Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

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Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby johnmoody » Tue Dec 03, 2013 2:46 am

I was just wondering if the latest VRTool routing function takes into account the two minute 'slowdown' that is applied for all heading/sail changes in VR?
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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby omar » Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:39 pm

not at this time. How does the slowdown work?
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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby johnmoody » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:47 am

From what I have read, every time you make a heading change, you are slowed to 50% boat speed for two minutes. If my maths is correct, that works out to a 10% reduction in speed for that 10 minute calculation cycle.
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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby ipa64 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:08 pm

Every Time you change tack or sail but not for heading change.
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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby johnmoody » Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:15 am

Hey team, after a few years of detox from virtual sailing, I am trying to catch-up. Now that VR have clearly defined the penalties, has this been applied within the routing calculations?

In races with interpolated winds, heading changes due to fixed TWA are not penalized
In races with fixed constant winds, every heading change is penalized, even it’s done by the TWA function
Any sail change, regardless of manual or automatic, is penalized
Any manual or programmed heading change is penalized

The penalty is a 50% slowdown for two minutes, or 10% slowdown for the 10 minute calculation cycle if easier.

Thanks in advance for keeping this great tool updated !

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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby omar » Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:22 am

johnmoody wrote:Now that VR have clearly defined the penalties, has this been applied within the routing calculations?

These penalties are currently not applied to vrtool weather routing or track designer. :roll:
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Re: Routing and two minute 'slowdown'

Postby sisdarkside » Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:35 am

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