They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them
Greetings yachties,
Mothership tells me that he has found some code that will fix the home page issue of no lead photos, 
stand by for some more changes a bit later.
In this issue:
Abby Sunderland – I am going to be pulling into Cape Town
Neville Crichton has vowed – never again
Speedboat update by Mr Clean and Mer Block
Latest incarnation – HUGO BOSS IMOCA 60
Jessica Watson
la Course Croisière EDHEC
Stones in Exile
Chris Nicholson to skipper Camper, ETNZ Volvo 70
Transat – Where are they now?
1000 days at sea – Day 90
Speedboat – ridiculously fast turbo setting
Abby Sunderland – where is she now?
RC 44 Valencia Cup
Lowdown – Hooker, Line and Stinker
Oracle Data Mining
Wally Hermès – WHY
2010 Queensland Championship
Full Match Replay for MATCH58 of IPL 2010 between Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings
Paritet Ellips Catamaran
Enjoy
April 24th 2010
I have some big news today. It’s not necessarily good news, but the way I look at it, it’s not bad either. I am going to be pulling into Cape Town for repairs thus ending my non-stop attempt. My whole team and I have been discussing whether or not I need to stop ever since my main auto pilot died. It’s one thing to sail across an ocean with one well-working auto pilot, it’s another to keep going with one that is not at all reliable.
It would be foolish and irresponsible for me to keep going with my equipment not working well. I’m about 10-14 days from Cape Town right now and though my auto pilot is working for now, we’re all holding our breath and hoping it will last.
I gave it my best shot and made it almost half way around the world. I will definitely keep going, and whether or not I will make any more stops after this I don’t know yet. I admit I was pretty upset at first, but there is no point in getting upset. Whats done is done and there is nothing I can do about it.
“I’m never going to do a Hobart ever again,”
Alfa Romeo seen here leaving Auckland 2009
TWO-TIME Sydney to Hobart line honours winner Neville Crichton has vowed to never again contest the classic ocean race, having beaten arch-rival Bob Oatley in last year’s event.
The businessman and sailing fanatic said he had achieved all he ever wanted to in what is one of the world’s premier ocean races.
“I’m never going to do a Hobart ever again,” Crichton said.
“I’ve done it, I’ve won it twice. I just had a debt to pay to beat Oatley and I did that.”
Crichton, whose 30-metre super maxi Alfa Romeo has taken a string of 146 line honours victories since being launched, is more interested in sailing overseas than contesting Australia’s most gruelling sailing event.
“I don’t enjoy the race. It’s cold, it’s miserable, you’re going south, then you’ve got to drink Cascade [beer] when you get there,” he said.
S/Y SPEEDBOAT announced today (April 24th) that they are leaving at 1 minute past midnight in an attempt to bust the Palm Beach to Newport cruising record.
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The latest incarnation of the HUGO BOSS IMOCA 60 was given a brief airing on Friday as it was transferred from the Green Marine shed at Spitfire Quay, Southampton to Alex Thomson Racing’s base in Gosport.
Over the last 4 months the boat has been undergoing a dramatic modification and re-fit under the guidance of boat designer Juan Kouyoumdjian that will provide Alex Thomson with the most powerful IMOCA 60 in the World.
The boat, now virtually unrecognisable from the original Kouyoumdjian designed Pindar, features a number of radical changes that sets the boat apart from the IMOCA 60 fleet but, under the new grandfathering rule, keeps the boat within the restrictions set down by IMOCA. Alex Thomson Racing is confident that the results will lead to some exciting sailing.
It’s not going to be the easy sailing that I asked for. Hopefully nothing too bad but not exactly a walk in the park stuff either. OK, walk in
the park isn’t really the best expression to use, but you get the picture!
I had to give myself a good talking to after reading Bob’s latest forecast. I’d been hoping that was the last of the nasty stuff. Oh well, I’ve only got to keep up the whole “pretending to be tough” thing for a little while longer!
I hear someone (Grandad Chisholm!) has been stirring things up on both sides of the Tasman over whether I’m a Kiwi or and Aussie. Apparently New Zealand’s trying to claim me! I don’t think that anything I say will make the slightest difference on this one, but I will say that I do have both Australian and New Zealand passports.
Australia’s home to me (sorry Grandad!) but my trusty first mate is a stuffed Kiwi!
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This is the trailer for the forthcoming Rolling Stones documentary – Stones in Exile.
In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones departed the UK to take up residence in France as tax exiles. Keith Richards settled at a villa called Nellcôte in Villefranche-sur-Mer and this became the venue for the recording of much of the bands masterpiece Exile On Main Street. Stones In Exile tells the story in the bands own words and through extensive archive footage of their time away from England and the creation of this extraordinary double album, which many regard as the Rolling Stones finest achievement.
