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1 September 2025


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FELICITATIONS KaSToR !!!
CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !! FELICITATIONS ALP317 !

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Well, those of you who in their dim-and-distant past raced one-designs round the cans will recall when the go'ol 'Olympic Triangle-Sausage' began to be replaced by 'Sausages-Only' back in the early Noughties; the idea was to make the races more tactical, and take the wind out of the sails of the power-reachers. So lo and behold, this course borrowed from a time long before, turned out in 2025 to be the 'Mother of All Sausages'; 120nm to windward out to the Eddystone Light, and 120nm downwind back to Cowes, in less than 30 hours - exhausting!

However, online the tactical trickery of positioning, in the wind ahead or astern of your opponent, of 'the sausage' are lost - virtual boats can't cast a shadow, and so this race reduced to close margins all the way, with the rounding of Eddystone and threading the Needles proving of quite some import, next to the usual calls of when to tack and when to gybe, and how free-and-fast or high-and-hot to sail towards the next tack- or gybe-point.

And, historic (eh no, mythical) though this race is, no vintage SOLers quite showed how best to do that, and instead it was three relative newcomers to our virtual seas who, less than three seconds apart, piled onto the podium, transforming it for all the world into a 'hippo-baguette' sandwich. Delicious!

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