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rodney 
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 Topic: Live trackingPosted: 15 May 12 at 11:30am |
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I am following the Finn Gold Cup in Falmouth. The live tracking and tweets really do give a good idea of what is hapenning in real time. Technology really has made it possible to get instant results. Gone are the days of waiting for weeks for the Y&Y event reports.
https://twitter.com/ Finn ClassAny Views?
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Rodney Cobb
Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
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maxibuddah
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 11:44am |
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be useful to track grf so that they can find the v-twin as it floats towards Norway upside down with him sat on the bottom if it
if I had proper internet access at work rather than my phone id probably follow it. nice to see what's happening on the water at the time its happening. good if you could hook it up to nice graphics like the ac45's. Edited by maxibuddah - 15 May 12 at 11:48am |
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Everything I say is my opinion, honest
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r2d2
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 11:49am |
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it is working really well -
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alstorer
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 11:49am |
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Is tracking data available in the event of a protest?
Potentially not entirely feasible (at the moment) at smaller venues due to poor broadband connections in rural area?
I wonder what the costs involved are? Seems you have to request a specific quote, I wonder what the ballpark figures for 25, 50 and 100 boat events are?
Anyway, "waiting week for the Y&Y reports" should have long been a thing of the past as it is- if you've got an on-the-ball media set up you should be getting daily reports on your class/event website ASAP after sailing and emailed to Mark to on the Y&Y website. Any delays are now wholly the fault of the class/event... but it's still nice to have that round up in the monthly magazine
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rodney
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:16pm |
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Sorry! It wasn't a dig at anyone but I do remember the days when Y&Y was, almost, the only place for good information on events with the occasional reports in the Telegraph. Now we have the luxury of getting very up-to-date information from Y&Y online and other live sites. It's just that even 10 years ago it would have been hard to imagine that we could follow the race as it happens. I am hoping that, in the not too distant future, that the costs involved in this technology will come down to a realistic level so that most major regattas can be covered in this way. Maybe even Mark could host the tracking on this site???
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Rodney Cobb
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:25pm |
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Live tracking? With Finns? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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r2d2
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:26pm |
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well Ben of the undead is winning right now
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:28pm |
Ooo I like that one
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rodney
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:29pm |
As they say Graeme 'don't knock it until you've tried it'. I would be more than happy to push you off the shore in a Finn one day
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Rodney Cobb
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Pierre
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Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:33pm |
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FFS Graeme... are you bored or is it just lunchtime
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