Woohoo Adam

yeeah thats the s***t, well done Adam .. was going to say wats with the MM and Alphas this months ah ah ah  hope you got good backup from Strops!!

Great way to kick off a new team! Congrats Adam.

nice work Adam on the turns.

Nice consistant speeds too. 

congrats on the corner PB adam you feeling was right 

Ditto to what Macka Packa said!

faaake Strops thats some smoking backup you done there , awesome mate, awesome.. we was just talking about you with Mike how painful you are ah ah ah. awesome kick off guys!!! we better to put our fingers out the next few days pppffff

Huge congrats to Adam and Stropp and some stoking Alphas

Stropps looked like you were heading down to the Dome for a coffee and cake you were that far down Alphaland

Woohoo Strop, You knew you had a PB and a 27kt alpha

Jo i ended up with eight over 26 it all just felt right today!

nice work stroppo and adam flying around them jibes 

Strop I learnt off you today, and next time I will do as you were doing coming downwind to the maker!!  8 alphas over 26kts

Top stuff Mitch i new you wouldnt let us down getting another pb cool 

Congrats to all the PB getters ,you guys will have to change your name to" team alpha"

Stroppo! Way to go! 

and Mitch! You're amazing! I think you need to give me gybing lessons. 

That's not bad for just your third scoring session Beavers! (You need a new name with beaver in it) Second on the table already. Well done! Just goes to show you don't need a lot of sailors to do well, just commitment.

Great set of alpha pb's today. Bloody well done

Holy crap!! Well bit proud to be the captain of this. Congrats Stroppo. Massssssssssive.

Adam huge effort mate. Well deserved Pb. I got off the plane, checked my phone to a text from Stroppo. Had a look and nearly fell over.

Another PB from Mitch. Improving every day. This team has a solid future, with the junior division. Ji's amped as well

Stroppo! Fastest alpha in the West. Wow!!!

sweet corner stroppo....

Congrats on the the alpha pbs..Mitch, Adam, Stroppo Raising that bar again stroppo good to see

fantastic pb's guys! woot!

Stroppo. Turn of the Century!

Stroppo, simply amazing Alpha

I would love to see your tracks, can you post a screen shot, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested

I would if i new how to Tom was going to check it on ka72 maybe look there if he has done it yet i have just emailed  the file to Tom a hour ago!

I have posted my tracks an googly earth Image on Manbra mob post to get an idea of where its at.

My realspeed has it as a 27.22 Alpha without any problems.

http://ka72.com/viewge.aspx?fid=39370&tid=0

Thats the link to the overlay. How do I get a saved image to appear on here?? I've tried everything i know

Awesome alpha Strop 

Edit:

I tried using a URL but all I got was a symbol instead of the pic. I have since found that means the image is too big. This is a bit more complex but it works. -

First save the image on your computer. ( I do "Print Screen" and then copy and paste into paint, crop and save. Then compress the picture otherwise you still get the icon but no image) To post the image you click on that tree symbol on the bar above your post, then use the browse icon to the right if it's saved to your computer. When you get the upload image screen you browse to locate your image and then click open and then "upload". Nothing will appear to happen but if you look at the bottom of your screen there will be a tab "insert/edit image". Click insert, and Voila! There it is! These are Stroppo's PB tracks. Looks like I compressed them a little too much.

Strange KA 72 gives Stroppo a  26.62 alpha. Either way that's one smoking gybe!!

Yep bender. Im stumped as I can't see any issues with the file on realspeed. I've just sent it to Elmo for a look. See what he comes up with. If anyone wants to have a look its KA72'd. Might be time to make a uniform method of analyzing or posting data??

Yeh I think first up team captains should check all PB's and then out source  to guys like Elmo for independant advise if they look a bit suss or realspeed and KA72 dont agree.

There's heaps of guys that can check data files. It can be dissapointing when a PB gets knocked back but at least you know ur PB's are realy yours then.

Thanks Anita. It still took 3 times to actually upload. That's why I couldn't work it out.

