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attaching an mp3 file... Our friend Todd wrote and recorded this to be used for a never-produced webexpeditions flash promo. Someday I'm going to get off my ass and use it...

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This is a cool video from YouTube, illustrating in-blog videos from YouTube:

An in-blog video from Google Video showing ABN AMRO Volvo 70:

After Orange2's run earlier this month, I did some digging and scrounged data on Playstation and Jet Services V, and constructed this Google Earth comparison of the 3 runs. PlayStation had a limited dataset, so I pulled corresponding points, by elapsed time, from the Orange2 position tables. That way, the map sets up with coordinated elapsed time points, so you can see where all boats were at +36 Hours, for example. The points are color coded to match on each line.

To try and avoid so much colored spaghetti, I also made it so you can also limit the points to 4 times, to compare where that boats were at 36h, 65h, 80h, and the finish times (the odd spacing of the times is because of PlayStation's data).

For kicks, I also marked Orange's 24h record run. The speed fence is prev 24h average on Orange, overall average on PS and JSV.

Here is the link to the GE file: http://www.sailblogs.com/ge/transat.php

I came up with a good way to visualize boat speed data in Google Earth for Pete today. I was looking through the speed data from the first leg of the RBI, and noted that at one point Pete hit 18 knots. I thought that there must be some cool way to convey that info visually to people following the track.

I recalled something a saw where a pilot loaded is flight waypoints into GE, and used the altitude data to make a "3D fence" of his flight. I thought that something similar might work for sailboat racing, if I extended the numbers out enough.

So I multiplied Pete's speed by 1000, called that "altitude" and extruded the track line, switching colors to indicate speeds as well. The result is on the screen shot above. Pretty obvious where he lost wind for a bit...