We interrupt this gear-n-gadgets blog for an important announcement: Aaron’s gone racing!
He’s crewing aboard a 57-foot Sparkman & Stevens yacht named Lightning, which is competing in the Swiftsure Lightship Classic this weekend. The race starts near Victoria, BC, proceeds out the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward the Pacific Ocean, rounds the Swiftsure Mark, and returns to the finish line near Victoria, a distance of 138.7 nautical miles.
But hold on: This story has a great gear-n-gadget angle, after all! Each competing boat has been provided with a Class B AIS transceiver. The data will be presented in the Swiftsure Race Tracker, a Google Maps mashup, enabling us non-racing couch-potatoes to follow the race in realtime.
Good luck, Lightning, and good luck, Aaron!
2 responses so far ↓
Scott // May 31, 2007 at 5:04 pm
How did he do during the race?
Swiftsure, AIS Redux | Navagear.com // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:24 am
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