Day
8 (TUESDAY - 6 January 2009) - Posted: 10H30AM GMT
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Some
important notes about the Map Plotter:
You will notice two changes since yesterday the first
is that we are now showing the corrected times calculated
from the leader of each class. Also modified is the way in
which you view the list of boats, they now show first by Class
then by order of corrected times.
News
From John Leslie
""The IRC racing class shows no changes overnight,
but the leader Patches is steadily increasing their lead over
the 2nd placed Lusty.
I
can report the Patches has even managed to catch and land
a Dorado whilst sailing along under what the skipper Jeremy
Bagshaw now calls the Big Red – we assume their biggest
Red Spinnaker.
On
Running with Scissors Lionel reported that he has managed
to Jury rig an Asymmetric Spinnaker off what remains of the
bow sprit, but has once again discovered a massive hole in
the so called SE trade winds. His has strapped up his sore
ribs and will soldier onwards.
Positions
in the Cruising Division have changed dramatically from yesterday.
The 2 yachts that went into stealth mode yesterday and didn’t
report for some or other reason have suddenly leapt to the
front of the fleet. The big loser is Moments, but it seems
he has gone into stealth mode today. Interestingly both Blazing
and Little Redwing were both positioned well to the East of
the fleet and this is perhaps proving to be the correct tactic.""
Patches
Log Book
..........From where I last left off..
G'day
all,
We're
all safe and sound and having some mixed enjoyment type sailing!
Three days of great stuff followed by the last 6 hrs of horrendously
confused seas and a rapidly dying wind.
03/01/2009
15h19: log 639 miles. wind is approx (difficult to
say when the windex is making circles in the sky) SE but never
more than 6 knots true speed. VMG = 4 knots ....
