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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Thomas Coville Round the World – chasing Joyon’s record
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2008, Thomas Coville said goodbye to friends and family, and chatted cheerfully with the Press, before slinging one small bag onto Sodeb’O and hopping aboard as nonchalantly as though he were doing a weekend club race … Continue reading
Simulator Nav Station – sailonline.org
I thought it might encourage you to come and join in the fun if I showed you what you couldn’t see in my earlier video. Here’s a Firefox/Fireshot screen capture of the sailonline.org navigator’s console that I have annotated: I’ve … Continue reading
Volvo Ocean Race Leg 2 – Ericsson 4 screeching
You expect it to be noisy on board a Volvo boat at speed , but not this kind of noisy: Listen to an audio interview earlier today. Here, it was blamed on ‘foils’ – presumably dagger boards – but later … Continue reading
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Vendée Globe – Jonny Malbon enjoying himself
Jonny Malbon was in a relaxed and chatty mood in a long audio interview. No sudden cut off to cope with wind changes this time. Single-handed ocean racers have a totally different view of sleep from most of us, though: … Continue reading
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Vendée Globe – cruising time
The water’s warm and the sun is shining. Loïc Peyron threatened to have a quick dip if the wind dropped any more, Yannick was down to his boxer shorts, Dee Caffari made a video tour guide to the Cape Verde … Continue reading
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