Sail plan recommendations

Sail plan recommendations published by your vessel’s manufacturer can be displayed onscreen to help select the correct sail configuration for the prevailing wind conditions. The recommendations are updated in real time as Apparent Wind Speed (AWS) and Apparent Wind Angle (AWA) change.

The vessel's sail plan must first be defined in a simple spreadsheet. The spreadsheet defines a scale of Apparent Wind Speeds (AWS) and the proper main and headsails to be deployed when sailing upwind or downwind. The spreadsheet must then be saved as a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file.

Typically, the sail plan can be provided to you as a csv file by your vessel manufacturer. If this is not possible, a csv template can be downloaded from the Raymarine website, and used as a starting point: Sail Plan Spreadsheet Template

Sail plan RecommendationsSail plans in csv format can then be imported via the Sail Plan page: Boat details menu: Homescreen > Settings > Boat details > Sail plan.

The data of an imported sail plan can be viewed by selecting the plan.

Sail plan recommendations can be shown as:

  1. Data items in a data overlay.

  2. Alert notification (if the Sail recommendation alarm is enabled).

  3. Data items in the Sidebar.

  4. Data items in the Dashboard app.

The sail plan recommendation data items are located under the Boat data category:

  • Sail recommendation (Main) — single data item.

  • Sail recommendation (Headsail) — single data item.

  • Sail recommendation — dual data item (only available in the Dashboard app).

Note

It will take approximately 2.5 minutes from display power up or when data becomes available for sail recommendations to be shown.

A 60 second rolling average is used to calculate Average Wind Speed (AWS).

Change monitor:

To ensure wind speed changes are genuine and persistent, changes will be monitored over a period of time before they are applied.

  • When wind speed is increasing, changes to the sail plan recommendation may take approximately 1 to 1.5 minutes.

  • When wind speed is decreasing, changes to the sail plan recommendation may take approximately 8 to 10 minutes.

  • When upwind changes to downwind or vice versa, changes to the sail plan recommendation may take approximately 2 minutes.