Building speed in 2021!

First of all the SailingPerformance team would like to send you it’s best wishes for the new year. Now that the 2020 page is turned it is time to focus on getting back out on the water. We have kept busy during the confinement and added a lot of new features to our analysis tools.

  • Improved automation of the configuration process
  • Improved calibration procedure
  • Automation of graph generation to cut time on analysis
  • Improved video synchronisation and new video extraction feature
  • New feature for using the analysis tools in real-time
  • Lots of tutorials and demos on our youtube channel

 

Head now to our download page to upgrade to the 2021 versions of our software.

Please note that our licensing scheme has also been given a brush up. If you already have a valid license (software or usb dongle) be sure to contact us after installing the latest software versions so that we can generate your new licenses.

Buy or renew your SailingPerformance software licenses before January 31st 2021 and get 15% off !

Banque du Leman winner of the 2020 Normandy Channel Race.

What a race! From the light airs drifter along the English South Coast to the upwind section in 25-30kts TWS across the Channel to get back to Normandy. Banque du Leman and archrival Credit Mutuel were never further appart than 2-3nm over the last 24hours.
Congratulations to Valentin Gautier and Simon Koster for this well deserved success one month after establishing a new Round the British Islands record. Let’s not forget knd’s Valentin Le Pivert who has been following Banque du Leman since her launch working on the polars and crossovers. Valentin also sails and he was onboard for the delivery to Caen before the start of the race.

 

L’Occitane best performer in Defi Azimut 2020 runs

Today the Defi Azimut runs took place in front of Lorient. The Defi Azimut is the last event before the start of the Vendee Globe 2020 in November. L’Occitane was the fastest of the fleet by quite a margin!

A nice reward for the hard work of the whole team!

1 L’OCCITANE EN PROVENCE Armel Tripon 03:05 (23,35 nds)
2 LINKEDOUT Thomas Ruyant 03:20 (21,60 nds)
3 ARKÉA PAPREC Sébastien Simon 03:23 (21,28 nds)
4 APIVIA Charlie Dalin 03:28 (20,77 nds)
5 INITIATIVES CŒUR Samantha Davies 03:28 (20,77 nds)
6 CHARAL Jérémie Beyou 03:34 (20,19 nds)
7 SEAEXPLORER – YACHT CLUB DE MONACO Boris Herrmann 03:49 (18,86 nds)
8 MACSF Isabelle Joschke 03:51 (18,70 nds)
9 PRB Kévin Escoffier 03:51 (18,70 nds)
10 TIME FOR OCEANS Stéphane Le Diraison 03:59 (18,08 nds)
Round Britain Record

Round Britain Record

Simon Koster, Valentin Gautier & Justine Mettraux have set a new Class 40 record on board Banque du Leman. The reference time is now 7 days 6 hours and 25 minutes. They shaved 11 hours to the recent record set by arch-rival Credit Mutuel, the other scow bow Class40 design. We are more than happy of this result for the Mach40.4, a Manuard design to which knd contributed by providing VPP and CFD.

Banque du Leman is a special project for us as after the launch we have also been involved heavily in the performance development. Valentin Le Pivert, knd engineer in charge of the project: ‘I have the chance to sail regularly on Banque du Leman, not only she is a great Class 40 but I enjoy working with Simon and Valentin, they are involving us deeply in the performance development’.

SailGP virtual race viewing with David Rey

Join the live broadcast organized by SailGP featuring David Rey and Billy Besson .
An insight on how sailors can use real time data to achieve better performance and how the support of knd helps speeding up the process.

David has been working with SailGP Team France in 2019 and 2020. Beyond he has also been in charge of Quantum Racing TP52 perf analysis as well as several other high level inshore and offshore programs.

KndLogCleaner: a video tutorial

KndLogCleaner: a video tutorial

Sailing data logs come in all shapes and forms. Sometimes they need to be tidied up before you can feed them to our tools.
The KndLogCleaner will let you

  • Regularize irregular timesteps
  • Interpolate data where it is occasionaly missing
  • Select only the variables you are interested in
  • Down-sample a large log (eg: work on a manageable 30 second rather than the original very large 1s offshore log)
  • Keep peak values of important variables despite a down-sampling
  • Offset all timestamps (eg: your log is in utc time but you prefer working with local times)
  • Offset the position of the gps onboard the boat (eg: in your studies you want to know when the bow of the boat crossed the start line, not the gps device)

Learn how to properly use the KndLogCleaner through this 12 minute video tutorial.