Application: Sailing

Timer

Hi. Firstly thanks for this app and all your hard work.

I'm looking for an app for dinghy racing. There are many features in this app that I like, but it seems to me that it is mostly geared for yacht racing/cruising (i.e. big boats on the sea).

The most critical part for me is the build up to the start. To be honest, I don't need much else from the app after that, it's just nice to track the race to review later. But before the start, I need the timer to work perfectly to assist me in making a good start.

Our races use the ISAF 5-4-1-0 start sequence. There is a 10 minute warning, but that is usually rather inaccurate.

I sail a single-hander. At 5 minutes, I'm usually still preparing, checking I've got the course right, trimming the boat and adjusting things that might have got caught up, etc. I often miss the 5 minute gun and start the timer late. I'm then really busy right up to the start gun, jockeying for position and trying to figure out where best to start on the line. I need to be able to sync the timer to the 4 minute gun and maybe even the 1 minute. This needs to be really easy to do as everything is frantic at this time.

I hope this gives you an insight into one use case of your app and perhaps you might consider enhancing the timer to be able to do this. I'd be happy to send beer money if you did.

As others have mentioned, the app often crashes, displaying the IQ! symbol and freezing the watch (I have a Fenix 3). For this reason, I can't use the app on race day yet.

You also discussed calorie calculations in previous posts, due to the activity being added to you walking total for the day. There is a "Sailing" activity type in Garmin connect. I've entered my races manually this way before and the calories are calculated. I'm not sure how accurate it is (after all, sailing a Laser in a force 6 will burn a lot more calories than sailing a cruising yacht in a force 2!), but it should be a better fit than recording it as walking or running. Can you have the activities saved this way?

Thanks again

StartTimer

Hi. Firstly thanks for this app and all your hard work.

I'm looking for an app for dinghy racing....

...I need to be able to sync the timer to the 4 minute gun and maybe even the 1 minute. This needs to be really easy to do as everything is frantic at this time....

I appreciate the work, too.

But as my most wanted feature - the timer countdown to start - was missing and I had a look at Connect IQ, I wrote a small App for what I would like to see. It's available at https://github.com/oe8bck/StartTimer with GPL v3 license. It is still buggy, as my watch freezes when I re-enter the App, but at least the synchronization works once ;-)

I am looking forward to fix the bugs this winter and have it ready for the next season. Any help in bug-fixing is welcome!

KR,
Christof

http://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/monkey-c/doc/Toybox/ActivityRecording.html

That's what available as activities to classify in GC.

How disappointing that Sailing is not in there. It is in the Garmin Connect Android app and the web app. It is under "Other" though, so maybe they all just translate to SPORT_GENERIC and the calorie count is just a token gesture. Seemed a better fit than walking/running though.

My Version

I also wrote my own timer. Code is here: https://github.com/spikyjt/SailingTimer

I used it this Sunday just gone and it worked great. No bugs!

This isn't meant to do tracking, just the timer bit. The licence is MIT, so anyone can use the code if they think it is any use.

I discovered a missing feature already - pursuit races need extra timer options! I always find those start really tricky, so I'm going to add a menu to select the offset you need.

Anyway, I'll stop hijacking this thread. Keep up the good work.

I'd like to help with the project. Is the code up on some private source control system somewhere? Or, hey, would you like any help with this :)

cheers

Vmc Function

Hello,

This is a cool app. Thank you for the time and effort in the developing this tool. The application runs very smoothly on my 920XT. The functionality I need is VMC. I need to be able to input mark locations then select a mark or input mark locations then display VMC. I feel like most of the sailors around would really benefit from this capability. Do you have any plan to incorporate a VMC into this app? Please let me know if you have any questions. I am a part time app developer and would not mind collaborating.

Best,
Jeremy

Support for Forerunner 235

Hi, could you please add support for Garmin Forerunner 235? Thank you.

Hi all,

A quick question as a newbie - am considering getting a Fenix 3 and want to know, is this an app that can be used on it to help with yacht sailing?
Specifically a weeklong sail around Croatian islands etc...

Thanks

This thread is for any comments or questions regarding my Sailing application. Feel free to post suggestions for new features or bugs. Thanks for using.

Changelog:

#version 0.7
- added a startline screen that displays a countdown, distance and course to startline, ETA (see description)
- added support for D2 Bravo
- Layout updates for Velocity view
- 4 minutes countdown

Hello, I also only get the error message. Could you let me know if this is something that you are planning on correcting?

Many thanks

James