Freecycle, You mention a separate GPS; so, you have one? I have an old Garmin 38 handheld. Even it will show me Velocity Made Good — toward a waypoint. So... if you can enter the mark(s) to which you have to race as a waypoint, your GPS should give you VMG. I use mine all the time in that mode. Just a thought. Perhaps the precise location of a marker will be unknown and thus not useful for setting a waypoint; but, it seems worth a try. And, I agree that a polar chart would bve useful to give you an idea of what your potential should be at various points to the wind.
Fair Winds, Jim Calleran, C27 #2784, Trad, OB Mathews Yacht Club, VA 37°27.8'N/76°18.6'W --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Port Huron Freecycle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Port Huron Freecycle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Target speeds To: [email protected] Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:55 PM So, correct me if I wrong..... Without adding to my current instruments (speed, depth, separate GPS), and it appears that it would be a cluster of those (wind, vmg, etc., etc., etc,.all networked (cha-ching!, cha-ching!, cha-ching!!!!)),
