IlliGAL Blogging

Tomorrow, six brave stalwarts of the good lab IlliGAL will travel up I-57 to Burnham Harbor in Chicago to crew the 10-meter sloop Urdragon. Landlubbing IlliGALers have been boning up on their points of sail here. They've also been studying their nautical terms (click here), but this requires translation into a number of languages including Catalan, Mandarin, Japanese, and Hindi among others. One difficulty is the preponderance software engineers and computer scientists in the group. Sailing a boat is largely a hardware problem.