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What comes next. Ten capabilities in preparation, each born of a question left unanswered on the water — and each built on what the system already measures.

The rule of entryA new capability comes in through the service door: it runs on its own, writes to its own log and takes part in nothing. It is measured over several outings, and it only speaks to the crew once it has proved it is right.

  1. Navigatek 6Ai

    Sail trim, read by a camera

    A camera measures the shape of the sail, and the coaching says what to adjust.

    Fixed marks on the sail — draft stripes and reference points — are tracked by a camera. The system derives draft depth, draft position and twist, compares them with the shape that pays for this wind strength and this point of sail, and says it aloud: “ease the jib sheet a touch, the draft is too far aft”.

    Starting point The boat's real polar and the live polar percentage already say WHEN speed is missing. The camera will say WHY.

  2. Navigatek Juge

    The course, from a description

    Describe the course in words; the system lays it on the map.

    The committee says “windward-leeward, two laps, windward mark at eight tenths of a mile on 290”, or pastes the sailing instructions. The system derives the sequence, places the marks relative to the line and the wind, and proposes them on the map. The committee confirms with one tap: the machine proposes, people validate.

    Starting point Juge already writes a course in one line (1-2-1-2-1), checks it as it is entered and pushes every mark to the whole system.

  3. Navigatek 6Ai

    A camera to follow the fleet

    See the other boats without asking them to carry anything.

    Computer vision spots competing sails, estimates their bearing and distance, and tracks them: who is gaining, who is tacking, who is sailing in whose dirty air. Fleet tactics stop depending on other boats' phones — they work in open regattas too, against boats carrying nothing.

    Starting point Fleet tactics currently rely on the GPS positions Juge receives from equipped crews.

  4. Navigatek 6Ai

    A camera to read the water

    See the puff and the shift before they reach the boat.

    A puff shows on the water before it is felt: the surface darkens and ripples. A camera facing upwind spots those patches, measures how they move and estimates when and how they will hit the boat. Combined with the learned map of the water, it sharpens the shift forecast by a few tens of seconds — enough to prepare a tack rather than suffer it.

    Starting point The learned map already says “dead ahead, it lifts” with 84.5 % correct direction out of sample. It knows what the terrain does; the camera will add the puff going by.

  5. Navigatek Juge

    Automatic GPS marks

    Marks that position themselves, hold station and know where they are.

    Motorised buoys with GPS and virtual anchoring receive the course from Juge and move into place on their own. If the wind shifts, the committee re-orients the course and the marks follow. Their exact position is known to the whole system at every moment: no more mark declared in the wrong place, no more RIB to lay and re-lay them.

    Starting point Juge is already the single source of marks. And the system has already found, after the fact, a mark whose declared position was 218 metres off.

  6. Navigatek 6Ai

    Load sensors in the shrouds

    Measure rig tension instead of guessing it.

    Load sensors, built or integrated into the turnbuckles, continuously measure shroud tension, port and starboard. Set against speed and wind, it shows which rig setting pays at each wind strength — and flags a shroud going slack during a race.

    Starting point The approach of the on-board sensors: generic industrial hardware, characterised and measured rather than believed on its datasheet. The whole on-board budget fits today in a thousand dollars.

  7. Navigatek Meteo

    Meteo: wind corrected by air and water

    The temperature gap between air and water says whether the wind reaches down to the surface.

    When the air is warmer than the water, the layer near the surface stabilises: the wind there is lighter and steadier. When it is colder, the layer mixes: stronger gusts, sharper shifts. Meteo will add water temperature to air temperature, correct the strength, gust and oscillation forecast by the models, and learn that correction from past outings.

    Starting point Meteo already receives air temperature, hour by hour, from every model. Water temperature is what is missing.

  8. Navigatek 6Ai

    Everyday sensors against marine instruments: the test

    The same outings, measured both by the boat's generic sensors and by marine instruments.

    Navigatek claims a measured precision, not an equal one. To be able to write “comparable” one day, the generic sensors and marine instruments have to sit side by side on the same boat, and the gaps have to be published: position, heading, wind angle and strength. If the gap is large somewhere, the page will say so.

    Starting point Every sensor on board already has its precision measured and published — 2.9 m between two GPS units, 3.1° between the compass and the GPS track. The marine reference alongside is what is missing.

  9. Navigatek 6Ai

    Connecting marine instruments (NMEA 2000)

    For boats already equipped: read their instruments directly on the onboard network.

    A boat that is already equipped should not have to double up its sensors. Navigatek will read the NMEA 2000 network — wind, heading, speed, depth — and put those readings through the same normalisation and cross-checks as its own sensors: a marine instrument will be watched like the others, not taken on trust.

    Starting point The onboard GPS units already speak NMEA 0183, and every reading goes through a common normalisation before entering the system.

  10. Navigatek 6Ai

    The gain from coaching, measured

    With and without the voice, on the same water: how many seconds, how many places.

    Coaching that sounds right is not necessarily coaching that wins. Navigatek will compare outings sailed with and without the voice, in similar conditions, and publish what changes: speed against the polar, time lost in manoeuvres, choice of side.

    Starting point The report already times every manoeuvre and puts a number on its loss, and the coaching audit rereads every call after the race.

Is one of these lines of interest to you, or do you see one missing? Capabilities move faster when a crew tries them on its own water.

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