The World of
Sailing adopted
the World Wide Web as the communication channel
of the future in 1995 following the widespread interest in the Americas
Cup when
OneAustralia sank - the photo was viewed online in over 60
countries.
Now
YouTube
provides full video action for sailing.
LTSC
website
News, Weather, Tides Future Events, Cruising Racing, About Us, Find Us
In 2006 using
Google there were over 60 million documents retrieved from a search
for "sailing"
Update
2007
The vision in 1995 was that sailing would continue to struggle to gain
any significant TV coverage other than in countries like New Zealand
where sailing is the national sport.
Although few people had access to the internet in 1995 and normal
connection speeds were 9,600 bits per sec which meant it took several
minutes for a photograph to appear on the screen, it was evident that
technology would in due course reach the stage it is today and there was
a hope that video & TV would be available over the Internet so that
sports like sailing could develop their own channels.
At the
time of the talk Sail TV had been launched. YouTube technology and the
growth of vlogs has accelerated the potential for promoting sailing over
the Internet.
The links above are
provided at the request of those attending the talk "Sailing on the
Internet" by Richard Phillips at LTSC on 22 March 2006.
Richard was involved with the project to launch
www.sailing.org and gave a presentation
to International Class Associations at the IYRU Conference in 1995 following
the launch.
To access some of the websites you may need to register on the relevant
website and some of the information on the websites can only be accessed on
payment of membership or other fees.
You may need to download software to
view some of the links. A number of the files particularly the
video clips can only be viewed over broadband.
Some of the files/websites may have subsequently been moved/removed by the
administrators of the various websites
You access any of the websites mentioned below at your own risk.
