Sail with New Freebooters

Oops. Nearly forgot my deadline. After a busy day off line, which ended with a long champagne lunch party for a friend’s 60th birthday, I finally got  round to checking the damage. Actually, things weren’t much different from how I left them at the end of yesterday. A couple of course settings during the day [...]

This is it. We were all teleported back, some from beyond the Canaries, and placed on the start line at 10:00 UTC. Any course we then set was used to launch us off the line at 11:00 UTC. This was an hour ahead of the actual race, and of the Official on line race, which [...]

The wind has been dropping slowly all day, which has reduced the excitement a bit. A few people took Delayed Command gambles for the night watch - one or two paid off, but others were disastrous.
Mine would have lost me more than the four places it did if I hadn’t been woken at 06:00 local [...]

The Official Volvo online simulated race has just opened, but the sailonline.org one has been running for a while. There are already 463 boats registered and the leaders of the practice session are now weaving through the Canaries.
Everyone seems determined to keep going until the simulator tows (more likely teleports) us back to the start [...]

I’m getting a bit like my grandfather. I’ve been around long enough now to notice that some things have changed. I want to talk about the differences between then and now, and perhaps comment on where things seem to be going.
Note that I call them the good old days, not the better old days. I’m [...]