Use the PredictWind Offshore App to get PredictWind weather data (GRIB files, weather routing, departure planning, GPS tracking, satellite imagery, GMDSS, Observations etc) via the Iridium GO!, from other satellite capable devices, SSB (HF Radio) or email request. NOTE: The Iridium GO! data speed is too slow for general web browsing.
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This is NOT available to download on a Windows computer or Mac. Use the Iridium Mail & Web App on your mobile device (iPhone/iPad or Android) to send & receive emails using your Iridium GO! unit. Your mobile device becomes the handset and connects via Wi-Fi to the Iridium GO! unit. Use the Iridium GO! App on your mobile device (iPhone/iPad or Android) to voice call, send/ receive SMS messages, set up SOS and control the features of the Iridium GO! unit. You’re going to a beautiful place, and that’s always fun,” he said.Iridium GO! App - for Voice Calls / SMS text messaging/ SOS It’s a fun race to get to Bermuda, there’s a lot of excitement and fun when you get there. I like ocean racing, and it’s a great ocean race, a challenge for everybody in the crew. “It’s always fun going to Bermuda, I’ve been doing the race since I was a kid with my parents. This year’s race represents a return to action for 75-year-old Van Metre, who has restored his family’s yacht, Running Tide, after reacquiring it several years ago. We’re going to have a good time, good food and enjoy ourselves.” No one’s allowed to talk politics onboard. He said, “It’s nice to get out there and away from the sins of the earth. Potts’ crew includes his two sons and three other sets of fathers and sons. David’s Lighthouse in 1970 and again in 1982. Every time we get within 50 miles, you start to smell frangipani, see the silhouette of the island, the stars seem to come down to the ocean… you almost just want to keep going.”Ĭarina was famously raced by the father-son duo of Richard S. “I just love it love going offshore,” said 73-year-old Rives Potts, skipper of the classic McCurdy & Rhodes 48 Carina and a two-time winner of the St. The sailors noted that there is also the lure of Bermuda.
Everything about it is appealing-challenge, sailing, camaraderie. It’s a great group of guys and we have a lot of fun with it.
“My son will also be aboard-he did his first Bermuda Race with me at age 15-and one of his close friends is joining us. This year six of the eight crew were in my class at the academy,” he said. “The biggest appeal for me is the group of folks I do it with. I’ve gotten a lot of opportunities because of that lesson.”įor 58-year-old Matthew Pilon, skipper of the Oyster 58 Liberty Call, which won Class 12 in the 2018 race, the lure is the chance to race with his son and reconnect with classmates from years gone by. It’s not the loudest person that gets noticed the most, but the hardest working person. Growing up with him and seeing the boats he’s raced and ran, the biggest thing he’s taught me is to be a hard worker. But it’s ten times more special to be doing it with my dad.
“It’s one of those races everyone around world talks about. “Being a local Newporter, starting from my hometown is always special. “The Bermuda Race is one of those races when you get a chance to do it, you’re always looking forward to it,” said Griffin Spinney. It’s a great way to strengthen the friendship and camaraderie with your son.” “The Bermuda Race can be light air or it can be a total fight, you don’t know what you’re going to get until you start. We’re going off on an adventure together and we don’t know what lies ahead. “He’s the bowman and I’m the pitman, so I’ll be backing him up. “He’s 20 and doing his second Bermuda Race, and it’s cool that I get to do this with him,” said Spinney. “This will be my eighth Bermuda Race, but it will be special this year because I’m sailing with my son, Griffin,” said 54-year-old Latimer Spinney, who is racing on the R/P 69 Wizard, chartered by Fred Detwiler and Bruce Aikens, aboard which there are four sets of fathers and sons racing. Besides the many challenges that the Newport Bermuda Race presents, one of the lures that attracts some sailors is the chance to do the race with friends or family, and many boats in the fleet have father and son pairs spending their Father’s Day sailing to Bermuda.
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