No offence Matt, but you have access to Spotty's logs, why haven't you studied them to make you faster? Could it just be plain and simple that he is a better sailor??
It could be a few reasons - he *is* a better flat water sailor than me. He is more than 50% heavier than me so his net-leverage is so much greater than mine.
Whatever the reason, *I do* study other people's tracks -> I studied, Mal Wright's tracks, Slowey's tracks, Spotty's tracks, Daffy's tracks, ... and even my own. I learnt quite some time ago, that accelerating to speed early/high up the course, results in faster speeds down the course -> so I now make that a priority vs say finding extremely-flat water.
hey guys ... It's true that introducing data device for Live GPS speed is quite expensive but we are working on it ... and indeed the phone + sim solution is the easyest and cheapest way ... On Live soon ;)