sailseaplymouth replied to your post: anonsally replied to your photoset:Goi…I lied, the split…
sailseaplymouth replied to your post: anonsally replied to your photoset:Goi…
I lied, the split came after Taiwan after the whole fleet headed north, it was still pretty brave, they came second overall in the leg.Tracker:
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Wow; that’s wild seeing Puma way off on her own like that. I was reading some discussion on Sailing Anarchy about that race, as well as about the time in the 2008/9 race when Magnus Olsson and Aksel Magdahl on Ericsson 3 went off by themselves in a similar fashion and ended up winning the leg.
It’s a neat thing about the change in the race to include these legs that go north to the sponsoring cities, rather than just hitting the Southern Ocean and staying down there all the way around. There isn’t as much history with racing, or even commercial shipping that dates to the days of sail, along some of these routes, the way there is with the traditional clipper route in the south. So there are more potential wildcards, both because there isn’t as large a body of knowledge to draw on, and because the route itself is more variable, with upwind sailing and convergence-zone potholes (which is why the sensible sailors back in the day avoided it).
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