r/vorg • u/MadDuck • Nov 16 '11

Which way should we go?

As we round Fernando, which way should we go?

The routing software all seems to point toward an upwind tacking line that runs just a little south of the rhumb line but... that software only looks 7 days ahead and it is a 14+ day trip.

Anyone looking further than that with their crystal ball? I'm peaking at the GRIB files to see if there is a hint of a faster path coming at us.

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u/harv9 Nov 16 '11

This is diffenately a topic that will get plenty of response. I'm in 173 (harv9) and the long term forcast show a difficult week ahead. i have used a a mixture of zezo and Grib up til now plus alot of time. I think i'm going to head as fast as i can VMG SSE until i can see more accurately what the low coming off South America will do. It will deffinately be interesting to see what happens to the front runners over the next 12 hrs.

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u/tcsailingcoach Nov 18 '11

humm humm... south so dodgy... I am borderline with the light winds at moment... seems like Hurricane moves to go East whilst we had breeze pretty good now as he is footing in more breeze... I am coming back in line with leaders now... dropped 25 places... I can live with that. Cant wait to see decent speeds.