... method includes two novel aspects in the strategy computation: A short-term wind forecast, based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model, is performed in real time during the race using the wind measurements collected on board. Depending on the relative position with respect to the opponent...

... conditions. Many can determine the outcome of a race. With a perfect racing yacht skippers currently use deterministic yacht weather forecast it is possible to use the polar tables of a routing software packages to help with their route given yacht to compute a route that minimises its arrival planning...