Launch of the new Speed Leaderboard and My Sails Dashboard
If you look at the site today, you’ll see there’s a new menu called “For Members” at the top, and underneath there are some new sub-menus for “User Registration”, “Speed Leaderboard”, “My Sails Dashboard” and “GPX Upload Form”. Basically , you can now upload your own gpx files using the form, look at them in the leaderboard compared to others, and have you own dashboard for all your sails (like a logbook). And for each sail session, you can look at the details and a map. To upload a gpx, you must be logged in (to avoid spam), and the gpx file should be unique. The code will pull all sail details from the file. The leaderboard will only show the quickest speed for a given member, and anyone can click on that speed to show the sailing session’s details and map. There’s been limited testing so happy to receive any feedback on bugs etc in the Forum that’s linked on the leaderboard page. The gpx file uploads should not be date sensitive, so you can upload much older sails if you want. Apologies to those that cant produce a gpx file from their smart watches or other tech.
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Please remember to keep clear of the winter exclusion zones, marked by a line of white Buoys, and yellow hatching in the picture. This is to help minimise the disturbance to wintering birds. This goes back to when the Club was formed and agreed with the Broads Authority, other organisations and water users.
The first official Race Day for a decade or two was well organised, and a great success. With a westerly wind gusting to Force 4, the course was laid out from the point to a Southerly Buoy. The results after 5 races were: 1st Martin, 2nd, Simon, 3rd Darren. Thank you to Richard for organising, and the ‘three men in a boat’ (Graham, Dave, Darren) for helping to keep proceedings under control.
As you can see the ladies group had a good time windsurfing and lunching at the Pleasure Boat Inn.