Tracking the race

[jim]

Trackers are there, they activate on thursday. Go to iboattrack.com to practise using the site. Look at a 2005 race and try all the functions, such as zoom in, out, pan, overlay wind, Loop Current, select all boats or only a few. See how it works so you wont waste time when del Sol al Sol starts
Cheers,
Jim

[Boomer]

The site looks GREAT! I hope everyone is as excited as we are about this year! Nice Work!

[little fiver]

Hey Jim- Are you guys really tracking aircraft as well as boats now?

[jim]

Yup. We'll track anything you want except wives, kids, etc.
We'll see how the aircraft idea works. They won't put it on the wing. Something about up tight FAA. So trackers are in cockpit and might be lower performance than usual.

[King]

This looks very cool. There is a little part of me that wishes I could stay here and watch it online. I think this will be a great feature for Friends and Family. However, I will be there doing it. Much better than watching it. See you on the water, King

[jim]

Being there is more fun. But don't forget-you can relive the race after the fact by replaying it and see where your mistakes or your great moves were.
Once the Mujeres tequila wears off you might want to see how you did vs the Loop Current and wind field
Jim

[Pork Chop]

Jim,

Where do you get the wind data from?
Will the boats have wind sensors?

[SailBRacer]

Looks great for the tracking chart as long as someone can supply the data during the race and not have to wait till it is almost over, hopefully that will be the case this year, great job.

Will be nice to have a forum where people can contact each other before, during and after the race, should help out greatly.

Now if we can get that cold front to hold on a little longer to supply great winds and low humidity.

See Ya....

Phil

[SailBRacer]

Jim,

Are they still going to use the old system of tracking for boats without the transponders or will they display them on iBoatTrack as well?

Phil

[Boomer]

The tracking this year is FULLY AUTOMATIC for Transponder equipped boats. This is almost REAL TIME! Sit back and enjoy and then replay over and over!

[SailBRacer]

9:15am 4/28/06
I am watching the iboat mapping, don't see any progress with the fleet.
Has there been a postponment to the race?

Phil

[SailBRacer]

It appears the post I just made is off by 1 hour, 8:15am instead of 9:15am actual.

It is 1 hour behind.

Maybe the reason the boats aren't showing any tracking?

Phil

[cpurvis]

Hi, Phil:

I'm part of the iboattrack team and am eager for this kind of feedback.

I'm not aware of any delay, and I believe I'm correct when I say that the trackers xmit positional info every 2 hours.

I have a race start time of 8:30 EDT so at minimum we should see movement on the tracker 2 hours from then. But it's more likely that we'll see something *between* 8:30 and 10:30 since positional info will come in at all times between them. Just at 2 hour intervals.

All times that you see on the mapper (not necessarily this discussion board) are EDT. I hope I labelled them all -- if not, please let me know.

Once the race gets underway, this probably and hopefully won't be noticeable!

Charlton

[SailBRacer]

Under the leader board I am seeing movement at 9:55am, but EDT time appears to be 8:11-8:14 for the majority.

TWILIGHT & TAMPA GIRL appear to be 8:26AM / 8:27AM compared to the others.

PROVIDENCE & NOBILITY ARE WAY BEHIND AT 7:00AM / 7:01AM.

Seems like all are slightly off of standard time, why wouldn't they all be synced exactly the same?

It is 10am here now, so they are all of anywhere from 1.5hrs to 3 hrs off.

Maybe day light savings time wasn't considered either?

Phil

[cpurvis]

I just checked w/ the xmitter folks and positional info is xmitted (staggered) from :05 to :15 past each EVEN hour.

I'll continue to try to line up the iboattrack database sync better as we continue. And I'm keeping my eye on boats who aren't posting along w/ the others.

Timezones and daylight savings have all been taken into account. Believe you me, that's one of my primary pet peeves.

Thanks for the feedback.

Charlton