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Jaha, hösten är i full gång och seglarabstinensen kommer närmare, när bli det vår!? Till ämnet; En del båtar lägger alltid seglen i lovart på längre tävlingar. Är det en strategi för långa ben på vanlig kappsegling? På 4,5 ton kanske det inte inverkar men ändå, målsätningen är hög. Men tanke på vår 100%-iga burkning i år så kanske vi skall höja ribban och tänka på vikten ännu mer?

Ny båt till Sverige – Santa Cruz 37

Importör Promarine (samma som Dehler), otur med tajming med tanke på rådande finanskaos.

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Visning och provsegling för svenska kunder i november – Southampton. Ser läcker ut….och 22 knop i 35 knops vind enligt polarerna.

På lördag börjar VOR på riktigt: Alicante-Capetown :-)

Verkar vara viktigt att komma först ut i Atlanten och gå västerut för att komma ut i tradewinds.

Thur 09 October 2008 17:09:36

A gruelling 6,500-nautical mile marathon to Cape Town begins on Saturday, but all could be won or lost in the first couple of days, according to Ericsson 4 navigator Jules Salter.

He believes any boat caught out by the fickle conditions of the Mediterranean Sea and left behind during the 450-nautical mile trip to the Strait of Gibraltar will suffer heavily once the rest of the fleet enter the Atlantic.

“The start of any race is important,” he said. “You wouldn’t want to get stuck here in a light spot and see the competitors going 40 or 50 miles ahead because once you get popped out through the straits you quite often get steady sailing after that.

“First into that and you will probably get a good advantage, but there are still 20, 18 days after that so if you a bit quicker you can maybe reel someone in. It will be pretty tough though.”

The view is shared by PUMA Ocean Racing’s Jonathan McKee. He said: “It’s entirely possible that this first leg will be determined by who makes a good escape.”

It is one of several points of consideration for the fleet ahead of a leg that includes a trip through the Doldrums and the challenge of the South Atlantic High (St. Helena High) pressure system, but equally pressing is how far west a team sails before charging south.

Telefonica Blue navigator Simon Fisher explained: “Getting west is the key to the North Atlantic. The problem is the later you leave it the harder it gets. If you go early it might look pretty bad because you are losing miles but it might pay off later on.”

The dilemma has been made harder than in previous years by a more southerly start port. Fisher added: “The fact you are a few hundred miles further south actually makes it harder because you have less latitude to get to where you want to be to cross the Doldrums.”

Salter said: “Now, it is more a VMG race west down the trades because you are pretty much hoping to get straight into the trades when we leave the Mediterranean.

”We could get a low pressure a long way south and it might be like an old situation where you try to try to play a front and get west and then go south. I think that it is still true that west is best but you are getting there a slightly different way. Rather than upwind you are now trying to do it as a VMG downwind exercise.”

Fisher is relishing the challenge ahead. He said: “We have the Med which is potentially very awkward for the first 24, 36 hours. There are a lot of potholes in that bit of the road. We did all our development out of Alicante and we know all about it.

“Then there are the trade winds to deal with, making your move west, the Doldrums, then back in the trades, South Atlantic High and then choosing when to turn left. Plenty of challenges ahead. It should be great fun.”

“It’s a busy leg for the navigators,” said Wouter Verbraak, the man plotting the course for Team Russia. “We’ll have plenty of work to do, but I think everyone is looking forward to what is going to happen.”

Det ser i alla fall ut som att dom kommer att skjutas ut i Atlanten. Det kommer att blåsa upp mot 30 knop ostligt första dygnet för att sedan lätta ur under söndagsdygnet och vrida på syd ca 10 knop.

Officiell VOR hemsida

Ericssons hemsida här (Det känns tyvärr som att datorn fått virus när man går in på deras site) Får hoppas att de seglar bättre nu när det är på riktigt. Dom fick ju rejält med pisk av Telefonica de två inledande hamnracen.

Vad blir det för lys på denna måntro – Farr 11S?

LOA	36.68′ (11.18m)
DWL	32.81” (10.00m)
Beam	11.25′ (3.281m)
Draft	8.86′ (2.70m)
Displ	5,300 Lbs. (2,400 Kg)
Ballast	2,400 Lbs (1,090 Kg)
DLRz	68
RM @ 1 Degree	2,500 Kg-m
RM @ 20 Degrees	4,000 Kg-m

Upwind Sail Area/Displ	44
Downwind Sail Area/Displ	102
I	43.15′ (13.15m)
J	11.65′ (3.55m)
P	49.94′ (15.22m)
E	18.73′ (5.71m)
ISP	54.86′ (16.72m)
TPS	20.77′ (6.33m)

 

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