Irishman in 'voyage for madmen' yacht race.

[Belker]

THE 'REVISED' BETTING;
(Sample prices only, not for laying).

Simon Curwen (UK); 2/1.
Pat Lawless (IRL); 3/1.
Damien Guillou (FR); 8/1. 3/1.
Tapio Lehtinen (FIN); 5/1. 14/1
Kirsten Neuschafer (SA); 8/1. 14/1.
Abhilash Tomy (India); 12/1. 14/1.
Jeremy Bagshaw (SA); 16/1. 16/1.
Micheal Guggenburger (Austria); 16/1.
Guy Waites (UK); 25/1.
Ian Herbert-Jones (UK); 25/1.
Elliot Smith (US); 25/1.
Arnaud Gaist (FR); 33/1.
Ertan Beskardes (UK); 50/1.

All Quoted.

[Bob Shillin]

Interesting that that Simon Curwen, in the lead, has sailed a shorter distance than the two behind him.

[Cool Boola]

Have they nuttin better to do,  Like gettin a proper job?

[Belker]

Interesting that that Simon Curwen, in the lead, has sailed a shorter distance than the two behind him.

Tapio and Tomy especially had some very erractic sailing moves as they left France last month sailing in to a headwind.
Good to see Pat holding top speed today at 7 knots passing by Rio in Brazil.

(1 knot = 1.85kmph.)

[John m]

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/1010/1328220-solo-sailor/

[Belker]

I watched a lot of Pat's video's, the most surprising one fer me was where he was building his own mast with a sleeve like a reinforced steel girder going up inside the mast. And then at the end he quipped; "That should hold when we get a 360% !" as in when the boat does a full roll-over under the water in storm conditions !!

He also quipped in another video; "Ah sur, she has 6 tons of ballast (concrete ?) in her keel and she should right herself quickly if we overturn" !!

[Belker]

THE 'REVISED' BETTING;
(Sample prices only, not for laying).

Simon Curwen (UK); 2/1.
Pat Lawless (IRL); 3/1. 4/1.
Damien Guillou (FR); 8/1. 3/1.
Tapio Lehtinen (FIN); 5/1. 14/1. 12/1.
Kirsten Neuschafer (SA); 8/1. 14/1.
Abhilash Tomy (India); 12/1. 14/1. 12/1.
Jeremy Bagshaw (SA); 16/1. 20/1.
Micheal Guggenburger (Austria); 16/1.
Guy Waites (UK); 25/1. 33/1.
Ian Herbert-Jones (UK); 25/1. 33/1.
Elliot Smith (US); 25/1. 33/1.
Arnaud Gaist (FR); 33/1.
Ertan Beskardes (UK); 50/1.

All Quoted.

[Belker]

Kirsten making a bold move and sailing very close to the South American coastline,
Damien Guillou seems to be following her, Kirsten from South Africa is on home turf here.

[Bob Shillin]

Kirsten making a bold move and sailing very close to the South American coastline,
Damien Guillou seems to be following her, Kirsten from South Africa is on home turf here.

Tapio, Erstan, and Abhilash all finished the 2018 race, and Gregor Mc Guckin competed for Ireland but dropped out.

[Belker]

Tapio and Tomy both seem a little too erractic fer my liking.

And Ertan has his own set of problems;
Ertan Beskardes (UK) who experienced early electrical problems with a short-circuit and smoke, called Race Control this week reporting batteries issues, not keeping charge and that he was struggling with his power management. He had planned to stop in Cape Verde Islands for repair and continue in Chichester Class, but later decided to soldier on through the doldrums and try to solve it. He is running on minimal power now and it is obvious the batteries have been seriously damaged. He is prepared to finish the Race without power, using his emergency solar system to recharge critical safety comms.

[Bob Shillin]

Kirsten making a bold move and sailing very close to the South American coastline,
Damien Guillou seems to be following her, Kirsten from South Africa is on home turf here.

Tapio, Erstan, and Abhilash all finished the 2018 race, and Gregor Mc Guckin competed for Ireland but dropped out.

Mistake, Erstan retired after 5 days in 2018, and Abhilash was lucky not to die, in a storm while lying 3rd, and was rescued in the South Indian Ocean 3 days after an emergency call, unable to use his legs, with major surgery afterwards.

[Belker]

It seems to be a 'Caverly charge' now down the South Atlantic ocean to Trinidade island.
All holding at about 6 knots, things might get more serious in the Southern oceans.

[Bob Shillin]

Simon Curwen has broken a "Genoa Halyard" and will have to stop at Trinidade as the mast is unclimeable in rough seas. I suppose that as long as he doesn't need any assisance he won't have to go Chichester?

[Belker]

Simon Curwen has broken a "Genoa Halyard" and will have to stop at Trinidade as the mast is unclimeable in rough seas. I suppose that as long as he doesn't need any assisance he won't have to go Chichester?

I'm not sure what a 'Stop-over' fer repairs actually entails ??
Unlikely he will go Chichester as both Pat and Ertan have already refused the option.
Currently nobody at all is in the Chicester (stop-over allowed) race and unlikely any of them would take up the offer, probably preferring to go home rather than race Chicester ??

Have you noticed that the founder and the fella who posts the blog reports Don McIntyre rarely mentions Pat Lawless at all, I reckon their is Bad Blood there somewhere !

[Belker]

The leaders have all rounded Trindade island, I dunno why they are all still heading South, as the next cape is to the East ??
Pat still holding Third, and Kirsten ain't gonna be pleased to be back in sixth spot !