Sail Tactician

For dinghy and keelboat racers: start-line tactics, live wind shifts, VMG, coached drills, and boat-on-boat comparison — plus a logbook that says what to fix.

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, updating every second. The countdown calls every second from up to 30 seconds out — spoken numbers or beeps, and a long tone at the gun — and nothing on the screen moves when you start it. Start from your wrist, or mount the phone and run the countdown from the watch as a remote.

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. Ping the windward mark for VMC, distance to mark and laylines at your class's upwind angle — on the watch as well as the phone. Short distances read in boat lengths. Build your own race screens, 1-up through 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, and your own. The app counts your reps and coaches as you go — "Big speed loss, carry more turn speed" — and won't call the next rep until you're back up to speed. Ten presets, or build your own, chosen on the watch and run on the mounted phone.

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 actually race: sail number, hull length and your own rigging notes, so the numbers follow the boat rather than the sailor. Mounted, the phone reads live heel and trim, calibrated to your real mount angle and aligned to your bow, at full brightness for the race.

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, a heel trace, port vs starboard, upwind/downwind splits and tack efficiency. No wind set on the water? Set the windward mark afterwards and the app works it out from the course, or drag a compass rose on the map. Trim a race, or clip a range into its own session — the original is never touched. Coaching Review scores every tack and gybe you've recorded; Recommended Training turns those gaps into a workout.

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

FREE TO RACE, PRO TO GO DEEPER Free to download and race with: the countdown timer, compass, live speed and heading, your first five recorded races with full analysis, tacking drills, and race file import and export. Pro is a single yearly subscription — first month free — unlocking unlimited recording, 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, into your own private database, and the app says plainly when it isn't syncing. Sign in with Apple is optional; everything works signed out. Import and export races as STX, GPX, CSV, KML or TCX, and read Vakaros VKX and NMEA 0183 logs. Speeds in knots, MPH or KPH. The user guide is built into the app, and you can send feedback from Settings — never with your race data attached.

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

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