Sailing Handicap Calculator vs VRTool

The best and most popular sailing handicap calculator app on on the market. It is commonly used by sailors and race committees all around the world. It supports all the major worldwide sailing race handicap systems. The app calculates the handicapped corrected times for a race and shows the results in order. The elapsed times can be entered manually or automatically by using the built in timer feature. This works by pressing the finish button for each boat as they go over the line to automatically record their elapsed times. The race start time can be started using a timer count down or by entering a start time. This app is compatible with ORC (Time on Distance and Time on Time), IRC, PHRF (Time on Distance and Time on Time), Portsmouth UK and Portsmouth US handicap. Simply select the handicap option you want to use. Use the ORC Download feature (In App Purchase) to automatically populate any of the ORC handicap values for any boat with a valid ORC certificate. While scrolling through the ORC boats you can view the sail number, boat length, boat class/design, build year, builder, weight, draft, beam, sail area for each sail, wetted surface area and more. The results can be emailed as a table in the body of the email and also attached as a CSV file (Excel Compatible spreadsheet file). Very simple and easy to use.

VRTool is a sailing planner and calculator. Calculators combine the following data: - GPS position ( or DR position ) - Polar chart customized for your boat ( your boat performance charts ) - 144h wind forecasts from NOAA GFS. - High resolution GSHHS world maps Real time sailing monitor shows the polar point, TWA, sail efficiency, best course, great circle distance and course to destination. Also logs boat positions, saving boat parameters periodically. Charting tools include: measure tool, route and track design, fixed wind angle tracks, marks, geodesic circles. Weather routing calculation up to 144h, with land collision detection. This finds the optimized route to destination considering the wind forecasts and performance of the boat. Wind forecasts from NOAA GFS, via VRTool webserver. Interactive Polar Chart Editor, for customizing your boat polar charts. VRTool can be configured to act as a NMEA talker, broadcasting GPS messages to other software connected to the boat local network ( including VRTool desktop edition)