Anybody back your session Mark? or you only one who went out?

Marcel and Nebbs out at Peli, Chris at Pt W. Maybe they are just holding back the big numbers before we put the boot in.

Marcel will send his data to either Mike or me, so the numbers may change.

Well done Mark. Some good numbers for those conditions! The new board must be the goods!

Welcome to the team Ben and Marcel!

Congrats on the Pb Chris, well done mate

Any boardie day's a good day Nebs

Boardies Nebbs, you must be crazy. Boy it got cold once the sun went down. Welcome to the Pinnas.

Well done on the PB, Chris. Did you use doppler or trackpoint for alpha? We are so close to the others and i know sailquick has advised trackpoints. Nebbs any advice? What do the Mobsters do? Trackpoint gives me a 21.84 which would give us a 20.65 ave and 2 more places! Both on the alpha and the ladder overall!

Did stop and have a look at Pt W on the way down from Dalkeith side but wasn't confident. I had really got my hopes up for a good session. Soon?

Hey Mark,

All my data is Doppler. If the word's out that trackpoint is better to use for alpha let me know.

Thanks for the congrats on the PB guys. Now to get that bloody 5x10 over 30. I thought I'd do it yesterday after the first two runs... but huey disagreed.

You've stolen our distance machine

Yep, definately use trackpoints for alphas, with the proviso that you check it for invalids and spikes.

There shouldn't be a huge difference between alpha and trackpoint results, and they should both pick the same gybe. The track should be a "U" shape, and the time should advance at 1 sec intervals, if that's all fine, it should be a valid alpha.

If in doubt ask nebs to check.

Nebs, you were wearing what?

Well done team

Great to see Nebbian post for Pinnas first time out in a while. He reckons he has taught Mandurah Mob all he knows , and now is into coaching us

Marcel has a session, yet to put it up, but welcome to the GTC and a great deal of fun.

Thanks to the rest of the Team for August, a great effort seeing as we had some lengthy breaks between storm fronts, and in particular our Whip man Loa Shi, who keeps us all striving to get on the water and improve 

Nebs thinks because he's sailing up North now he can get away with wearing boardies.

Hope they weren't over a wetty

Marcel 1st GTC session at Peli Point

Marcel, may be a little short on distance there?

He had a concern with his settings, have run it through my RSpeed and looks like he is up in the 20's for distance. Have sent him corected data to post

Thanks, just updated posting. Bit confusing all the GPS settings.

Boardies just makes you concentrate more on those gybes 

Couldn't believe how many people were there, all smiles as well... It's so good being able to be on the water 25 minutes after walking out the door at work 

Regarding alphas, yes use trackpoints but as Decrepit said, you have to look at the gybe that Realspeed thinks is your alpha and make sure it's a nice rounded U shape and not a jagged V.  I normally throw away at least the top alpha because it's not really measuring anything except a spike.

Hi Marcel and welcom to GPSTC

I'm with Neb's and the old fella re Alpha, I often have to chuck the top 1 or even 2 Alpha results, I just can't do a 45 Alpha yet

Mineral, those numbers for Marcel come out quite different from the results I got from realspeed. Were they trackpoint or doppler? Were you working from the NMEA file or did you get Marcel to download from the logger?

Mark, sent you file I ran through RSpeed for Marcel on email.

Was NMEA FILE