For Serious & Pros

Know the leg before you sail it. Know why after.

A live track, a countdown and a watch app are table stakes. What Race Marks adds is what it knows about your race before the gun — the apparent wind you'll see on every leg — and what it tells you about it after: a leg-by-leg debrief against your own polars, in the conditions you actually sailed in.

Race Marks running on two phones — live navigation and the course list

Before the gun, on the water, after the finish

Three jobs, one data set: your polars, your instruments, your venue.

Before: per-leg apparent-wind prediction

Pick the course, give the app your boat's polars, and Race Marks predicts the apparent-wind angle you can expect on every leg — and keeps updating it as live wind observations shift.

You pick the right sail and the right side of the course before the gun, not halfway up the first beat.

Pre-start navigator view with course and wind information

During: the numbers, where you can read them

Live bearing and distance with auto-advance, a next-mark preview so the crew is set up early, and an iPad cockpit layout that splits the course diagram and the distance-to-mark at a size you can read from the rail.

Build a platonic or practice course from known marks when you're training rather than racing.

Laylines, next-leg point of sail and audio/haptic prompts are the Tactician tier — in beta, not yet released. Status table below.

Navigator race view showing distance and bearing to the next mark alongside the course diagram

After: the race analysis report

Race Marks reads your GPS track and onboard instruments and turns them into a tactical picture of how the race actually went:

  • Wind, calculated vs instruments — derived from your track and boat speed, laid against what your instruments captured. A straight calibration check.
  • Tide set & drift — where you pointed versus where you actually went, leg by leg.
  • TWA vs the observed weather — how well you held your lane across the race, not an average that hides the story.
  • Per boat and across the fleet — your own sessions, plus a race-director view over the whole fleet.

Analysis reports are in beta for Race Marks Pro Navigator members. More on reports →

Navigator settings including boat and instrument configuration

Your instruments, in the picture

Phone GPS gives position, speed and course over ground. True wind, boat speed through the water and depth come off the boat — and without them a debrief is guessing.

Available

NMEA 2000 & Signal K

Read the boat's own wind, speed and depth into the race view and the post-race report, over the boat's network.

Beta

Race Marks Onboard

Push the boat's raw instrument stream up as you sail, so the analysis engine sees true wind and boat speed rather than a GPS-only track. Running with our test boats today; wider rollout follows.

Available

Your polars

Load the boat's polars once. They drive the apparent-wind prediction before the race and the leg-by-leg grading after it.

Available

Venue-correct data

Wind, tide, wave and sea-temperature observations from the right sources for where you sail — full attribution here.

Straight about what’s ready

This audience checks. So here it is, as of Race Marks v1.3:

Live Live mark navigation, auto-advance, next-mark preview, race countdown
Live Apple Watch companion & iPad cockpit layout
Live Per-leg apparent-wind prediction from your polars
Live NMEA / Signal K instrument integration
Beta Race analysis reports — for Race Marks Pro Navigator members
Beta Custom courses & iOS Live Activity
Beta Race Marks Onboard — raw instrument stream uplink from the boat
Coming Tactician tier — laylines, next-leg point of sail, audio/haptic prompts
Coming Coached debrief — a sailor walks the report through with you

Get Race Marks

Race Marks v1.3 is live on iOS and Android. Local pricing is shown in the app.

Want in on the analysis beta or the coached rollout? Register your interest · Pro testers