Sail Tactician

For dinghy and keelboat racers: start-line tactics, live wind shifts, VMG, a Coach that prices every mistake in seconds, and an Action button that runs the race.

A racing instrument for your Apple Watch and iPhone — start-line tactics, live VMG, guided coaching, and a logbook that tells you what to fix.

START STRONG Ping the pin and committee boat and the app does the rest: distance to line, time to line, time to burn, and which end is favored, in degrees and boat lengths, updating every second. The countdown speaks every whole minute from ten down and every second from 30 out — spoken numbers or beeps, a long tone at the gun — and nothing on screen moves when you start it. Start from your wrist, or mount the phone and run the countdown from the watch. On Apple Watch Ultra the Action button starts and syncs the countdown.

SAIL FAST A live compass with your no-sail zone drawn from your own boat's angles. VMG with a target heading and tack/gybe calls. The app tracks the wind as you sail, tells you whether you're lifted or headed, and labels every reading TRACKED or FORECAST so you know how much to trust it. Short distances read in boat lengths. Build your own race screens, full-width stacks or grids up to 8-up, and lock one to stay class-compliant.

TRAIN WITH A COACH Pick a workout and drill with real feedback: tacks, gybes, VMG holds, speed runs, race starts, mark roundings, or your own. It counts your reps and coaches as you go — "Big speed loss, carry more turn speed". Eleven presets or your own, chosen on the watch and run on the mounted phone. Training is marked beta in the app.

KNOW YOUR BOAT Over fifty classes built in — ILCA 7 (Laser), Optimist, Snipe, Melges 24, J/70, Etchells, MC Scow, Nacra 17, Moth and more — each with its own upwind and downwind angles, or define your own. Save the boats you race: sail number, hull length and rigging notes, so the numbers follow the boat rather than the sailor. Mounted, the phone reads live heel and trim from one tap on level water and learns how far the mount sits off your bow.

REVIEW EVERY RACE Every session records speed, course, heel, trim and heart rate, fix by fix. Your numbers score the race itself — the pre-start shows separately, with a Start tab breaking down your approach to the gun. Full-screen replay with a scrubber that jumps between maneuvers. Speed and VMG charts, a polar diagram with the angle you actually held on each tack, a heel trace, port vs starboard, upwind/downwind splits and tack efficiency. The Coach is a map and one finding at a time, each priced in seconds at your own speed, with a tacking cone on every beat showing where you overstood or sailed extra — and what went well. Place the windward mark on the map afterwards and the app works the wind out from it, or drag a compass rose over your track. Trim a race, or clip a range into its own session — the original is never touched. Recommended Training turns your gaps into a workout. The watch shows the same analysis cards.

RACE AGAINST YOUR FRIENDS Share a race with the sailors you raced against and compare boat-on-boat on iPhone: who led when, where the race changed hands, and a two-boat replay lined up at the gun.

FREE TO RACE, PRO TO GO DEEPER Free to download and race with: countdown timer, compass, live speed and heading, your first five recorded races with full analysis, tacking drills, and race import and export. Every race is recorded and saved on every tier. Pro is one subscription, monthly or yearly — first month free — unlocking the live tactical suite, every drill, race sharing and comparison, and your full history. Nothing is ever deleted.

FOLLOWS YOU EVERYWHERE Sessions sync privately between iPhone and Apple Watch over iCloud, and the app says plainly when it isn't. Sign in with Apple is optional; everything works signed out. Speeds in knots, MPH or km/h. Import and export races as STX, GPX, CSV, KML or TCX, and read Vakaros VKX and NMEA 0183 logs. The user guide is built in.

Capsize and knockdown detection requires the iPhone mounted to the boat.

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