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for America's Cup enthusiasts
Posted on 09/22/2002 7:00:57 PM PDT by rvoitier
Those interested following the Louis Vitton Cup and America's Cup boat races, here is a high tech way to do it. I'm not sure if it's real-time or delayed but it's the next best thing to tv...maybe.
Check this out.
It's a viewer you download and allows you to zoom in or out of the races. Onboard data is available and tracking is done via gps, of course. It's a slick program.
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posted on
09/22/2002 7:00:57 PM PDT
by
rvoitier
To: rvoitier
Much obliged for the URL.
Big Welcome Planned for America's Cup Team
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posted on
09/22/2002 7:08:46 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: rvoitier
Thanks for the link. I will be following it, but want also to give it to one of my sons, who was part of the 'operations team' when Connor won the cup, back in Freemantle.
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posted on
09/22/2002 7:14:29 PM PDT
by
Exit148
To: rvoitier
"Two world wars/and three America's Cups"...to paraphrase brit soccer fans, anyways. This kiwi in exile is ardently hoping for a third victory by the black boats of Team NZ...
To: rvoitier
woohooo, thanks...thanks..thanks.
To: Blunderfromdownunder
,,, how's things going in exile?
To: zcat; Piquaboy; Mugwump; Travis McGee; general_re; ofMagog
,,, thread of emerging importance.
To: shaggy eel
Got a few hundred million I can borrow, shags? I'm thinking of starting a team, and I need R&D money...
To: general_re
,,, get that government grant organised General - February's coming up fast.
To: shaggy eel
Maybe I can just get a Pentagon contract to build a "stealth boat", or something...
To: general_re
,,, stealth boats haven't worked out so far down here.
To: shaggy eel
It's only invisible to the Defense Department, and only when they come looking to see how I've been spending their money. And then I pretend that the 12-meter racer tied up outside belongs to someone else....
"Can't see my stealth boat, can you? No, that's not it..."
To: general_re
,,, you've learned well from Enron execs!
To: mgstarr; Brian Allen; toddst; MassExodus; Terriergal; dorben
,,, America's Cup buildup is underway.
To: shaggy eel
They pay $600 for hammers over there - they think something's wrong with you if you don't try to rip them off. A $300 million (or so) racing yacht ought to slip right by the Inspector General...
To: general_re
NO!
They pay $14.00 for "hammers" - just like anybody else does: $4.00 or the hammer, and 10.00 for the contract overhead and inspector employees and clerks and supervisors to make sure nobody (but nobody - except Clinton's buddies) rips off the government....).
They pay $400.00 for "impact-providing assist dent-implanting devices" .... that are government-approved and meet all the DOD/DOE/OSHA/EPA-approved spec's.
Just like anybody else does.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Ah, I was wondering what all those extra charges were the last time I went to Home Depot. No plain old wood-handled hammers like my father had, just rows and rows of "milspec implements"...
To: general_re
,,, isn't it amazing what gets to slip by the Inspector-General?
To: shaggy eel
Right. And then, after I win the America's Cup, I just tell the DoD that "their" stealth boat sank someplace really deep during a test run, and it's all gone.
"So sorry, but I've decided to get out of the stealth boat business after all. So I won't be rebuilding..."
To: shaggy eel
Oh fun... what is America's Cup? ;-)
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