Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (S…

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Author: Thomas Kluyver
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016, at 02:22 PM, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote:
> I remember an article some years ago about a robot auto-navigation
> voyage in which, as so often happens in cars, they'd put in a slightly
> wrong name and the yacht ended up on the west coast of America, rather
> than in Wales.


The West coast? That's some impressive navigation. There's an ongoing
contest to make a small robot boat cross the Atlantic, but as far as I
know it's not yet been managed:

http://www.microtransat.org/history.php

Thomas

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