Virtual Vendee Globe
While most of the boats are out of the water and most members tucked up under their duvets, some hardy souls are sailing single-handed around the globe and even doing sail changes in the middle of the night.
Geoff Webber writes to the editor ; "I was wondering if there are any other WSC members taking part in the above www.virtualregatta.com I started about 1 week into the race and invited the other crew members of La Salmo to join me. After weeks of battling I have managed to escape from Chris Olding and am currently in the top 1% of competitors. The rest of our merry band have had varying degrees of success. 1 has given up and is currently run aground on the west Africa coast. I have 4 boats in all - I have had to create new ones to have more than one race to compete in.
My boats are La Salmo Weymouth (currently 3005th), Nil desperandum (which has run aground twice and missed a gate, but is still in front of Tony Beesons boats :-) ) Folio - MGC27 (hunting down Tony's boats) Rhumb Runner a late starter and going to do some odd routing later.
Chris Oldings boat is 060Lasalmo Tony Beesons boats are Toeknee (hmm!) Whitmore Racer (which he is denying all knowledge of - hoping to beat us and then claim victory in a sort of sneaky way. Unfortunately for Tony he is not good at keeping secrets and he is not very good at virtual sailing either!) I even have the promise of a bottle of wine from a very nice French man - with whom I had a private challenge on who got to each ice gate first."
Other Weymouth Sailing Club boats that we know of are FarrOut with Jez Rees and Glyn sailed by Peter Jackson. Peter and Chris Olding are currently neck and neck going around the Horn. Are there any more of you?
