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2011-02-02 11:51:33 - Raid on Lindisfarne - Viking Longship
It has been a while in the brewing but SOL's Raid on Lindisfarne race in Viking longships is nearly ready!

Thanks to 76Trombones amazing production of a boat polar the wish of several SOLers to see what "SOLing" a viking longship might be like is very close to becoming a possibility!!

For those interested, you need to log in as the sol boat:

USERNAME: sol
PASSWORD: sol

and then use this url to load the race:

http://www.sailonline.org/windy/run/351

all comments, suggestions,tweaks and other ideas are very welcome as always!!

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2011-02-03 11:09:30 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
The Lindisfarne point is 0.5 nm off the island. Is it intentional ?
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2011-02-03 11:50:59 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
PYves - nopes not intentional at all. Thanks for the catch :-)
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2011-02-17 16:34:17 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
This race has now been archived until we include it in the race calendar.

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2011-02-20 17:21:37 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
FR_captainchris just proposed the following date/schedule for the race (in the RNI Race Chat)...

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R_captainchris 15:20: The attack (and destruction) on Lindisfarne was June 8th 793.... should the longshiprace start 3 days before? I suggest a "looting-ransacking" time of 2 hours at the lindisfarne buoy before allowing to return!!!
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seems good to me ... any other views??
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2011-02-20 17:51:30 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
It seems difficult to find the port(s) of departure for the raid on Lindisfarne, but an assumption of 3 days sounds reasonable. We did Bergen to Edinburgh (Leith) in 48 hours while wind was dying and motored in the Forth...
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2011-02-20 18:54:57 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
Great to see this project coming along.(with thanks to 76T).
I wonder if in the past there wasn't some competitive element in those voyages across the North Sea.
Perhaps, on departure, someone shouted out "Last in to Lindisfarne is a sissy"
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2011-02-22 02:00:45 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
For start port I always figured on strong and hearty Swedish Vikings and not those soft and lazy Danes, but what do I know? ;-D

The polar seems to work as designed but still doesn't fit SOL client as at last check - squarerigger take II... subtle reminder to gods before this one goes live...
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2011-02-22 07:51:54 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
A Swedish departure point would entail more than three days, IMO.

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Watch a handball game between Denmark and Sweden and you might reconsider :-)
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2011-02-22 09:13:25 - Re: Viking Longship Raid on Lindisfarne
76Trombones said @ 2011-02-22 02:00:45:
For start port I always figured on strong and hearty Swedish Vikings and not those soft and lazy Danes, but what do I know? ;-D
Current Swedish west coast was a Norwegian area all the way to Denmark. And the Swedes were mostly tucked away on the Swedish east coast :-)

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