Cruise mode, Garmin and COROS imports, and tacks measured from the moment you cross the wind. Cruise: • Choose Cruise as the session type for a day sail. There's no countdown, start line or live tactics, just Start, and it opens on its own Cruise screen of speed, heading, distance and time. • Before you leave, the pre-start shows the day: sunset and daylight left, the forecast wind, gusts and temperature, and whether GPS and battery are ready. On iPhone it adds your season so far. • A long sail saves its track less often as it grows, instead of re-saving the whole thing every 30 seconds. End always saves everything. • A cruise's detail drops the Coach and course tools, and Results & Notes becomes Notes. • Race Views is now Metric Views, with a default view for races and one for cruises. Import (beta): • Import FIT files from Garmin, COROS and most other sports watches, or the .zip Garmin Connect exports. Importing the same activity twice brings in one race. • Speed and course are worked out from the track when a file has none, and sparse "Smart" recordings are filled to one point a second. • An imported race gets your selected boat, and a Complete this session card asks for what the file couldn't say: type, boat, wind and windward mark. • Every import except STX is marked beta, with a Report a problem button. Maneuvers: • Speed loss and recovery are now measured from when your bow crossed the wind, not when the app confirmed the tack. Tack losses used to read far too low. • A big speed loss is judged against your own usual turn that race, so a gusty day or a heavy boat isn't held to a light-air number. • Training suggests tacking or gybing drills when a quarter of your turns were big losses, not because they were all a little slow. • In drills, a slow rebuild is called while the boat is still slow. Watch sync: • Re-sync to iPhone now works even while an automatic transfer is queued. • Each race shows its own status: Sending to iPhone or Waiting for iPhone. Also: • Deleting an event and ending a drill confirm with a standard alert.

Fixes, mostly for the Recycle Bin and for races coming over from the watch. • On iOS 27, opening the Recycle Bin froze the app until it closed. It opens normally again. • The Recycle Bin can be reached when the Logbook is empty — which is exactly when you need it. • Deleting asks with a standard alert in the middle of the screen, in the Logbook and the Recycle Bin. • Choosing Use Estimate in the wind rose now shows the polar, port vs starboard, upwind/downwind and VMG straight away. They used to appear only after pressing Done a second time. • Re-sync (or Force Sync) to iPhone, in a race's detail on the watch, now replaces the phone's copy, even one you've put in the Recycle Bin. It used to report Sent and change nothing, so a race that arrived cut short could never be fixed from the watch. • The watch Logbook's filter can show only races that haven't reached your iPhone yet. • On the watch, an older race with no wind recorded no longer has its cards measured against a north wind.

A coach that talks, a guide to every maneuver, and a mode with nothing but the clock. Guided training, rebuilt: • The coach now says one word at a time — TACK, GOOD, HEAD UP — out loud and on your wrist, so you sail the boat instead of reading a screen. • Drills run on the watch or phone alone or both. Each device has its own controls page for +1, Next Drill, Skip Rest and Ready. • Drive a mounted phone from the watch and the same call appears on both. You choose which device speaks; if the watch drops out, the phone picks the voice up and hands it back when it returns. • Wrist taps are separate from the voice, so you can mute one and keep the other. • The watch asks about a missing wind or start line before a drill that needs one — and never blocks the start. Learn the maneuver, not just the drill: • Tap any drill to open its own page: what it is, why you would choose it over the plain version, the steps, what a good rep looks like, and the fault to watch for. • A diagram drawn from your own boat's upwind angle, with the pinched and over-turned versions beside the good one. Roll tacks and gybes add a stern-on strip showing where the crew's weight goes. • A History tab counts every rep you have sailed of that maneuver, with your average speed loss and recovery beside the numbers they are judged against, and your most common fault. Black Box: • Race with the start timer and nothing else. The countdown runs as normal; at the gun the screen shows elapsed time, a recording dot and End; ending puts you back on the timer with no summary. • Everything is still recorded. Add the wind, the start line and the windward mark afterwards on the session map and the full analysis appears. • Off by default; turn it on in Watch Settings and/or iPhone Setup › Layout. Units: • Speed and distance are now two separate settings. Pick nautical miles, miles or kilometres, with short distances in metres or feet. • Boat lengths are gone as a display unit. A hull-length estimate could not support the precision "3.2 lengths" implied. Also: • The phone's mounting and calibration moved out of Settings and into race setup, where you actually do it — with the level bubble visible the whole time you are levelling, not only after. • The readiness rail gives its space to whatever needs it, so a long workout or boat name is never clipped.

