Sailchart has now completed it's first season of racing with the Salcombe Yawl fleet at Salcombe Yacht Club being the pioneers testing this new application.
Over the course of the season, 100 races were tracked with up to 15 boats per race.
Feedback from the fleet is that many enjoyed the ability to replay the race and use the analysis to help understand how they compare to other boats in terms of distance sailed, VMG, tack performance and course selection.
At first the tracking data was gathered using the Sailchart app, but standalone GPS trackers were introduced in August to allow tracking where sailors did not want to have a smartphone on board.
- Notification if new version of app is available to install
- Dashboard website races list now has option to display races per year.
- Improved handling in the app of communications failure to the server.
- At race end, fixed issue with app getting stuck asking user to discard or re-try.
- The update in 1.0.9 to restart location services caused tracking to stop if location permissions were not set to 'Always'. The app now checks the permissions and only restarts the location service if location permissions are set to 'Always'. If you experience issues with loss of position updates whilst tracking, change the location permissions to 'Always' to see if this resolves the problem.
- Tracking now automatically ends at the end of the race.
- Race Notifications now include a sound alert
- If the app does not receive a position update from the phone for more than 30 seconds it restarts the location services to try and fix location updates
- App race playback fixes
- Fixed issue with delayed tracking start
- Automatically refreshes daily race list when bringing app to foreground and it is already on the Track page
- App can now receive notifications about upcoming races
- Added race course summary to tracking page and race playback
- Fixed some issues related to daylight savings
- Added time correction option using handicaps in Race Analysis
- Fixed app startup issue when location services disabled
- Fixed cursor positioning in app entry fields
- Added average and max heel to training sessions
- Support for differing phone text sizes within limits to ensure text always visible
- Improved tack angle calculations in training sessions
- Added 'averages' tile to training sessions
- Added Boat Performance feature to Dashboard
- App now tracks Boat Heel and Boat Heading
- Added Training Session feature
- App now tracks heading in addition to bearing