How it works

WakeRoute, explained

From the water
to the replay.

Record on your phone, watch or boat instruments. WakeRoute puts everyone who raced together on one result, scores the race and works out the wind. Automatically.

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A real start CCYC · Aug 13 Sivka and Kinship cross within 30 s of the gun
Recorded tracks of Sivka and Kinship on the Chicago race course.
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The journey

Four steps. You only do the first.

  1. 01 · Record

    Record the race

    The WakeRoute app on iPhone, Apple Watch or Android. Or your boat's B&G instruments, or any GPS that exports a GPX.

  2. 02 · Upload

    It uploads itself

    Tracks send when you stop recording, and live during the race if you like. Got a file instead? Drop the GPX on the website.

  3. 03 · Group

    Boats find each other

    Everyone who sailed the same race at the same time lands on one shared result, split by fleet.

  4. 04 · Replay

    Replay & compare

    Watch the race back, see standings, starts, every tack and leg, compare boats side by side, make a race video.

One race, one result

How tracks find each other

Nobody needs to share a link or create a race. When a track arrives, WakeRoute looks for others that sailed alongside it.

Three boats that sailed at the same time and place share one result; a boat 40 miles away and a boat that sailed later each get their own. ONE RESULT · 3 BOATS Sivka Kinship Eagle Lake trip 40 miles away → own result Upbeat Sailed later → own result 17:3018:3019:30 Three boats that sailed at the same time and place share one result; a boat 40 miles away and a boat that sailed later each get their own. 17:3018:0018:30 19:0019:3020:00 ONE RESULT · 3 BOATS Sivka Kinship Eagle Lake trip 40 miles away → own result Upbeat Sailed later → own result
  • Same timeThe tracks overlap in time.
  • Same waterWithin about 10 miles of each other.
  • Same kind of outingA week-long log won't swallow an evening race.
  • Same event & fleetIf boats pick an event and fleet in the app, that wins.
One race night with three fleets becomes three sets of standings, plus an all-fleets view. Wednesday 3 fleets J/105its own standings PHRF Spinnakerits own standings Jib & Mainits own standings All fleets · one map
Fleets are scored separately and shown together: one tap shows every fleet on the same map.
Late boats join in. A boat that uploads tomorrow lands on the same result, and your link keeps working.
Several races, one recording? Split it into races: each gets its own tab and standings.
Picked the wrong fleet or course? Move the boat from the results page. Both results update.

Scoring

Start, round, finish

A start line, a gun and the course are all WakeRoute needs to rank a race.

A boat starts across the line between the pin and the RC boat, rounds the windward mark and crosses the line again to finish. WIND 1 2 3 PIN RC
  1. The gun. Boats cross the line between pin and RC. Set the line by pinging each end in the app, or on the map later.
  2. Round every mark, in order. Gates, offsets and two laps all work.
  3. Cross the finish: a finish line, or the start line again. Elapsed time ranks the fleet.
Finished · ranked by elapsed time DNF · started, didn't finish DNS · never crossed the start

Wind

Your tacks draw the wind

No instruments needed. Halfway between your heading before and after a tack is the wind, so the fleet's tacks draw it, shift by shift.

A boat beats upwind in a zigzag. At each tack the line halfway between the heading before and the heading after points into the wind; three tacks show the wind shifting slightly. WIND 354° 000° 006° heading before heading after tack

Tacks give the wind's line. Which end is it blowing from? The evidence votes:

  • The first leg is a beat to windward
  • The start line is set square to the wind
  • The nearest airport's weather report
  • The weather model for that hour
  • tieThe boats' headings break a tie

On the rare race where solid evidence disagrees, the results page asks which way the wind blew. If every source is wrong, you can set the wind yourself.

After the race

Nothing is locked in

Missed a ping? Wrong course? Fix it from the results page or the app. Edits stick when late boats upload, and a line you set applies to every fleet.

  • Start lineDrop the pin and RC ends on the map
  • Gun timeSet when the race started
  • Course marksAdd, drag or pick a preset course
  • Finish lineFor point-to-point and distance races
  • Split racesOne recording, several races
  • Move boatsTo the right fleet or course
  • TrimCut the motor back to the dock
  • WindAnswer or set it when it's wrong

For clubs

Set up the season once

  1. Create a seriesOne event for the whole season, with its venue.
  2. Add fleets & coursesYour fleets and tonight's preset courses.
  3. Sailors hit recordThe app finds the event nearby; they pick course and fleet.
  4. Results, every weekPer fleet, automatically. Organizer settings can be passcode-protected.

Good tracks

A few things that help

  • iPhoneLocation Always, with Precise Location on.
  • AndroidLocation Precise for WakeRoute.
  • BatteryLow Power Mode makes tracks coarse. Turn it off for the race.
  • Other devicesExport the full activity GPX, with timestamps.

Ready when you are.

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