SailTimer Wind Instrument & Apps
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:21 pm
I've been looking at wind instruments. I consider it unnecessary for my day sailing farting around but I'm hoping to do some weeklong trips in the San Juans this year. I'll probably stick with phone/tablet-based navigation and they offer a nifty app for that too.
Does anyone have experience with the SailTimer wind instruments? They look like a perfect match for trailer sailing, low-cost, designed to work with app-based navigation and for you M owners, it works on a rotating mast.
https://wi-rb.com/
I'm also looking at their navigation app. The cool thing about it, other than interfacing with the wind instrument, is that you generate polars for your boat based upon measurements directly from your boat, not upon some generic general boat set-up. The app also calculates optional tacking to generate route data based upon those polars, your wind data, and crowd-sourced wind data.
https://www.sailtimerapp.com/Helmsmans_Dilemma.html
Does anyone have experience with the SailTimer wind instruments? They look like a perfect match for trailer sailing, low-cost, designed to work with app-based navigation and for you M owners, it works on a rotating mast.
https://wi-rb.com/
I'm also looking at their navigation app. The cool thing about it, other than interfacing with the wind instrument, is that you generate polars for your boat based upon measurements directly from your boat, not upon some generic general boat set-up. The app also calculates optional tacking to generate route data based upon those polars, your wind data, and crowd-sourced wind data.
https://www.sailtimerapp.com/Helmsmans_Dilemma.html