Sturdeee - We are the first connected Transat flotilla

We are the first “connected Transat flotilla”Sun Nov 26 2023 ThisARC+ fleet we are participating in, is the first time EVER that anflotilla crosses the Atlantic, while a large number of the participants,is live chatting via the internet. This year in Jan 2023 (or was it late dec 2022?) was the first timesome sailors experimented with Starlink in a transat and reported it wasworking (though starlink had not released the service yet officially)… On the boats I crossed with in 2021 and 2022 we had already fullinternet but lower bandwidth with us (we tested the very firstprototypes of the Skylink and new Iridium Go Exec at that time, with theIridium technical team.) But…. back then, even though fully connected, we were alone on theocean: hardly any other sailor had internet connectivity. read more...