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VIDEO: Exuma feels the force of Hurricane Irma

VIDEO: Exuma feels the force of Hurricane Irma

Fri, Sep 8th 2017, 11:01 PM

Exuma lashed with hurricane force winds and torrential rains as Hurricane Irma continues her march to Florida.

 

SSL Finals 2016: Best of the Best Regatta: Sailors Sloop Sank

SSL Finals 2016: Best of the Best Regatta: Sailors Sloop Sank

Tue, Dec 6th 2016, 11:02 AM

A perfect day in Nassau, Bahamas, off the beautiful Montagu Bay, where the Best of the Best Regatta took place today with traditional sloops racing and Bahamian junior sailing running their 2016 finals.

A great occasion for our Star Sailors to jump on one boat, Crazy Partner, and challenge the locals on their specialties. "In nomen omen" and the boat proved to be one crazy partner with sailors unable to manage her. Going downwind the international crew thought it was a good idea to gybe, when the local tactician onboard didn't agree they didn't think it was because Bahamian Sloops cannot gybe. During the manouvre the boat went slightly under water and in 5 seconds was literally sinking. Watch the video below, with a very funny interview to the SSL Swim Team!

Joking aside, last night the Gala Dinner with Prize Giving Ceremony was held at Nassau Yacht Club, with the 25 teams, all of the SSL Staff, Dennis Conner, the Race Committee and all those people from the Club that helped during the week. It was a very enjoyable night with sailing legends such as Torben Grael, Robert Scheidt and Paul Cayard were sharing good memories and stories with the new kids from the block, like 22 years old Facundo Olezza and kiwi Sam Meech.

The Star Sailors League took a chance for a preview of the plans for next year. The SSL Finals 2017 will come back to Nassau, Bahamas from 3rd to 10th December. And if this is not big enough, the Bacardi Cup, in Miami from 5th to 11th March, will be worth 3,000 point for the SSL Rankings. It will be the first time this prestigious and historic event, running for the Star since the 1920s, will receive as many points as a SSL Grand Slam. Full Media Coverage will be granted in Star Sailors League style and some of the world's best sailors will be racing as VIPs.

It will be a great opportunity for Star Sailors League to test the format of the SSL Sea Grand Slam, the one that follows sailing tradition. The format will see long routes and races, not more than 2 per day, lasting up to two hours. It takes inspiration by the historical format of Star Class world championships and not by the SSL two-phase format with a qualification and elimination rounds like the other three Grand Slam.

This traditional format allows legendary regattas to enter in the SSL Circuit without undermining their original rules. SSL Sea Grand Slam celebrates the champions that are the inshore regatta legends: Paul Elvstrom (DEN), Lowell North (USA), Dennis Conner (USA), John Bertrand (AUS), Jochen Shümann (GER), and many others. The ideal champion for the SSL Sea Grand Slam is a great strategist, able to run his race while controlling the other competitors, anticipating the water’s evolution, taking advantage from them. It’s endurance sailing at its finest, the best will maintain physical and mental potential for up to 8 hours a day and will race with winds ranging from 10 to 18 knots.


SSL Finals 2016 - Best of the Best - SSL Boat Sunk

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Source: SSL

VIDEO: THE TRIBUNE'S TOP 5 - your countdown of the week's big stories

VIDEO: THE TRIBUNE'S TOP 5 - your countdown of the week's big stories

Mon, Nov 28th 2016, 10:10 AM


Nico Scavella reviews the big stories that had the Bahamas talking this week.


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WhatsApp Launched Chat Feature Is All About Security, Multitasking

WhatsApp Launched Chat Feature Is All About Security, Multitasking

Tue, Nov 15th 2016, 10:53 AM

WhatsApp introduces video calling feature with a focus on multitasking and security

Users accessing the Facebook (FB, Tech30)-owned messaging app on iOS, Android and Windows can now visually chat with friends but also multitask within other apps at the same time. So if a call goes on for too long, users can distract themselves by scrolling through Instagram.

The feature also has a major emphasis on security. Like messages and phone calls on WhatsApp, the video chat functionality will be encrypted by default. This means only the two devices involved in the conversation can access the shared data.

It's a part of a larger effort from WhatsApp, which is favored by a range of users from high school students to politicians, to make privacy and encryption mainstream.


WhatsApp Video Calling

The feature comes more than a year after Facebook rolled out video chat capabilities to its Messenger app.

While Apple's iOS-only FaceTime video chat feature touts similar security protocols and multitasking features found in the app update, WhatsApp has a leg up in emerging markets where Android devices dominate. For example, Andoid makes up 97% of the market in India.

Meanwhile, Google's new video app Duo includes end-to-end encryption, but the platform is minuscule compared to WhatsApp's 1 billion user base. Facebook recently unveiled a secret conversations feature for texting on Messenger,. However, it requires users to opt-in each time.

WhatsApp's relationship with Facebook might worry some privacy conscious users. Earlier this year, it was announced the texting app would starting sharing phone numbers with the social network, so users could see personalized Facebook ads based on WhatsApp data.

WhatsApps new feature will roll out to all users starting Tuesday.

By Selena Larson

Source: CNN

Video source: Youtube/BGR.RN