February News It’s still winter...yet, the season of our courses has already arrived! Check our facebook page for some pictures of our first courses in Italy. They have been a great success and we are proud to say that other schools and clubs are contacting us to organise courses in their facilities! The 13th [...]
Happy 2016! We have started the new year with a lot of energy, and we already have some exciting news for you: First of all, we are proud to announce the first two partnerships of 2016: Expedition and Tidetech SAILING. We will be using their technologies for free during our courses! SAVE THE DATE: [...]
OceanDrivers is very proud to announce the launch of a new and revolutionary ACADEMY: the first organization focused on filling the gap between sailors and technology. In the last few years OceanDrivers’ team had the chance to meet all the different players that are part of the marine industry; what has become [...]
The approach to the marks is always a really important moment of the regatta. Both overstanding the layline or, worst, tacking short of the layline can really mess up a whole regatta! So, let’s see how the laylines are affected by the current […]
It may seem quite an obvious statement, but the influence of the current on our Course Over the Ground and VMG is one of the biggest subject to discuss when we speak about racing in current. We’ve seen in the article “The wind triangle” how current affects the wind we sail [...]
When sailing and racing along the coast there are local effects that we have to consider. “The wind will back next to that cape”, “be careful of the funnel effect between those two islands”, “the wind-shadow of those cliffs is really big (…)” are all expressions we have heard many times. But, what about the [...]
There are many statistics and many more books talking about how important it is to start a regatta in the best possible way. It doesn’t matter if we are sailing in a fleet regatta or in a match race, a good start will give us many options and good confidence for the rest of the [...]
OceanDrivers is very proud to announce its third anniversary this month. Time flies when you're having fun! Yes, it is the 3rd aniversary of OceanDrivers. So many thinks happenning that we almost forgot. It is time to review and see the advances we made: Last year we anounced 2 new R+D+i projects and we made [...]
TideBase new global tidal prediction model OceanDrivers has finish the first version of the tidebase viewing system for tidetech. […]
Every sailor in the world has seen this image (the wind triangle) on the board of a sailing school’s classroom or in a yachting manual. What some sailors may have missed from that lesson or that chapter of the manual is what influence the current has upon the Apparent Wind. If we look at [...]
