| UK. Tacktick sponsor Hayling Island Sailing Club with wireless electronics |
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| Monday, 06 June 2005 | |
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Press release: Tacktick has announced a sponsorship deal providing full electronic wireless instruments for the three principal club committee boats at one of the UK’s premier dinghy racing clubs, Hayling Island Sailing Club. The rolling two year agreement provides the club’s three principal committee boats with Micronet speed, depth and wind instruments as well as an NMEA interface. Micronet is the world’s first wireless, solar powered marine electronics system. The wireless instruments, which can be moved to the best viewing position on the committee boats, will provide the Race Officers at HISC with accurate wind, GPS and race time information essential for quality race management. Hayling Island Sailing Club is one of the UK’s premier dinghy racing clubs with over 1400 members. Each year the club is host to a busy racing schedule including National, European and World events for many dinghy classes. Commenting on the Tacktick sponsorship arrangement, Roger Palmer, the Club’s Principal Race Officer, said, “With Tacktick already so well known and prevalent among our dinghy sailors, we are delighted to be using their sophisticated range of wireless instruments on our committee boats to assist us in our course laying and race management activities. HISC is always seeking ways of improving it’s race management and use of Tacktick instrumentation can only further the ability of the club to run better events that will prove more satisfactory and enjoyable for the competitors.” Technology is the key to Tacktick’s success with each display unit communicating with the transmitters and transducers via a unique, secure, intelligent network eliminating the need for wires and connections; the main cause of failure in marine electronics. Display units can be either permanently mounted or in a detachable cradle for full portability and security and with no holes to cut, the displays can be mounted anywhere on the boat. All the units are fully sealed, waterproof displays capable of showing all forms of navigational data including GPS and chart plotter information. Each unit, including the wind transmitter is self-powered by solar panels charging internal power reserves for total self-sustainability. |
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