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From The Times Online:
You can have the shiniest yacht moored in the most fabulous location and you can pose on deck P Diddy-style with a bevy of sultry sirens while sipping cocktails. But if your face is turning the colour of the gin bottle and you feel like vomiting over the side, you might as well be in a dinghy for all the enjoyment you'll get out of it.
Now there's a high-tech solution to the old-fashioned problem of seasickness. The Ferretti 630, which will make its UK debut at the Southampton Boat Show on Friday, boasts a patented system called Anti Rolling Gyro (ARG) that stops the boat from rocking from side to side, the primary cause of nausea at sea.
Created by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, it was intended originally for use in satellites to prevent them flying off course in the event of an impact. Now licensed to Ferretti, an Italian builder of luxury powerboats, it uses a 154lb steel and aluminium gyroscope located in the bottom of the hull and powered by an electric motor.
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