross up in Lisboa Timed race Aug 16, 2017
    Board » Technical Support
    Help!!!
    My boat, brewman, has rounded all marks today in the Lisboa timed race, but only the Vasco de Gama Bridge & Barrerio marks show "Rounded". The boat track clearly goes around Bugio Lighthouse, yet it does not say "Rounded"> All other marks beyond have same issue.
    How can this be?
    What Can be done?
    Thanks, Bruce Flournoy
  • 2016-09-17 05:17:29
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2016
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Aye, Ye can call me Dread Pirate Roberts, feared across the seven seas for his ruthlessness and sword fighting prowess, and well known for taking no prisoners.

    and all shall know this name, arrrr

    --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2016-09-17 11:31:33 ---
  • 2015-09-15 23:31:19
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2015
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    RC
    Might I be Brewbeard for the coming race?

    Thx
    brewman

    arrrrrrrr that ye may be





    --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2015-09-16 11:14:35 ---
  • 2015-03-03 13:07:57
    SYC Ranking System
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Was pondering the mechanisms of the SYC overall rankings and noticed that all races are given equal weight, regardless of number of entrants. So, for example, a 150 finish in a popular race with 500 entrants is worth the same as a 150 finish of 151 in a less popular race. This seems somehow inequitable, as one is a top 30% finish while the other could have merely crossed the start line.
    I don't have a solution, or even pretend to know if it needs a solution - Just want to throw it out for discussion...

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The second race of our new series of ocean voyages across the World’s convergence zones, takes us northward again up the Pacific Ocean, now from Samoa at 13.5 degrees South, across the Equator to Hawaii, famed for its breaking surf and active volcanoes, on the edge of the Tropic of Cancer at 19.5 degrees North. It’s 2300nm, so we’ll take our very steady Steinlager II. Race #1982
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Way-back-when France and England, and Spain as well, were squabbling about who should control what of North America, only to lose the most of it to their own insurging colonists, their eastern European neighbour empire, Russia, was quietly assimilating vast, thinly nomadically populated territory of its own – Siberia! Amongst the many explorers and adventurers that served Russia so well in these conquests was the Cossack hetman Pyotr Beketov. Let’s pretend we’re he and eschewing horseback, let’s travel by balloon from Yekaterinberg to Krasnoyarsk – just a short 2000km (1100nm) section of the Trans-Siberian Express’ 9289km!
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West Papua to Oregon 2026

Our next race in our Ocean Championships is the first of a series of great natural migrations we will track in 2026. The leatherback turtle is the most widely distributed marine reptile on planet Earth, and chooses to breed in warm tropical waters, but prefers to forage in more temperate habitats, travelling thousands and thousands of miles effortlessly annually to maintain this way of life. Our race will follow one of the typical trips of this turtle, from breeding grounds in the seas off West Papua to the coast of Oregon. It’s only 5900nm, so to keep up, but in comfort, we’ll follow in our Gunboat 90.
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A-OI!!! The fiery spirit of Shetland’s legendary Up Helly Aa returns, and Sailonline’s annual race to Lerwick is once again upon us. Covering 383 nautical miles from Aberdeen, SOLers will tackle winter waters steeped in Viking tradition. This year, we race the classic Frers 33, a proven cruiser-racer born from the golden era of offshore racing and still a sturdy performer both on the virtual and real water. Can you master the course and reach Lerwick in time for the flames?

SAILING NOTE: Gruney may be approached from any direction but must be passed for rounding purposes as indicated on the chart.
Race #2005
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Red Eye - Hobart Convict Run 2026

Back in 2010, one of our SOLers of the first hour, AUS_Scott76, came up with this ‘Convict Run’ out from Hobart, past Cape Raoul and the penal colony of Port Arthur, round Tasman Island, up and back down the east coast of Tasmania, to finish with a tight technical run – so Scott called it – up the picturesque D'entrecasteaux Channel, home to Hobart once again. It’s 250nm, ideal for a bit of ‘Red Eye’ in comfortable Finngulf 43’s, and if the original idea was to pick up some convicts on the way for a bit of R&R and sea air, you may always drop’m back before returning to Hobart!
Race #2002
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New Ice Age 2026 - Longyearbyen to Browerville


Although we have by no means exhausted the possibilities of ice boating on lakes at high latitudes or high altitudes, it was noticeable that as our 2025 Series progressed, there were calls from time to time for longer-distance challenges, and so in response to these calls we will pretend that global warming has reversed and as a result the coastal waters of Antarctica and Russia and Canada have fully (and smoothly!) frozen over offering us the possibility of a 4-race New Ice Age series in our trusted no-PL DN machines. Our first leg takes us 2600nm from Svalbard’s Longyearbyen east to North Alaska’s Browerville. You’ll be a few days on the ice, so dress warmly and take some provisions; go!
Race #1968
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