February - Claremont Yacht Club

POWER SECTION
Peter Wilkinson reports:
This is an insight to the possible future of Time Trailing in WA.
While Bill McLeod was holidaying in Morton Bay Queensland in late 2012 he noced a large number of power
boats with numbers aached to the front of their vessels, it looked as if they were compeng in some form of me
trailing however he didn’t noce any check point boats on the course. Bill informed me of what he had seen so I
contacted both the Royal Queensland Yacht Club and Southport Yacht Club to find out if what Bill had seen was in
fact a Power Time trial. Bill was correct it was a navigaon event similar to our me trailing using GPS tracking and
Timing where the competors nominate there boat speed and have a given start me. They travel over a set
course and each mark is med to the second ( no check pointers needed), you only require a start boat to monitor
the start and a boat to collect the transponders at the end of the event. The data is then uploaded to Tack Tracker
and results are produced instantly. I have since spoken to PCYC commiee members and will be taking the
informaon to our next commiee meeng in February; hopeful this will be the future for me trailing in WA.
A complete tracking solution for everyone
Our goal at Tack tracker is to make tracking easy and accessible for everyone. We have the soluon for you
whether you’re an individual sailor who wants to use a tracker to improve his/her sailing, a coach who wants a new
de-brief tool or a club running regaas and now for Power Boaters. A navigaon Rally (Time Trailing) is a test of
charng and boat handling skills as well as being great fun for all competors. Now with TACKTRACKER , running a
Nav Rally (me Trial) is no longer a volunteer
intensive operaon and everyone can join in and
parcipate. At many places Tack tracker has helped
the club reinvigorate the sport, geng more
members compeng.
Nav Rally Setup
To run Navigaon rally (me trial) with Tack
Tracker:
1 Create your rally event ahead of me in Tack
tracker, specifying the course as starng locaon
followed by a series of bearings and distance to
travel.
2 Add “gates” or individual check points .Boats
receive penales for each second they are early or
late through a gate. You can add as many or few
gates (checkpoints) as you wish.
3 Complete the schedule, lisng each competor,
their nominated speed and start me.
The course setup dialog looks like this -->