this is the kind of sail-porn I need on Monday! The onboard cam is great, and you can do the tactical map with laylines and speed overlays in the summary video...
It lets them know if they are outside the (virtual) course. No bouys.
Well...it lets them know as they approach the boundary (wouldn't be much help if it just let you know when you were outside it). It blinks faster and faster as they near the boundary line and turns solid when they go past it (and they get a penalty). They also have some sort of distance readout because I hear them call the distance to the boundary - but I'm not sure what that device is or where it is located. The race committee also appears to have the ability to reprogram the devices when they reset the course. I suspect that the red blinky on the boat actually gets it's signal from race command - where the GPS signals from the boats are processed in the judges command room (where they monitor the extremely precise GPS data/course map for penalties and reduce the need for on the water judges).
They were also experimenting with anchor-less mark boats that use thrusters and gps units to maintain position. I presume they're using this because I didn't see any anchor rodes on the mark boats (that I noticed). Feed all this back to a central computer station and all the devices get tied together with the same data. Pretty cool.
"The America's Cup World Series could continue beyond the 34th America's Cup, allowing for a regular calendar of Cup racing to the benefit of sailors, fans, teams, and all stakeholders.
2011-2012 America’s Cup World Series Schedule*
Event One: Cascais, Portugal, 6 – 14 August Event Two: Plymouth, England, 10 - 18 September Event Three: San Diego, 12-20 November
*The remaining schedule will be revealed by October 2011."
Lest we forget:
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'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
I'm confused...which is pretty easy lately...Is it going on and being streamed now?
It will be on Wednesday...its Tuesday today.
Originally Posted by Jake
Later this week, we move onto the fleet series/elimination that feeds the match racing events. Racing (and I presume continued online coverage) starts at 9:10am EST on Wed (Aug 10th) through Friday (Aug 12th). Thankfully, my iPad is connected to our guest WiFi network that doesn't block YouTube! ;-)
Thanks for the conversion...since I didn't race last night I'm continuing to have a hard time today with that type of stuff...I did make some pretty good coffee, better get some more...I should be better tomorrow, since I'll be watching my daughter making the other teams girls cry on the lax field tonight...maybe we should put her in football.
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