Sail Tactician

Coaching for the beat, and two fixes to what a mounted iPhone measures. Beat coaching (beta): • Open a saved race and the app now splits it into legs and looks at each beat: how far past the layline you tacked, and how much further you sailed than the shortest legal path to the mark. • Extra distance is measured against the angle you were actually sailing that leg, not your class's book number — so it's distance lost to the course you took, not to how high you were pointing. • The shortest beat is drawn on the map. Where the wind had to be reconstructed, or the mark was placed afterwards rather than pinged, it's drawn as a band rather than a line — it won't claim precision it doesn't have. • When it can't support a finding it says why, instead of quietly showing nothing. • Tap any maneuver in Coaching Review and the map opens on that turn with the heading you should have settled on. • The map legend is tappable — switch each layer on and off. Mounted iPhone, heel: • Heel is now worked out from gravity rather than the phone's own orientation. The old method mixed your turning into the reading, so on a mount that wasn't lying flat a tack could show a big spike of heel that never happened. • Correct at any mount angle — reclined, landscape, or a bracket that sits a little crooked. • The live reading shows heel as a magnitude. You can see which way you're heeled; the number doesn't need to spend a character on it. Recordings keep the side. • If you calibrated on an earlier version, Settings will ask you to level once more — the old reference can't be carried across. Your fine-tune numbers are kept. Mounted iPhone, heading: • The app now works out how far your mount is aimed off the bow while you sail, and remembers it between races. Nothing to tap. • It waits for both tacks before committing to a number. The boat crabs sideways, so the bow sits a few degrees to windward of your track — one way on port, the other on starboard — and sailing both is what cancels it out. • Move the bracket and it notices and tells you. • Heading is no longer recorded when the phone isn't mounted, where it was describing your pocket rather than your boat. Also: • Guided training is now marked BETA in the app. It works, but reps are spotted from GPS course — the least reliable thing we measure — so a drill can miscount. Your track is always recorded in full regardless. • Gybes are judged against your downwind target angle, so the cue reads "Too deep" or "Overturned" instead of the opposite of what happened. • A mark rounding is no longer graded as though it were a tack or a gybe. • Edit the wind on a saved race and the summary recomputes. Tack and gybe counts could previously stay frozen against the old value. • Every metric on a race screen shares one type size, so the numbers read as one instrument. • Move a start-line mark on a saved race and the Start tab recalculates on the spot.