Check out the latest iPhone app for sailors. R/C Assist is a tool for race committees which provides complete countdown timer functionality for several of the most common starting sequences used in sailboat racing. It allows your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad to start the races completely with sounds broadcast through an amplifier, or to help your race committee time start sequences and use the proper flags and sound symbols at the correct time. See the support page for full details.
You may remember that back in 2008 I nominated the ubiquitous Ollie Box starting system as the Best Sailing Innovation Ever. I wonder if R/C Assist will be as successful. It's certainly a lot cheaper at $4.99.
Check it out. And by the way the creator of this nifty little tool is B.J. Porter who writes the sailing blog Sail Evenstar.
3 comments:
It's not strange?
This is a bonus post for today, EV
This is awesome. I was at the club last night and waiting around with a group of members to present something to the Board. I was reading your blog on my iphone, saw this shared with ,y colleagues who immediately downloaded and loved it.
It's well-designed. Thanks for sharing.
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