Yeah I think they where Alinghi team members, after they built the cat this was all they had left for training tools
The Alinghi base is very interesting though, they have a match racing simulator game with a moving **** etc.
Also a demo of realtime camera sailshape analysis (see pic).
There is also a fiberoptic sensor demo, pretty cool to bend a carbon rod and see in a monitor just how much bend there is etc.