I'm taking this posture IN ADVANCE of proof because I think that this whole race of sailboats every 4 years is a) stupid and wasteful even IF possible b)probably NOT possible c) not EVIDENT in terms of THEIR OWN presentations which are HEAVY on HYPE and very shallow on data. It's a ridiculous insult to human intelligence... yet the dupes who participate (paid off?) and the "audience" (fake) are all clearly there (on video) -- but then so were the trips to the moon "on TV".... hey if it's ON TV, it must be true. If it's ON YOUTUBE, it must be true! If there are HOMEPAGES and pictures of people (with no email addresses) then they MUST be REAL PEOPLE!. THIS ENTIRE THING NEEDS TO BE investigated by honest investigate reporters. I cannot verify ANYTHING.
I'm starting to look at the 2016 race. Here are the phony baloney captains of the yachts. Sure. Like they'll all do BETTER than Captain Cook in the 1700's with his well supplied high tech (for the time) ships.... all by themselves. I don't think so. I think this is not believable. I don't see any way of verifying that these are real captains of real yachts. 9/11 involved fake vicsims. So did a lot of other fake disasters over the years. I can't find emails of any of these guys. None are offered. Their big billing is that they're "attractive". What is this? A gayfest? Attractive. They one up one another by joking about who is better looking? Cut me a break. Captain Cook must be turning over in his grave.
The best "looking" Antarctica circumnavigator is NONE OF THE ABOVE... but rather the only HONEST circumnavigator-- James Cook who the flat earthers are saying was MURDERED in Hawaii after his determination of Antarctica as a longer voyage than an island would be.
Let's look at the guys who are "skippers" of "yachts" to circumnavigate Antarctica again.
vendee globe 2016 skipper list - Google Search
Now let's drill down and target one for investigation as to their email and existence.
Skipper - Vendée Globe 2016
www.louisburton.bureau-vallee.fr - 400 Unknown Host
Oh, I see, said the the blind man. So when we drill down on an EXISTING up to date 2016 website about the skippers and click on a homepage of a randomly chosen skipper, apprently, he's been 400'd.... hmm... not much of a skipper I'd say. I wonder how the others would hold up under scrutiny.
June 9, 2015 by Rick Potvin. Update to Vendee Globe 2012
I continued looking for evidence of actual skippers and actual routes and found a good one on a site that seems to follow the Vendee Globe race in detail without being an official source. Here's a page from one of the routes of one of the boats.
Source: sitesALIVE
http://vg.sitesalive.com/daily-updates/ships-position/archive/14255/
Note the continuing map at the bottom with repeating loops of Antarctica --- which is actually useful to determining the route in 2D on a map. Clicking on the red pins indicates time and situation at each report along the way. If this is being faked, it's quite elaborate. The problem I see with the map above-- right off the bat-- is that the route is at about 45 S latitude on average. The Antarctic Circle is 60 S. So the route is south of all the continents but well north of Antarctica.
Now-- I've seen articles where the distance travelled is 26,000 miles. I'll have to find the source. The problem I detect is that the "globe earth" is supposed to be 25,000 miles in diameter at 0 degrees latitude. So at 45 S, it should be a lot less-- I don't know spherical math but eyeballing a globe, it seems it should be half, in terms of order of magnitude. Compensation could be made for a somewhat meandering path and the trip to France and back-- which destroys the "circular" measurement. Eyeballing it again, it seems that the extra 12,500 miles could be attributed to the run north and south. So leaving a net of 12,500 should be about right-- for a globe.
If the earth were flat, the mileage should be a lot more than a net of 12,500... and closer to, say, 40,000. At 60S, it would be about 60,000 on a flat earth-- and 15,000 on a sphere. The evidence from these possibly fake race boats are that they're travelling 12,500, however-- not 40,000 as would be closer to the case if the earth were flat. If earth is flat, then it's not possible that the race was done in 12,500 or 26,000 total including the trip to and from France.
NOW--- the parameters of the trip are included in the site above...except, that is, for the DISTANCE covered! I do NOT find distance in the Sites Alive site at all. This is a huge potential problem. They went though the trouble of documenting everything including positions, charting, Google earthing etc etc... but FAILED to established "distance" covered. This is either a gross oversight OR an intentional one-- since the distance would have to be a giveaway to a flat earth if the trip were real. Why not at least fake the distance-- if the trip is fake anyway? I don't know.
Here's a DIARY or ship's log-- a typical entry for the trip above.
sitesALIVE
http://vg.sitesalive.com/daily-updates/ships-log/view/244/
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12/31/2008 0828utc 51/17S 145/03E 11.0 knots at 100T, 17 knots wind SW, solent and one reef, SMOOTH SEAS.
We've been making good time today, in the right direction, with little loading of the boat. I can't remember when we last did this. The boat is sailing very well, balanced, nearly full keel cant, for the slight variations in the wind direction and speed that are normal. The balance of the sails and the autopilot is good, we keep charging along, and power occasionally up to 16/17 knots, but without the chaotic charges down waves up to the 20s that we've had in the storms before.
We can see the horizon, and it's been a while since we've seen that also. So I keep looking for ships, but I have seen none. A few albatross circle; the sky is very gray; misty rain comes along occasionally; yet the rain squalls have only an extra knot or two of wind, not an extra 20 knots. Needed this day to make some easy miles as Walter Greene would say, and we are enjoying these easy miles.
My friend Murray Lister called on the Iridium to wish me and Great American III a Happy New Year. Murray and his wife Jenny live in Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand. He was Chief Mate aboard New Zealand Pacific 18 years ago when they rescued me and Steve Pettengill from the original Great American after our capsize and re-righting in 85 knots of wind and 20 meter seas. Murray wrote about it on www.sitesalive.com a few weeks ago, and will write again for our Forces of Nature chapter in our school program. Good to have Murray nearby. When we reach the longitude of New Zealand, we'll talk again.
New Year celebrating is also tempered by the fact that this is the anniversary of my Dad's death 23 years ago. He was a great sailor, and instilled the love of the sea in me, as well as a detailed and disciplined approach to boat preparation. I hope that I've done that as well as he would have for this boat. I'm sure he would have loved the design and engineering of the new boats, and as well, would have loved our school program that we've made off of the voyage. I think he would have liked this project.
Bonne Nouvelle Annee a tous!
My comment-- There seems to be a lot of TRIPE in this "log entry". It just seems to me there should be more technical data in a ship's log. This reads more like a faked diary. Here's a sample from Captain Cook's ship log...
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Saturday, 15th. First part, little wind and Cloudy; Middle, Squally, with rain; latter part, light Airs and Clear weather. A little before Noon took several Observations of the sun and moon, the mean result of which gave the Longitude to be 23 degrees 46 minutes West from Greenwich, which is 1 degree 22 minutes more Westerly than that by account carried on from the last Observation; and the Observed Latitude is 24 Miles more Northerly than the Log since the Last Observation 2 days ago, all of which shows that the North-Westerly Current hath prevailed for this some Days past. Wind South-South-West to South-East; course South 30 degrees East per log; distance 12 miles; latitude 6 degrees 50 minutes North; longitude 22 degrees 23 minutes West per account, 23 degrees 46 minutes per sun and moon; at noon, Bonavista, South-East point, North by East, 187 leagues.
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My comment-- That's more like it! That reads like a serious ship log. The trip written by the sailboat skipper is "girly" compared to the true grit of a sailer like Cook. Cook's log is certain not fake and conveys information that can be double checked. I admit my evidence for the faking of the sailboat trips around the 45th parallel is circumstantial-- but it's quite clear to me that the pretty boys sailing their sailboats are pansies compared to Cook at least.
