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| Why
Instruments? (HTML) Ockam's Design Rationale (PDF) Paddle/compass vs. GPS for performance |
Why bother to have instruments on a sailboat? These documents give the answer. |
| Accessing
the internet underway (PDF) Setting up a network on a boat (PDF) |
Ways to get internet connectivity while underway. |
| How the Ockam bus works (PDF) | Description of the Ockam bus; voltages, power and signals |
| Magnetic Variation in the Ockam system (PDF) | How magnetic variation is handled on the Ockam system. |
| Ockam symbology, or, what is Vs? (PDF) | Description of the terms used in Ockam manuals |
| The Ockam Polar (PDF) | How polars are organized. |
| Synopsis: doing your own boatspeed (PDF) | Synopsis lets you get your hands on the raw data. |
| Polar development for OS4 (PDF) | Describes the Ockam polar for developers |
| How Ockam Calculates things (PDF) | Describes how Ockam calculates variables |
| Improved Instrumentation... (PDF) | Dick McCurdy's 1970 thesis for an analog true wind computer |
| Instruments and Computers... (PDF) | R. N. Gatehouse 1970 paper on early B&G true wind computer prototype |