Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2002
Datum: 28. Dec 2002 00:43
Yacht Tracker on Rolex Sydney Hobart Web Site
An innovative Yacht Tracker satellite system will provide real time positions of the fleet in a new dedicated official website for the 2002 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and web site developers Massive Interactive have developed www.rolexsydneyhobart.com, a highly innovative dedicated official web site for the 2002 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race which is now on line.
The new site was launched today and will be fully active in the lead-up to and throughout the 630 nautical mile long ocean race down the Australian East Coast.
Major feature of the website will be Yacht Tracker, a satellite tracking system which will provide real time positions of each yacht throughout the race, updating every 10 minutes.
The CYCA will equip each boat in the fleet with an Inmarsat D+ transmitter which will automatically update the yacht’s latitude and longitude and transmit it via satellite to an earth station.
From there, the data will be transmitted to the website, showing in text and graphics each yacht’s position in the fleet, its place relative to other boats, and the speed currently being achieved, as well as the direction the boat is sailing.
Over the past 55 years, the Sydney to Hobart has become an icon of Australia’s summer sport, ranking in public interest with such national events as the Melbourne Cup horse race, the Davis Cup tennis and the cricket tests between Australia and England. No yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage – except, of course, the America’s Cup and the Whitbread Round the World Race – than does the start on Sydney Harbour. And they only happen every four or five years.
In 2001, the round the world race, now called the Volvo Ocean Race, will be part of the Sydney to Hobart, with the 15 60-footers sailing as a division from Sydney with a "pit stop" in Hobart before continuing their leg to Auckland, New Zealand.
Over those years, the Sydney to Hobart Race and Cruising Yacht Club of Australia have had marked influence on international ocean yacht racing. The Club has influenced the world in race communications and sea safety, indextaining the highest standards of yacht construction, rigging and stability for ocean racing yachts. The Club’s members have also fared well in major ocean racing events overseas, with victories in the Admiral’s Cup, Kenwood Cup, One Ton Cup, the Fastnet Race and the BOC Challenge solo race around the word, not to mention the America’s Cup.
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