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IT for the modern sailor seminar

by Quantum Sails Australasia on 23 Oct 2009
Quantum Sail Design Group http://www.quantumsails.com/
Are you interested in learning about the latest tools available to Navigators and Tacticians?

Are you having trouble keeping up with the latest tools available to Navigators/Tacticians?

Sponsored by Quantum Racing Sails, this seminar is for boat owners and navigators who are interested learning about some of the navigation/communication systems that our fastest yachts are currently using.

Feature topics include:

Azzurri’s Fleet Broadband Satellite Services (John Weller)
With the commissioning of the new Inmarsat I4 Satellite in February 2009, Australia and the Pacific
Ocean now has access to a new era of Global, high-speed, cost effective, Broadband Global Area
Network (BGAN) services. With the Third satellite now in place over this region Fleet Broadband
services are now available for high speed data and voice on a global level.

John Weller will discuss this latest technology and the service Azzurri’s Fleet broadband satellite
service can offer you.

http://www.azzu.com.au/FleetSatelliteServices.htm

Using Tactical Navigation Software: Expedition (Julie Hodder)
Expedition Software is the tool being used by many of our best navigators and hottest boats, for both
inshore and offshore racing. Developed in New Zealand by veteran Volvo Ocean Race navigator and
Whitbread winner, physicist Nick White, it is easier to use and has the most powerful and useful
functions for the racing navigator
.
Julie Hodder will demonstrate some of the functions including:
* Plotting waypoints and routes
*Downloading weather and current grib Files
*Automatic Plotting
*Start line tools
*Instrument Calibration
* Schedules for measuring the performance of the opposition
http://www.iexpedition.org

TideTech (Penny Haire)
*Accurate tidal and current information is critical to our coastal offshore races. TideTech provides
some of the world's most detailed and accurate oceanographic information about Ocean Currents,
*Sea Surface Temperature, Tidal Streams and much more...

Come and listen to Penny Haire explain the principles behind the data they produce and how
TideTech can make all the information easy for you to view and use.
http://www.tidetech.org/

When:
Monday 9th November (1800 - 2100)

Where:
Middle Harbour Yacht Club
Lower Parriwi Rd
The Spit
Mosman

RSVP:
Friday 6th November
carl(at)quantumsails.com
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