Viper 640 North American Championship
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 Posted in gps, sailing, viper 640 | No Comments »[singlepic=80,320,240,,right]The Viper 640 North American Championship was held last week (July 24-27), as part of the Marblehead NOOD regatta. As a new owner of a Viper 640, I was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to charter a boat for ...
New Toy - Velocitek SC-1
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in gps, sailing, viper 640 | No Comments »Well, I couldn't resist any more... I finally succumbed to the temptation and bought a Velocitek SC-1 GPS-based Speedometer/Compass/VMG/Timer. Made by a little outfit in Hawaii, the SC-1 can display real-time speed, heading, or VMG, all based on a GPS ...
2008 Bridge Too Far Regatta - GPS Replay
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in gps, sailing | 1 Comment »Last weekend was the Stillhouse Sailing Club "Bridge Too Far" Regatta, an annual long distance race (20+ miles!) on Lake Stillhouse Hollow. Dave K. and I sailed it on my Laser2 dinghy, Pterodactyl. Click on the link below to view ...
GPS VMG Waypoint Circle Generator
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in download, gps, hack, sailing | No Comments »This Excel-based utility lets you set up a GPS receiver to calculate VMG (velocity made good) relative to a desired heading, to help you fine tune your sailing angles (choosing between pinching and footing upwind, and heating up vs. soaking ...
Lat/Lon Format Converter
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in download, gps, sailing | 1 Comment »Latitude/Longitude Format Converter Have you ever suffered the frustration of having to manually convert a latitude/longitude between degrees-minutes-seconds and decimal degrees, or degrees with decimal minutes? Different GPS receivers, maps, web sites, and documents will express lat/lon in one of the three ...