On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:26:55 -0500, "Jack Painter"
wrote:
Historical GPS tracks around a course do not
tell the story it took to get there. Neither could speed through the water
by itself help trim the boat for best course to a mark that you won't
achieve without more information.

That was my original point of course. You can't evaluate sailing
performance without knowing something about wind speed and wind
direction.


Jack, who was a Gary Jobson fan for about 25 years.

Likewise. Any word on how Gary is doing? Last article I've seen on
him was from about a year ago after his second round of chemo.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:26:55 -0500, "Jack Painter"
wrote:
Historical GPS tracks around a course do not
tell the story it took to get there. Neither could speed through the
water
by itself help trim the boat for best course to a mark that you won't
achieve without more information.

That was my original point of course. You can't evaluate sailing
performance without knowing something about wind speed and wind
direction.


Jack, who was a Gary Jobson fan for about 25 years.

Likewise. Any word on how Gary is doing? Last article I've seen on
him was from about a year ago after his second round of chemo.


He's apparently doing well ater the second-round/bout last year. Here is his
lecture schedule:

http://www.jobsonsailing.com/lectures.cfm

Best regards,

Jack

Alberto (Tilax) wrote:
www.gpsu.co.uk.


Already tried.
I can convert almost anything but what I need :-(

Alberto.-



Any idea of what is the format required by GarTrack?
Are the files binary or ascii? If you have the specs, a small program in
C could solve the problem; I may have some suggestions if you like but
first of all I need to understand the specs of the requested input files.

Daniele

Alberto,

Have a look at TacticTool at http://www.nauticis.com/html/tactictool.html

I developed this specifically for sail racing and outputs data in text
format. Also it has many features for doing analysis within the program
eg. stripcharts and polar diagrams, although the polar functions require
wind input.

Regards

Willem Amels
(Author TacticTool)


"Alberto \(Tilax\)" wrote in
:

I'd like to analyze GPS data with some sort of software helping to
learn something about my regattas.
I've found just GarTrack. It's very very simple and most of all accept
just a strange file format (gardown)
The results is that I cannot get neither convert (many hours spent on
Internet) my data to something GarTrack could be feeded with.

Do you know something better than GarTrack that, also, can accept a
more widely available file format?

Thanks for helping.
Alberto.-

Have a look at TacticTool at http://www.nauticis.com/html/tactictool.html

Willem,
seems really something very usefull and very near to what I'm looking for.
I've big trobles on my pc (hope monday I can have che HD changed) so I'm not
downloading the beta.

Can it be feeded with nmea prerecorded file?
I know it's quite punishing but... wind data can be fed manually?

Pls, can I know the price in email?
[afossati-at-singular-dot-it]

Thanks.
Alberto.