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20 April 2025


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
CONGRATULATIONS Kipper1258 !! FELICITATIONS Panpyc !

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Displacing about 60 tonne, our Swan 90 rarely ramps up ahead of its bowwave onto a plane, thus according to theory limiting the boatspeed she achieves to 1.34 x √90 or 12.7 knot, which she already reaches in just 9 knot of breeze. More wind as Shania Twain might sing does not impress her much, until from about 25 knot (F6) and on deep angles with every bit of canvas her crew can find set and pulling, she does start to take off, although modestly compared to latest generation racers of similar volumetric dimensions but equipped with swing keels, foils, water ballast and the rest.

Be it as it may (let it be, Lennon/McCartney), this lack of top speed was of little concern to the 120 SOLers who departed Tangier on the 26th of March for the second leg of Sailonline's 'Africa by Sea' circumnavigation of Alkebulan 'mother of mankind', as it was mostly light and variable winds that they were anticipating, which was going to suit their 90 footers well. How well, and who, it suited when, you can discover in a fine report under the button above (again featuring the heraldry of the ports of departure and arrival) from new-to-SOL, but not to 'online sailboat racing simulation' Panpyc, on the occasion of his first SOL podium.

In the end, after 8 days at sea, it was the redoubtable WRmirekd who took the gold, but various others had challenged and held the lead, their hopes only to be dashed by a missed or misinterpreted weather forecast, or some dumb stubbornness or other mishap (take your pick). Great racing. Off to Swakopmund next!

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