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RORC supplier Sutton Harbour Marina, Finish Port for the Rolex Fastnet Race
RORC supplier Pantaenius, supplying the Spreader Mark at the Fastnet Rock

#fastnet on Twitter

JennyJusuf

@Fiqhi Tapi ga bisa dibawa ke mana-mana ya berarti? #fastnet ABOUT 29 minutes AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : South, veering northwest later, 5 to 7. Occasional rain then fair. Good, occasionally poor. ABOUT 4 hours AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : South or southwest 5 to 7. Rain. Moderate or good. ABOUT 5 hours AGO

Pampusclub

Fast-tracked by The Fastnet Race: In August 2011 I was offered a heaven-sent opportunity to show some of the pho... http://t.co/z4VCv2NS ABOUT 9 hours AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : South or southwest 5 to 7. Rain. Moderate or good. ABOUT 10 hours AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Southerly or southeasterly 4 or 5 increasing 5 to 7. Occasional rain. Moderate or good. ABOUT 12 hours AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Southerly or southeasterly 4 or 5 increasing 5 to 7. Occasional rain. Moderate or good. ABOUT 16 hours AGO

EamoZ

#Fastnet service - No sense in ending route | Irish Examiner http://t.co/5fP2Ll3t #Munster , write to your MEPS in #Europe , get some response ABOUT 18 hours AGO

callmedewz

#fastnet plis be nice !!!! ABOUT 21 hours AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Southerly or southwesterly 4 or 5, increasing 6 or 7 at times. Occasional rain or sleet. Moderate or good. ABOUT 23 hours AGO

wallyhenry

Watched the documentary last night about the Rambler 100 capsize and rescue during the Fastnet race. So glad I didn't lose any friends that. ABOUT 1 day AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Variable 3 or 4, becoming southerly or southwesterly 5 or 6. Occasional rain or sleet. Moderate or good. ABOUT 1 day AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Easterly, veering southerly, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Rain later. Moderate or good. ABOUT 1 day AGO

RORCrating

These are what we need in the office in winter... http://t.co/bvTeiisP what do you think, @OffshoreOne ? ABOUT 1 day AGO

MrSeamusKearney

Disappointing to see Fasnet go RT: @C103Cork C103 News@6: #Ireland is in the red, #Fastnet Line fails & #VHI increase premiums from March ABOUT 1 day AGO

C103Cork

C103 News@6: #Ireland is in the red, #Fastnet Line fails & #VHI increase premiums from March ABOUT 1 day AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Easterly, veering southerly, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Rain later. Moderate or good. ABOUT 1 day AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Easterly, veering southerly, 4 or 5. Fair. Good. ABOUT 1 day AGO

ShippingAreas

#fastnet : Easterly or southeasterly 4 or 5. Fair. Good. ABOUT 1 day AGO

Tracking

A Yellowbrick unit on-board an offshore yacht. Photo: YellowbrickThe Rolex Fastnet Race is being tracked with Yellowbrick Trackers.

Each boat is supplied with a beacon from Yellowbrick, a self contained unit that transmits the position of the boat at regular intervals using GPS and Iridium (a global satellite phone network).

Synchronised position reports are availabe to the public by using the Race Player Application.

Important notice on Fleet Tracking

Sometimes, due to various technical reasons or due to local conditions, a boat's tracker cannot report. The boat will remain in the rankings list with it's position calculated from the last report received.

The non-transmission of a position report should not cause concern; it is not a sign of distress!

Boats competing in the Rolex Fastnet Race are equipped with various types of communications equipment which can be used to request assistance.

Most boats also have an EPIRB (Electronic Position Indicating Radio Beacon) which reports the boats identity and location to the Search and Rescue Authorities if activated in case of emergency.



2011 Fleet Tracking

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Follow the real race on the Tracker

Fleet Tracking Player

Competing Boats in the 2011 Rolex Fastnet Race are equipped with tracking beacons from Yellowbrick.

Click here to open the Race Player.

Ranking Pages / Light-Weight options

Leaderboard

HTML Leaderboard

For Skippers/Competitors

We have several plain-text options available for competitors, such as MaxSea, Expedition and other low-bandwidth formats.

Please see the Options Page (http://yb.tl/links/fastnet2011) and bookmark the downloads you require:

Low-Bandwidth Options Page http://yb.tl/links/fastnet2011

 

2009 Fleet Tracking

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Follow the real race in the RORC/OC Trackers

Fleet Tracking Player

Competing Boats in the 2009 Rolex Fastnet Race are equipped with tracking beacons. Click here to open the Race Player.

Ranking Page

A page with updated rankings is available. Click here to open the Rankings Page.

"Light" Ranking Page

In addition, a light-weight web site (no graphics, limited functionality) will be available on
http://fastnet.rorc.org/2009-fleet-tracking-light-ranking.html

It will be updated 10 minutes past the hour, every hour; starting Sunday, 9th August 12:00 hrs.

"Light" Ranking File

A light-weight ranking file in PosMaxSea format for competitors will be available on
http://fastnet.rorc.org/downloads/tracking-position-reports/fastnetpm.txt

It will be updated 10 minutes past the hour, every four hours; starting Sunday, 9th August 12:00 hrs. (Example: 1210 hrs; 1610 hrs; 2010 hrs)

The file containing the association of tracker IDs to boat names will be available soon.

"Light" Ranking File IDs

The PosMaxSea file uses Tracking-IDs to display positions. To find out which boat is mapped to which ID, you can download the file here: http://fastnet.rorc.org/downloads/tracking-position-reports/association.csv

Google Earth File

You can find a Google Earth file, containing all positions and tracks of all boats, by downloading it from here: http://admin.octracker.net/fastnet2009.kml

 

 

2007 Fleet Tracking

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The 2007 edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race was being tracked by OC Tracker and OC Vision.

Replay of the 2007 Rolex Fastnet Race

The Race can be replayed by using this link to the Official Race Player

Tracking Google Earth File:

[add the following address as a 'Network Link'] http://admin.octracker.net/fastnet2007.kml