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A Tool for Long-Distance Yacht Racing and Cruising PDF Print E-mail

Bluewater Racing is a free program that provides strategic tools to help you win long-distance sailboat races. 

  • Plan your route on a graphical chart-based interface.
  • View boat performance data (polar charts).
  • View weather forecasts (GriBs). 
  • Use performance and wind data to compute how long it will take to sail your route. 
  • Ask the program to plan the fastest route for you.
  • Track competitors. 
  • Interface to your GPS. 
  • View NOAA charts in BSB format
  • Make your own charts from any digital image.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 04:00
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Take a Tour with the Online Tutorial PDF Print E-mail
Take a tour of Bluewater Racing with our quick online tutorial, featuring lots of screen shots of the program in action.
 
Newest Version 1.71 PDF Print E-mail
Version 1.70 has a rewritten optimizer that runs substantially faster but still computes the same winning routes.  Some additional flexibility in displaying times has also been added.

 Version 1.71 corrects a bug that would cause a "expected floating point but got """ error when opening the route manager with a new route.

The automatic download and installation function is not working in versions before 1.52, although the program will misleadingly act like it is.   It will download the update to your TEMP directory, but not install it.    You can either install it yourself, by navigating to the TEMP directory (often <user>/AppData/local/temp) and double clicking on bluewater_lite.exe, or downloading it yourself from this website and launching it.

Last Updated on Friday, 30 December 2011 10:22
 
Peregrine Wins Transpac 2011 Division VI Using Bluewater Racing PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:41

Peregrine crosses line at Diamond Head

The Hobie 33, skippered by Simon Garland with navigator Jeff Westbrook, corrected out six hours ahead of its nearest competitor  to take the Division VI trophy.  Peregrine also corrected first out of all boats starting on Monday July 4, but could not beat the big boats starting on July 8, who benefited from stronger and steadier breeze leaving the California coastal waters.

Last Updated on Monday, 09 January 2012 23:18
 
User forums enabled PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:15
User forums have been enabled for Bluewater Racing.  Post questions, make comments, file bug reports.  You must be a register user to post to the forums.
 
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