Following a Marty suggestion I will open a dedicated thread for this race. This race was already being followed on the thread about Solo and Duo sail races, so I will repost here the relevant posts:
That's what I call bad luck....
http://www.sail-world.com/Europe/Barcelona-World-Race---Central-Lechera-Asturiana-dismasted/77632
http://riggingnews.blogspot.com/
I hope they can fix the boat fot the race
10 days for the Barcelona world race
15 Open60's around the world, almost as many as on the last Vendee Globe.
What's new on this one is the number of Spanish leading skippers (crew of two):
6 Spanish, 4 French, 2 British, 1 German, 1 Swiss, 1 Polish.
It's going to be a great race. Watch out guys, in 10 days
Solo and two-handed, Two similar, but not equal, ways to sail - Magazine - Barcelona World Race
Videos - Multimedia - Barcelona World Race
One day to go!!!.... and really bad luck for Alex Thompson from Hugo Boss: Yesterday the guy had to make a surgery to treat acute appendicitis.
Short news - Barcelona World Race
They are discussing with the race organization the options.
The boats are Open 6o, the crew, to guys and the race is a non-stop circumnavigation with gates they have to pass.
Two crew, non-stop, around the world - Presentation - Barcelona World Race
This is mainly a race between Spanish and French. the Spanish are more, but the French have the better boats. There are also some other European teams and an all women crew. The boats are 15 and most are competitive recent or new racing machines.
Follow the race - Barcelona World Race
Funny thing is that it seems that the ones that had lost more time had disregarded the knowledge that all local sailors have and that I thought everybody knew: The place were the current is less strong is near the shores.The tide influx must be the circles if you will that I saw yesterday for some. 6 knots of current is NOT fun to sail against or with. Been there done that here in Puget Sound. ..
Marty
Not locally even if it was the Portuguese edition but on the main European Sports channel:...
On another note, I get two tv programs from UK, Main Sail, and another..... typically on CNN europe? for main sail, and BBC for the other. Have you seen these shows local? May have to look on the recorded tv shows for the one I can not remember the name. Should record automatically next time it is on. MS is doing that.
Marty,So how does one tell wind strength. Color for the main map is not working for me in comparison to what the scale says it should be. I see single arrow that is black or lighter, then blue with a single flag if you will to a double, then triple flags going to green.
The green triple flags to me says about 6-10'ish. But I am going on boat speeds in the 5-7 range, figuring the boats in these winds should be able to do 1-1.2knots boat speed to wind. Then again, it might be .8-1 knot b to w.
At least hugo at the moment is out of the med, doing 1knot VMG better than the rest of the fleet. so maybe with some wind, that crew will catch up, or the other fellow is back on, or the original #2 crew was steering.......oh the fun of guesing, swag'ing......
off to work with me!