Hi Aaron!!

Sorry for the late post, I am up in Harare, Zimbabwe and work got in the way! To answer your queries now would be too soon because I want to check things out when I'm back home in SA.

What I can say is that I have loaded Firefox and all my symptoms appear to have gone. This will be proven when Leg 3 of the World race starts on Saturday and I will check to see if I'm ok from my temporary office during weekdays because weekends are dodgy with poor network coverage at "home". What I was experiencing, only on SOL,and it appears only with Chrome, was
1) a difficulty in getting into the various pages from the home page
2) a difficulty in loading the race page. Sometimes I get the map, then not. Sometimes I get no weather. Sometimes no boat info
3) when eventually I manage to load the race page then my commands had to be entered a few times before being accepted by the sol server.
4) comments on race page chat would not be uploaded

As I said, I will do a comparison between browsers when I get home so we will take up the challenge again in two months time!

Thanks

George

Interesting!!!

I was having problems the past month so loaded Firefox as an alternative browser and my loading issues disappeared!

George

Hi Jeroen!!

I only noticed it during leg 2. I'm off to Harare in Zimbabwe on Sunday and will be able to check the response from the service provider from there as a cross check. If it is good then when I get back I will purchase a second data modem and sim card from the opposition. Brother, boat Henrys, down in the Cape says that Vodacom data service in Velddrif is better than MTN. So we shall see.

To be honest. Only when I get back from Zimbabwe will I be able to sail short and fast races and it is then that I will require my uploads to be 100% responsive, one of the secrets to my short race good results is "pinching" plus a few other full time adjustments tricks!!!

Lastly. Jeroen, Im going to see if I can download a different web browser when in Zim to see if it is Google Chrome giving me the problems.

Thanks for the response.

George

Hi Folks!!

I agree with the statements made here both for and against. I personally feel that some form of "stealth" should be applied to limit the cheating taking place.

My feelings are rooted in my results from leg 2. I refused to follow 76 blindly and applied my SOTP sailing to the leg and finished 87th. The fact that the weather played games with me was frustrating indeed and I steadily lost ground to the leading pack. And then I looked at the blatent sheep following and the good result it gave and I was becoming very angry indeed! As SOL develops further and as prizes are put up for places even more so we will need to limit the possibilities of blatent following while still retaining the integrity of competition that we have.

So. Something should be done to keep our game fair..........

....Then again what a damn fine marathon following act the Spanish lads did. I can only imagine the extreme diligence that these folks had to apply for a solid 3 weeks!!!!......

Even so, two wins out of two legs for 76. Maybe I will glue my boat to his transom in leg 3!

Nah!!! I enjoy the challenge too much. I will do my own thing. Maybe 76 can design a badge for "Integrity"!!!!

Fair Winds and Happy Sailing in 2012

George

Hi guys!!

Anyone else having a problem getting a response from the server. My access is poor and it only happens when in the SOL site. Getting into the home page is OK but thereafter the responses are slow if at all. Add to this the fact that when I do get in I have to upload my commands a number of times before the server responds with the action.

This is the error I get when trying to get into the race page.

"Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data"

Regards
George

Hey RC my friend!!

No, you carry on. Reading your blog and your post here had both Arlene and I in tears at your grief.

All our love

George and Arlene

Hi Aaron!! I dont know what you guys did to fix it, if anything, but it works a bucketload better than it did. Now when I get back to Harare in Zim in the new year the miniclient will help a lot.

Thanks

Hi folks,

Im looking for any rigging guidelines/tips/sailing tips for the Soling class yacht.

Added to this I will also be looking for the polar diagram for the same yacht.

Can anyone help me out.

Regards

George
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Hey 76!!

Don't jest. Some time ago I made a half hearted proposal that this sort of thing be applied in SOL. I feel that it would appeal to the younger sailors getting into SOL. It might make more new sailors have an extra incentive to sail with us here.

Others you might include for yourself are;

Club Champion - Ranking 1
Master mariner - Top 10 results sailor



George