I'm sure most of you know about Tacticat but some features have been added recently to make it worth a post:
- Match races. Sailors can use match race fields, with the standard start protocol, buoys to starboard and all these strange things.
- Penalizations require a 360. In the first versions the bad boat was stopped or slowed down, now the sailor has to decide when and how to do the spin. Match races allow to do the spin much later while fleet or team races require the 360 to be executed ASAP.
- New boat. We started with cats
. Added lasers and later skiffs. Now we have added Big Boats (a la Americas Cup), mainly to be used on Match races (because it is difficult to accomodate 20 boats at the start line)
- Tactical trimming and setup for big boats, to virtually model changes on sails, geometry on the shore or changes in cunningham, outhaul, etc during the race. It is so new that we don't really know how boats have to be tuned. People is exploring the possibilities.
- Replays!. All races included in a regatta are stored and later can be retrieved by sailors to analize what went wrong
. Replays are cool and allow to have interesting discussions about tactics and rules.
And many other small things.
(Tacticat sailing is free, created and maintained by sailors to improve the racing skills)
A.Estela
Tacticat Admin.