This is one of a series of puzzle caches created to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games Sailing events to be held in Weymouth Bay.
The series consists of five rings of puzzle caches situated in Weymouth Bay and can be seen on the Geocaching.com map view. Each ring is designated a separate colour (Black, Red, Yellow, Blue and Green) and has an associated bonus solved by collecting information from the caches within that ring. Solving all five bonus puzzles will yield the coordinates of a final cache location (GC3BXN0 Sailing Rings - Race to the Podium), where Gold, Silver and Bronze medals await the first three successful geocachers. Most of the puzzles are designed to be solved at home and results can be checked using the associated geocheck.com link.
There are over 60 puzzles to solve so it is not a quick task to get to the end, but remember that all Olympians only reach their peak with hard work!
The cache is within five miles of the above location so please don't get your feet wet!
Nearly at the end of the Black ring and only four more rings to crack before heading out to the final cache of the entire series. To find this bonus cache for the Black ring you need to collect digits from the individual caches, noting that not all contain a digit. Where an individual cache does not contain a digit it will be marked with a large black X to save searching for the non-existent! This bonus cache contains digits for the coordinates of the final series cache (GC3BXN0 Sailing Rings - Race to the Podium) and can be found at:
N50 38.abc W002 26.def checksum of all digits = 52
PLEASE NOTE: You will not be allowed to log this bonus unless you have previously solved, found and logged the rest of the Black Ring caches
The complete Black Ring series contains this bonus cache and the individual caches listed below:
GC3AC08 Black 01 Sailing Rings - Uncle Albert
GC3AGBB Black 02 Sailing Rings - Regatta
GC3AGBN Black 03 Sailing Rings - Ahoy There
GC3AGBQ Black 04 Sailing Rings - Black Spot
GC3AGBW Black 05 Sailing Rings - Where's My Pineapples?
GC3AGC0 Black 06 Sailing Rings - Dominoes
GC3AGC1 Black 07 Sailing Rings - Take A Walk
GC3AGC5 Black 08 Sailing Rings - Spot the Internationals
GC3AGC7 Black 09 Sailing Rings - The Princess Royal
GC3AGCE Black 10 Sailing Rings - Pugwash
Good hunting and congratulations on getting this far.
The creators of the series wish to thank our local reviewers and Groundspeak, who have been involved during its creation and given their permission for cache hides to be up to five miles distant from published coordinates.