Australia's Brisbane to Keppe Race Yellow Brick Trackers are Alive!



5:36 AM Tue 3 Aug 2010 GMT
'Website screen shot of the trackers on the RQYS Sailing Academy rigging lawn - Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race' Suellen Hurling &copy
For the first time in the short Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race history, satellite GPS trackers will be installed on each boat and will follow the fleet from Manly to Keppel Bay Marina. Host club Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron has partnered with British company Yellow Brick and using their technology boats positions will be updated on the race website every 15 minutes. 'We laid the trackers out on our Sailing Academy rigging lawn, and within 15 minutes they had worked out that they were no longer in London and found themselves in Manly, on the foreshore of ...


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by Suellen Hurling




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