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Spotty said...

Its some euro' Beergutometer, shows how much your gut stretches and what angle it hangs at after drinking 6,8,14,20, and 28 beers

Had me stumped, but now we know

lemme guesswith the wind at o/360deg.'s green boat-windspeed 6kts-90deg.run=9kts, red boat-wndspd 8kts@120deg.run=13.5kts.,blue boat-windspeed 14kts@120deg.run=17kts.,so on and so forth..correct me if am wrong, i wanna be like nebbian

They ( Point-7) won the last Karpathos round of speed. However Jose Bahadour probably had more to do with that than the sails. Look like Pryde clones.



We will have to get on to Subi council to get one of these for the playground at Peli. Though I think the draught should be further forward..

Hey Daffy , look what I found.

Rubberized wrist gps (with band extended). Sirf3. 60,000 trackpoint. Recording interval adjustable from 1 sec. Rechargable Li-Ion battery. Trackpoints downloadable in Nmea (and KML, CSV, Text, GPX or RMC format) plus many many more features at about half the price of a Forerunner. I note they say "water tolerable" rather than waterproof but being lower profile than a Foretrex it might be less likely to build up large water pressure than the Garmin in wipeouts. Looking at the files download it seems at least able to measure every metre so that's twice as good as a Garmin but probably not as accurate as a Navi.

see http://www1.canyon-tech.com/files/Canyon/Accessories/CNS-GPS2/CNS-GPS2_manual_EN.pdf

Daffy , Point 7 sails are from Sardinia and are the work of Peter Munzlinger who used to be YES Sails . They have a young designer doing the graphics which are pretty bold and I quite like them although the wave sail with the James Bondesque chick on it sort of looks like something you see on the back of a truck. The black monofilm is interesting .
I had a Yes 12.3 Formula sail quite a few years ago and it was pretty fast but just stupidly big .

Hard to find a standard version now , most come with the heart rate moniter. Canyon seem to be a Soviet model (bit like Amyrillo= GT-11). So basically it is a Global-sat GH 615. The HR moniter model is 615M. Apparantly they have done a bit of a software update since being out for a year and in June they will introduce a new case/model the 625 which is rather garish. According to various testers, it is more accurate than the Forerunner in practice but not quite as user friendly on the PC in regards to laps and exercise stuff but fine for sailing. The waterproofing looks better from a design point. ie the PC jack rubber cap presses against your skin on the underside of the watch. Seems the price is C$170 or 89 Pounds for the HR version and a bit less for the standard. There are some Oz stores at $250+.

see

www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/post.asp?method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=550130&TOPIC_ID=80145&FORUM_ID=4

http://www.mobilegpsonline.com/mgpsstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=437

www.efrontier.com.au/estore/product_info.php?cPath=2_3&products_id=219&osCsid=0c6b816960d6319f9b2a44918470974c

www.easydevices.co.uk/pp/GPS_Receivers/GPS_Tracker/GLOBALSAT_GH615B_PERSONAL_GPS_SPORT_WATCH_TRAINER.html

The UK option of 70 Quid (ex VAT) for the basic 615 may be best being A$144, but it would depend on the postage.

It would be great for skiing/snowboarding. Andrew I found this interesting..."The casio watches were disastrous in terms of GPS performance and I'm not even sure they still exist. Same problem with the Suunto. Like I said, the only watch with decent GPS performance and an actual "clock page" has been the 615 so far."

From.. www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=106909

Have to say I find those point 7 sails kn ugly - try-hard kitsch in the worst possible way.

I think that Point-7 looks a fair bit like a poor man's RSRacing.
A bit of batten sanding and a lot less out haul and you might have a chance..[}:)]

With out being too critical - how's the massive boom cut out!
What's that all about??
Catering for 4 foot Italians will catch a heap of wind in 30+ knots.

Something different....here is an interesting idea. Is there a simple way of modifying RSpeed so as to record speed as altitude? Ok we can view the tracks in 2D in different colours but when they are crowded or you want to view in 3D on Google Earth having a Y axis showing speed may be a great way to visualize it. Or you could keep the vertical axis for acceleration...or both and select between the options.

That's OK, we've got our own