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EP6: "I'm Sick Of Doing Stuff I Can't Do "
gingerman28:
Maybe good ole Phil never adjusted his watch for the time change from Eastern Daylight Saving time and Central Standard Time which is in effect in Panama (two hour time diff.) Just a wild idea. Otherwise they may be just having rest periods of some strange arbitrary time span. Phil never says how long the pit stop lasts in this show, just that it is a mandatory rest stop.
puddin:
Its on Costa Rica , Chateau , your too much |#' ..they talk about how Megans brother carried her to the pitstop and how the Bransens were trying to wave them to get ahead of them . And they say they are in Costa Rica .
http://cgi.cbs.com/vplayer/timeplay2.pl?type=wmv&id=16632
gingerman28:
Ma Gaghan has no sense of time. She says that they only spent 30 to 40 minutes doing the Roadblock, BUT, they started off second and four teams had found the bean by the time the Weavers arrived after a 60 minute YIELD. So Ma Gaghan must have spent at least 70 minutes finding the red bean!!
Curious editing here at the Coffee Planation. Paolos are first and as they read clue we see the Godlewski Sisters approaching the clue box and removing clue. Next the Gaghans are listed second and as they read their clue we see Papa Bransen taking clue from clue box. Then the Bransens are listed Third; the Linz listed as Fourth; and finally the Godlewski Sisters are listed Fifth. WHA' HOPPENED??
Final note on pit stop arrival times. If Phil's watch is correct showing 11:55AM, we can figure backward from the announced departure time of the Godlewski sisters which is 9:43PM (Last) and the announced departure time of the Paolo family 8:22(first) a difference of 1:21 that the Paolo family arrived at the pit stop at 10:22AM. So that means that the pitstop was for a strange duration of 34 hours.
But if Phil's watch has not been changed from Eastern DAYLIGHT Time, then the Paolos would have arrived at 8:22AM and the pit stop would have lasted 36 hours. Could the Paolos starting at 7:00AM when the boats became available at STRI boat dock, ride out to the Isla, return to the dock, find a Red Bus, go to the shipyard, do the bungee jump, and then ride the bus to the Meraflores lock forthe pit stop by 8:22 - an hour and 22 minutes? Which suggests that Phil's watch was correct and the pit stop was a strange 34 hours!
Chateau d If:
Yes. I am really certain about some of the sun shadows that appear in the show. The most pinpointing of all are when the Linzen and, later, the Gaghans go running up a stairway with a steel pipe handrail. The shadow of the rail is directly below the rail itself (off by only 1/2 inch for the Linzen and 3/4 inch for the Gaghans) This tells us, with precision, that the sun's azimuth exactly matched the run of the stairway. From Google Earth we can see that that stairway run is exactly perpendicular to the Miraflores Locks. The locks are oriented NW to SW at 137 degrees from north. That means the azimuth of the sun was just about 47 degrees when those teams went up the stairs. And that solar azimuth happened at 11:25 am. My estimates for the teams check in times were later (11:36 & 11:42 am); remember that the shadow was offset a liitle at the base. The shadows that I used to estimate the check in times were the roofline shadow on the large pump house building in the background when teams stood on the mat. There I could use the solar altitude.
And here is adding up of Paolos time for the day:
7:00 40 trip to BCI
7:40 4 find clue guy
7:44 4 read clue, back to boat
7:48 40 trip to dock
8:28 15 walk/run to bus
8:43 30 bus to piers
9:13 4 walk/run to box
9:17 2 trip to top
9:19 3 suit up
9:22 3 jump one
9:25 5 jump two
9:30 2 de suit
9:32 4 walk/run to bus
9:36 9 bus to locks
9:45 3 run to mat
So wouldn't the Paolos adjusted check in time be 11:55 minus 1:21? That is 10:34 am. The reason I got a bad estimate 9:45 was weak shadows to work with for that team.
Also, about Phil's watch being correct, the greeter seems to have the same time on his.
Slowhatch:
Misc. stuff:
* Another FF shot
* Is the Yield time penalty set down somewhere? The "hour"glass they use looks tiny.
* It's Elizabeth (thin face) with the bandaged left wrist. Two caps: one (clear) in the van on the way down from Poas; the second (bandaged) after they complete the bean task.
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