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Brush up on the Racing Rules With Podcasts by Bryan Willis.

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:47:09 +0000

Something a little different. It’s not business or sponsorship, but we also like to make the most of nw technology goodies on the web, so here are a couple of podcasts about the racing rules by Bryan Willis. Having chaired international juries at major events throughout the world including the Sydney Olympics and recent America’s Cups he knows a thing or two about what you can, can’t or must to while out competing on the water.

Podcast 1. Why Change the Rules?

In this, the first of three racing rules of sailing podcasts, Bryan Willis talks about how he got involved with the racing scene, how and why the rules get updated and the main changes for the recent 2009-2012 revision.

Click here to listen to the podcast

Podcast 2: What rules do you actually need to know?

In the second of Bryan Willis; racing rules podcasts, he discusses what rules the club racer needs to know, what rules cause the most confusion on the water and offers a few suggestions for how to use the rules to your advantage.

Click here to listen to the podcast

Podcast 3. Umpiring and Protests

In the last of the three racing rules podcasts, expert author Bryan Willis talks about the advantages of on the water umpiring, offers his own advice on making the most of the protest process and how to present strong evidence to the committee.
Click here to listen to the podcast

Yachtsponsorship.com now a Podcast.

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:32:28 +0000

Pilote Media, the publishers of this site, have always been on the cutting edge of new technology. This weekend, we plugged in a new feature that allows you to listen to yachtsponsorship.com on your ipod or phone.

If you are reading this on the site, you will see a new ‘listen now’ button. Using technology from odiogo, the text from the site is scanned, and coverted into an mp3. The effect is a slightly artificial, but quite captivating version of the content that you can listen to, on the train or flying to the next race.

To sign up to the Podcast version go to:

http://podcasts.odiogo.com/yacht-sponsorship/podcasts-html.php

We have also launched a number of goodies that allow you to get the latest wherever you are. Choose from email signatures, desktop updates or widgets for pages such as iGoogle, facebook or myspace. And don’t forget, you can get the news daily as an email as well. For more on these cool features go to:

http://www.yachtsponsorship.com/goodies/

Coville and Sodeb’O wait 24 Hours

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:50 +0000

Thomas Coville has postponed his planned departure in search of the solo round the world record by 24 hours.

For the past few days Coville, the skipper of the Maxi Trimaran Sodeb’O, has been observing the evolution of a highly favourable weather window.

The weather conditions enabling a descent from Brest to the equator in less than 7 days looks possible, but there is still some doubt as regards the strength of the wind between the Canaries and Cape Verde. The team is still allowing itself the day to refine the precise hour of departure, which could take place from Tuesday morning at dawn. The decision will be made this evening, at around 2200 hours, after analysing the final grib files.

The situation at the start of the course is proving to be ideal. After setting out from Brest in a NW’ly air flow, Sodeb’O will go in search of a point to gybe in the Azores High, which is positioned a long way north and will then generate a steady E’ly tradewind enabling Thomas to adopt a direct course towards Cape Verde and the Doldrums.

A first team is currently heading towards Brest where the boat has been on standby since 29th October. Their missions? A final careening session, sail preparation and victualling with fresh products…

In order to beat the solo round the world record held since 20th January 2008 by Francis Joyon, Thomas Coville will have to return to Brest in less than 57 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds.

Whenever Thomas sets off, he has all the latest multimedia toys to help you follow him at http://www.sodebo-voile.com/actu/news-eng.html

The site has widgets, podcasts, audio and video, photos all allowing a global fan-base to keep in touch while at sea. It’s a growing trend and one that delivers return on investment for sponsors as well as fans.