Application: Sailing

This is great thank you!! I will install the app soon. Meanwhile i've just sent a couple of beers throught Paypall!
Would be great if you'd implement, with the countdown, the start line too.
Startline= two gps points

The screen should show the remainig time, the distance to the startline and an indicator that tell you if at the current speed you will pass throught the line too early. Once started the screen should switch showing direction, race duration time, and speed.
velocitek's prostart is something do the same (velocitek.com). Would be great have the same functions on my wrist been on the prow.
Sorry my english.
Ciao
Alberto

Hi MRZ84!
Have you considered the start line?
Ciao

Start countdown is great Love it so much
Can you make that after countdown in timer go to 0 an it say GO app begin to record activity automatically can you do this please ?
I love this app more and more !!!!!

More suggestions.

What the shop owner says about Garmin vs Suunto (he's the official and exclusive Suunto dealer of my town and naturally, we've come quite close) is that Garmin is more advanced while Suunto gave away its good watches to go for the multisport... essentially losing its sailing niche (He mentioned the Regatta and Watchsman models). As I said, I know very little of sailing but if I am not mistaken there are Garmin advanced instruments exclusive for sailing that use the most important of ALL the competitive sailing features: the aspect/speed in regards with the starting line.

There are 2 boats that make the starting IMAGINARY line. What sailors in races want is to get to that line at the exact moment the gun fires at the maximum possible speed. Not a meter before, not a meter behind. Not a second before not a second later.

I suppose you can have the watch mark a GPS location by keypress (the first boat), then you can have the watch mark another GPS location (the second boat) and you have 2 waypoints inside the Fenix3 from which to draw the start line and possibly actually draw it on the map. Can this perhaps be achieved with a shortcut button? I.e. LAP marks (Save location) the 2 points?

If you can find a way to draw this line, show the start timer and the speed/dst to that line on the map or on a second page, you'd have built the most advanced app for competitive sailing.

I am no sailor as I said... but I guess I would configure the watch to just see:

a) the line (so you need to have it mark 2 GPS points and draw this line between them).
b) the map.
c) your aspect (angle to the middle of this line... so I suppose this is a third GPS point, exactly in the middle of the 2 previous points).
d) your speed.
e) time to get to the line AND time to start.

This info is required all on one screen... that's another hard part to do... but yes, if I had to develop a sailing app, I would really look deep into the coding possibilities of the GPS thingy and the map because that's where things get nasty with the instrument's limitations.

If you need more information about this stuff, I can ask the shop owner. He surely knows exactly what instrument uses this method and what's the app name (maybe we can even find the code).

Start countdown is great Love it so much
Can you make that after countdown in timer go to 0 an it say GO app begin to record activity automatically can you do this please ?
I love this app more and more !!!!!

Thats a good point. I'll implement this in the next version!

Thats a good point. I'll implement this in the next version!

Wow i will wait it
I think i need to implement you more BEER for hard work .

4720

Have you considered a vivoactive version ?

I'm currently looking into this. I'll try to implement vivoactive support in one of the next versions

More suggestions.

What the shop owner says about Garmin vs Suunto (he's the official and exclusive Suunto dealer of my town and naturally, we've come quite close) is that Garmin is more advanced while Suunto gave away its good watches to go for the multisport... essentially losing its sailing niche (He mentioned the Regatta and Watchsman models). As I said, I know very little of sailing but if I am not mistaken there are Garmin advanced instruments exclusive for sailing that use the most important of ALL the competitive sailing features: the aspect/speed in regards with the starting line.

There are 2 boats that make the starting IMAGINARY line. What sailors in races want is to get to that line at the exact moment the gun fires at the maximum possible speed. Not a meter before, not a meter behind. Not a second before not a second later.

I suppose you can have the watch mark a GPS location by keypress (the first boat), then you can have the watch mark another GPS location (the second boat) and you have 2 waypoints inside the Fenix3 from which to draw the start line and possibly actually draw it on the map. Can this perhaps be achieved with a shortcut button? I.e. LAP marks (Save location) the 2 points?

If you can find a way to draw this line, show the start timer and the speed/dst to that line on the map or on a second page, you'd have built the most advanced app for competitive sailing.

I am no sailor as I said... but I guess I would configure the watch to just see:

a) the line (so you need to have it mark 2 GPS points and draw this line between them).
b) the map.
c) your aspect (angle to the middle of this line... so I suppose this is a third GPS point, exactly in the middle of the 2 previous points).
d) your speed.
e) time to get to the line AND time to start.

This info is required all on one screen... that's another hard part to do... but yes, if I had to develop a sailing app, I would really look deep into the coding possibilities of the GPS thingy and the map because that's where things get nasty with the instrument's limitations.

If you need more information about this stuff, I can ask the shop owner. He surely knows exactly what instrument uses this method and what's the app name (maybe we can even find the code).

Wow! This is a good one! But it will be a challenge to implement it. Currently there is no SDK support to display the map, so I will have to paint it myself. I think I'll try to implement a more rudimentary version of this first, that shows all the data but leaves out the map. Nevertheless, thanks for the great input!

Hi Z-74, I have a followup question. You wrote that the aspect should be calculated based on a point in the middle of the two other points. Should the distance be also calculated on this point or the closest point on that line? Thanks

Small problem that i find
In you program look like that segments is on every 5 miles i see segment 1 2 and so on ...
but record work good
One more suggestion average speed in 10s is very important for me in yachting can you make separate screen with very big letters top 10s average screen bottom smaller letters actual speed