Kona World Championship In Florida

Florida is all set to host the 2016 Kona World Windsurfing Championship. This will be the 3rd time USA will be hosting this event. It is scheduled from October 28 to November 2. It will be held in Islamorada, Florida Keys.

We can expect to see more than 110 former competitors and champions from 12 different countries. Which are the countries participating in the event? You will see participants from Germany, United States, Holland, Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden, Canada, Mexico and China. They held the event in Denmark last year.

The best thing about the field is that you will be able to see some of the best talents performing. You will see top candidates from Europe, Asia, South America and North America all showing you how you can do better when you next charter a Yacht in Dubrovnik Continue reading “Kona World Championship In Florida”

Successful Conclusion Of Rio Regatta

In the 470 Men sailing race the top three teams that emerged during the initial races were certain to win the medals, but what color was to be decided in the final days. For instance, Igor Marenic and Sime Fantela from Croatia emerged winners from this year’s event and won gold, the first in the country. The race was won by them by keeping a close look at their rivals who were the Britain team of Pavlos and Panagiotis as well as Will Ryan and Mat Belcher of Australia.

With the Croatian team winning the gold, the other two teams were up for the race for silver. The race for silver was initially dominated by Will and Belcher till they slipped and lost time to recover. However, they did make it for silver and the Austrian team had to settle for bronze. Continue reading “Successful Conclusion Of Rio Regatta”

AI For Sailing

Artificial intelligence is no longer part of science-fiction as it is making inroads into technological advancement in different spheres. One such sphere where it is being utilized is in the making of faster boats. A group of engineers in Land Rover unit is working as the British Land Rover team who are working on a faster boat model that would make winning a sailing competition like the America’s Cup  a piece of the pie for the sailors.

With the use of AI the engineers have been working to incorporate the performance data of a boat into its engine system and to understand patterns of the same, so that the replication of the patterns can be done in a boat in order to make it move faster through the waters. Till date the team has been second in the World Series rankings of America’s Cup. They had a podium finish recently in a race that was concluded in Chicago recently. The next competition that is coming up as part of the tournament is in Portsmouth that is an island city. This would be on the forthcoming weekend when the team will try and close the gap in points that exists between them and the New Zealand team of Emirates that is the current leader.

The skipper and principal member of the Land Rover BAR team stated that the AI would give the differential that the team needs in order to win the Cup for the first time for the country. The expertise of machine learning as well as processing of big-data is being used to help co-engineers develop the expertise they need to have the fastest boat for this tournament. The testing revealed that data that is received from the boat sensors was about 16 GB that would fill the memory of an iPhone presently.