The combination of the tracking and video feed running in audio and small screen is a great big picture view...

When you want to follow the boat handling... you go to full screen on the video.

With 100 plus boats on the course... you can't focus on more then 5 or 6 in the lead with the video/audio but with a gps on everyone's boat... you can follow your bud's and see what's going on back in the pack.

For a sailboat race... this idea of multiple independent views... Tracking, video and leader board is the way to go.

I watched race 5 all the way through. (I don't think I have ever watched a sailboat race start to finish... not even the ACC races.

About the only thing they could add to picture would be a weather buoy information on the course which overlayed windspeed and direction on the gps tracks at several positions on the race course...

Now THAT would be cool!.... Seeing pressure and direction shift over time would make post race analysis definitive.

To a non sailor... They probably can't figure out the wind thing..... It probably looks like dumb luck out there.


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