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If you’re running a Rockit Server onboard (quietly humming away in the nav station), the OpenCPN Chart Plotter makes a brilliant “situational awareness” layer on top of your performance data collection stack. This guide walk you through a clean install of OpenCPN on a Rockit Server Device. What...

2020 seems a long time ago now. Being locked down in a converted cow barn at the end of a farm track in Wiltshire took social isolation to the extreme but it gave us time to pause and reflect. For us, that reflection centred on one question: How could we make Rockit better, and more...

Understanding how fast your boat should actually go is key to making sure you get the most out of it. If you’ve ever wondered why speed over ground (SOG) isn’t the best guide to fast sailing or why some trips just feel sluggish despite good wind, then dive into polars and VPPs—tools that...

Having a game plan that allows you to repeat a process is vital if you are going to improve your overall sailing performance. We are proud to have been long-standing members of the London Corinthian Sailing Club – for longer than we care to admit. Over the years, the club has seen a surge in...

First RORC race of the year, the De Guingand Bowl, out of the way over the weekend. A gentle, 100-mile, light airs race to Poole and back via Bembridge and St Catherines point. As a crew and skipper we learned a couple of things. Lesson One:...

Review Race Performance Watch us explore our collected race data in real time on Rockit …… there is no sound track ! Take the Rockit 2023 Edition track panel for a...

….stupid title must think of a better one for the next article… So in the last article I talked about the Fastnet Race and what was involved for the crew. We are now one month into our campaign. Our boat is back in the water and we have had a couple of weekends out on the water so we know what...

The Race This year is the 50th edition of the Fastnet race. Its run every two years. The first race was won by Jolie Brise in 1925. Jolie Breeze is still very actively sailed on the UK South Coast. This will be the second time that the race has been sailed from Cowes to Cherbourg via the...

Something to think about for the summer. Where are you leaving your boat between regattas and what will be living on the bottom when you get back to it ? Weed and other marine wildlife, whose main aim in life sometimes seems to be to slow us down, grow at different rates depending on a whole...

When we originally developed Rockit we used various rough and ready methods to get data into the Laptop we were using to run the software. Back then, circa 2016, cue a certain amount of nostalgia, we used to connect things together by twisting wires; all the things you aren’t supposed to do to...