Google Earth Community: Transatlantic Sailing Records Compared

Visualization of 3 TransAtlantic Sailing Records: Jet Services (1990), PlayStation (2001) and OrangeII (2006).

After Orange2's run earlier this month, I did some digging and scrounged data on Playstation and Jet Services V, and constructed this Google Earth comparison of the 3 runs. PlayStation had a limited dataset, so I pulled corresponding points, by elapsed time, from the Orange2 position tables. That way, the map sets up with coordinated elapsed time points, so you can see where all boats were at +36 Hours, for example. The points are color coded to match on each line.

To try and avoid so much colored spaghetti, I also made it so you can also limit the points to 4 times, to compare where that boats were at 36h, 65h, 80h, and the finish times (the odd spacing of the times is because of PlayStation's data).

For kicks, I also marked Orange's 24h record run. The speed fence is prev 24h average on Orange, overall average on PS and JSV.