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2013-05-28 15:19:01 - Auckland to Musket Cove - Fiji Ocean Race 2013
On Saturday, 1 June 2013 at midday (midnight on 31 May UTC) a small group of yachts will set sail from Auckland's Westhaven, for a point some 1155nm distant... the resort of Musket Cove, Fiji. This will be a tricky S to N race across one of the toughest areas of the Pacific and will test all who race.

Sailonline is delighted to have been invited by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron to provide a virtual version of this classic race and will be bringing the real fleet onto the race screen, courtesy of Yellowbrick Tracking.

The bulk of the real fleet will be monohulls, so SOL will be sailing her Beneteau 477, but it is expected that Team Vodafone Sailing will be out to beat her own multihull record set in 2011.

Current Records:

Monohull: Camper (Chris Nicholson) 103h 38m 16s in 2011

Multihull: Team Vodafone Sailing (Simon Hull) 103h 20 m 57s

Details of the Entrants are linked below.
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2013-05-31 22:03:00 - Re: Auckland to Musket Cove - Fiji Ocean Race 2013
At the end of practice racing, a group of SOLers took themselves to Practice Racer HQ in New Zealand - Onetangi Bay on Waiheke Island. yachtyakka very kindly supplied local rum and bbq!!


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2013-05-31 23:52:55 - Re: Auckland to Musket Cove - Fiji Ocean Race 2013
Webcam for start - if you can keep it on position :) http://www.spencerhotel.co.nz/webcam.html
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And a picture of the IRL start
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Pic of Start from iomkiwi's webcam:




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A few more pics from after the start
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Race Report:

The Auckland Fiji race is one of the regular races from New Zealand to the Pacific Islands where traditionally the yachts travelled for a winter break in the warmer waters. Sailonline teamed up with RNZYS to follow the real race, which had a small but competitive fleet. The race proved to be a tough battleground with half the boats suffering damage in the gale force headwinds.

On SOL, the outlaw made the winning move after the first day’s downwind and reaching start. He headed west to take full advantage of the wind shift by positioning the boat to leverage height over his leading competition. With the west systems coming from the west, outlaw also saw the reaching conditions earlier than those further east.

This advantage was more than enough to maintain the lead when the fleet entered the trade winds. Most of the top positions were established by now and despite the best efforts of those chasing no-one could get close to outlaw. Rafa was runner up and Sambaqui finished strongly to take the final podium place just ahead of azur. The top ten were from ten nations, a highlight of how international SOL is.

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