by Bill Stock | Jan 20, 2023 | Blog
A Bit Of Nab Tower History For those of you that don’t know the Solent the Nab Tower is a large navigation mark in the Eastern approaches to Portsmouth. It has an interesting history. It was originally designed as one of a series of forts to be built across th e...
by Bill Stock | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog
In the last post we talked about the need to know when you are really going fast; not just thinking you are going fast. If we know when we are fast should we not be able to work out exactly what we are doing to make the boat go fast ? As we described in the last blog...
by Bill Stock | Feb 9, 2022 | Blog
We all know the feeling, we hit the top of a wave the boat surfs, accelerates then goes quiet, everyone watches the numbers on the mast instruments and at that point you set the highest speed score for the day. You put a score on the board for everyone else who helms...
by Bill Stock | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
We’ve haven’t written anything here for a while so this is us getting back into the habit… VMG (Wind) – Distance travelled towards the wind divided by time. VMG appears on a lot of marine instrument systems but is in our opinion not well understood. The standard...
by Bill Stock | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog
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....
by Bill Stock | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog
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....
