Vendée Globe Challenge 2016

touffu64 · September 2017

Posted on OGP forum: 04 Nov 2016 at 5:22am

Hello

This sunday, the eighth Vendée Globe will begin from Les Sables d’Olonne, in France.

Short presentation from the Vendée Globe official website, http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/

The
Vendée Globe is the hardest and most famous sailing race in the world.
Nicknamed the Everest of the Seas, it involves sailing around the world
alone, without stopping and without assistance, setting sail from and
finishing in Les Sables d’Olonne, after rounding the three legendary
capes: The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, Cape Leeuwin in Southern
Australia and the infamous Cape Horn at the tip of South America. They
therefore have to sail twice in the North and South Atlantic – on the
way down and on the way back – and sail around Antarctica by crossing
the Indian Ocean and the huge Pacific.
Like other major international
sporting events (the Olympics, World Cup, etc) it has been organised
every four years since 1989. This merciless event, which combines human
endeavour and technological aspects, is raced on 60-foot monohulls
(18.28 m), IMOCA boats.
The Vendée Globe has been won by some very
famous sailors, Titouan Lamazou, Alain Gautier, Christophe Auguin,
Vincent Riou and François Gabart. Only one sailor has won it twice:
Michel Desjoyeaux in 2001 and 2009. The race record is held by François
Gabart, who finished after 78 days.

For celebrate it, i plan
to do the same race here in uwo, from Nantes to Nantes (nearest ingame
port from Les Sables d'Olonne) with start in same time than the real
one, sunday at 01:02pm, french time.

i'll try to be the nearest possible of the real condition:

- a full modded barca without skillship with 1 man

- No aide ship

- No aide would be ideal, but i cant, so my aides will be on "useless duty".

- No Sail handling skill, only manual setting for reach auto-sail.

- Blue flag for avoid battle interference

- No veil, any disaster coming will be cured by skills or items

-
Oxford skills, only ship speed up and similar skills that are
understandable by the high capability of the toon. (corrected with Jump
advice ^^ )

I dont know if it is even possible to do it ingame

anyone is welcomed to that event. There is nothing to win, only fun

touffu64 · September 2017

Hello everyone

Last Sunday at 13h02 French time, 29 competitors
left Les Sables d'Olonne in the Vendée, France, for a round the world
sailing and solo, nonstop and unassisted. At the time of this writing,
the fleet is between Madeira and the Canaries.
To celebrate the start
of the 8th edition of the "Everest of the Seas", I did the same thing
here in the game. Namely, a world tour by the 3 capes, non-stop and in
most circumstances be realistic, one man in a 1-mast boat.

Here is the report

The preparation

The boat

Relying
on uwotool, I opted for a battle barca fully upgraded (8/8, G3) with
only one man on board. I could have done better, I'll come back later.

Improved full rigged sail 26/30 / -1, extra large sprit H + 12, no figurehead

The supply

No aide ship

the
load is evenly distributed between food and drink, and between supplies
and convertible goods. No wood, any repairs will be with MCT

I have enough to see it coming.

the skipper

capacity

I
thought to fit the skills and consumables that I allowed myself to be
used in custom bars slots, but I would have had a third bar.

off custom slots: spare sails, vintage of the covenant.
No sail handling, manual adjustment of the sails for get auto sail

Oxford skills

only the ship speed up. I put Field activities 2 in last, I might as well put nothing.

Equipment

Camel burnoose (frugality +1), rosewood recorder (frugality +1), opal earring (procurement +1)
This puts frugality to R14 and procurement to R11

Aides

I
forgot to take this screenshot. The aides are set to be the least
useful possible, failing to leave the apartment. Lookout for one,
paymaster for the other.

The trip

Departure from Nantes, the nearest town of Sables d'Olonne in the game.

day 2
More than 5 knots of speed, I expected worse. I'm glad of my departure however, I miss something

day 10
I pass only Madeira. The reals are there today, after only 3 days at sea o.o. I dont boxing in the same category.
The blue flag missing the 2nd day is up :)

day 20
Cape
Verde Islands are behind me. Next course mark, the Cape of Good Hope,
the first of three capes to pass. My speed dropped below 4 knots :(

day 30
As
I approach Ascension starboard, I realize that I forgot something, deck
brushes. Too bad, we'll have to wait until it evolves into something
else to clean it.

day 33
Ascension on the left.
The disastrous state on the deck brings up rats, promptly eradicated, of course.

day 45
a dolphin comes to clean the deck. thanks to him

day 50
Entering
the waters of Cape Town, I found downwind, my speed is affected, 5.6
knots. Strangely, while I have better stats in vertical sails, it is
downwind (horizontal sails) I'm going the faster o.o

jour56
I double the Cape of Good Hope! Heading east!

day 65
On
the way to Cape Leeuwin. The roaring 40th are aptly named, even here.
Crosswind increases my speed, I exceed 6 knots for the first time :) The
waves are also larger

day 75
Somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean by a real weather of seafarer. "Insert here your favorite sailor's song"

Thunderstorm !

Even
optimized, my walnut shell is unable to keep its course in the storm. I
go at the cape, but before the extent of damage, I put down until it
passes. Anyway, the storm is not blowing in the right direction.

day 80
I notice that my skipper has not touched the food. It's been two months and a half he sails O.o

day 90
Why did I bother to board 200 MCT? My skipper repair the remaining damage from the storm itself. With what ? o.o mystery

day 98
2 days ago, a fire broke again, causing some damage to the boat and the loss of 3 beef funds
Cape Leeuwin crossed :)

day 110
I am in the south of Tasmania, and I pass the bar of 7 knots :)

day 122
New
Zealand disappears behind me, heading east, the next land will be Cape
Horn. The waves are becoming larger. Thank goodness the wood it floats
o.o

day 128
Summer night in the South Pacific

day 137
8 knots!

day 150
150 days without food or drink. Hindu ascetics are beaten hands down o.o

day 159
First ship crossed from Cape Town. I see Tierra del Fuego before me

day 160
Cape Horn!
According
to custom, I now have the right to wear a gold ring at my left ear, I
can dine with the feet on the table, and I can piss and spit against the
wind o.o

day 175
South-southwest
of Rio de Janeiro. My skipper continued his hunger strike. In contrast,
the rats and fire eaten most of my beef cargo

day 185
I'm back in the northern hemisphere

day 200
I
cross again the Canaries, but in the other direction. Something that
everyone in race try to avoid, because of bad wind conditions generated
by the relief of the islands.

day 210
Off
Porto, back in ship traffic. Even in a game, it's weird to see so many
boats at once after a long time without seeing a floating soul

day 217
Arrival in Nantes. Happy to have finished. Glad I did.
And my skipper who has always eaten nothing o.o

Conclusion

1 / It's doable!

2 / I could have done better
-
With another boat that uwo tool does not know, the talette. Bigger and
faster than the barca, always with a single mast and 8 levels of
improvement.
- By loading the boat much less, since with R14 frugality, the skipper practice complete asceticism without time limit.

3 / I'll do it again, with a talette, maybe without frugality, but not right away.

disasters encountered during the trip:

Fire 4; plague 3; rats 2; storm 1; insomnia 3; scurvy 3; broadside waves 1; frustration 3; dirty deck 4;

algae 1; nutrition 6

That post was translated with the Google Translate "help". Sorry for any weird sentence encountered

AdelinaKaz · September 2017

Nice adventure! Nice idea! I think it's will very fun! But on barca without upgrades will better

Vendée Globe Challenge 2016

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