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Dear fellow tech sailors,
My tactic was broken so I though maybe I can download an App and use my phone as temporary tactic. In that way I found this great app. This easter weekend no shops were openend. Lukily I found a second hand pebble watch for sale 2 km from my house for 55 euro’s. I would like to share my findings and provide feedback about my first 1,5 days sailing with raceQs.
First of all, it works great!! I used it as an Helmsman on a F18 catamaran in 20 knots breeze with 1.7 meter waves. As a Helmsman you cannot look on your watch for more than 3 seconds, so I think i have to give the watch to my crew.
At the first start I noticed that my glove “folds up” when I raise my hand and that makes it to push the buttons all the time. Maybe it’s a good idea to long press buttons all the time?
I know the memory on the pebble is limited, but can’t we use the phone’s memory? I would like to see a log of what happend on the race course, in that way sailors can learn and we can provide detailed feedback to the app maker.
Speed & heading screen
Flashing of Sog/COG is unnecessary, show me speed/heading variances all the time.
Time is not useful for me. Maybe show VMG instead?Cog variance is currently determined over a periode of 60 seconds. I’m sailing a F18 catamaran, so 60 seconds is to long. Can this number be lowered, or can you set it as user?
Navigation screen.
Not usefull for me, i would like to switch it off.Cues
This is the best feature! I seemed to ignore the header vibrations because I know I was in a header but I wanted to sail to lay-line. So maybe it’s handy to have different vibration types for different notification. Some suggestions
OCS –> super long vibration
Header/Lift –> vibrate 1 time
Layline–> Vibrate 3 times
Mark set–> semi long vibrationGeneral questions
Can we have more settings? like Boat length and width! (It is in the user guide but I cannot adjust it.
Maybe we can use more settings to adjust or disable displays and the cues?
Is current taken into account?My track can be viewed here:
http://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1018650&divisionId=40198&updatedAt=2016-05-16T12:58:39Z&dt=2016-05-16T10:18:13+02:00..2016-05-16T14:57:35+02:00&boat=DG%20press
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Page showing the TWD’s over the day for post-race analysis? It’s already there… The Settings option from the raceQs app in the pebble app on the phone displays the TWD changed over the day. But you have to look for them before 10:00 the next day when they are erased (for the next day’s race).
Shows time, header (H) or lift (L), Current tack (P)ort, (S)tbd, Wind direction change in degrees, -(left) to new TWD
Delighted to hear you’re finding it stable – not everybody is getting the same result. Are you iPhone or Android (Android seems more stable).
Yes, you’re quite right, we are unable to correct TWD for current. Not until we can capture compass heading and speed through water (log).
We don’t want to prejudice the purity of testing(!) by suggesting where to concentrate. We’re interested in how it works for you on the water, things like accuracy, usability, reliability are what we’re looking for.
It’s good to get some familiarity with the app before sailing by playing with it in your garden or on a playing field.
Keep up the good work
Forgot my previous post. I had another Go with pebble this evening.
What works good now
- Header/Lifters are correct!
- I Can thee the header/lift analysis on my phone. I had to be in race mode
- Resetting the timer works
Bugs
- I have made 5 tacks (on my bicycle) but only one of them showed the analysis.
Most important things for me
- VMG +variance and cues (can be shown instead of time
- Header lifters / COG variances
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