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Introduction/Definition/etc Body Original Text Modified Text What's Missing? What Can Be Found? What Can Not Be Found? How To Analyze? Lenses Noob DaySailors Cruisers Elderly Dis/Dys Graphia? Autistic General Population/Public Assumptions Time Limits Book Data Links Conclusion Discussion License Page History Page Statistics Page Views:  since creating on 20201115

 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

An every 4 years SailBoat race,

around the world,

started from Vendee, France,

on November 8th...

 

 

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New boat designs since i was

paying much attention

include foils, raising the boat

up beyond planing, and

reaching around 30KnotsPerHour

(35ish Miles Per Hour)

instead of 6 knots or so for

many cruising boats

like traditional monohull

SVDelos2018  for example...

 

Solo sailing race, around the globe,

taking 75-90+ days depending

upon sailboat design

(some older designs are

racing as well) with currently about

33 entries, starting the last week...

 

ConVid19ContinuesIn2020

effected and France locked down,

(again?) so not as many even masked

visitors, at the docks, boat race start,

though there is a Virtual race going on

concurrently, eSailing or something,

there are a couple apps associated with

it on, inshore and offshore/ ocean

afaict, downloaded and some WebGL

(or similar VR?) limitation on mobile,

so not tried yet.

 

Saw some SeaWolves

reports and a few other video,

the tracking AIS (boat location)

shows where they are currently

and a black Hugh Boss seems

to be in the lead, last i knew,

He'd be the first non French to win,

in the 30 or so year history

if that happens...

Several females are entrants,

i think on older designs, but sketchy recall.

One a rather attractive business major

so the PR value of that

and nobody seems to really know

why they are punishing themselves

for this grueling race, in battering

waves, at high speeds, likened

between sailing and flying

(off by a factor of 10 with planes,

but more like soaring,

which i've tried)

Short clips of video of people uploading

and weather guesses with the Pandemic

mentioned as few planes flying so

weather models are inaccurate,

compared to fully tourism/ flying mode

though some monitoring of the race

may fill in some gaps, afaict, my guess,

posted on the YouTube from an older

SeaWolves video... He's a trainer/

and sails, and did some course analysis,

much of which is in southern hemisphere

bordering the AntiArtic in the Southern Ocean,

some around Cape Horn, a wild ride

indeed, some (dis/de)masting and other

rescue stuff have happened and

a few returning challengers,

some new people, and even well

wishes from a Sir (Knighted)

Robin? Knox Johnson? guy

who did the first / fastest solo

round the world (look him up).

 

Historically, Slocum (sp?) a Canadian,

back in whaling ships days,

before steamers really

caught on, and early sailing,

ran aground with his (second?)

wife? and built a ship/sailing to

return part way, and likely

business collapse besides

knowing and writing (ghosted?)

with a publishing magnet family,

and trying to support himself,

that way, after a rough childhood,

abusive father, and a dream of going

to sea, under sail, several ships

and working his way up the ladder,

as it were...

 

Noting some odd sailing areas

in the world, Straights, Cape Horn,

panama canal, yet started/ finished

back then,

and other hazards,

weather being

 a big one, getting a

(n abandoned project)

boat for free/ or a dollar or so,

fixing it up over the winter

and getting out...

 

Comparisons with

Sailing La VagaBonde

the family sailing/ cruising catamaran

(cat for short), trimarans,

and other more traditional

monohull designs,

speed seems to be a factor,

for example taking (green kid advocate)

Greta across the Atlantic with

a female champion skipper help/

and family,

the speed seems to matter,

cats can be much faster,

have two hulls, less water to move

and in case one springs a leak,

might stay afloat on the other?

but Riley downplaying dinghies

even Hobie cats (16 foot range)

for a day sail, and recently saw

there is a newish foil design

on ordering wait list

option(s) for about $10k

($3k? down?) weighing in at

about 75 pounds,

rooftop size single hander,

but hardly a live aboard

like SVDelos2018

Tula

GoneWithTheWynns

(finally got out of lockdown in Fiji

and cleaning up abandoned

boat after a year,

aluminum fuel tank repairs

(using JBWeld, WTF? bandaidish),

starting to live back on board...)

and many other YouTube

channels for that alternative lifestyle...

 

Like bicycling Tour de France

LeMonde (sp?),

Formula One/ Stock Car

Grand Prix

motorcycle MotoGP?

and other racers, commuting

and cruising (RV lifestyles

are very different) but

some of the race stuff seems

to filter down into stock models

eventually, the crash test dummies

of the regular world, like planes

took off after the World War(s)

surplus planes and barnstorming/

crop dusting and other passenger

planes started from excess military

and other race around the world stuff...

