Electronic Compass

[waynhast]

Are either the Tacktick TO60 Micro Compass or the Velocitek Speed Puck compass allowed in DSA sanction races? In particular the Nationals. The last info I found on the forum was for 2005 and was unclear to me what the decision was.

[tomodda]

Hellno

I know this is a 6 year old question, but I figured it merits an emphatic response.

[GreenLake]

Thank you, Tom, for making sure no stones remain unturned and no questions unanswered

Now, I sail in unsanctioned, anything goes, events. Have resisted spending money as the DS is one of the slower boats in a non-handicapped "race".

[tomodda]

Hell, I'm happy if I don't get hung up in irons, TackTick isn't going to help there! But, as associations go, I'm glad that the DSA tries to keep things reasonable (no outlandish tech) but still lets you innovate where it will do some good (running rigging). Not that I'm racing mine....

And I just responded to this thread because @waynhast was today asking about rules on swapping hulls, so I looked up his other posts.

[Bob Damon]

Per our Measurement Bylaw, 5.15, you can use the timing and compass heading functions and reference to a user input to identify headers or lifts, that's it.