[C38] sail polars

[les]

I'm just curious, but also a bit intrigued.  I'm going to have to look
it up.

	It beats counting up as you sail away from the line and down as you
sail toward it ;-)

regards,
Les H

	

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 13:57 -0700, Steve Smolinske wrote:
> Nexus instruments just introduced a cool add on for their server,  Its
> called race box, you  load your polars on an SD card, plug it in and
> the instruments will display your TBS, PBS and Optimum True or
> Apparent angles to sail,  We got one of the first units produced (#3)
> and it took some tweaking on both sides to get all the bugs out but
> now that its up and working its way cool.    Its also does some other
> starting line stuff like distance to the line, count down timer we
> mostly use the timer and the polar portions.   
> 
>  
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> Steve
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>  

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> 
> IF your a member of our Association and you go to the race section of
> our website, you will find a copy of our polars.
> Enjoy!
> Chuck Finn
> Commodore
> 
> On 9/4/2012 12:56 PM, Joseph Launie wrote:
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> 
>         thanks for the polars and he US sailing tip
>         
>         On 9/4/2012 8:28 AM, Dick Kilroy wrote:
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>         
>                 Joe: I think you can get these from U S Sailing. I got
>                 mine for my Morgan 38-2 from them for the
>                 Marion/Bermuda races I did.
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>                 
>                 Dick
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>                 
>                         ----- Original Message ----- 
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>                         From: Joseph Launie 
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>                         To: listserve at catalina38.org 
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>                         Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:09 AM
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>                         Subject: Re: [C38] sail polars
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>                         SAil polars show optimum rates of speed at
>                         various points of sail with various sails
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>                         On 9/4/2012 1:51 AM, Suzanne Hoverman wrote:
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>                                 Okay - what are they?
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>                                         Joseph Launie <jlaunie at cox.net> wrote:
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>                                         Hi,
>                                              Does anyone have sail polars for the 38? It would be super if 
>                                         someone had polars with an Assy sail also. Joe
>                                 Cheers,
>                                 Suzanne
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>                                 suzannehoverman at optusnet.com.au
>                                 telephone: 61 7 3869 4639
>                                 mobille: 61 415 702 110
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