They didn’t post it on YouTube until now, but the Volvo Ocean Race media team did an amazing job of broadcasting live on That Other Platform (mumble mumble Facebook mumble) when the Volvo racers were running through the Strait of Gibralter on the second afternoon of Leg 1. The winds were being funneled into the Strait, and the boats had only a narrow channel they were allowed to sail in due to commercial shipping, so there was a lot of gybing in pretty intense conditions.
The most-compelling footage for me was watching eventual leg-winner Vestas at the front of the fleet, hanging onto their Masthead 0 rather than shortening sail, keeping everything just barely on the right side of catastrophe. The media people were able to combine live helicopter footage with on-board video and audio, and hearing the sailors talking through the maneuvers was some of the best competitive-sailing television I’ve ever seen. I mean, these teams do this a lot; they’ll be doing it all the way around the world over the next nine months, at times in gnarlier conditions and circumstances than they were dealing with here. But this felt like being there on that boat as it happened.
I’ve tried to link to the part where they join Vestas, around 36:30, but it’s all great.
Things can turn out differently to how you imagined but still be incredible and fulfilling. Don’t let the idea of what you thought your life should be ruin the life you’re living.
El pasado domingo 22 de octubre arrancó en Alicante una nueva edición de la Volvo Ocean Race, que finalizará a finales de junio de 2018 en La Haya. Las siete embarcaciones participantes han completado ya la primera de las 10 etapas de las que se compone la prueba, que tenía como meta Lisboa. En total, han sido más de 1.600 millas náuticas de recorrido que nos han dejado unas imágenes espectaculares de las tripulaciones luchando contra los rivales y los elementos.
El pasado fin de semana finalizó la primera de las 10 etapas de la Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018. Se trataba de un sprint de 1.650 millas entre Alicante y Lisboa que los participantes han completado en apenas seis días de navegación. Nada comparado con lo que tienen aún por delante. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Sin embargo, pese a haber sido una etapa corta, no ha estado exenta de dificultades y los tripulantes se han tenido que enfrentar a los rivales y a los elementos, como demuestran estas espectaculares imágenes desde el interior de las embarcaciones. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Y es que la vida de los regatistas a bordo de sus embarcaciones no es nada sencilla. Tienen que comer, dormir, navegar y hacer guardias. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Incluso realizar cualquier tarea de higiene se vuelve muy complicada mientras navegas luchando con el mar y el viento. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Sin embargo, para estos regatistas participar en la vuelta al mundo a vela supone toda una oportunidad y un reto personal. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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La Volvo Ocean Race arrancó, como decíamos, en Alicante el pasado 22 de octubre y finalizará el 30 de junio de 2018 en La Haya, Países Bajos. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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En total serán 10 etapas, algunas de más de 7.000 millas náuticas, en las que las embarcaciones darán la vuelta al mundo. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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En la segunda de las etapas, las embarcaciones partirán de Lisboa el 5 de noviembre para llegar a principios de diciembre a Ciudad del Cabo. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Después tendrán que navegar por el Océano Índico hasta Australia, China y Nueva Zelanda, cruzar el Pacífico y el Cabo de Hornos para alcanzar Brasil y llegar a Estados Unidos a través del Atlántico, antes de regresar nuevamente a Europa. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Al igual que en la edición 2014-15, en esta participan siete embarcaciones. Entre ellas está el Azzam, actual campeón, que este año compite bajo el nombre Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag y el australiano David Witt ha sustituido al británico Ian Walker como patrón. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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El único barco español participante es el Mapfre, cuyo patrón es el doble medallista olímpico Xabi Fernández. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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El Vestas 11th Hour Racing, liderado por el estadounidense Charlie Enright, fue el ganador de la primera etapa por delante del Mapfre. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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La Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018 es la edición número 13 de esta regata que se celebró por primera vez en 1973 organizada por la Royal Naval Sailing Association. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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En un principio constaba de tan solo cuatro etapas y se celebraba cada cuatro años. Ahora es cada 3 y tiene 10 etapas. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Como decíamos, la edición 2017-2018 no ha hecho nada más que comenzar y por delante quedan unas 80.000 millas de navegación, casi 130.000 kilómetros. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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Así que veremos imágenes aún más impresionantes que estas de las regatistas durante los próximos meses. (Foto: Instagram / @volvooceanrace).