A new look on both devices, a Coach that shows instead of tells, and the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra. The redesign: • Every screen on iPhone and Apple Watch is rebuilt to read from the helm, in sun, through polarized sunglasses. Bigger numbers, one type scale, and color kept for things that mean something — the clock reddening near the gun, the favored end, the groove. • Watch controls have a 44-point tap floor on every case size, so a wet or gloved finger lands the key it aimed at. • The pre-start hub puts wind, line, type, countdown, favored end and distance to line on one screen. Start is a button at the bottom, so nothing that size can be brushed into a start. • Setup is a list, not a wizard: tap the one thing you came to change and come back. • A captured start-line end is a toggle. Tapping it again drops it instead of silently overwriting it with wherever you happen to be. • Race screens: four new full-width stacks (1-up through 4 Stacked) alongside the grids. A number's size is set by the width it gets, so four metrics read about two-thirds larger stacked than in a quadrant. • Light or dark theme on iPhone. Coach: • The Coach card is now a map and one finding at a time. Tap a leg — Start, Beat 1, Run 1… — and swipe through what happened on it. The map frames each card. • Every finding is priced in seconds at your own speed, and the two most expensive lead. Over the line at the gun always leads. • A beat's ideal is drawn as a tacking cone, the region between the two laylines, not a single line. Every path through it is the same length, so where you tack is a tactical choice. Where your track left the cone, that stretch is orange. • The Coach says what went well before what to improve. • The polar diagram ends with the angle you actually held on each tack. • Maneuvers and Upwind vs Downwind became bar cards, like Port vs Starboard. Apple Watch Ultra: • Set the Action button to Workout › Sail Tactician. A press starts the countdown, a press during the countdown syncs it to the nearest minute, and a press during the race opens the End screen and asks. It never ends a race on its own. Countdown: • In voice mode every whole minute from ten down is spoken. A sync says the minute you landed on so you know it took without looking down. Pro: • Pro is now offered monthly as well as yearly. • Every session is recorded and saved on every tier. The free five are a lifetime allowance; sessions past it are locked in the Logbook, never dropped, and unlock with Pro. Also: • The watch's session detail shows the same comparison cards as the phone. • The watch no longer offers to capture the windward mark, and the mark metrics that could never read anything have gone. Place the mark on the map afterwards instead. • Fixed a blank, undismissable post-race summary sheet on the watch.

Coaching for the beat, and two fixes to what a mounted iPhone measures. Beat coaching (beta): • Open a saved race and the app now splits it into legs and looks at each beat: how far past the layline you tacked, and how much further you sailed than the shortest legal path to the mark. • Extra distance is measured against the angle you were actually sailing that leg, not your class's book number — so it's distance lost to the course you took, not to how high you were pointing. • The shortest beat is drawn on the map. Where the wind had to be reconstructed, or the mark was placed afterwards rather than pinged, it's drawn as a band rather than a line — it won't claim precision it doesn't have. • When it can't support a finding it says why, instead of quietly showing nothing. • Tap any maneuver in Coaching Review and the map opens on that turn with the heading you should have settled on. • The map legend is tappable — switch each layer on and off. Mounted iPhone, heel: • Heel is now worked out from gravity rather than the phone's own orientation. The old method mixed your turning into the reading, so on a mount that wasn't lying flat a tack could show a big spike of heel that never happened. • Correct at any mount angle — reclined, landscape, or a bracket that sits a little crooked. • The live reading shows heel as a magnitude. You can see which way you're heeled; the number doesn't need to spend a character on it. Recordings keep the side. • If you calibrated on an earlier version, Settings will ask you to level once more — the old reference can't be carried across. Your fine-tune numbers are kept. Mounted iPhone, heading: • The app now works out how far your mount is aimed off the bow while you sail, and remembers it between races. Nothing to tap. • It waits for both tacks before committing to a number. The boat crabs sideways, so the bow sits a few degrees to windward of your track — one way on port, the other on starboard — and sailing both is what cancels it out. • Move the bracket and it notices and tells you. • Heading is no longer recorded when the phone isn't mounted, where it was describing your pocket rather than your boat. Also: • Guided training is now marked BETA in the app. It works, but reps are spotted from GPS course — the least reliable thing we measure — so a drill can miscount. Your track is always recorded in full regardless. • Gybes are judged against your downwind target angle, so the cue reads "Too deep" or "Overturned" instead of the opposite of what happened. • A mark rounding is no longer graded as though it were a tack or a gybe. • Edit the wind on a saved race and the summary recomputes. Tack and gybe counts could previously stay frozen against the old value. • Every metric on a race screen shares one type size, so the numbers read as one instrument. • Move a start-line mark on a saved race and the Start tab recalculates on the spot.

