
Post by
YourMomSA | 2021-03-19 | 20:18:01
Weird situation in the area near Pointe de Sablanceaux... Looking in Dashboard at the tracks of many boats that I follow, most boas got through outbound... Except a few like Ghostbuster ran aground. The thing that's weird is that those who ran aground were further offshore than some boats who got through safely.
On the way back, I set a course among the tracks of the boats who got through safely when they first sailed outbound. And I ran aground. I was almost exactly on the reverse course of a boat that sailed the same line outbound safely.
I'll accept the result because I was consciously pushing the limits... I was trying to pass boats near the front, which you can't do without some risk. I had gotten from 36th to 24th. I might have been able to get into the top 20 if I had gotten through there successfully. Instead I'm back to 174th. Oh well. Plenty of others have run aground too. That's life in these events.
Anyway... The baffling thing is... How did some boats get through and others not? Is it possible that VR's data has isolated rocks in that area, such that you can actually sail inside or outside but will hit in the middle? Or perhaps it's a vagary of how the groundings are calculated (ie, whether or not you can skip over the rock within a one-minute calculation cycle), or somethng like that?
At least I didn't pay for a full pack. But it's certainly frustrating to commit the time to manage waypoints one at a time with a 2-waypoint max, only to have that happen on the final rounding.