1) If you want to email Roger, delete "SailQuik" and the brackets from his email address. I sent him email, telling him that the NEW
instrument is called SpeedMate Surf, and had a hard time getting through to him. (We had quality control problems with the
Swiss-made Speedwatch Surf and designed the new SpeedMate, with many more features. It's made for us in the USA.)
2) We have sponsored speedtrials, with mixed results. If the wind blows it's great. if not, nobody comes!!! We're thinking about doing
a "performance trial." Whatever the wind, people compete to see what they can do with it. The SpeedMate would be used to
measure speed, elapsed time, distance travelled, etc.
An other idea is to do a "Navigation Trial." Everybody would use the SpeedMate knotmeter/log and a compass to navigate a course
by dead reckoning. I do this with a sailboat and find it quite challenging. (Especially in the fog!!!) Maybe this would be a good thing
for the "back to basics movement."
I'd really welcome any ideas that anybody would like to give us.
David Laylin Voice: (703) 759 0511, 1-800 760 000
Speedtech Instruments Fax: (703) 759 0509
Great Falls, VA 22066 WEB SITE: http://www.infi.net/~spdtech
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