I should be finished by about 6am. Thank goodness I'm not going to have to deal with this during PMMI next week in Chicago. I would hate for work to get in the way of my virtual race.

I assume you made it. Good job.

We went to Lanier for Mike's distance race and I just pointed both boats east. Last night when I got home after midnight, TL was dead in the water and PW was doin' 22.6 kts and in 9983rd place.

This AM the server went dead and now it will be a real crap shoot to see if anyone else finishes within the time limit.

11462 in at 1:00 am pacific wednesday morning. November 12 , 2008

What is the time limit?

Nevermind, the big yellow banner on the right of the screen. Duh.

I'm not going to make it. Too far north.

Me neither, maybe if I had sailed the whole leg . . . hopefully I can be more copetitive leg 2

Kevin Rejda/Deguello

Jack turn to port we need the Lassie into the cape

I had to bail with Pudwacker 307 to go and 8899th place and TL with 583 to go and 11480 place.

I had out of town business and couldn't get on line.

Congratulations to those who made it to port safely. It was fun but just too time consumming. You guys are on your own now.

Stranded in the open ocean. . . . almost broke 20k, I'm coming next leg!!

45 Minutes till the start of Leg 2, Capetown to Cochin.
Should be an interesting leg weather wise.
Good luck everybody!

BTW: They have released the polars for the ProSails:

What's you plan for the first few hours?

The racing map is inaccessible right now so I have no clue what the conditions are on the game, the actual situation looks a bit unstable.
I will probably go up the coast a bit with the light southerly and take it from there.

Their server is apparently getting hammered - I can't download the application to get started.

Server got slashdotted
Thats what happens when 40K+ people try to login at the same time.
I was lucky to be able to set the Genoa and set a course SE, just before the app became inaccessible.

Transferring about 40GB in a few seconds would bring many servers and networks to their knees.

Just now still able to access

I opened a post on the support forum about this; predicting that this would happen; they also screwed up the "auto sail select" option; I started with my non-pro sails Kite up; took me 17 minutes to get my Genny up and going in the right direction!!!

Rankings are also all over the place (no surprise really; If I was them I would have disabled the ranking display for 12 hours so it can settle down) - I have gone from 60K down to 680 and back up to 59K.

Do these people have any idea / common sense!!!!

The rankings won't mean a thing until we get around the cape. The first place boat is aground to the north. At this point I think the higher the ranking number the better off you are.

Good luck to all!

Alright, now I'm ticked. I positioned myself to just clear the cape. Then it refreshes and I'm moved east quite a bit.

B.S.

Catman,
which boat is you

WOW! The game is F----D. They keep moving my boat and the land.