Yes, that works on my Macbook - and the tracking device, if not Amiina, is somewhere in Chorleywood Bottom!

Edward Hooper wrote:

For iPhone, open App store on phone & find & instal ' ngtrack ' app. 

This app seems to be for iPhone only, not iPads, which is a shame.

I wish you a good race!

Ketil

 

Rereading the October magazine again last night when I was restless, much nicer to read than on the PC,by the way, I noted that Amiina finished 17th in it's class. So being curious, I looked at the official results to see where they finished overall. In the ISC classes, they were 188th overall from 714 finishers and 785 entered to start. Congrats to Steve Peake and Chris Edwards who sailed the race, and to Edward Hooper (owner) and to Slieve McGalliard (rig designer), who seem to have made quite a competitive boat. I noted that the crew made an error by going over to the mainland and were stymied by some Cruise Liners coming out of Southampton and could have finished even higher. Roll on, Next Year!!!, I say. Well done to all involved.

Hi Guys

We went out in Poppy early yesterday and watched the last five of the starts of this year's RIR. They had a good wind and it made me wonder why I hadn't entered Poppy again. As the last start cleared the line and Amiina got safely away I hoisted 4 panels without tensioning the downhauls and beat down the Western Solent after them. There was some good action among the smaller boats, but even with only 3 panels setting properly I started to overhaul the tailenders. It really was excellent sailing with probably 15 knots blowing against the neap ebb but the sea wasn't too lumpy, and it was a great sight to see a solid wall of a few hundred sailing boats all the way to the horizon.

I was tempted to hoist full sail and keep going, but we turned and ran back to Cowes for a quick run ashore and saw Leopard, the first mono-hull cross the finish line in an elapse time of 4:40 for the 50 miles. Anthony Cooke was checking the boats past Yarmouth pier, and Sally Peake was chasing around the island keeping an eye on Amiina with Steve Peake and Chris Edwards on board. They had a good sleigh ride down the back of the island matching some spinnaker boats and apparently eating up bigger boats across Sandown Bay. As ever, they then met the anticlimax as they turned at the Fort for the slow slog to windward against the tide in the wind shadow of the land. Even so, they achieved a very good result finishing in the top 25% of the ISC boats, and have been able to make some good suggestions which way get even better performance from the junk rig. It's interesting that the small boats that beat them in the good blow were mostly heavy weather classic designs like Yonne, SCODs, Twisters and Contessa 26s.

The results and a couple of good photos can be found on the Round the Island Race web site. Once again we see that the junk rig can compete favourably with the pointy tops.

Cheers, Slieve.