A tidier race screen, and a fix for start-line edits. • Every metric on a race screen now shares one type size, so the numbers read as one instrument instead of each block sizing itself. • The name of the race view you're on is legible at a glance again. • The small trend traces under each metric are gone. They redrew the number printed above them and made the layout jump. • Move a start-line mark on a saved race and the Start tab recalculates on the spot — line bias, favored end, and how far back from the line you were at the gun. It used to keep showing the old numbers.

Live wind, and knowing how much to trust it: • The app now tracks the wind as you sail — on iPhone and Apple Watch — and shows whether you're lifted or headed, with a haptic on the watch when a shift is worth acting on. • Every wind reading says where it came from: TRACKED from your own tacks, or FORECAST from a weather grid cell that may be 20-30° out at a shoreline venue. • Saved races work the wind out from your windward mark instead of guessing from your track. Across nine real races the old method was 155° out and backwards on five of them; the new one was 10° out and never backwards. • Set or correct the wind on any race by dragging a compass rose on the map. One pre-start screen that doesn't move: • The countdown replaces the duration in place — start the sequence and nothing shifts under your eye. • Reset, Sync and Start/Pause live at the bottom, always in the same spot. • Tap the countdown to change its length; tap the favored end or the line numbers to set your marks. On the watch: • Distance and time to the line stay on screen after the gun, instead of vanishing when you need them. • Distance to mark, VMC and laylines now render on the wrist. • Type is sized to your watch — a 40mm no longer gets the type meant for a 46mm. • One GPS session instead of three, and the magnetometer backs off with your wrist down. Your boat, not you: • Sail numbers now live on the boat, alongside hull length and your own rigging notes. Race an MC Scow on Sunday and crew a J/24 on Wednesday and each keeps its own number. • Distance to line, line bias and other short distances read in boat lengths by default. In the logbook: • Heel gets its own tab and its own summary. • Trim or Clip: one map, one two-handled scrubber. Clipping copies a range to a new race and leaves the original alone, so a mis-placed cut is never destructive. • Long races open noticeably faster. Help and feedback: • The user guide now ships inside the app, at Settings > Support. • Send feedback without leaving the app. It saves and sends itself later if you're offline, and never attaches your race data. Accuracy fixes worth knowing about: • A GPS receiver keeps reporting its last known course when you're barely moving. Recorded course is now cross-checked against the path you actually travelled, so the replay arrow stops pointing the wrong way while you drift around before the start. • Fixes worse than 25 m no longer count toward your distance and speed. • Analysis no longer assumes one sample per second, so races recorded at 2, 5 or 10 Hz report the right times and distances. • The recording rate setting is now honest about being a ceiling the hardware often can't reach. • Three settings that appeared in both settings screens but silently never synced now do. • iCloud status tells you the truth — including the case where the store opened locally and a relaunch is needed.

