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Hi, for those of you with some interest in virtual sailing, we at SailX, have started our Worlds yesterday. The event will run for more than one month so there's no problem for new users to start now. Some links for the interested: - Newsletter: http://www.sailx.com/vswc_newsletter_sa.html...

SailX USA Nats (Winter 2010) were completed last night (Feb-15th). (image: start of 1st LASER race, 2 secs before the gun) Winner: Madness Results and replays: Here Report: The Big One. Much anticipated for this regatta. And it didn't disappoint. 39 sailors competed in 14 fleet races...

SailX (aka Tacticat) organizes a big event dedicated to CATS. With the name 'SailX World Cat Championship' and sponsorized by several organizations giving the prizes. The event is open for all registered users, no fee. And will be hold during the last weekend of November in times that will...

Next Tuesday we start the NATS in SAILX for 13 countries. This will probably the last event where the current laser-like boat will be used. A new single handed, fast tack, planing, non-skiff boat is now currently modelled to better reflect the Laser behaviour and hence better work as...

This week SAILX (a.k.a. Tacticat) will pass a nice threshold: more than half a million boats completing (legally) a race since we started. That's a huge number!. And a nice accomplishment for a bunch of sailors that started this thing :) Where we stand today? - 4 servers in USA, Europe...

SAILX National championships will be run the last weeks of May. You can find the Notice of Race at: http://www.sailx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=58 SAILX ( www.sailx.com ) is the evolution of the former Tacticat environment. A virtual sailing tool created by...

Final Match of Euro Team League This evening is the final of Euro Team League at Tacticat. Two british teams race to win a boat: Highcliff and Parkstone Date: Jan 3, 2008 Time: 21:00 (GMT & UK time) The race will be available on-line (21:00) at this free racecast...

Every time you get penalized (i.e., you are found the guilty one when two boats hit): - your name will start blinking (gray for the first pen, black if you have more pending pens) - the system will show a message in your computer (on top, red letters) informing you which rule was applied and...

Managing a multi-cultural community of sailors worldwide is not easy. This forum is an example. In Tacticat all messaging is recorded and we also have the video of many races, that help us Tacticat Admins to deal with abusive behaviour. We try to be very strict about using gross language...

Handling a boat is something a computer simulator cannot reproduce (today). Tacticat boats are handled by automated sailors (world champions) and they handle perfectly your boat, and your opponents boats too!. But this champion will strictly follow your orders: Tack now!, luff!, Gybe! ...

Last months have seen big changes in Tacticat (http://www.tacticat.com) environment: - Currents have been added. The strngth a bit exaggerated (as everything in Tacticat, I'd say) making for interesting starts and roundings. - We do have now especialized Match Race fields with the specific...

Addiction 187490 asked what's Tacticat, let's answer that first. Tacticat is a simple Internet software, a simulator. It was created by sailors to validate tactical decisions and improve the knowledge of rules. 100% of code is written by sailors who race regattas at country or continental...

A new version is running at http://www.tacticat.com for Laser sailors. - Team racing support - Improved rules engine - We have set up a server in Brisbane, tacticat sailors can now connect to Euro, USA and AUS servers to get better response time - All tacticat boats (lasers, skiffs and cats)...

For those of you interested, we've scheduled the Tacticat Nat'l champs at http://www.tacticat.com National Champs Schedule USA Monday, Apr 2, 9 PM American East Coast Time, L2 France Lundi 2 Avril, 22:00 Paris time, L2-Euro ItaliaTuesday, Apr 3, 22:00 Roma time, L2-Euro...

Tacticat National Championships will be held during Mars and April. So far only Canada is scheduled for Tue Mars 13, 10pm Eastern Canadian Time. Countries with more than 6 active sailors are or will be discussing when to schedule their nationals. Tacticat Nat. Championships format: 6 races...

End of Jannuary we will be sailing team races at Tacticat. So far 13 teams are being discussed (USA, CANADA, several UK, France, several Spanish, ITALIA, and other mixed teams.). Members of The Laser Community are entering the races but there's no specific team with that name. The due date...

We at Tacticat want to thank the Laser Forum, and all laser sailors that have joined Tacticat and our races. Now the number of countries represented are more than 30 and it is usual to have more than 20 boats at the start line. Next month we will start with team races, each team representing a...

Tacticat interface is SIMPLE. Keys are orders from you (the coach) to the skipper (a super-top sailor). That simplicity is nice for most of times but rounding boys is not one of them. We evaluated that a standard user will require 10 minutes to get the basic handling, perfect roundings require a...

According to Sun documentation, the exe that is launched is javaws.exe When a web browser indentifies the content sent by a server as being jnlp (that's the case of Tacticat application) if the java handler is registered (as it is by default with the new versions of MS Internet Explorer)...

Re: Which is the best race course? Thanks. It worked. After a first reading I noticed that all recommended finishes are on a windward leg. Is it only because a downwind finish makes it complicated for juries to read the sail numbers or there are other reasons? At tacticat we use downwind...