SailRocket's turn to try for the record

Looks like another highly practical solution to the problem of how to go faster

Should be red, everyone knows red goes faster. Good luck to them

Good to see such an appropriate sponsor too.



Nothing like a good curry to get you going !
Theyre the wind beneath my wings...

I had no idea how fast I had just been as the bastard GT31 gps we use is about the most useless piece of equipment we have on the boat for providing simple speed data. I despair at the people who design that crap! Later we saw did just shy of 48 knots and about a 45.2 knot 500 meter average. Nothing flash and about what it felt like.

Lol

I don't think it will fit in the back of my car...

I suspect he doesn't understand speed genie and has numbers scrolling around on him

Sorry nebs have to disagree with you there, speed genie is great when you set it up right.
You can see what the last run was and the session max, 2 sec and 10sec

I agree I think it's great as well, but you just need to make sure you delete the history max speeds before you go out. This is easier to do if you have the latest firmware installed and you get a better font

Maybe it's good if you get off and walk back after every run...

Trying to read your max speed when bouncing back up the course ready for the next run is just about impossible for me.

Anyway it's good that you can set it up to suit the sailor

Reading it while sailing is a problem, but that's the case whatever you do.
I quite often stop after I get back, then read the GPS before the next gust comes along.
All you have to do is set the speed genie trigger, higher than your upwind speed and lower than your downwind speed

I understand why Paul is frustrated with it.

Almost every time I ask someone here how fast their last run was they say "I dont know the GPS is a bit funny/didnt show the speed etc... I'll find out later when I download". That renders the GPS useless for tuning during the day.

It works fine in some places where there is no chop, or where you stop at the end of the run and have time to fiddle. But if the end of the run is deep water where you have to gybe and sail back to the beach, you lose the speeds of the run. Most of our sailing over here is like that.

So... to turn speed genie off, and always know how fast your last run was (ie you choose when to clear the max speed)

Settings->Speed Genie->OFF

If you fellas have too much data from Speed Genie, go into MISC, scroll through and set only the data you want to see
ie
turn MAX/NS MAX ......off
HISTORY MAX .....off
MAX SPEED ....on
NS MAX AVG .....off
NEW FONT......on (good for me and the other old and going blind among us)

Make sure you set speed genie (in SETTINGS) to a speed above your upwind speed
ie if you're doing 18-22kts upwind and above 30 downwind, set it at 30.
You're not likely to be above 30 going back upwind and speed genie will hold the reading and display it to you until you exceed 30 again.
Put the aqua pack on your forearm near your elbow and its a piece of p to read it as you head back upwind. And if you only have MAX SPEED set, that's all it will show you.

Speed Genie has a min-speed setting before it kicks in. I'll put it out there... if they are sailing back upwind at the same speed they are sailing off the wind, they are doing something wrong!

And if you are slalom sailing: If you are reading it *during* the middle of the next run, of course it wont show your peak speed, but I highly doubt that you can maintain +25kn during a gybe... at some point you will go slowing than your min speed and so the Genie updates... you could always choose to look at your last run's stats just a little earlier.

As for not being able to read it through chop... I haven't met anyone that couldn't read it in choppy conditions, given that a) it wasn't foggy b) the gps/case was located so that you can actually read it.