Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $1.8 million project led by Halifax-based SailTimer to produce crowd-sourced weather reporting both for and from sailboats.
SailTimer, helmed by President Craig Summers, is currently accepting pre-orders for its own SailTimer Wind Instrument RB. It's the hardware for its own version of a technology similar to that being developed by the supercluster consortium.
The Ocean Supercluster will pay for $536,000 of the project, dubbed Crowdsourced Wind Maps: A New Type of Data for Marine Weather and Navigation, with the rest of the money coming from the