The LogScanner™ project has just discovered a very important item which is called the LRgon™ (the left-right polygon). What is a LRgon™? The LRgon helps you find out whether you should have gone right or left. It is sort of like the GeoGons except that LogScanner calculates
Learn more →LogScanner is a post-race analysis tool that works with any instrument system that Expedition or OckamSoft can use to produce a log file. You can try it out for free, and if you like it, then you can register it, and it becomes an important tool to
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What is a GeoGon? One of the more exotic features of LogScanner is the GeoGon™. They are geographic polygons which you place in locations where you want to get wind and current information relative to non-GeoGon areas. In the image, there are 3 GeoGons. The blue one
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So far, we have been paying attention to the instruments because that’s how you find out how good your performance is. However, there is another area that also delivers lots of information; videos. We have decided to call this RaceCam. What is RaceCam? (See the video…) RaceCam
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What LogScanner tells you about laylines Here is a LogScanner chart close-up of .a race with 2 windward legs. The leg the boat is on shows 5 (!) tacks in the last 5 minutes. The other leg shows 3 tacks in the last 4 minutes. Both legs
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What LogScanner tells you about your tacks There are several things LogScanner can tell you about when you look at tacks. How much distance you lost to weather – the cost of tacking How much wind shear you are experiencing How good your wind solution is (your
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How LogScanner measures your overall performance Since the LogScanner output is produced by a robot and not a knowledgeable human, it doesn’t include any insights. That’s your job. You can add notes to the log and they will be included in the report. Otherwise, the report is
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How to load a log file into LogScanner LogScanner is a tool that gives you the ability to analyze your log files and find ways to improve your performance. This post covers the first step in using this tool; loading a log file. Start LogScanner (part of
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How to improve your performance LogScanner™ is a log analysis tool that provides insight into how to improve your performance on the racecourse. It can read Ockam, Expedition and NMEA0183 log files and show them in ways that lets you find out what happened: Where your performance
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