Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sailing Anarchy OTW

Everyday I have my usual "news" sites I check out. I start off at CNN just to make sure I'm not missing anything huge, then I wander over to some sailing sites. While there are many and I still haven't found them all yet, sailinganarchy.com seems to be the best.

While I haven't spent a lot of time in their forums, their front page write-ups are spot on with the scene of the sport from my eyes. They are showing their frustration with the AC battle by entering their own team, mainly to see how the teams will respond. One of the sailors I sailed with (I won't mention any names) has been to many of their regattas and says that no one parties like they do. They always keep things interesting and have good things to say.

Well, if you haven't already checked out the site, this feature will get you there. In the forums, they've added a new tab where they blog live from various sailing regattas. Sure, that's been done before. But they actually post live video from the water. Minutes after the live start occurs, you can watch it from the water with commentary on YouTube. Then, 45 minutes later you can watch the windward mark rounding complete with personal/professional commentary. Incredible how they took the almost impossible task of live sailing broadcasting and turned it into a simple internet YouTube activity.

Now, obviously the features are limited and there are delays but this is certainly a step in the right direction.

Keep up the good work SA.