App Sailing Basics

# Sailing Basics

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/174c8fa1-9ba5-436a-b41b-75a67f984e94

App Designed for Sailing Keelboat Racing,

Race Timer, with Optional Time and Distance to Line

Course Navigation (Requires Course Text File to be hosted on OneDrive, Google Drive or Alternate)

Windward Mark Navigation (Navigate to Dropped Pin)

Session Recording as Sailing Activity

User Manual: Sailing Basics Manual.pdf

Feedback Appreciated :) 

Acknowledgements:
Sailing Basics was largely inspired by Yet Another Sailing App and shares some underlying code/functions which made learning the programming language and implementing new ideas significantly quicker.

Limitations

The App was initialy designed for Round Face Fenix 5 and above (Button Controls)

Touch Controls and Square Face Devices are supported but may not have the best experience

  • Hi, the link to the manual is not working for me. Can it be fixed or is the problem on my side?

    Cheers,
    Peter

  • Sailing Basics Manual.pdf thanks for picking this up was a broken link

  • I am uncertain if I should keep looking to see if this feature works.  Our courses change weekly based on the wind.  But we usually use a government mark as the rounding (windward mark). Does putting in a course allow me to put in the government mark locations and basically build a course?  The committee boat will re position weekly as necessary to send up to a government mark so the course is almost never the same.  I was glancing through the directions but wasn't certain how much effort I should put into learning Json and inputting courses if the feature doesn't work as I am hoping.  

    Otherwise the app looks great I am looking forward to trying it out in two days.  I especially like the trend feature.

  • If you have fixed marks in the course then it is worthwhile, if you want to send me a copy of your Sailing Instructions i can have a look. [email protected] if its a windward/leeward course you do have the option to save the top mark as you near/round it under the menu (Tactics, Windward mark, Set Mark) 

  • Great app! Thank you. Used it daily last month when on holiday.

    One question: how do I get back in the route selection screen? I am using a Venu SQ (two buttons and touchscreen) and I was able to create a json with several routes and had it uploaded in my watch.
    But after selecting a route once I never managed to get back in the select route screen. I do get in the menu screen with my once selected route present but whatever I tried it always goes straight to the sailing screen.
    Is there a button/screen combination I missed or is it simply not possible with only two buttons?

    Peter

  • Hi - Really like the App - it would be great to select an individual waypoint from a list not a full route.


  • apologies, missed this one, should be long hold menu button (top) or long press screen

  • would require a bit of work to add this as an option, you can cycle through the waypoints using up/down buttons (or swiping), another option would be to load the routes with only one waypoint (not tried but should be possible)