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In any sport its important to do post match analysis. Sailing is no exception. With all the races that we do on Jengu we try to assess what we did right, what went wrong and what we could do better next time. The sources of information on any sailing boat are vast. There are literally dozens of...

How do I get the information out of my boats network? Most modern sailing boats have networks that run on NMEA 2000 protocol or proprietary variants of that type. The networks connect the various devices on the boat together and allow the exchange of information. Rockit is expecting to receive...

Reviewing the data collected for Jengu racing to St Vaast using Rockit over the bank holiday weekend. There was a lot of debate before departure as to which weather model was going to be right GFS or ECMWF. A lot of time was spent reviewing the maps from Predict Wind and Wind Guru; pretty...

The results are out. Jengu is 7th overall for the season. Up from 19th last year. All credit to the crew for putting in a lot of hard work over the last six months. Bill/October 2018 Originally published October 16...

In addition to the discussion in the last post. This is the track from the Race loaded into Google Earth. You can load the attached .kml file into Google Earth to see the data that we are collecting in more detail. The .kml file is here: KML File For JOG Nab Tower Race Tracking Clicking the...

We are very pleased … All the hard work is starting to payoff. 3rd in class and 8 seconds behind second place… Bill/May 2018 Originally published May 21...

Six coats of anti foul on the keel looks good…. now all we have to do is avoid getting stuck in the mud ….thats all. Bill/Feb 2018 Originally published February 14...

Jengu, as with any boat, is a work in progress. The more we fix and fettle the more we find we need to fix. As a consequence January 2016 saw us working on more of the issues with Jengu that had been highlighted after a full seasons sailing. Our number one priority was to check the rudder...

The beginning of November saw us return to the Solent again for an informal weekends sailing with London Corinthian Sailing Clubs offshore group. The Not Race and Hot Toddy evening have become a traditional end of season outing. Its a simple format, we get together at Hamble Point on a Friday...

The 2nd weekend in September saw us back on the water after the August break. August for some people might be Cowes week and the peak of the sailing season but for us its always been school holidays and time out with the family. This year we took advantage of the downtime to take Jengu out of...

Last weekend was our first serious race outing for Jengu. We’ve had a couple of other trips including circuits of the Solent, racing to the Nab Tower and St Vaast, but this was our first serious test of the systems that we have installed and configured over the last 6 months. As described in...

When I first saw Jengu it was November it was a foul day at Hamble Point and the wind was strong enough to be moving the boat around even though it was on dry land. I didn’t pay much attention to the fact that the instruments said it was blowing 100knots. It seemed plausible. Fast forward to a...