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26 April 2011

3May 2011 UPDATE: Today @Zeno will spend the day in Aber Wrach. 2 May 2011 UPDATE: After overnighting in Morlaix, @Zeno is now leading the way to Aber Wrach ***************************************** 1 May 2011 Overnight in Morlaix @ZENO UPDATE: 2015utc: "That was a good sail apart from symmetric spinnaker sock jam and getting soaked in squall (skipper stayed below) going to l'aber wrach tomorrow 0700" and "castle at [Morlaix] entrance pretty spectacular. Sailed almost whole way. Battery deffo bad...autopilot messes up." @ZENO UPDATE: 0845utc: "Heading for Morlaix. BS6.2 - TWA 140 - symmetric up - 10kt TWS - bit grey -7.1 SOG - tide helping." ***************************************** Well done podium three! WINSTON_4 (ITA) in 25h55m59s - PetrM (CZE) in 29h56m27s - SWE54 (SWE) in 29h57m19s. ************************************************ Saturday, 30 April 2011 UPDATE: 1358utc: "Lunch in Guernsey - stonking sail.. well done racers!" UPDATE: 0900utc: "Cruising chute up 7kts TWS, 130 TWA, 5,1 BS plus 5kts of tide. Misty." UPDATE: 0609utc: "have dodgy battery - alarms in night - will replace in Guernsey. Slept v well." ***************************************** Friday, 29 April 2011 UPDATE: 2123utc: Message from @Zeno "Anchored in Cherbourg outer harbour. Rain. Forecast and real wind v different prob sail Guernsey tomorrow." UPDATE: 1748utc: @Zeno has been sailing through rain and is now heading for anchorage at Cherbourg...probably for overnight. ***************************************** After everyone enjoyed the Twisted race against CG/Sophie sailing her boat in real life last year, here's another race against a SOLer sailing IRL (as opposed to participating in an IRL race). JuJu (Colin Hammond) and his friend Simon Johnson are sailing Simon's yacht Zeno, a Dufour 40 in two stages from the UK to Spain. The first from Chichester, England, to L'Aber Wrach, Brittany, and the second from Brittany to the west cost of Spain/Portugal. In addition to seeing Zeno on the SOL race screen, you can also track her [AIS](http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=235055043) and on her [SPOT GPS messenger](http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0OAeyz10IImhtGDjO0uNnqbq8Tl8OBKiF). Colin and Simon are both physicists by education which is why Zeno the yacht is named after the quantum zeno effect. Zeno has the performance option (extra height mast and deep keel) and symmetric spinnaker and a very nicely cut asymmetric spinnaker. Simon plans to sail Zeno around the Med over the next couple of years - Simon's wife is happy coast hopping but not so keen on longer passages so will be flying out to join Zeno in due course. The current forecast winds are looking promising, from the East and not too strong or weak. With only two crew, Zeno will probably sail quite conservatively (take kite down and even reef overnight) and reserves the right to motor if absolutely necessary!! Zeno will also be crossing very busy shipping lanes and will be needing to go round some areas with strong tides. Zeno has a satphone on board but no data connection and SOLers are invited to text Zeno with course suggestions, especially when crossing Biscay, on +8821651075205 - you won't necessarily get a reply though!
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