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2 February 2024

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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
CONGRATULAZIONI Mediterranean !! FELICITATIONS TarassBoulba !

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Skip (no relation to Kim) Novak's Pelagic 77 is a quick boat, but the winds are often light and variable inside the Antarctic Circle, so that it took the leading boats, in this first of our six-race High Latitude Series, the best part of seventeen days to get from Biscoe Wharf to Casey Station. And there was plenty of excitement and challenge along the way, not least figuring out where the ice was, or where the coast, in our SOL-world and on our various routers' charts.

Also our racing engine managed to befuddle itself slightly trying to determine whether boats had rounded the race's intermediate waypoint at Scott Base or not. Racers thought that maybe this was due to the high latitudes and the very different bisecting lines for the angle of the turn if plotted as a rhumb line or as an orthodromic (reality). But the waypoint was also very/too near the antemeridian and this was the dominant problem. Rest assured, the next two legs of our series, both in Antarctica, will not feature intermediate waypoints.

Managing it all best, partly by finding a map source to load into his router that replicated SOL's Antarctica, was our ever redoubtable WRmirekd, who in the end won by a decent 19 minutes. Impressive endurance SOLing!

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