Friday 12 June 2009
Team Tarka featured on Eland "Reel Life" blog
Eland cables have added an entry to their reel life blog about team tarka, and the important part that Eland played in getting our boat ready for the competition.
Monday 1 June 2009
Final Results
So, the end of Project Tarka has arrived with the following results today:
3rd place qualifying event
Winners : Teamwork Award
Winners: Best Score for a rookie team
Winners: Sportsmanship Award
Overall Place : 10th
We had three excellent sprint results today, with three consistent runs of 47s, 47s and 50s (with an experimental prop angle and not fully charged batteries). Karim drove very well under difficult conditions, and the boat looked great. Karim also now knows the new technical term "give it the beans!"...
Yesterday was a highlight, with the morning run a tactical error on the power management front leaving us short on battery power too early and 14 laps completed, but the second run was simply *outstanding*, with 17.75 laps completed and one of the best pieces of overall teamwork I've ever seen.
Dirk driving to a schedule superbly, Karim doing Telemetry and working really hard to get it working and then providing fantastic numbers, Rich on race tactics and superb radio, and myself on the Radio point on the dam overlooking the race and providing wind and race status to Dirk and the guys. The outcome was joint first in the standings in the Silver medal race, and a really exciting race, from being lapped early on, to a two hour chase of the leading boat which we caught up on the final minutes with the batteries giving out as the finish hooter went...it was fantastic...
From an engineering standpoint we had *no* problems with any of the engineering, and the boat was running on its limits all week - it could have not been run better. The best compliment paid was almost every team saying "we need to watch out for your guys next year".
Many thanks for all your help, hard work and commitment - and I hope we've done everyone proud with this rookie outing, exceeding my expectation. Getting into the top ten was a dream this year, but I didn't really dare to hope we'd actually do it- the strength of some of the teams is just scary. This means that we now know our number for 2010 - number 10 - as only the top ten boats get a number for the following year.
So, now the work starts for next year, but we'll have a party around the boat when I get it shipped back (we packed it all up in the crate today), and acknowledge everyone's efforts when we all get back.
Cheers,
Peter
(Image courtesy of Scott Miller http://sjmpix.zenfolio.com)
3rd place qualifying event
Winners : Teamwork Award
Winners: Best Score for a rookie team
Winners: Sportsmanship Award
Overall Place : 10th
We had three excellent sprint results today, with three consistent runs of 47s, 47s and 50s (with an experimental prop angle and not fully charged batteries). Karim drove very well under difficult conditions, and the boat looked great. Karim also now knows the new technical term "give it the beans!"...
Yesterday was a highlight, with the morning run a tactical error on the power management front leaving us short on battery power too early and 14 laps completed, but the second run was simply *outstanding*, with 17.75 laps completed and one of the best pieces of overall teamwork I've ever seen.
Dirk driving to a schedule superbly, Karim doing Telemetry and working really hard to get it working and then providing fantastic numbers, Rich on race tactics and superb radio, and myself on the Radio point on the dam overlooking the race and providing wind and race status to Dirk and the guys. The outcome was joint first in the standings in the Silver medal race, and a really exciting race, from being lapped early on, to a two hour chase of the leading boat which we caught up on the final minutes with the batteries giving out as the finish hooter went...it was fantastic...
From an engineering standpoint we had *no* problems with any of the engineering, and the boat was running on its limits all week - it could have not been run better. The best compliment paid was almost every team saying "we need to watch out for your guys next year".
Many thanks for all your help, hard work and commitment - and I hope we've done everyone proud with this rookie outing, exceeding my expectation. Getting into the top ten was a dream this year, but I didn't really dare to hope we'd actually do it- the strength of some of the teams is just scary. This means that we now know our number for 2010 - number 10 - as only the top ten boats get a number for the following year.
So, now the work starts for next year, but we'll have a party around the boat when I get it shipped back (we packed it all up in the crate today), and acknowledge everyone's efforts when we all get back.
Cheers,
Peter
(Image courtesy of Scott Miller http://sjmpix.zenfolio.com)
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