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2012-12-17 00:57:57 - Re: MOD70 polar development
I was playing with the transat data today (will post the grib). The polar that seemed to work well for the European races failed *massively*. Boosted downwind VMG speeds by almost 50% and the tracks snap into place. Insane! Boats go 32 kts average in a pretty wide range of conditions :-)

The Atlantic race gives at least a few good thresholds, as Race For Water was so close, but ended up losing days.
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2012-12-18 14:13:55 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Here's the Krys race weather. They sure lucked into a fast window!
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2012-12-18 16:19:52 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Yoohoo ! :-D

This new weather will be a relief ! I've been fighting against Leg2 for 2 days.... Either best VMG is around Twa 35/37° (which I had never seen before, I believe...) or there's a bug in the position reports and/or the NOAA's gribs... as this is a multihull, I was waiting for a flat polar, with a best VMG at 45 or more.
So far, she looks more like a fighter jet than a sailboat... =-O

Still not convinced about my results, but I'll let you know when I believe I'm close to something "workable"... :-)

As to the race, their average speed is around 30knts !!! That can't be only luck... ;-)
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2012-12-18 20:21:47 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Tarco, you following me...??
I really don't want to go further S.
We'll see what happens, 2300kn to go, Christmats Morning might have a gift for us :),
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2012-12-18 22:21:52 - Re: MOD70 polar development
I'll have a go at creating the polars as well and maybe we can compare or average later.

Will probably have some time during christmas :)

Data and results will go here


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2012-12-18 23:51:52 - Re: MOD70 polar development
FANTASTIC !!!!

The new ocean grib file you made works on Ugrib, so I can check the wind when and where I need it , without dowloading 8 files per day, providing only the possibility to check exclusively the first minute of each....

Thank you very-very much !!! :-D
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2012-12-19 14:21:52 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Hi,all !
Finishing the Ocean samples... More than 1000 of them...
This time, they are extremely precise ! :-)

It seems Race for Water had a pb, as if they couldn't use their gennaker, or something like that. For every sample, their speed was 5 to 10 knts lower than the others in the same conditions.
Oman probably had problems too : after they drifted south; their speed was never as high as the others'.

Best VMG : around 165 between 16 and 20knts TWS !!!
Max BS : 33 (averaged)

Polar goes up and down, probably depending on the sail they use and if they can sail on one hull or not...
Huge gap around TWA 100-105, below 10knts TWS. And another one at TWA 150, at TWS22 and above...

More news when I'm done with Leg 1... again.
I want to have the polar as complete as possible bafore I "publish" it. ;-)
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2012-12-21 14:33:03 - Re: MOD70 polar development
The track logs of the races I found contain position data that is already transformed to the addviso maps, it seems.

Does anybody know where to find lat,lon positions for the Krys and European tour races?
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2012-12-21 18:12:27 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Hey awesome! Anyone else want to join in as well? Impressively organised - "polar" opposite of my desk :)

They're giving x/y coordinates with origin at upper left. For the Krys race, using a starting lon of 150.312 (map edge) seems to line up the data, though you end up with a funny multiplier (123.55).

You normally expect to end up with nice clean numbers (120 makes sense) so I've probably messed up somewhere.

For the y direction I get ~81N as origin and multiplier of ~167, which not only doesn't match the x scaling but also the bounds of the map.

But it's something like that. The other xml file contains all the x/y values for the race waypoints and features. Which make figuring out the scaling easier as you have clearly defined points.

(here's what I have so far - mostly featureless blob, but "races" pretty fairly against the real boats. Will be interesting to see how the different approaches compare!)



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2012-12-21 18:32:11 - Re: MOD70 polar development
Ah thanks, was hoping I could avoid having to figure out the transformation from map coords to lat/lon, but since you did it as well I guess that's the way to go. Will do that then :)

Thanks as well for your results so far. "Featureless" would not really surprise me for this kind of boat.
I am not an expert, but the narrow hulls will likely have a boring resistance curve and at the speeds they do, they'll pretty much have just one sail configuration for any true wind angle: close-hauled :D
..as well as high lift/drag ratio's -> low angles of attack -> linear performance

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