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Hadlock posted:I guess at this point this is sort of a Let's Play huh Cool stuff! The strategy side gets very spreadsheety very quickly...
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Jul 4, 2020 16:41
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Hadlock posted:Well at this point everything has gone horribly off the rails. I keep getting pushed further and further into the high pressure zone, causing me to slow down, causing me to point further into the Yeah, that's not looking great.
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Jul 5, 2020 13:00
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Hadlock posted:Probably should have taken my own loving advice Yeah, it's always easy to say this afterwards isn't it? I was always able to point out my own strategy mistakes in review. I didn't really put in the work to think through the strategy stuff on the water at the time; i'd just stick some warpaint on and fistfight my way up through nearby boats tactically.
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Jul 8, 2020 19:13
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Hadlock posted:edit: I'm being informed by another goon that I'm not Is that the polar chart superimposed on your boat? That's pretty nifty.
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Jul 10, 2020 12:43
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Hdip posted:I realize it's a race and all, but I just noticed that huge cluster and thought how annoying it must be to do an open ocean crossing like that to get away from it all. Instead you are in a traffic jam like it's a Los Angeles freeway. Yeah, you're constantly covering your competitors, it's nervous and tiring stuff — you can't mentally get away from other people for the hours/days/weeks when you race. This reminds me about the first Golden Globe race, which if you're not familiar with it is a riveting story: quote:Nine sailors started the race, four retired before leaving the Atlantic Ocean. This is a good book about the whole thing: A Voyage for Madmen meltie fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Jul 10, 2020 18:57
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ought ten posted:It's such an insane story. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst really focuses on him and his trip, and the journalists who wrote it got their hands on his logbooks and do some good work trying to figure out what happened. It's absolutely crazy. The cursed remains of the boat beached itself on a island in the Caymans.
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Jul 11, 2020 01:59
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occluded posted:Currently doing a week's Yachtmaster Theory school and this afternoon our instructor regaled us with a story of winning a race (something like the annual UK first responder's yacht club race) by two hours by very careful reading and application of tips in a book called something like how to make your boat go faster. Lots of getting every sheet set just so and then positioning everyone precisely so that weight was distributed properly, so that when one guy went to make down below to make tea someone else had to move slightly backwards and to port to keep things even. I can believe it. I've won races in light winds by getting the crew to stop fidgeting around and shaking the wind out of the sails. Also, training them in-situ how to set their sails properly for maximum efficiency using the telltales... meltie fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Hadlock posted:Picking up sails from the garage for a regatta, a couple years ago, living the gratuitous DINK + no mortgage fantasy life. Turns out you can fit a main, a jib and spinnaker in your girlfriend's 2 seater if you're brave enough I once fit a fridge in a miata but my garage didn't look like that... 😲
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