Transpac Voodoo Magic

Unlike Cap't Billy, I don't have the same navigation software that is being used on Narrow Escape. But I do intend to use him as a resource when it comes to installing all that cool stuff on my boat. In the meantime, I have been studying the daily standings put out on the Transpac website.

TRANSPAC HONOLULU RACE

             DAILY STANDINGS 0600 HF SSB ROLL CALL

                          ALASKA EAGLE

                          JULY 9, 2009

                DST   CORR    AVE  24H  24H  FIN TIME/

YACHT           2GO   TIME    SOC  DOC  SOC    ETA **

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RELENTLESS      802 250:35:37 6.1  232  9.7 14/17:11 **

NARROW ESCAPE  1001 308:13:52 5.3  221  9.2 17/04:29 **

J WORLD         955 283:28:01 5.4  222  9.3 16/13:21 **

BLOODHOUND     1020 291:54:05 5.2  207  8.6 17/11:03 **

ADDICTION      1157 332:03:45 4.6  190  7.9 19/18:17 **

TRANSPAC HONOLULU RACE

            DAILY STANDINGS 0600 HF SSB ROLL CALL

                         ALASKA EAGLE

                         JULY 10, 2009

               DST   CORR    AVE  24H  24H  FIN TIME/

YACHT          2GO   TIME    SOC  DOC  SOC    ETA **

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RELENTLESS     571 232:11:23 6.4  230  9.6 13/22:47 **

NARROW ESCAPE  765 276:15:32 5.7  237  9.9 15/20:31 **

J WORLD        754 263:46:32 5.7  205  8.6 15/17:39 **

BLOODHOUND     824 269:52:59 5.5  196  8.2 16/13:02 **

ADDICTION      962 299:30:12 4.9  195  8.1 18/09:43 **

I'm still new to all this new fangled blog stuff. I couldn't get all of the daily information to display properly. So I deleted a few bits of info. Several things jump out at me. First, DST 2 GO is down to 765nm! Second, the difference between the corrected times are getting much closer and favoring Narrow Escape. Bloodhound's lead is down to just over 6 hours and the J World's is down to 12.5 hours. Both big improvements compared to the numbers posted yesterday. Third, Narrow Escape's FIN TIME/ETA has improved by about 32 hours! Of course, the corrected time and ETA numbers are derived by some Transpac Voodoo Magic that no one seems to understand. At least no one that will talk to me. Fourth, and this number doesn't come from some mysterious computer, look at the 24H DOC (distance on course). Narrow Escape covered 237nm in the last 24 hours!

I think the Transpac computer is seriously underestimating(?overestimating?) Narrow Escape's FIN TIME/ETA. I'm willing to bet that the crew is consuming copious amounts of Mai Tais on the 13th. What say you Cap't Billy?