Comments on: Routing Based On Pilot Charts – Geraldton to Cape Town preview

By: Dingo

Dingo — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:25:28 +0000

Of interest to note as well, the Pilot Charts winds that I used for this routing and will use in the pre-race Pilot Chart course for future ocean races are not the ‘average’ winds for each Pilot Chart node across the ocean for that time of year, they are the ‘most likely’, which is a very different concept from ‘average’.

By: Dingo

Dingo — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:35:49 +0000

In pre-race planning, there are many inputs to consider. Pilot Charts being what they are (averages of past conditions), there is only a small possibility that a route based on them will be the fastest route. It’s probably more likely if anything to yield a route somewhere in between the fastest and the slowest route taken by the SOLers in any race.

But that said, I just find it interesting to see what comes out of an analysis of historical wind data when placed into a router.

So Bob, I’ll do a short post on OpenCPN routing and Pilot Charts and post it under the Routing Category.

By: Bob Dolan [javakeda]

Bob Dolan [javakeda] — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:30:05 +0000

Absolutely brilliant!
And, as with most insights, it raises as many questions as it answers.
Next step for me is to try to route using OpenCPN and the Pilot Charts. Love to hear any tips you might have for that endeavor.

But again, absolutely brilliant post! Thank you!