Yachting World

MATT SHEAHAN

How happy would you be to have your behaviour on the race course watched and scrutinised by an umpire in the cloud? Would you be prepared to abide by a traffic light system on your instrument display that told you when you were pushing your luck, or pulled you up when you had gone too far?

Perhaps if everyone had to abide by a Big Brother-style umpiring system we’d all

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