Predicting chaos: NZ app helps sailors navigate rough waters

Predicting chaos: NZ app helps sailors navigate rough waters
Olympian and America’s Cup alum Jon Bilger describes how he built his successful business. (Image: PredictWind/Joshua McCormack)
Ben Moore
Two notable features of the ocean are, first, that it is completely devoid of roads and, second, that it tends to move around a bit.These features make creating a wayfinding solution for seafaring vehicles a tad more complicated than choosing the best road with the least traffic; the chaos of the weather and waves would need a tool with far more depth.To spearhead the development of this tool would take someone who was born into sailing, who was raised on an island nation, and with experience in the world’s most famous sailing race.If any...

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