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On Sunday, October 22, a new edition of the Volvo Ocean Race started in Alicante, which will end at the end of June 2018 in The Hague. The seven participating boats have already completed the first of the 10 stages of the test, which was aimed at Lisbon. In total, there have been more than 1,600 nautical miles of travel that have left us spectacular images of the crews fighting against their rivals and the elements.
(With context and Elementary School Spanish the rest is pretty easy to follow.)
That last picture of Team Brunel would make a good movie poster.
austen meme ⇾ confessions ⇾ wentworth’s letter to anne
i offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. i have loved none but you. unjust i may have been, weak and resentful i have been, but never inconstant. you alone have brought me to bath. for you alone, i think and plan. have you not seen this? can you fail to have understood my wishes? i had not waited even these ten days, could i have read your feelings, as i think you must have penetrated mine. i can hardly write. i am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. you sink your voice, but i can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. too good, too excellent creature! you do us justice, indeed. you do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in f. w.
i must go, uncertain of my fate; but i shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. a word, a look, will be enough to decide whether i enter your father’s house this evening or never.
Aaaahhhhh I don’t think I have the brainpower rn to really explain exactly why I like them so much, except that I love everything about their coloring and their sense of atmosphere and place, their general vibe, how they give off a simultaneous air of being very artistically modern art in the true conceptual sense and of being very old and strewn with minor cues that ping as vaguely ancient. I love Tolkien’s sense of space and the feeling that he knew EXACTLY what he was looking at inside his head and believed in its existence and knew what it was supposed to feel like. Some faves:
We enjoyed taking disposable camera pics on the set of Poe Party so much that we decided to do it again on Gilded Lily. Here are some that some of our lucky backers will be receiving along with their perks!
Vestas 11th Hour Racing have won Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the finish line in the River Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal this afternoon afternoon.
It’s a tremendous victory for American skipper Charlie Enright and his team, who earn 8 points for their efforts (including a one point ‘bonus’ for winning the leg).
It wasn’t easy. The wind shut down on the final approach, and an early morning lead of 34-nautical miles over second-placed MAPFRE was whittled down to 10-miles, with the finish in sight, but the current in the river even pushing the leaders back out to sea in some of the lulls.
But the crew on the Vestas boat held their nerve, tacking first up and then down, zigzagging towards the line, into agonisingly light headwinds.
More fanart of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party (created by @shipwreckedcomedy ) This time I’ve drawn Lenore as played by @sineadpersaud and H.G. Wells as played by Blake Silver in a sort of Tim Burton style.
But as they came to the east end of the village they met a barrier with a large board saying NO ROAD; and behind it stood a large band of Shirriffs with staves in their hands and feathers in their caps, looking both important and rather scared.
‘What’s all this?’ said Frodo, feeling inclined to laugh.
‘This is what it is, Mr. Baggins, said the leader of the Shirriffs, a two-feather hobbit: ‘You’re arrested for Gate-breaking, and Tearing up of Rules, and Assaulting Gate-keepers, and Trespassing, and Sleeping in Shire-buildings without Leave, and Bribing Guards with Food.’
‘And what else?’ said Frodo.
‘That’ll do to go on with,’ said the Shirriff-leader.
‘I can add some more, if you like it,’ said Sam. ‘Calling your Chief Names, Wishing to punch his Pimply Face, and Thinking you Shirriffs look a lot of Tom-fools.’
‘There now, Mister, that’ll do. It’s the Chief’s orders that you’re to come along quiet. We’re going to take you to Bywater and hand you over to the Chief’s Men; and when he deals with your case you can have your say. But if you don’t want to stay in the Lockholes any longer than you need, I should cut the say short, if I was you.’
To the discomfiture of the Shirriffs Frodo and his companions all roared with laughter. ‘Don’t be absurd!’ said Frodo. ‘I am going where I please, and in my own time. I happen to be going to Bag End on business, but if you insist on going too, well that is your affair.’
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– The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, “The Scouring of the Shire” (via vardasvapors)
