Italtel wins IMS World Championship

The new IMS 600 Grand Soleil 42’ skippered by the talented Vasco Vascotto has won both the overall and 600 class IMS world championship held last week in Capri.

The boat was fitted with a Sailmath WTP processor controlled from the latest 6.05 Deckman for Windows version. Nacho Postigo (navigator on board Italtel) commented “one of the reasons to choose the WTP solution was the its ability to receive data from high performance sensors and 10hz (or faster!) GPS sampling. This has proved to be critical during this race, not only in the starting procedure (the starting display in Deckman becomes faster and much more accurate), but particularly to calculate currents. Anyone who thinks the Mediterranean is a currentless place will never win a race here, because we have been consistently measuring currents of up to 1.2 knots during the week. This information has provided us with a leading advantage against our competitors in situations such as the starting line or the mark laylines”.

28th April 2003