by Bill Stock | Mar 10, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Bill Stock | Feb 16, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Bill Stock | Feb 2, 2023 | Blog
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...
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...
