Hold the Mayo

June 27, 2009

Around The World

I long ago stopped writing regular updates of my progress in the Volvo Ocean Race Virtual Race Game. The race itself demanded a considerable amount of attention and writing updates on top of it was too much. I did post regular position reports on my Twitter Feed.

Today the virtual yacht Hold the Mayo crossed the leg 10 finish line in St. Petersburg ending it's virtual voyage around the world. It had been a long journey since the start of Leg one on the 11th of October, 2008.

The game allowed registration throughout the event and when I finished there were 220,173 virtual boats racing. Here are my results:

Leg One - Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa 2,910

Leg Two - Cape Town to Cochin, India 1801

Leg Three - Cochin to Singapore 3,726

Leg Four - Singapore to Qingdao, China 15,235

Leg Five - Qingdao to Rio de Janeiro 8,154

Leg Six - Rio de Janeiro to Boston 19,650

Leg Seven - Boston to Gallway, Ireland 9,133

Leg Eight - Gallway to Marstrand, Sweeden 2,742

Leg Nine - Marstrand to Stolkholm 6,538

Leg 10 - Stolkholm to St. Petersburg, Russia 20,225

In the scoring you throw out the worst three scores - except for legs five and seven that you must count. So I can eliminate legs four, six and the disastrous leg ten. (I ran aground 6 times. The course was very narrow!)

My overall result for the whole race 1,475.

My congratulations to Powerof7 who won the event and a new Volvo SUV.

And my thanks to the people at Volvo Ocean Race for a great online experience.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:48 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment