News

April 2, 2008

The new blogsite for this year's Pacific Cup is up at cirrus2008.blogspot.com, joins us there!

October 20, 2007

Cirrugator has found a new home on its own website www.cirrugator.com, and on a new server, which gives the performance that was sometimes missing on the previous installation.

Try it out! Ulli

Lindsey and Bill celebrate 1st place

July 27, 2007

Cirrus on First Place!

... and Cirrugator was key in getting them there! Next boat was some 100 miles behind them! Here is an excerpt from the press release of the Transpac Organizers:

The final winner was Cirrus, a 34-year-old Standfast 40 in Aloha B class [...]

[Captain] Austin said at the dock, "We kind of came into this as an underdog. Ulli [Ulli Steiner, Myers' fellow nuclear physicist in Germany and longtime friend] wrote a weather tracking program [i.e. Cirrugator] for us. A couple of days into the race the program said to go south for 2 1/2 days. I didn't think that was the thing to do and we talked about it for a full day. Finally, I decided to go south as the program said, but for only 1 1/2 days. We weren't sure if that was the right thing to do but... Oh! Let me tell you how we found out it was the right move!

You can replay the race with Cirrugator all by yourself. All data are available online; look for the links to Cirrugator in the left panel.

Congratulation to the crew. Did they enjoy the victory? - I think the picture tells it all. Look for more info in the blog.

Aloha, Ulli