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MarineTrack becomes official Race Supplier

28 August 2007

“I am delighted Clipper has chosen MarineTrack as the official tracking supplier for the Clipper 07-08 Race,” said Andy Haffenden, Operations Director at MarineTrack.  “This decision endorses our commitment to supplying the racing community the same technology and service our commercial clients have enjoyed for the last decade.”

Each of the Clipper’s 68-foot round the world racing yachts will be fitted with MarineTrack’s RaceTrack system, a robust unit comprising of a discrete transceiver and a built in GPS.  The tracker will be used to pole the position of the fleet every six hours during the race, with data transmitted via satellite back to Race Control.  The information transmitted back will include the latitude and longitude of each of the boats and enable the calculations of distance to leader and distance to finish.

Clipper 07-08 Race supporters and sponsors will be able to keep up to date with the latest fleet positions via the race viewer on the Clipper 07-08 Race website http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com.  Fleet positions from the RaceTrack system coupled with online blogs, photographs and video packages, will bring this previously limited spectator sport into the online arena. 

“MarineTrack’s tracking device will work well on our ocean racing fleet of Clipper 68s,” said Clipper Chairman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.  “I’m delighted they’ve come on board as an Official Race Supplier.  The Clipper 07-08 crew, supporters, sponsors and race team will all benefit from this reliable source of position data throughout the duration of the race.”

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