Waaahhhhhhh!!!! Stroppo! Sweeet corner!

Well done, Mitch!

Great numbers, team!

It probably did upload but all you got was the tab at the bottom of the screen (in line with "start"), which is easy to miss if you are not looking for it. 

It seems KA72's recent changes might be causing an issue. If data reading is not left uniform, there can not be PB's for alphas as the rules constantly evolve. I don't have GPSR so Ill see what Elmo comes up with.

Congrats on the Alpha PB Stroppo and Mitch. 

Stroppo, your file on Realspeed gives me an Alpha of 27.215kn and considering your next best 2 alphas are 26.793 & 26.617 I'd say there's something amiss with the KA72 result.  There's no spikes or inconsistent 1 sec recordings so looks good to me. That's committment starting to turn in at 32knots too.

Great numbers for your newly formed team too guys - well done.

[Edit - just ran through auto upload feature on GPSSS (they use GPS-Results)and it gave a 27.15 result so I reckon all good]

Lao could you take a look at Stroppo's corner also. The more eyes, the greater the agreeeeeance factor

Tomski. I have run it through Realspeed and can't see any issue with the 1st 2 alphas which KA72 is discounting.

Time interval,ok. Match between doppler / trackpoint. Consistent sats.

I think for alphas and PBs just keep using the same method to compare your PBs. As for posts I have often argued that nearest 0.5 is about as accurate as we can get. 27 +- 0.5. (Probably 0.3 if being picky)

Stroppo has taken a slightly different approach here of a more downwind run in for speed and an upwind run to make proximity. Not so obvious in this run but more so in others.

Cranking min speeds of 16 / 17. It would be interesting to see if he would have been slower on a more square run with even entry / exit speeds

Thanks for the effort guys. If I have anydoubts about any numbers or files I'll flag them and if necassary scrap them (honesty is the best policy!!)

Lao, when you say difference between trackpoints/doppler what are you refering to? The rest I have checked.

I'm well stoked with the small number of hugely talented guys on the team so far. I still have a couple more tricks up my sleeve.....watch this space.

I think the most exciting thing is our junior division. Mitch (already proven speed sailor), my son Ji (whos still deciding what to call himself), but sailing around hooked into his harness, in the straps and planing and my youngest boy Lochie. These boys will be the building blocks for a long Coastal Speed Team future.

Well done guys, nice corner PBs, strop and mitch.

As Mal wright invented the alpha, I'd always go with the realspeed results, where there are differences.

Maybe Dylan would like to comment on ka72, rejecting the first 2 alphas. Tom, as trackpoint and doppler use different calculation methods, if they are in close agreement, that's an indication things are good

Thanks 4 the gee up peoples and thanks 4 sorting my alphas quite interesting hearing different points of views nice clean gybes do feel good !!!!

Visit to the chiro today Stropp? well done with the corner.

get that package with brass bits in the mail?

Yep great effort making them mate. I appreciate the effort.

Fantastic alphas Stroppo and Mitch. welll done to both of you.

What a month for gybes

Have checked both Adam's and the Strippa's numbers with Realspeed and GPSarPro and both are good

Stroppo - only just saw your alpha - awesome mate, huge congrats

alpha king!

Thats an ourstanding Alpha Stroppo, no matter which way you look at it!

I downloaded the file and ran it through both GPS-Results and my custom copy of Realspeed (Mal compiled me a version of RealSpeed with the option of both 'Rectangular and Trapezoidal modes).

GPS-Results gives 27.14 (it uses rectangular integration by default for Alphas)

Realspeed in 'Rectangular' mode also gives 27.14

Realspeed in the default 'Trapezoidal" mode gives 27.21

I can not see any reason why the best Alpha would be rejected by KA72, but I can easily see why the second best could have been rejected. There is high SDOP error values highlighted in GPS-Results in the second best run right on the gybe which could make it suspect. But there is no obvious issues with the best Alpha!

Thanks for the feed back Daffy. Greatly appreciated.