Thanks LuggerSailor, I will watch their progress from the restart in Cape Town on 31st October, a 5575 mile leg to Western Australia.
http://clipperroundtheworld.com/race/leg/leg-3 We can start by showing what speed they would need to do on the flat earth to complete this leg as the GPS coordinates are given daily.
Tried to find Jeranism's statement that he was working on proving distances using boats, but gave up since it was too boring. I do have a link to my discussions as 'yachtsman' with him where he also claimed that no ships sailed from South America to Australia/New Zealand
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/jeran/moon_hoax/#comment-3105796995A snippet from the end of the chat -
Yachtsman to jeranism • 8 months ago
I am willing to wager everything I have on this, are you? Don't be too hasty now, I will give you a chance to back out and offer an apology.
1.)
http://www.sea-scanner.com/...
Check out the ports visited by Queen Victoria during her round the world cruise. She is currently in Chile, about to cross the Southern Pacific via a number of Islands on her way to Australia and New Zealand. You can follow her exact path over the next couple of weeks, along with the given speed she is traveling in knots to find the distances between each stop. Alternatively, you can check her itinerary and do Google Map distances and then Any FE model distances, which I estimate will be over twice the google distance if you follow the latitudes, and will see that the liner will need to travel around twice its maximum speed to reach the stops while traveling almost due west.
Note that unlike on the Vendee Globe race, they would not dare take a very southern route, since the storm, wind and wave conditions would make it very unpleasant for passengers, and there would be no stops along the way at interesting islands. The storms down there always travel west to east, so they would have to fight the weather all the way.
Would you like me to do a spreadsheet of actual distances, Globe and Flat between stops and then do calculations of average speeds required on both models between destinations?
2) IGLU cruise which left on 5th February from Santiago ending in Auckland and Sydney.
http://www.iglucruise.com/a...
3) The Costa Luminosa, about to depart Chile.
http://www.sea-scanner.com/...
4) Here is one that went the other way.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/t...
5) If you are worried that the Indian Ocean is being left out, check the itinerary for the Queen Mary II, currently sailing below Australia. On its round the world voyage it has recently visited South Africa, stopping at a few ports, gone on to Mauritius, and then across to Perth. The 8 day trip from Mauritius to Perth would give an average speed of 16.6 knots on Google earth using a direct route. I am afraid the average speed on the Azimuthal Equidistant Map would vary from 57 to 60 knots depending on a direct route not following latitudes properly, or if the route matched the Globe path actually traveled. Given that the top speed is around 30 knots, I think we have a problem, Houston!
http://www.sea-scanner.com/...
6) There are many cargo/tanker vessels that show up on the Global Marine Traffic sites in the Southern Hemisphere, which can be followed every 24 hours to see their progress. The average speed from these can easily be estimated and compared to top speeds of ocean going vessels.
Here are some facts:
Speed of Cruise Ships in Knots (kn)Ships Names Year Built Speed in KnotsCunard ms Queen Elizabeth 2010 23,7Cunard RMS Queen Mary 2 2004 29,3 - the fastest cruise ship in the worldCunard ms Queen Victoria 2007
23,7
The fastest average passenger ship crossing of the Atlantic averaged 35 knots (ship call United States in 1952!) and the fastest by any boat (Richard Branson) about 43 knots (powerboat Challenger II).
Enough information? Please let me know if you need spreadsheets with calculated speeds for Globe and Flat Earth between destinations.
Regards.
Yachtsman • 8 months ago
You are awfully quiet since my last comment
Yup, you guessed it, he gave up since he was beaten and like a true flat earther decided that staying silent was his only defence. He is a coward that needs to be exposed.