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LongPac 2017 Tracking and Position Reporting + Chatter

Here is the new place they moved all the radiofax charts, by the way: http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/fax/ptreyes.shtml

Over the next 4 days winds are in a typical Summer pattern, NW in the 20s out on the course.

So I am a bit dismayed to see the tracked fleet all diving South! Maybe they just want to give the Farallones a big duck.

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They are tracking more Westward now, and maybe the wind won't allow it, but I would strongly advise the racers to put as much upwind into the bank as early as possible. Beam reaching in general sux, and you want to make the last quarter or third of the race as easy as possible as you will be tired and approaching the lee shore and dense traffic areas.
 
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Six Brothers is past SE Farallon and sailing due west. Kynntana is sailing WSW and had not yet passed the island at her last ping.

The others look like they're headed to Tahiti. Tahiti is nice and all, but...
 
That must be fun on a Columbia 32 -- I notice that 6Bros is the ONLY DH entry this year. Did last year's sucky weather scare them all off?

Green Buffalo has AIS xmit I know, Jim must be in stealth mode for now... maybe he will start transmitting after dark.

Vessel Finder https://www.vesselfinder.com/ seems to have more our our targets at the moment. I'm not sure how long they will be visible.
 
Everybody else got off okay, though? First night out on the ocean for some. Always impressive. Thanks for keeping us in the loop, David and Rick. Do you have someone's boat there at the dock?
 
No racers visible on AIS, but 6 now can be viewed on the Jibeset tracker.
 
Thanks RC and inspector Cliff Shaw

The Smokester said:
Jacqueline has retired and is back under the bridge. Heading for anchorage at TI.
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Sorry to have bailed, it was all
mental. Boat was fine.

I passed SF about nine miles south of island. Tortuga was a good six miles south of me, Galexsea was about 4 miles south. Kyntana was north about 6 miles. More or less at same longitude.



Mike
 

Position Report for 06 July 0800 hrs

No report for Green Buffalo.

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Jibeset Tracker shows ALTHEA turned around? It is updated hourly, unlike the 2 per day official position reporting. Hope he is OK.
 
Go Carlianne! KYNNTANA likes a breeze, and there is more coming.....20-25 by tomorrow. KYNNTANA has good position being near weathermost in fleet....
 
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ALTHEA definitely heading back for the barn. Nightmare has a weird little bobble, not sure what that was about. Others are trucking along, Tortuga doing ok to the West but at the same latitude as Moss Landing (!). Well, maybe that works for cutters.
 
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