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Profile for Capt. Pugwash



Name Capt. Pugwash
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Website URLhttp://pugwashchronicle.blogspot.com/
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  • 2008-11-24 20:19:58
    Re: Feature request, what would you like to add....
    Board » General Discussion
    Fast keys would be useful... e.g for the three buttons on the left:
    B for Boat
    C for Compass
    R for Ruler

    +/- for zoom?
    ... and zoom on the mouse wheel?
  • 2008-11-23 15:33:56
    Re: Feature request, what would you like to add....
    Board » General Discussion
    Please increase the text size on the client. Everything is too small -including the chat, and especially the speed and VMG figures on the polar. But I do mean everything : the cursor readout data, the boatnames, the weatherline and the info boxes across the bottom.

    It would make sooo much difference.

  • 2008-11-23 15:33:42
    Re: Feature request, what would you like to add....
    Board » General Discussion
    Please increase the text size on the client. Everything is too small -including the chat, and especially the speed and VMG figures on the polar. But I do mean everything : the cursor readout data, the boatnames, the weatherline and the info boxes across the bottom.

    It would make sooo much difference.

  • 2008-11-23 02:49:02
    Feature request: More on the weather
    Board » Technical Support
    I agree.. ticks on the slider would make it easier to click to a given time.

    Two other weather related things....
    - The left/right arrows sould always move the weather slider. Currently you have to select the slider first which then deleselects when you do something else on the map
    - The information at the cursor point should update as the weather slider moves. Currently it is unchanged until you move and click the mouse.

    Combined these will make it a lot easier to see what the weather is doing along a route
  • 2008-11-19 07:54:07
    Re: Miniclient Features
    Board » General Discussion
    Add yes, VMG would be really handy...
  • 2008-11-19 06:07:56
    Re: Beta
    Board » General Discussion
    Suggestion: on the weather slide can you add a figure (in brackets?) to show difference from current time? When checking the weather I usually want to see "it will be like this in four hours?" - not "What's the weather at ten o'clock?"..
  • 2008-11-15 15:40:24
    Re: Beta
    Board » General Discussion
    Two things that would help on the Beta GUI...

    - Better contrast and larger text on the statistics boxes (Speed, TWA etc). Black on grey is hard to read - it was much clearer on the old one. (I suspect readability varies with screen resolution?)

    - a white or opaque field behind the text by the cursor position. It is often hard to read with arrows, boats and now ruler text behind it.
  • 2008-11-15 08:56:26
    Re: Miniclient Features
    Board » General Discussion
    For the wish list:
    It would be handy to see a list of the nearest boats - two ahead and two behind? Plus highlight them on the map....

  • 2008-11-15 08:48:25
    Re: Feature request, what would you like to add....
    Board » General Discussion
    The prediction tool (dots) in VORG would not be that useful in Sailonline IMHO. They use 12hr updates for weather which means you sail in static wind. In Sailonline with continuous updates, predictor dots when choosing a new course would be mostly misleading... Besides, judging the forecast is part of the skill ;-)

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Mad Max by Balloon 2026 - Across the Outback


Mad Max Rockatansky doesn’t get to go in a balloon in any of the Legends of the Wasteland, and the Wasteland is not necessarily the Outback of Australia, but Mel Gibson and film director George Miller indubitably are… of Australia, and ballooning as reconnaissance is a main feature of the Mad Max spin-off video game, so here goes: 1500nm in a balloon from somewhere on the edge of the Outback, Goondiwindi, to cross a finish line at Fitzroy Crossing, somewhere on the edge of the Outback!
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Valdes Peninsula TIMED Race 2026

October finds us on the Argentina coast for the Valdes Peninsula race. A UNESCO World Heritage Site the peninsula is a breeding ground for southern right whales. Sail the luxurious blue water Delphia 47 around a 160 nm course in an attempt to turn in the fastest time.
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Roma Giraglia Regata 2026

Our eighth race of nine to celebrate all things Mediterranean - fickle winds, history and olive oil – is another buddy-up; this one with the Circolo Nautico Riva di Traiano . Founded in 1984, as the new Traiano yacht Harbour neared completion, the Circola since then has developed into one of the major yachting competition centres in Italy, and next to the 450nm Roma per Tutti (which SOL buddied earlier in the year), the Roma Giraglia Regata is its other headline offshore event. First raced in 2005, the 210nm course takes competitors from Traiano to a rock on the inside of the Ile de la Giraglia off the northern tip of Corsica and back to the Italian mainland for a finish in the bay of Santo Stefano. We’re racing this one in our Class 40!
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Arctic Tern - Greenland to Antarctica 2025

Welcome to the fifth leg of our MIG series. Now it's time to race the Arctic Terns, on their migration from Greenland to Antarctica, 8300 NM. This is also part of our monthly Ocean Championship, and as such the first race of OCQ4 2026. This race will be sailed in our Maxi Trimaran. Race #2061
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Cross the Convergence 2026 - Masirah to Chagos


Having crossed, re-crossed and re-re-crossed the Convergence Zones of the Pacific and the Atlantic, we now face our second crossing of the Convergence Zone of the World’s third great equator-spanning sea, the Indian Ocean, taking us from the channel between Masirah Island and the Oman mainland to the Chagos Archipelago. It’s 1900nm and we’ll be sailing our very fine Archer 78, and won’t mention that both locations (of departure and arrival) are heavily militarized and the why’s and what next’s concerning that – mindful as always of SOL Netiquette.
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