I’m 3 days late posting this but – great sail by Delamare!
He sailed to the race line with no mainsail, due to a broken boom. Mowgli had a knockdown and the boom was badly damaged. So Delamare came home on his headsail. Great job.
Link to the GSC story here: https://globalsolochallenge.com/philippe-delamare-wins-gsc-en
Philippe Delamare posted this last week and I have been meaning to put it up as a superb case study. For sailing. For business. For life.
“Let me explain: we all start with a strategy, a roadmap, a certain level of aggression versus a degree of caution, ambition, a vision of what we came for. It’s really great to have tons of messages of support, words of encouragement, signs of friendship. But they are often also opinions, advice, especially caution and safety. Paradoxically, all of this can become anxiety-inducing – discreetly – which is very bad of course, and can influence you or make you lose sight of the direction of your initial energy.”
Link here Straight Line
Cannuck William MacBrien was rescued by Japanese cargo ship “Watatsumi”, some 1200 miles west of Cape Horn.
MacBrien had spent 46 hours in cold 7° sea water (Is that F or C? Both are cold!) after trying but failing to stem flooding in his yacht Phoenix. The water eventually killed his onboard power.
Like all of the GSC sailors, MacBrian had an immersion suit, carried for just such emergencies, that he was able to get into.
There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip, but Delamare has run a superb race in the Global Solo Challenge from the start. He has the shortest distance sailed, and Mowgli’s heavy displacement hull has been able to withstand the heavy weather and seas around Antartica better than the faster but lighter racing yachts behind him.
Fingers crossed. More at http://globalsolochallenge.com
Displacement boats, like Frank, rely on the length of hull in the water to counterbalance the wind in the sails & generate movement through the sea. Planing boats use forwards momentum through the water to lift the hull dynamically out of the water, reducing resistance and increasing speed with a direct transfer of wind power from the sails to the boat’s direction.
So a displacement boat has a speed limiter. Its length of hull in the water determines the max amount of wind power that it can convert into movement.
Great job by Philippe Delamare: he “has sailed only 800 Nautical miles in excess of the theoretical route with a “wastage” of just 3.2%”
https://globalsolochallenge.com/100-days-everest/
Andrea Mura sets sail. https://globalsolochallenge.com/andrea-mura-sets-sail
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