 

These are some of the Lindbergs,

Amelia AeroHeart (sp?) and

others, like flying transAtlantic

or around the world, global

has it's perspective, now with

satellites, and commercial

space travel starting up,

other things imaginable,

but not specified...

 

 

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What's Missing?

 

Reality?

Gobs of money?

Real costs of boat,

time, supplies, training,

etc...

Sponsors?

Privacy?

Sponsors or Privacy?

Anonymity?

 

What Can Be Found?

 

Video/ press about the race...

 

What Can Not Be Found?

 

energy to do things like that...

 

 

How To Analyze?

 

Lenses

 

Noob

Bathtub duckies?

It floats?

 

DaySailors

Fast and sleep aboard?

Solo? What's the point?

Fun to talk about but

doing... Nuts...

Insane/CrayCray

and not talking Fish...

 

Cruisers

Fast?

You mean not racing

with handicaps for who

buys the first drinks at

the bar?

 

Elderly

Old brittle bones

why even look at stuff

like that?

Oldest racer is early 60's

though...

 

Dis/Dys

 

Thymia(s)

seems interesting some days

totally insane other(s)

 

Graphia?

 map looks flat to me,

so the world is too?

 

Autistic

IDK

moves too much

makes noise

maybe geek out on some part of it...

 

General Population/Public

WTF?

Trump like 1%ers?

Much less than that,

only a few in the world,

have done stuff like this,

maybe more have been in space

to the moon?

Than completed something like this...

 

 

 

Assumptions

 

Expensive lifestyle,

yachting, some might call it,

but racing instead, live aboard

part time, not 10+ years

like SVDelos2018  (off by 2-3x?)

and some others...

 

Time Limits

 

Seasonal cold some places

on the globe other places

rather warm,

SurvivingTheDullDrums2020

around the equator, just baking

in the heat and sun, afaict,

storms beyond any historical

stuff recently this year, coinciding

with ConVid19ContinuesIn2020

commuting with cars/ planes, etc

maybe changes global climate

change a little, but with stuff

starting up again, maybe a false

start, idk, lockdowns again,

etc...

 

 

Book Data

 

Chapmans was the sailing bible,

sort of, in my (earlier) day(s),

not sure what happened to

(my copy of) it,

big, heavy, expensive, etc...

Newer cat books mentioned

on LaVagaBonde

and some other stuff

to find on foils,

while extremely expensive

think formula one costs?

prices may come down,

bringing foiling possibilities

down to more of the masses,

taking a month plus to cross

the Atlantic down to a week?

endurance and solo options

abound at that, perhaps,

for some (others) over time...

 

Slocums' book

 

Chapmans

other sailing bible(s)

to more modern

Cat book

all the way to geeky

really technical stuff...

Composites

Foils

Soaring

HangGliding

Flying

etc

 

ISBN

 

 Bound

 

CopyRight

 

 Pages

index

 

 

Links

 

https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/tracking-map

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe

 

Slocum, Joshua formats

https://libcat.arlingtonva.us/GroupedWork/ac343dfc-618c-0bdb-0394-49b8e18f43cb

 

DisAbledGlassCeiling2020

 

ConVid19ContinuesIn2020

 

SVDelos2018

 

AYearSleepingInTheTub2017

 

AroundTheWorldOnTwoWheelsByPeterZheutlin

BicycleAroundTheWorldByLindaSvendsen2017

 

 

/GoFish

pun intended

but watch mercury,

other toxins, etc...

fishing in older postings

possible too, other things

may relate, some of which

are likely above,

and maybe some below...

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Race goes on for a while further,

one ship went back for repairs,

taking days off the lead,

but if fixable and reentries

makes thinking virtual entries

eSailing competition and learning

more accessible...

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

What sailing/ on the water

stuff have you done?

Taken a water taxi?

Cross on a Ferry?

Skippered?

Racing?

Cruising?

Watched America's Cup?

 

What do you think of Solo Sailing?

Better than mutiny?

Does self steering make it possible?

or just bash about/ heave to?

and flop around the waters until can

go further?

 

What expenses do you think

there are in things like that?

 

Are you Crafty?

Work on your own car/ boat/ house?

Does that make it affordable,

enough?

 

 

License

 

Creative Commons Share and Share Alike,

Non Commercial, Non Derivative,

for the whole site's contents

unless otherwise explicitly stated

 

Page History

 

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