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DECKMAN
Routing
The Optimum Routing module now includes the
option to avoid areas with waves larger than a
user-set height – increasing speed and reducing
the risk of damage to the boat offshore.
Wave Height visualisation and routing
Enhanced graphics
An enhanced graphics engine - including new
layline options, like shaded limit layline sectors
- helps the navigator visualize wind shift limits
when approaching a mark of the course.
Deckman’s wide set of features allows the navigator
to optimize strategy and tactics while racing, and
allow structured testing while tuning and training.
Start screen showing bias, layline and times
Inshore the Start screen, giving live updates of
boat position, favored end, gain/loss through line
bias and time to line is the key to consistently
good starts. Add in the ability to quickly generate
windward/leeward courses, track wind-shifts
and overlay tidally adjusted laylines on the chart
while assessing strategic options on future legs
and you have a clear advantage on the race
course.
A competitor handicap tool allows you to keep
track of competitors in handicap events with
race position calculations based on user input of
mark rounding times.
Offshore, the navigator’s focus is on the weather.
Deckman provides the best optimum routing
calculations available, as used to win all the
classic ocean races.
Deckman allows the user to animate multiple
GRIB weather files including wind, pressure,
precipitation and wave height to visualize the
weather forecast data. With UGRIB, OCENS
Weathernet and Saildocs services integrated the
navigator need never be more than a few clicks
from the latest weather downloads.
Using the Optimum Routing module, the
navigator can calculate the fastest route,
while also using wave avoidance to route around
areas with dangerous wave heights. Reverse
isochrones can be used, along with competitor
tracking, to determine relative positions in the
fleet.
Optimum routing
Other key features for offshore use include the
use of multiple polar tables, one for performance
targets, one for navigation – allowing the
navigator to adjust one polar to be accurate for
the actual performance of the yacht, while the
crew strive to attain 100% performance based
on their own polar.
Performance testing is possible via a suite of
integrated data logging and analysis tools to
allow accurate assessment of the performance
of the yacht and crew under different conditions,
during or after a race.
Time Plots with analysis tools
Single boat testing, such as a comparison of
headsails, is accomplished by running Speed
Tests to allow statistical comparison of one sail
versus another, with a polar table overlay.
Multi-boat campaigns utilize Deckman’s Two-
Boat module to share data via a telemetry link,
allowing wind-shift compensated performance
comparison between yachts.
In either case Deckman’s integrated database
logs all available data every second for seven
days, then at reduced frequency for a full year,
allowing analysis of historical data against
current performance.
All the tools required to win races
Advanced options
B&G Custom Projects can supply various
advanced add-ins for Deckman, including Alarm
Manager, T&T Reporter, Laser Range Finder
and 2-Boat Telemetry modules. The Deckman
Add-In interface allows 3rd party developers to
integrate new functionality.
GRIB Weather view
DECKMAN provides the best optimum routing calculations available,
as used to win all the classic ocean races.
PRODUCT PART NO.
Deckman v9 C-Map (USB) BGH140001
Laser Range Finder Module BGH140025
2-Boat Telemetry module BGH140026
T&T Reporter Add-In BGH140027
Alarms Manager Add-In BGH140028
SHOM Tidal Database - All Areas BGH140030
SHOM Tidal Database 3 - Baie de Seine BGH140031
SHOM Tidal Database 5 - Bretagne Nord BGH140032
SHOM Tidal Database 8 - Bretagne Sud BGH140033
SHOM Tidal Database 7 - Gascogne BGH140034
SHOM Tidal Database 6 - Iroise BGH140035
SHOM Tidal Database 1 - La Manche BGH140036
SHOM Tidal Database 4 - Normand Breton BGH140037
SHOM Tidal Database 2 - Pas de Calais BGH140038
SHOM Tidal Database 9 - Vendee Gironde BGH140039
Winning Tides Database - Solent & Isle of Wight BGH140040
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