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....
by Bill Stock | May 14, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Bill Stock | Oct 16, 2018 | Blog
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 2018
by Bill Stock | May 24, 2018 | Blog
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...
