Features
Built around the day, not around the data
A sailing day is a plan, six hours on the water and a conversation about what happened. SSA follows that shape. Everything below is one product — what changes between a maxi and an ILCA is which channels the boat records.
Before you go out
The day starts before the dock-out, and what was expected is half of what makes the debrief useful.
Forecast decks and venue model
High-resolution forecast for the venue, with the team’s own read on it written alongside — expected shifts, sea-breeze timing, what the models do not say.
The plan and the timings
Dock-out, warning signal, first start, the drills to run and the intent for the day. Dictate it instead of typing it if you are already on the dock.
Rig and sail setup
The rig numbers you went out with, versioned, and the sail wardrobe that was aboard. What you changed, when, and what it did.
Wind weight
Which sails suit the day, from the forecast and the boat’s own history rather than from a rule of thumb.
Wind, with heightglimpse
On the water
Record what the day actually was, from whatever the boat carries.
Instrument logs
InstrumentedExpedition and the common log exports, at full rate. Boat speed, wind, heel, leeway, rudder, loads, keel and mast angles — whatever the system records.
GPS trackers
Tracker-onlyVakaros, Sailmon, Velocitek, phone or watch. SSA derives true wind, angle and the phase structure from the track, so a boat with no instruments gets the same analysis as one with a full system.
Video from anything
Phone, GoPro, drone, coach boat. Uploaded, transcoded and time-synced to the log, so a moment on a chart and a moment in a clip are the same moment.
Photos and sail shape
Sail photos carry the instrument state at the instant of the shutter. SailScan reads draft, camber and twist off the stripes; lidar where the boat has it.
Tagging, by everyone
Mark the moments that mattered as they happen, in the team’s own vocabulary. The whole team tags, not just the coach — team tags the crew shares, squad tags across the boats you train with, and personal tags nobody else sees. All three carry through to video, photos and the track, and stay findable across the season.
Nobody waits for the analyst
The day is on every crew member’s phone as soon as it is uploaded — the video, the numbers, the track. Not tomorrow morning, and not once somebody has prepared a deck about it.
A clip, carrying the boat's stateglimpse
TWS
14.6kn
BSP
9.8kn
After racing
The part that decides whether the day was worth recording — and the part every other tool leaves to a folder of unwatched footage.
The goal: everyone arrives at the debrief having already done their own digging
The usual shape of a debrief is one person presenting and everyone else receiving. That wastes the crew. When the day reaches every member the moment it is uploaded, the trimmer has already looked at their own leg, the helm has already found the two tacks that cost something, and the meeting starts from four opinions instead of one. SSA is built for that: the tools are pointed at the people doing the sailing, not only at the person doing the analysis.
The debrief, recorded
Press record and talk. The recording is transcribed and tidied into your own vocabulary — your sail names, your crew, your jargon — and shown for review before anything is saved. Works on a phone, on the dock.
Phase and manoeuvre analysis
Every tack, gybe, start and leg found and measured: loss through the manoeuvre, target versus actual, mode, and how it compares with the rest of the season.
Everyone can dig for themselves
Every crew member gets the day on their phone — clips, numbers, track and debrief — with the tools to go through it, not just a report about it. Senior sailors upload their own tracks and build their own phases; anyone can tag what they found and bring it to the meeting.
Speed against angleglimpse
A season on one screenglimpse
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Across the season
One day is an anecdote. The value is in the fourth time you have seen the same thing.
Season trends
Targets, modes and manoeuvre quality tracked across a campaign, by wind band and by venue, so improvement is visible rather than asserted.
Squad sharing
Boats from different owners can share days with each other, category by category — tracks and analysis by default, rig numbers never unless you say so. Contribute a day to pull a day.
Ask it questions
Plain-language questions over your own season: what your fast days had in common, what changed between two regattas, where the time actually went.
Provenance on every number
Measured, derived, modelled or unavailable — stated, always. A derived wind angle never pretends to be a measured one.
Does it work with what we have?
Most likely. The honest answer depends on what your boat records, which is a two-minute conversation rather than a compatibility table.