Race sharing & comparison (iPhone): • Share a race with the sailors you raced against, straight from the Logbook. • Compare boat-on-boat: who led at every moment, a scrubable lead chart, the spots where the race changed hands, head-to-head numbers, and a two-boat replay. • Comparisons anchor at the start gun, so you compare the race — not who started recording first. Start analysis: • Your stats now score the race itself — the pre-start no longer pollutes your averages. • A new Start tab breaks down your final approach to the gun. • The pre-start shows dimmed on the map and shaded on the speed chart, and the replay clock counts down to the start. • GPX exports now carry the start gun, and imports bring it back. Introducing Sail Tactician Pro: • The app is free to download and race with: countdown timer, compass, live speed and heading, your first five recorded races with full analysis, tacking drills, and race file import/export. • Pro is a single yearly subscription (first month free) that unlocks unlimited recording, the live tactical suite, every training drill, race sharing and comparison, and your full race history. • Already sailing with us before 2.0? Thank you — everything stays unlocked, free, for a full year from the day you first downloaded the app. Also: • Time to Burn now shows the right sign (positive = time to kill). • Line bias reads correctly on every wind angle. • Best Upwind/Downwind picks the genuinely better tack. • Faster and lighter recording, with less iCloud traffic on long races.Race sharing & comparison (iPhone): • Share a race with the sailors you raced against, straight from the Logbook. • Compare boat-on-boat: who led at every moment, a scrubable lead chart, the spots where the race changed hands, head-to-head numbers, and a two-boat replay. • Comparisons anchor at the start gun, so you compare the race — not who started recording first. Start analysis: • Your stats now score the race itself — the pre-start no longer pollutes your averages. • A new Start tab breaks down your final approach to the gun. • The pre-start shows dimmed on the map and shaded on the speed chart, and the replay clock counts down to the start. • GPX exports now carry the start gun, and imports bring it back. Introducing Sail Tactician Pro: • The app is free to download and race with: countdown timer, compass, live speed and heading, your first five recorded races with full analysis, tacking drills, and race file import/export. • Pro is a single yearly subscription (first month free) that unlocks unlimited recording, the live tactical suite, every training drill, race sharing and comparison, and your full race history. • Already sailing with us before 2.0? Thank you — everything stays unlocked, free, for a full year from the day you first downloaded the app. Also: • Time to Burn now shows the right sign (positive = time to kill). • Line bias reads correctly on every wind angle. • Best Upwind/Downwind picks the genuinely better tack. • Faster and lighter recording, with less iCloud traffic on long races.

Guided training and coaching: • Pick a workout and drill with live coaching — the app counts your tacks, gybes, VMG holds, starts, and mark roundings and tells you what to fix as you sail. • Ten preset workouts, or build your own with custom drills and technique notes. • Choose a workout from your Apple Watch and run it on the mounted iPhone. • Coaching Review scores tacks and gybes on ANY past session, not just workouts. • Recommended Training spots your weak points and starts the workout that fixes them, from a session or from the Analytics tab. Windward mark and course tactics: • Ping the windward mark for VMC, distance to mark, and laylines on the map. • Mark roundings are detected and scored automatically. • Set a mark on a saved session after the fact, right on the track map. Import and export: • Export races as STX, GPX, CSV, KML, or TCX — one race, a selection, or all of them. • Import STX, GPX, CSV, TCX, Vakaros VKX, and NMEA 0183 logs. Mounted-phone improvements: • Calibrate heel, trim, and heading to your actual mount, with a live bubble level. • Full screen brightness during a race, restored when it ends. • Race summary closes itself after 20 seconds for back-to-back racing. • Bigger, higher-contrast race screens readable through sunglasses. Also: • Set wind direction and start line on saved sessions. • Coaching layer in Race Replay with a coaching/maneuver toggle and cue cards. • Countdown cue now runs from 5 to 30 seconds.

This update adds a display theme option and polishes race-day readability. • New Light / Dark / System theme — choose under Settings → Display → Theme. Light reads better in bright sun (especially through polarized sunglasses); Dark is easier on the eyes at night and saves battery on OLED screens; System follows your iPhone's appearance automatically. • The theme applies everywhere, including race screens, and is set per device. • Session track maps can now be viewed full-screen. • Corrected port/starboard ordering in tactical insights.

This is a big one - Sail Tactician 1.0.2 adds post-race analysis tools and a redesigned watch experience. NEW • Analytics tab - track your VMG, boat speed, and maneuver efficiency across sessions, with report cards and per-boat filtering • Race Replay - relive any session as an animated playback with a scrubber, right on the map • Control your phone from your watch - mount your iPhone on the boat and run the whole race from your wrist • Race results & notes - log your finishing place and keep notes with every session • Custom boats - add your own boat with its polars, and get a no-sail zone derived from your boat class • Session types - tag sessions as race or training and filter your logbook on both devices • Recycle bin - deleted sessions are kept for 30 days, just in case IMPROVED • Redesigned watch race screen — bigger numbers, clearer layout, readable at a glance in full sun • Simpler race setup on the watch with one-tap wind and session-type tiles • Wind speed now shown alongside wind direction FIXED • Ending a race on the watch is now instant (previously could freeze for up to 30 seconds) • Corrected elapsed time when starting a race from the watch • More accurate tack and gybe counts, now marked on the session map

Performance improvements and bug fixes: * Improved loading speed of sailing sessions on ios and watch * Fixed polar diagram, start line distance speed/distance units to match settings selection * Reduced sensitivity of knockdown detection on watch, reducing erroneous knockdowns * Added ability to delete erroneous knockdowns