Somewhere in the early morning hours I finished leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race Game in Capetown, South Africa. The total time it took me was 31 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes and I reached position 7,426 of a total number of participants of more than 55,000. [singlepic=128,320,240,,center] I had a nice bottle [...]
Virtual Racing goes in “stealth mode”
For this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, stealth mode has been introduced. This is new tactical initiative that gives the crews one opportunity on each of the longer legs to have their location hidden from position reports and the public for 12 hours. From the Volvo Ocean Race Game website:
So close and yet so far away
With the Volvo Ocean Race Game I now “only” have 613 nautical miles (nm) to go, but I’m gonna need a bit longer to arrive in Cape Town than I expected earlier this week. Shortly after my update the strong winds made place for an almost complete lack of of them and I had to [...]
Ericsson 4 finished 1st in 1st leg of Volvo Ocean Race
Today at 5:54am GMT the yacht Ericsson 4 has finished the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. The Puma yacht is expected to finish within the next few hours orso and of the trailing pack Telefonica Black is the last boat with a distance of more than 560 nautical miles (nm) still to go [...]
the week that was
Finally today the sun is shining again and the sky is gorgeous blue after more than a week of pitiful weather. The most important reason why I haven’t been writing my blog: grey and wet outside makes me dull and without energy. Another reason to write today is because I have an hour extra. Wintertime, [...]