Valencia Sailing
Emirates Team New Zealand has appointed Olympic and round-the-world yachtsman Chris Nicholson to skipper Campers’ entry in the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race.
Nicholson is a veteran of three VORs, his first as a watch captain in 2001-02 on Amer Sports 1 which was skippered by Emirates Team New Zealand managing director Grant Dalton.
In 2005-06 he was a watch captain on board Spanish entry movistar and in 200-09 he was co-skipper of Puma, which finished second.
Nicholson, aged 40, represented Australia at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004. He was 49er world champion in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and world champion in the 505 class in 1992, 1994 and 2002.
Nicholson will be joined by the current world match racing champion, Adam Minoprio, of New Zealand.
Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad crossing the Equator, Saturday July 21st Day 90.
The boys show off the ridiculously fast turbo setting on the big powered winches – only the self-tailer can be used, no human could keep up with this sheave burning pace.
Gray and Rainy
The past few days have been pretty slow. Every now and then I get some good wind but it doesn’t last for long. Right now I have around 5 knots out of the SW and I am going about 3-4 knots.
My dad and little brother, Toby, just did a boat delivery from San Francisco to Ventura, just a few days long, but they saw tons of whales, dolphins, and all sorts of interesting stuff. I’ve been at sea for almost three months and all I get is flying fish and squid! I got another squid on deck today. It’s been awhile since there have been any.
I was surrounded by birds yesterday. There were tons of them all flying around me and Wild Eyes in a big circle. They stayed with me pretty much all day, but by the morning they were all gone.
RC 44 Valencia Cup
Team CEO Russell Coutts was wearing his RC 44 hat this afternoon at the Veles e Vents building in the Port of Valencia, where he was on hand to announce the RC 44 Valencia Cup, which will take place this summer from July 27th thru August 1st.
It will mark the first time the class has held a regatta in Valencia, which has been the host city for the past two America’s Cup Matches.
“Life will be coming back to the Darsena,” Coutts, the chairman of the RC 44 Class said. “Before the regatta, the teams will arrive; many normally practice practice for up to a week and then there are two days of match racing and three days fleet racing.”
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Learning by Data
The no-holds-barred rules for this race created what Burns calls an “open playground” for boat designers. The innovative and costly vessels that resulted were one-of-a-kind creations with unpredictable sailing characteristics that would require a steep learning curve and lots of data.
“One of the problems we faced at the outset was that we needed really high accuracy in our data because we didn’t have two boats,” says Burns. “Generally, most teams have two boats, and they sail them side by side. Change one thing on one boat, and it’s fairly easy to see the effect of a change with your own eyes.”
With only one boat, BMW ORACLE Racing’s performance analysis had to be done numerically by comparing data sets. To get the information needed, says Burns, the team had to increase the amount of data collected by nearly 40 times what they had done in the past.
The USA holds 250 sensors to collect raw data: pressure sensors on the wing; angle sensors on the adjustable trailing edge of the wing sail to monitor the effectiveness of each adjustment, allowing the crew to ascertain the amount of lift it’s generating; and fiber-optic strain sensors on the mast and wing to allow maximum thrust without overbending them.
But collecting data was only the beginning. BMW ORACLE Racing also had to manage that data, analyze it, and present useful results. The team turned to Oracle Data Mining in Oracle Database 11g.
Peter Stengard, a principal software engineer for Oracle Data Mining and an amateur sailor, became the liaison between the database technology team and BMW ORACLE Racing. “Ian Burns contacted us and explained that they were interested in better understanding the performance-driving parameters of their new boat,” says Stengard. “They were measuring an incredible number of parameters across the trimaran, collected 10 times per second, so there were vast amounts of data available for analysis. An hour of sailing generates 90 million data points.”
The WHY, Wally Hermès Yacht, is the most innovative and luxury yacht.
This ANZAC Day long weekend 15 IRC rated yachts will line up for the 2010 Queensland Championship.
Hosted by Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, the yachts will race on Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane with the forecast predicting light northerly breeze for Saturday and Sunday with a south east change on Monday.
The Hugh Welbourn 42 Wedgetail (Bill Wild) will be out to defend their reputation after their recent success in the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race.
‘We’ll be racing with pretty much the same crew as we did for Gladstone, with me at helm,’ said Wild.
‘It’s great to see some quality boats in the Brisbane fleet. We have committed to competing in more Queensland events this year including Hamilton Island Race Week and perhaps even the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race.
Wild said that Black Jack Too was going to be a quick boat with a quality on board for this weekends championship.
Full Match Replay for MATCH58 of IPL 2010 between Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings played on Apr-22-2010 at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
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