Leg 1 : London - Punta del Este

[blzblz]

Not sure I get it right, Glenn.
What is ridiculous ? The server maintenance, the fog, something else ?
What do you mean by wind resources outside the game ?
Blaise

[Kingfisher829]

Not sure I get it right, Glenn.
What is ridiculous ? The server maintenance, the fog, something else ?
What do you mean by wind resources outside the game ?
Blaise

Hi Blaise, the use of websites or routers that let you plot courses outside of RG. Thus gaining advantage of knowing more about wind movement than other competitors... unless they all use the same resources.

[limelight]

Not sure I get it right, Glenn.
What is ridiculous ? The server maintenance, the fog, something else ?
What do you mean by wind resources outside the game ?
Blaise

Hi Blaise, the use of websites or routers that let you plot courses outside of RG. Thus gaining advantage of knowing more about wind movement than other competitors... unless they all use the same resources.

That's kind of difficult to do Glenn, seeing how the wind used by RG is specific to the game, so zyGrib, sailgrib, even zezo are not really useful except maybe in a general idea kind of way. RG randomizes the wind they get from NOAA, adjusting both strength and direction randomly. They don't publish the modified grib file either as far as I know.

[blzblz]

Glenn,

Winds (from noaa gfs) get a +/- 10% speed factor and +10°/-10° angle factor at load.
On the +12h forecasts only, available at 06h30 / 18h30, pushed in the engine at 08h00 / 20h00.

We can not, and don't bother check how the skippers build their route.

Earlier downloads of +12h forecasts from noaa (zigrib or whatever...) (without knowing the random factors) could work a little bit to your advantage, in very special cases.

Some sailing maping softwares, like vrtool might help.
Routers, like qtvlm (customized) might help as well.

The double scheduler does help for sure. A lot of well ranked skippers only use the game tools.

Blaise