RGMC Routing

We’re routing with our in-house router (codename OnDeck, might change in the future) and high quality wind forecasts provided by WeatherTech for the Baltic.

The current routing with starting time 14.00 UTC (Feb 7th) show a total time of approx 20h. The waves might however have more impact in this route than accounted for in the polar.

The tack/jibe penalty (warning: technical post :) )

Showing maximum tack/jibe performance loss  at 1, 5, 15 and 20 knots. So at 20 knots,  you initally loose 2 knots, after 10 minutes 1 knot, and after 20 minutes you’ve got full performance. 

Development version polar

Sailors Pub in Stockholm

A few pics from the Sailors Pub (held at Olssons Skor) here in Stockholm,Sweden, from where we started November Open. 

Update: More pics and text (swedish) in this blog entry at skota.se  

The Eurocard Gotland Runt Online Trophy

Here is the magnificent trophy you can win in the Eurocard Gotland Runt Online. There are also rumors of a few more, still secret prizes for the winner!

Here is a few more pics from the first day of Scandinavian Boat Show:

Magnus posing with the trophy

Magnus and Måns holding captains meeting at the Scandinavian Boat Show!

Here is the master brain at Sailport – Jakob:

(From left) Andreas from hamnen.se is discussing tactics with Sailonline.org users Bagheera and Henki.

Magnus doing a demo for interested booth visitors

One of our hardcore users  – SK95SWE8:

Sneak peek from Skunkworks at Sailport

Shhh, it’s a secret….

Winter Challenge meets Google Earth

It’s a great morning for a record attempt in the Baltic!

Here’s a pic from our Google Earth feed.

Short server downtime

We just a had a short downtime for our servers, probably due to the massive power outage in Stockholm right now. All servers are back online now.

The Winter Challenge

Thank you all for some awesome sailing in the Baltic Challenge. Congratulations to SK95SWE8 for a great victory. Next on the race schedule is the Winter Challenge.

The Winter Challenge is a new type of race, where you can start at any time during the race period, which for this race will be approximately 3 weeks.

Rules

• Timing starts when you send your first command. Don’t send any commands before you intend to start.
• You may only sail the course with one boat at a time. Using multiple accounts is cheating.
• After your boat has fully completed the course, you may try again. You need a valid completion time to register the new boat.
• Note the counter-clockwise race direction around Gotland!

Here’s an in-action screenshot from the Baltic Challenge, me trying to get away from the pack (didn’t work out, but lots of fun trying)!

First 1.0 beta released

You can now download the new 1.0 beta from the Sailport Sailrace website!  All feedback is appreciated!  Contact us at crew@sailport.se .