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13th April 2012, 12:38 PM #1
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OzRacer sailing speeds
Hi All,
I took my GPS out with me sailing last week. Attached is a plot of my speed - As you can see, the boat is pretty consistently hitting hull speed (3.7 kts)
This was in about 8 kts of breeze at Humpybong last weekend. There was about 0.3-0.5m of chop. I'm using a the tarp sprit rig at the moment.
Interested if anyone else out there has some speed logs for comparison.
D.
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14th April 2012, 08:21 PM #2
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That is super interesting...can you pull any other meaningful data out of your system?
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15th April 2012, 12:19 AM #3
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What other data might be useful?
With some analysis of the track data, I might be able to work out a rough pointing angle on each tack.. maybe.. I'll grab a plot of the tracks when I'm back in front of my other computer on Monday.
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15th April 2012, 09:32 AM #4
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Most GPS systems can produce data that can be interpreted by TackTracker. Download a copy here. The Complete Yacht Race Player and Analyser
Originally Posted by duncang
It would be really great to look at tack angles etc.
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20th April 2012, 07:55 PM #5
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Cool!
If the data does give effective pointing angles it might be able to track your improvement too.
Michael
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