Looking at the new tracker. Wondering the details on reporting times and display times? The boats don't update that often right now. Can't see Elizabeth Ann and a few others.
Thanks,
-jak
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Looking at the new tracker. Wondering the details on reporting times and display times? The boats don't update that often right now. Can't see Elizabeth Ann and a few others.
Thanks,
-jak
Nominally racers are instructed to set them to report every 4 hours. But they are under racer control, and some racers (e.g. Kynntana) have theirs set to what appears to be 15 minutes. It's a matter of how much attention they are willing to give to keeping the unit charged. Mouton Noirs current position report is exactly 4 hours old as I type, he is conserving power I guess.
At the moment, I see IRIS is missing from the tracker. Probably a Jibset hiccup. I've seen masses of boats vanish one day and reappear the next when reviewing the 2016 tracker. Don't worry, they haven't sunk, probably.
What happened to Gregory (LIBRA)? The tracker shows him almost back to the Corinthian YC at 15:50.
OWL is doing quite well. Go the OWL!
I bet IRIS is a tracker equipment or data connection issue. Like maybe he didn't turn it on.
Don't forget to hit the WIND DISPLAY button at the top of the full tracker page at Jibeset. Trippy.
Charley Casey looks like he's doing great on Riff Rider!
I'm really proud to be part of his crew bringing the boat back home!
It appears Mouton Noir is heading back. Per Marine Traffic (AIS), at 2120 he was on a heading of 50 degrees at 2.9 knots.
Mouton Noir is confirmed eastbound from the latest tracker updates.
It appears that most of the fleet has parked up over the last few hours with the arrival of the dreaded Southerly Surge.
Riff Rider may be the only one still in the gradient breeze, at least for the time being.
DH
Mouton Noir is at Marina Village, Alameda, per AIS this morning. Bummer. Hope he is OK.
Elizabeth Ann is heading for Bodega Bay. Strange.
The Great Wall of Offshore California
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Not to mention riding the southerly while it is there.
Gary officially retired and reported that he planned to head for Bodega Bay.
DH
Can the Race Committee comment on IRIS's non-presence on the tracker?
And if racers retire, will they be announcing it anywhere?
IRIS is now on the tracker, he had checked in via radio & email, but had issues with the Tracker settings. Now displaying.
Retirements have been posted for MOUTON NOIR, ELIZABETH ANN & LIBRA on the event site, Jibeset, and now here.
also note the RC Notes tab on the tracker detail page, which holds a log of RC notes regarding the display.
Fair point, however, I will start an RC Updates thread.
DH
Is there a way to obtain position reports for a competitor? The tracker doesn't seem to support past position reports, at least not that I could find, and the SHTP web site for 'position reports' doesn't have position reports.
For example, I can select Kynntana and see the track, but not individual position reports.
Is there a way to obtain the lat/lon course/speed information from an individual tracker?
- rob/beetle
To access more data from the SHTP tracking
Estimated finish times ----> Click Estimated Finish
Wind, waves etc overlays ----> Click Wind Display
RC Notess ----> Click RC Notes
Additional Boat data:
Current position datas ----> Click Marker at end of Boats track
Display ALL Boats in a fleet<s>----> Check Fleet Number box<s>, uncheck My Boats, Click Refresh Screen
Display an individual boats ----> Check Boat box for boats of interest, uncheck My Boats, Click Refresh Screen
All position data ----> Check Details Markers the All Race option
----> Displays start and finish markers, great circle route, rhumb line route
----> For each boat selected, displays a marker for each position report - dots along the track
----> Click the dot marker<s> to see the position data, COG and SOG at that position
Carliane turns hard to port....odd. Hope she's OK.
Which is all good information on the tracker from Ray.
Rob's original question prompted me to add a thread which will hold the "As Seen By The Racers" daily reports, both here and on the SHTP Site under position reports.
Not up to the minute info; but what the racers are allowed to know.
DH
Thanks, Ray - the Details Markers -> All Race radio button made the historical track positions available through the tracker. That was exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks much!
- rob/beetle
Several racers are being sucked right by the centripetal force of the High. Joujou, Passages, Double X. Kynntana clearly wanted to put some South in the bank. At least Crazy Left Ivan is more understandable than the Crazy Right move that a boat made in 2014.
I hope Kynntana's satphone bill is not too high at the end -- she is reporting position every 10 minutes.
