Weymouth Speed Week 2022
Weymouth Speed Week 2022 our 50th Anniversary Event (New Site)
Well what a fantastic week! It had a bit of everything with drama until the last moments. Would the harbour records be broken? We had fun at the 70s opening party, nostalgia with a return of Icarus and Sailrocket and innovation with the inclusion of the wing foil fleet and new GPS devices - how would they work? Young Scotty Stallman broke the (windsurfing) harbour record set 10 years ago by Anders Bringdal in the last half an hour of competition on the last day, with a fantastic 38.64 knot run. Bruno Andre on his wing foil was desperate to break 30 kn and set a new unofficial world record on a wing foil and managed it with nine minutes to go on the final day! The only slight disappointment was James Longmuir who missed out on beating his own record by .03 of a knot but he is still fastest of the week with 41.19 knots and will return next year to try again. Prize giving took a while with so many prizes from our sponsors to give out. The final coveted tankards for Technical achievement went to Michael George for the work he did to modernize the GPS system and the Portland Pot for the spirit of Speedweek went to our amazing Race Officer Karen Battye.
The 50th anniversary of this historic event couldn’t really have gone any better, record number of participants, fantastic winds and a great atmosphere.
Visit our facebook https://www.facebook.com/WeymouthSpeedWeek page to see many photos and reports
The 2023 event starts on the 7th of October.
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A number of people have asked how we set up the event location background image in Manfred Fuchs GPS Results software.
The method we use is as follows:
1. You need to have installed Google Earth on your machine
2. Open GPSResults and open trackpoints of a ride in the area you want to have a background image for.
3. Now you have tracks on your right window.
4. Go to FILE then select Google Earth (TM) Overlay
5. Google Earth will open and zoom to your track.
6. Adjust the desired zoom and position and then screen capture that landscape of your ride. Save that image as jpg file. Now turn off the tracks in Google Earth and re-capture the image (without changing the zoom or position). So that you have two image files.
7. Return to GPSResults and in the right window right click and choose LOAD BACKGROUND IMAGE > choose your saved jpg image with the tracks.
8. Adjust size of your GPSResults track to overlay exactly the same track of your imported jpg Google Earth image.
9. Save this once correct.
10. The final trick is to overwrite that background image (keeping the same file name) with the image previously saved that doesn't have tracks.
