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I will be in Hamburg Germany for business in May and was wondering if there is an active laser fleet in the area?

The charter fees for the Radial Youth Worlds (also in Kingston this summer) have been posted. Charter boat and foils fees: Regatta (14 – 20 August, 7 days) Charter boat: US$665 Charter foils: US$175 Its a 7 day event and I assume its the same boats from the other Worlds events there in July...

Arduino board https://www.adafruit.com/products/50 GPS shield https://www.adafruit.com/products/1272 Battery Holder w switch You can get the Arduino board and switches from a bunch of different places, I am not sure about the GPS shield though. Adafruit has great support though and a lot of...

That looks interesting. Can you scroll through your run afterwards?

After much delay.... Here is a shot of the GPS tracker I made with an arduino. It has an SD card and you can upload the data to google earth after you sail for a review. Its great for helping kids learn how to race, you can see what really happened right down to the penalty turns and mark...

Mine does not have a display, I want to use it during a race for logging data. Its just an arduino with a prototype shield and GPS chip from Adafruit. There is a small amount of soldering but I dont remember it taking very long. You do not need to be an arduino expert. I had completely...

This is a line of output from the device: $GPRMC,185149.898,A,4341.2955,N,07919.7602,W,19.22,297.83,220711,,,A*41 The 19.22 is the speed in knots. *the logger was in my zodiac for testing Here is a description of the data output. $GPRMC Recommended minimum specific GPS/Transit data eg1...

I keep it in a Pelican case with pieces of foam to stop it from rattling around. I have been running it for more than a year without issue. Ill post the code as soon as I can find it, I think its on my other laptop.

I made my own GPS data logger and you can set the frequency in the software. I put it in my kids boats while they race so we can review in Google earth later on. It shows speed, mark roundings penalty turns etc. It isnt that difficult to do with an Arduino and I dont mind sharing the code with...

That was probably Peter @ Fogh. We set up shop in the late 80s, it was a place called Jakes and it was about a half block from the beach on the north side.

Thats where I learned to sail. I used to live there during the summers. A friend and I started a fast food place on the strip and being business masterminds we didnt budget enough cash for a place to stay, so we lived in a van. Sigh...

One is green, sail # 8817 built in 1973 and the other is white sail #201205 its only a couple of weeks old.

You could try Patagonia Boat Works next time. They do nice work and they are closer than Jos at Quiet Waters. *Not knocking QW, its just a long haul from Toronto.

Iam flying Air Transat and they are saying that fishing gear has to be checked. Too bad, I liked the idea of the case for the fiishing rod. I have one of the Cylopack plastic tubes they use for rolled up drawings and it just fits. I will likely have a problem because it's made of metal not...

Tried that, its not even close, I may have to get a bigger case.