Expedition sailing software manual

If you have installed Expedition please include your Site Code in your order comments. Racing: Expedition Software The information age is hitting sailing full force.

Today's top racers and cruisers use expedition software to optimize racing strategy and boat performance on the fly while also compiling data for later analysis.

No problem! We have other ways to train you:. Expedition Polars and Sail Charts Webinar. Peter Isler. Learn More! Expedition Race Schedules Webinar. Expedition Weather and Routing Webinar.

Instrument Tuning and Optimization Webinar. As explained in the manual, used for performance figures in Exp. Used for routing calculations etc. Start is used during start only for the reasons you mentioned. I bought Expedition in and I am still on a steep learning curve.

Practice, the help file, the webinars, Will Oxley's book, and this forum have all contributed significantly to whatever limited proficiency I have acquired. I will try to address some of your questions and I hope that my explanations can be supplemented by others and corrected if my understandings appear flawed. This should be the 10M polar when routing as you will be using 10M winds from the grib file.

Perf Polar: This should be the MH polar to be used to monitor boat performance in real time. This can be obviated by using two PCs with one dedicated to the performance monitoring and a second dedicated to routing and Race Schedules.

This will not be used in the calculation of leeway; only the real time heel measured by the heel sensor is used as a value in the calculation of leeway. You will not obtain a uniform value for Leeway Factor throughout the range of upwind sailing but just try to get an average or "most relevant" number; I prefer to emphasize narrower TWAs here. Don't sweat the values with the board up as you will be going too fast by then for leeway to be big enough to significantly influence your calculated TWAs.

You will enter the Leeway Factor into the calibration of your instrument system which will use it to calculate degrees of leeway made which will be added to your TWA by either your instrument system or Expedition; depending on what Expedition receives from the processor.

Alternatively, you should enter your Leeway Factor into Expedition if your instrument system is not capable of generating TWAs using leeway. I hope this helps and does not tend to confuse. To establish a K factor for leeway of my boat I sailed it on a fresh water lake without current.

Then I recorded what the instruments gave back for set and drift. Expedition 4D requires OpenGL support. The best navigation and sailing software available. Expedition has been used in multiple Volvo Ocean Race, America's Cup and Grand Prix events and is the most advanced and usable software available. Expedition has been in development since the mid s by veteran Volvo Ocean Race navigator and Whitbread winner Nick White.

Key Features. Chart-plotter that seamlessly selects, mosaics and rotates charts.