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  • 2025-09-13 22:21:57
    Re: Carib Rum Run 2025
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Kipper shall be Saltheart Ripper, enjoying the morning with a rum soaked kipper.

    Avast! Saltheart Ripper be now carved into the rolls o’ legend! With a heart as briny as the deep and a taste for rum-soaked kippers at dawn, ye’ll tear through the fleet like a storm with teeth. Stand clear, ye lubbers — the Ripper sails with vengeance and appetite!

    --- Last Edited by Patrick70119 at 2025-09-14 04:48:50 ---
  • 2025-08-11 22:03:46
    Checking on GFS Wx Progress
    Board » Technical Support
    Sometime, the NOAA Wx production is delayed. To find out exactly where the prodcution si up to, do the following.
    1. Got to https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/
    2. Click on the gfs.{today's date}/ e.g. gfs.20250811/ for 11 August 2025
    3. Click on the production hour. These are 4.5 hours before the SOL Wx time. e.g 00 is for the 4:30 Wx
    4. Click on atmos/
    5. Scroll down and look for the files named gfs.t{hour}z.pgrb2.0p25.f{XXX} e.g. gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f000. The XXX part in f{XXX} gives what frame the production is up to. eg, gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f186 is frame 186 for the 4:30 Wx.
    6. Once f186 is there, the SOL Wx will arrive in the next few minutes. The f{XXX} will give you an idea of how many more frames need to be created before the Wx will arrive.
  • 2025-07-21 09:05:44
    Workaround for missing tile information
    Board » Technical Discussion
    Until such time as the tech team adds the tile information back, the following steps need to be followed.
    1. If you see Tile Map : null on the title bar of your AGL, there is a problem.
    2. Check which tile set is being used on client Misc tab.
    3. Make sure AGL is shut down and open the folder where you start AGL.
    4. In the folder SOLGribXml find the file that matches your race. For race 1935 it will be auth_raceinfo_1935.xml.
    5. Open that file in a text editor.
    6. Just before the tag <mapurl> , add the line

    <tilemap>i<tilemap> for intermediate tile sets or

    <tilemap>h<tilemap> for high tile sets.

    7. Save and close the file.

    8. In the maps folder, delete the files

    race_1935.dat and race_1935.map. The "1935" will change to match the current race id.

    8. Restart AGL.

    AGL will now pick up the tile set information and load the correct set.




  • 2025-06-18 00:53:48
    AGL 24.1.1 Released
    Board » Technical Discussion
    A new version of AGL24 is here called AGL24_1_1_with_maps.zip and AGL24_1_1_update.zip. Updated documentation is also available called AGL24 User Manual Ver 24.{X.X}.pdf and release notes in AGL24 Release Notes Ver 24.{X.X}.pdf. Please read the release note for enhancements and bug fixes.

    Note that if AGL24.1.0 was not installed, AGL24_1_1_with_maps.zip must be downloaded and installed according to the instructions in the manual for a new install.
  • 2025-06-16 10:16:02
    Re: Convert Expedition Route to DC's?
    Board » Technical Support
    I've generated the Expd gpx file and should be able to incorporate it into the DC table.

    --- Last Edited by Kipper1258 at 2025-06-16 10:36:35 ---
  • 2025-06-16 01:08:31
    Re: Convert Expedition Route to DC's?
    Board » Technical Support
    AGL may be able to do it for you. Try these steps.
    1. Open the GPX as a waypoint file in AGL, and clean it up there. You will need to read the manual on what the waypoint commands do.
    2. Check them using the VMG waypoint checker, and fix as needed.
    3. Use the Convert VMG waypoints into DCs option, and finalise your DCs. You MUST read the manual on how to do this as there are some steps that must be followed on how to do this.

  • 2025-06-12 04:31:16
    Re: AGL 24 Issues
    Board » Technical Discussion
    justmeR8 said @ 2025-06-11 23:40:09:
    Hi, New laptop so new download.
    At step 3, rather than getting folder C:\sol\Java24, I got folder
    C:\solAGL24_1_0_With_maps.
    The Java24 folder was found in this.
    Not sure if it is required, but I just copied the Java24 folder back up to C:\SOL and everything worked.
    .
    .

    That's a result of how you unzipped it. You need to use the "Unzip here" option. But if it does end up in a folder of the zip file name, simply cut the Java24 folder in there, and paste it into your C:\SOL folder, and everything will work.
  • 2025-06-11 05:26:52
    AGL 24 Issues
    Board » Technical Discussion
    A thread for posting issues with AGL 24
  • 2025-06-11 05:25:23
    AGL 24.1.0 Released
    Board » Technical Discussion
    A new version of AGL24 is here called AGL24_1_0_with_maps.zip. Updated documentation is also available called AGL24 User Manual Ver 24.{X.X}.pdf and release notes in AGL24 Release Notes Ver 24.{X.X}.pdf. Please read the release note for enhancements and bug fixes.

    Note that is full release and must be installed according to the instructions in the manual for a new install.
  • 2025-06-11 05:13:00
    AGL 24 Releases
    Board » Technical Discussion
    A new thread for AGL 24 releases

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