Steve Lane and webmaster Albert Jindra head the projects multimedia management. As the project will evolve over several years, its progress will be tracked and charted online, with short video documentaries regularly uploaded, which will combine with uploads of radio interviews, blogs and TV/print press images embodied in www.trybrid.org. An example of the one such radio interview with prospective environment minister Peter Garrett can be heard here.davisvsgarrettboatbit.mp3 ()
The boat will be satellite linked for constant video, audio and written feedback communication. There will be a low powered, mobile radio station aboard Trybrid. Short documentary film production, via the new simplified era of digital production, will be boat’s main carbon free emission. Trybrid multimedia will chronicle the design, construction and launch of the project, and will then change up a gear to chronicle the adventures of the boats first few years, through the, ‘show and tell’ tour, in accordance with Trybrid’s sponsorship agreements, around the world. Eventually, the multimedia team will track Trybrid’s work as the vessel begins work in the fast response, post disaster aid work, where the video and audio trail will be, for better and worse, confronting. The project will not go unnoticed on the world stage.
It may be premature to speculate, but one day, the Trybrid and it’s team would like to help contribute to a first around the world, motorized boat race using minimal energy. Use of fossil fuels would be basis the handicapping system in the new era of boating ahead, as the solar boating focus moves from solar car races, to other modes of solar boosted competition. The 8.3m model of Trybrid will hopefully compete in the Solar Challenge.