Virtual Rolex China Sea Race for armchair sailors everywhere
by RHKYC Media on 14 Apr 2014
Rolex China Sea Race 2012 - Genuine Risk RHKYC / Guy Nowell
Rolex China Sea Race 2014 gets underway on Wednesday 16 April at 1320hrs in Hong Kong. The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is pleased to annouce that it is again partnering with Sailonline.org - this time to allow armchair sailors everywhere to take part in the Rolex China Sea Race.
Sailonline is a non-profit, non-commercial sail-racing navigation simulation run entirely by volunteers. All races are free and each Soler (one who sails on Sailonline) gets exactly the same boat. The challenge is navigating through the weather. Sailonline uses almost real-time weather downloaded from NOAA and the boat physics are considered to be the most life-like of any online simulation.
For the 2014 Rolex China Sea Race 2014, Sailonline is using the polar of a TP52 and will race against the local TP52 FreeFire owned and skippered by Sam Chan.
To add to the realism, Sailonline.org overlays the Yellowbrick tracker of the real fleet onto the virtual screen so armchair navigators can see how they are faring against the entire fleet.
Whether you are a seasoned old salt or a newbie, all are welcome and there is always someone willing to help with questions in the online race chat.
Already 100 virtual boats have signed up and another 250 are expected in the next two days.
Event website:
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