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Since I posted the article in News I've received plenty of messages,
So it's obvious that there are many people that's interested in sailing-
related software for the Mac.

	"I really don't know what I'm talking about, but since you all are
	interested, and I found this article - here you are !"

The sad thing is that I don't have any names of the developers or
dealers. Only the names of the software-products.

MacSea was first developed by some Frenchmen as early as 1984. And have
been modified and expanded thereafter. MacSea is used as a link between
all the electronic equipment onboard. The most important links, is to the
instruments that's calculating positioning and the boat's main-computer.
These two instruments, the Decca system/GPS (Global positioning System) 
and the boat's main-computer outputs position, speed, wind, 
airtemp., watertemp etc. All this data is transferred to the MacSea 
program.

The program contains four separate modules: 
Electronic sea-map; that is covering the world-seas, and more detailed maps 
over many popular sailing-areas all over the world.

Log-book:
An electronic log-book that's recording longitude/latitude, speed, 
course, wind, etc. automatically in the log-book

Polar diagram: (What ?)
You can input the boats polar-data in to the polar-diagram and 
update them after sailing some hundred distances, so you know what the 
maximum performance of the boat is under any circumstances.

Tactic-part:
Shortest and fastest passage to different point in the regatta. It's 
not always the shortest that's the fastest!

You can scan in weather-map whit a hand-held scanner or a fax-modem
so that MacSea can predict the weather. Connection with an small 
radio-antenna to a landbased link via Inmarsat C is also possible.
	
	Credits to the Steinlager organisation, winner of Withbread 
	Round The World Race 89-90, who only used Macintosh equipment 
	on board their boat.
	
MacSurf is a program for designing fuselages with volume/stability
calculations.

MacSails is a program for designing an weight-calculating of sail-
canvas. You can connect this to a laser-cutter that will cut the canvas 
directly. It does everything except the sawing !

	From "Macintosh on the seven seas" by Carl Hennix, 
	Globetrotter and Americas-cup sailer
	
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Dear Garret (sorry about this folks!)
Reply to your message:
I'm sorry, but this is all I got on sailing-related software. But I would 
recommend you to contact other sailing-clubs, and maybe you will find
some customised layout for FoxPro or Filemaker databases that you 
can achieve. Or build your own - I don't think it should be that hard to make.

Best luck - by the way - I could not get through to your address...

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