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    Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:33pm
FFS Graeme... are you bored or is it just lunchtime  Tongue

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Originally posted by G.R.F.

Live tracking? With Finns? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Wink

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  LOL
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Originally posted by r2d2

Ben of the undead

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well Ben of the undead is winning right now

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Live tracking? With Finns? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Wink
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Post Options Post Options   Quote rodney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:16pm
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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Post Options Post Options   Quote alstorer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 12 at 11:49am
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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it is working really well - 

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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.

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Everything I say is my opinion, honest
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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. 
 
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