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BT GLOBAL CHALLENGE - TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE OPENS Southampton (UK), 25 June 1997. BT, MCI, Digital and other sponsors are hosting their customers at the Technology Showcase that opened yesterday. The exhibits includes the latest solutions in information technology in the Wharf room at the Boston Harbour Hotel. The BT Global Challenge Showcase is an inspirational way of demonstrating how, through good business relationships and leading edge technology, BT and its partners can build on their combined knowledge and skills to create innovative solutions for today's forward thinking businesses. Some of the things are technologies of the future, whilst others are happening right now. 25 children from Bowman School, Lexington visited the showcase yesterday morning and also had the opportunity to step on board Save the Children. All the kids were very excited to see inside a BT Global Challenge yacht as they had been following the race all year. Today, more school children from John W. McCormack Middle School in Worcester will also have their own private visit to the Technology showcase after visiting the yachts, followed by the trip to the Computer Museum. The crews and yachts are now ready to get back to racing and tackle the final leg of 7,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. After a week's holiday for the crews, exploring Massachusetts and for some, further afield, their final week is spent doing corporate hospitality. The Challenge Business has now completed the rigging inspection on the yachts. Cape Town proved to be a very frenetic period of inspections and maintenance after the rigorous conditions that the yachts experienced in the Southern Ocean. Leg 5 to Boston, however provided much kinder conditions, although equally testing for each yacht's crew. Instead of battling with the Southern Ocean conditions, the Altantic Ocean required the intense concentration necessary to keep the spinnaker full for days on end. Loss of concentration could result in damaged spinnakers and lower speeds. Leg 5 proved to be the fastest leg of the race so far with the leading yachts averaging over 8.5 knots which over 7,200 miles is surprising fast for a yacht designed to go to windward through the Southern Ocean. Most yachts were ready to leave Boston after only two or three days maintenance although the sail repairs took rather longer. 26 blown or damaged spinnakers together with six headsails were repaired in Boston but no mainsails were landed for repair. The total number of sails requiring work were much less than anticipated. For updated information on the BT Global Challenge : Internet site : http//www.btchallenge.com Fax database : 0990 321123 (+44 990 321123 from outside UK) Recorded telephone information line : 0891 505550 (UK only) Public enquiry bureau : 01703 212124 (+44 1703 212124 from outside UK) Ceefax page 388 (UK only) |
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