Warning!

Building an autonomous boat is dangerous to your wealth.
You should not build an autonomous boat unless you are supervised by a responsible wife.

Robin testing the software on Bray Lake Click on the picture to visit his very interesting site (opens a new window)

Joker is an autonomous yacht controlled by a computer receiving information from the GPS (Geostatioary Position Satellites). The yachts position is transmitted daily using a satellite telephone and hopefully the position and track will be updated onto this website. In coastal waters we have the facility to listen to voice commands given by the computer to the rudder and sail controls. The speed, position, course and way points will also be spoken. This facility was originally devised so that it would be easy to set up the boat but it has proved to be an entertaining feature and may be left in the final design.

More details of "The Microtransat Challenge" are here

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We have attempted to design this site to make downloading as quickly as reasonably possible and to size the screen elements to suit both screen (800 x 600 up) and printer output. Our design uses Internet Explorer for testing but we hope the site is usable with any browser.

Apologies for any broken links. Much like our yacht, the site is still in a state of constant development.

Site and photos are © John Silvester, Team Captain author and owner and managed by Webmaster, Neil Manuel. Feel free to build on our ideas but please acknowledge your source and link to us if you wish to use any of our material on your own site.