Racing yachts

The important weight savings of Tacktick’s new Micronet instrumentation give a decisive boost to competitive racing boats. Add to the equation the system’s speed of installation, immediacy of updating, plus total flexibility in use, and it’s clear that Micronet has no equal.

Weight savings: if you could take out the in-mast cable to the Wind Transducer, the weight you’d save could allow you to have one less body on the rail, or quite a few chunks carved off the keel. Well, now you can. Micronet Displays are solar-powered, wireless-linked and cable-free.Your battery bank can be smaller and lighter, too. Even the instruments themselves are slimline and lightweight.

Speed of installation: transducers, transmitters and displays (with the exception of the through-hull Speed Transducer) can be fitted with the boat in the water and the rig in place. Even the Speed Transducer needn’t slow you down: if there’s one already in place, you may be able to incorporate it into the Micronet system if it’s an Airmar product.

Instant updating: need another large-digit display at the mast just hours before a race? Pick it up from the chandler’s, take it to the boat, switch on and perform a simple networking operation, so that it links to the boat’s unique network and becomes part of the system.Then attach to the mast with sticky pads, or if you have a few extra minutes, fit the cradle with self-tapping screws.That’s all.You can set it to display any data available in your system.

Flexible to use: where you site your displays isn’t limited by the need to supply them with cables. So you can put them anywhere.The tactician can even take one with him to the weather rail, and monitor all the data from there.

RIB coach boat can monitor race boat data via a display linked to the same network.The data is sent by the NMEA Interface on the race boat, and can be saved to a computer aboard either boat for evaluation later.

MOB* Transmitters (under development).To be carried by each crew
member. As soon as one of them goes over the side, an alarm
will automatically be activated, and Micronet will calculate and display the bearing and distance.Alternatively the system will trigger the MOB function on the GPS. MOB information overrides other data on a selected display.

Information On Deck (IOD) package: This on-deck wireless solution gives you information where you need it. Micronet’s IOD package includes racing software and wireless screen. Plug them into your on-board PC and have the tactical information where you want. Micronet can send and receive information to your PC. Navigation and tactical software can then be displayed on deck. Next leg apparent wind angle, sail choice, GPS position on a digital chart, laylines, time & distance markers, optimum route and weather overlays are a few examples of the benefits of using a PC integrated with Micronet.

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