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KevinDo
Joined: 02 Jul 2012 Posts: 426 Location: Cabrillo Inside
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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spennie wrote: | KevinDo: By "accurate" I'm assuming you're implying the previous sensor was not? Where exactly would you put one?
Here's the thing-- I know Jim Martin well, and I helped him set up the current Leo sensor. You need power & data to have a sensor, and that limits where it can go. Virtually every iWindsurf sensor has to be learned, that is learn how to tell the difference between where the sensor is and where you'll be sailing. Jim told me once that he could have a sensor on a buoy right where people sail and they would STILL complain it was off! He was proven correct recently when someone told me they thought the Marker 14 sensor up in the Delta was off, and it's on a short tower in the middle of the river, you can jibe around it!
Wind speed = sensor RPM = data, the sensors don't lie. It might be possible with today's technology to put a wireless solar-powered sensor right where you're going to sail, I'm not sure, but the marine enviroment is hell on electronics so it probably wouldn't work long. Besides, what are you going to mount it to? |
I won't lie but I have no knowledge on sensors. Must admit I was just unhappy sometimes the meter would read high winds but I get there and it's calm. Used to drive from Pendleton each time and that wasn't a pleasant feeling getting there and finding it was calm unlike what WindAlert would report. I eventually did learn that the lull was the best indicator. Silly me lol. Don't get me wrong though, I do appreciate what Jim does! Now we should all get together and get the lifeguards to put up another tower so WeatherFlow can get a station going! |
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LeeD
Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 1175
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Some years, I have unlimited hang time at the windsurfng sites. You'll be amazed the number of sailors who miss the wind, arriving 10 minutes too late to see only reflection glass, when 1/2 an hour previously, guys were jumping on 5.0's and 85 liter boards.
I'd say, at Berkeley where I mostly hang, the number of skunked would be over at least 6 a day, any day the wind blows. Now 20 windsurfers getting wind, 6 skunked, and you can see what's happenning.
Winds change.
Nobody's timing is perfect. |
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