She probably has the Delorme power wired in to her panel. Or else the battery would have run out by now.
Meanwhile Double Espresso has spent the last 4+ hours drifting NW at a fraction of a knot. Hove to? Damaged? Hope he is OK.
I run Tiger Beetle's DeLorme inReach tracker/pinger on 10 minute intervals when Beetle is moving - the cost is 'included' as I am on a pre-paid monthly subscription service, so no additional charge for all the extra blue spots on the maps. These go out essentially as short burst messages over Iridium and consume very little bandwidth. The inReach will run roughly 4 days at that rate, and I recharge the battery daily - it's just a little USB cord I plug into the unit (which lives in a cradle at the nav station - it remains dry and transmits through the fiberglass).
If there were an incremental cost per spot, then I would set the location reporting frequency to meet what the data receiver would like to have.
I have no idea how tracking costs are being managed by the skippers and Race Committee.
- rob/beetle
Or confused tracker. Looks like his tracker ran out of power and he re-started it, intervals are varying from 3-4 hours. My tracker will occasionally decide I'm in a different hemisphere... If a series of pings all show in the same location then the tracker is probably there, otherwise it's difficult to determine where the unit is based on a single location report.
- rob/beetle
I thought the 4 hour interval was selected by the RC because that should let you do the whole race on a single charge. Last time the Delorme was the only approved unit, and there was a mandate that they be fixed to the stern rail. This year Iridium Go is allowed, with possible below-decks install and external antenna, like for a satphone. I don't know. Some boats are at 10 min ping, some at 30, many at 4 hours. I'm sure the billing varies depending on what device/company you have.
These folks are dancing with the devil. PassageWeather has the high breathing in and out but staying mostly stationary. I hope so...
Kynntana's track has the look of one who's hand-steering (with very brief naps). I hope not...
If you do the "All Race" option you can see that most of the fleet is still south or not too far north of the rhumbline. But many are on headings taking them to the north. Risky! But those trying to jibe south wind up on courses perpendicular to the best VMG. Painful.
If I had to guess, I would think Kynntana is sailing to a wind angle rather than a compass course; could be an autopilot set up to track wind angles, or perhaps Carlianne is working with her Monitor wind vane - the wind vane is an amazing apparatus to observe underway.
The gybes south should have to do with how deep Kynntana will sail effectively, which doesn't appear to be as deep as the other boats. I do not know the polars for the Freedon 38, therefore I do not know what the best gybe angles should be. Gybing south or east of south while in or approaching the ridge is usually not helpful for getting to Hanalei quickly - at that point you're kind of committed to where you exited the coastal flow off California.
Kynntana boat speed is remaining up and pointed in the right direction over many hours at a time, which makes me doubt she's hand steering. I can steer better than the autopilot for perhaps 45 minutes, after which I start to lose concentration and discover the autopilot is better at paying attention to course than I am!
- rob/beetle
The Wind Display overlay tracker option is pretty interesting, with easy-to-understand forecasts. Selecting Waves and Swells gives an idea of the sea state; Advancing the time to noon on 4 July indicates some bumpy, confused-sea days near the end of the race, with the 992 L far to the East (if you believe a forecast that far in advance).
The night of the barbeque Mike Jefferson was still crouched on Kynntana's sugar scoop drilling into the Monitor Windvane's bracket. Or maybe he was drilling into the emergency rudder's bracket. Or maybe he was drilling into Kynntana's arch bracket. So much stainless, only a limited amount of time left. Lots of beautiful bling.
pppffffttt... and here I offered to drive up and help Carliane with any last minute hauling, scraping, bolting and carting and she turned me down!
Good thing, I wrenched my shoulder really badly Friday morning, but still.:D
Remember that a Freedom basically doesn't have a spinnaker. I haven't talked to Carliane about spinnakers for her boat for many months, but when we last left the topic, she'd decided to "let a Freedom be a Freedom", and that meant not messing with that dinky little symmetrical chute that they use. Has she got an assy since then? If not, then I would want to reach, not run, as long as possible with that ginormous mainsail.
For a tutorial on options for wind map, there's a tutorial that covers some basic functions-
http://www.maccinfo.com/Introduction_to_Windy.html
Carliane said her monitor was being a "stubborn beast" and had her wandering off course. I hope she isn't going to have a problem tomorrow with the direction she's currently heading?