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I watched that close cross too. If everyone held their course I bet it would have been a miss (even closer). The burdened vessel should not be able to tell the right of way vessel when to get nervous (within reason). I'd say that Law Connect had grounds to be reasonably nervous on that close...

Do we know that they installed new parts?  I am betting that they shut all that stuff down when they finish the race and tie the boat up to a dock.  It doesn't take long at all to run back down stairs (maybe when you heard that it was not working) and turn it on again - effectively completing...

I have a technical question.  If we agree that nothing was getting past the (fried or whatever) Splitter out to the antenna is it possible that just the coax cable between the AIS and the Splitter could act as a (poor) antenna and be transmitting - badly/weakly.  Not enough to be seen on the net...

And it wasn't that "carefully concocted".  Which in an odd way gives it more credibility.  You know what sometimes happens to the sailor who talks too fast?  Sometimes he will say something that he has not thought of yet!

This kind of nails it for me.  I think that the race over-reached what the AIS technology could deliver.  Never even mind that these sensitive electronics are installed by amateurs with various skill levels, using the cheapest parts they can find in an electrolyte rich marine environment.  AIS...

MR might not be the first guy that WOXI should have looked to for their PR spokesman.  I saw a guy that was pretty keyed up and distresses.  I think he overstated some things like, "the splitter got fried"  It makes you expect to find a melted plastic puddle on the end of the cable.  That they...

There is a race near me in the other hemisphere that I've raced in a few times.  It's no Sydney Hobart but kind of a big deal around here - about 200 boats.  They use a medium large Navy Boat for the start boat.  Each time I have found myself too close to that boat my wind speed increases to...

And take another step that it was turned off after the finish (likely).  Then they hear from someone on the dock that their transmissions were not received on the net (I put this in just to raise Random's blood pressure) or they were not transmitting and so they run back downstairs and switch...

Post 797 "Just seen this facebook post from one of the crew on wild oats.  Saddened by the fact a few of my old mates would have thought we would use our AIS system onboard to our advantage by turning it off during the great race. The fact is the system got fried when our onboard cameraman...

This question kind of gets to the heart of it.  I suppose (but have no way of knowing) WOXI contends that their AIS was working perfectly all the way along - as far as they knew.  And they filed their Post Race Report along those lines.  Then on the strength of a suggestion that their AIS...

I meant that if you are disposed to cheat by not running transmit for the whole race then there is a high likelihood that you will be caught.  And that risk does not nearly offset the advantage gained by being invisible for the whole race.   

It was post 797 about a FaceBook from a WOXI crew where we first get the idea that the AIS got fried in Sydney somehow when the cameraman fired up.  It goes on to say that they didn't know it wasn't working properly until they got to Hobart.  I don't know what they declared - apparently Sidecar...

Ed Zachary!  Another thing that makes the story harder to believe.  Someone above suggested that maybe all it needed was a cold boot (you know computer talk for stopping and restarting it - not that thing on the end of your leg).  I'd like to know the whole story and I don't think anyone here...

That it could receive but not transmit and that no one noticed for the whole race gets a bit hard to swallow alright but we didn't hear the arguments.  In that Facebook post quoted here earlier I think it was said that they didn't know it was "fried' until they got to Hobart.

And what is that number up to now?  What about the boats that dropped out for a couple of hours and then came back on - and didn't even know?  Have you ever used one of these things?  When it comes to consistently reliable they are the opposite of the German Railway system. I think this has...

That is what I thought.  All we know for sure is the bias of the poster.  It's hard (but not impossible) to imagine a viable explanation that exonerates WOXI but because the protest was never tested we will not know any facts found.  WOXI will be condemned with certainty in the online Court of...

I guess that is why I think that RC's should protest sparingly.  The RC can not be disadvantaged.  But a competitor can.  I think it should fall to the aggrieved party to seek justice.  Otherwise it appears that the RC is making the claim, taking sides and being a witness all at once. 

I'm trying to figure out how the Race Committee is an interested party?

And, awkwardly, for whatever reason, didn't it come alive again in Hobart?

No one wants to win a race in the protest room.  The RC taking this up after BJ complained has the appearance of doing their unpleasant work for them - different if the RC decided based on their own volition.  And I hope that the RC has checked each of the other boats to ensure that their AIS...