Originally Posted by Tony_F18
Finished in 672th position which I'm very pleased with, missed a lot of places at one point because I was away from a PC for too long (I will stay away from the paid options as long as possible wink )

IMHO the track chosen by the virtual sailors really outperformed that of the "real" boats, considering we have roughly the same polars and the exact same wind conditions.
(http://volvooceanrace.geovoile.com/)

Its interesting to see the VOR navigators sitting behind their laptops making the same hard decisions the armchair sailors take:



Erm, the virtual sailors did not have the same course restrictions; The real boats had to get to a scoring gate at 58E; we did not. This is one reason some got in first.

We also do not have the same wind situation. Our wind is set every 12 hours, the real boats have constand wind changes. We are not sailing the same race!

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