Observed arrival · 2026-08-27
Wind Reading, a Talking Compass for Sailboat Racing
A GPS-and-audio compass that calls heading changes through your earbuds and offers a quick two-tack wind-reading routine.
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Wind Reading uses GPS and spoken audio rather than a conventional visual-only compass. Its quick routine discards a 10-second warm-up on each leg, then compares a minute of sailing on starboard with a minute on port. The page also exposes a 5° announcement threshold, damping for movement in a seaway, device voice selection, and calibration fields. Tactical Mode is present as a control, while the extracted page does not describe its underlying calculation.
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