Race Setup

A perennial problem for those who like to compete in sailboat racing is to create a course which fairly tests the individual competitors boat speed, boat handling, and tactical and strategic abilities. Those managing a race event are charged with setting a racecourse which does just that. The on-the-water setup of a race course can benefit from sharing data between vessels in an automated fashion. This requires some kind of networking between vessels that are outfitted with instrumentation that assists officials with determining instantaneous wind speed and direction as well as recent trends. Signalk enables the sharing of this kind of data.