Auto-assign
Nearest mark wins
Every mark in the water is scored on distance, battery, state and link quality — then the whole course commits in one move.
One robotic platform. Multiple missions at sea.
A self-propelled marine platform that navigates like a drone, with configurable sensors on demand. In yacht racing, it becomes a fully autonomous robotic mark that drives itself and locks on designated course points.
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The way it has always been done
A race course is still managed by hand. Mark layers motor out with anchors and chain, drop marks by eye, and re-lay them every time the breeze shifts. Competitors shouldn't have to wait for this.
35min
To lay a
windward-leeward
windward-leeward
3
Crew and RIBs
tied up on marks
tied up on marks
±15m
Typical drift on
an anchored mark
an anchored mark
1
Shift, and the
whole course is wrong
whole course is wrong
The unit
A mark that
drives itself
Light enough to launch by hand.
- Length overall1.20 m
- HullTwin polyester catamaran with carbon structure
- 360 cameraon demand
- Underwater camera & echosoundon demand
Precision positioning
It holds,
or it corrects
Every second the mark compares where it is to where it was assigned to be. Inside half a metre it does nothing. Outside, the drive eases it back — slowly enough that nobody on the water sees it move.
Error
0.2 m
Tolerance
0.5 m
State
HOLDING
Mark state machineMQTT h/1/…
idle — awaiting waypoint
move_to_target — 1524, 335
holding_position — on station
drift 0.6 m — correcting
holding_position — on station
Course intelligence
Design it once.
The course builds itself
Pick a course template, the racing class and the desired racing time. The platform automatically sets the course size, with respect to the current weather conditions and deploys the appropriate mark to every position.
- ShapesW/L · Triangle · Trapezoid
- Scale0.5× – 3.0×
- Rotate15° steps, or to wind
- Windward leg0.5 – 1.0 nm
Gates
Two marks, one decision
Leeward gates hold their width square to the breeze. Move one side and the geometry re-solves instead of drifting.
Weather intelligence
The course
follows the breeze
Marks send wind data to the platform which generates a forecast feed for the race officer to automatically align the course.
Direction
212°
Speed
14.2 kt
Trend
RIGHT 6°/h
Oscillating · 18° range · confidence 0.82 · right side favoured
Shift logLast 20 min
Left 7° — 219° → 212°
Right 11° — 205° → 216°
Left 9° — 216° → 207°
Right 5° — 207° → 212°
Align to wind — course re-solved
Live tracking
Every boat,
every second
Position, speed, heading and VMG stream off the water in real time. Ranking is by ladder height — course made good on the wind axis — so two boats on opposite tacks at the same height rank dead even.
01 / Made good
Ladder, not distance
A boat sailing a wider tack logs more metres while sitting lower on the ladder. The order projects every boat onto the wind axis instead.
02 / Track
A measured trace
Each position sample lands as a breadcrumb that fades with age, so the track reads as evidence rather than decoration and cleans itself up.
03 / Telemetry
Speed, heel, VMG
Per-boat performance accumulates through the race into the report: top speed, best upwind and downwind VMG, average heel, metres sailed.
Race control
One app.
The whole course
Nudge a mark a few metres. Rotate the course to the new breeze. Send the mark fleet home. Race data stored to serve sailors and coaches post race analytics.
- WindShift 15° right — align?
- Mark 1+8 kt gust, holding
- Start lineSquare to ±2°
- Beat length0.94 nm — on target
- RolesClub · event · officer
Fleet04:31
M-01Holding · Mark 196%
M-02Moving · Gate P88%
M-03Holding · Gate S91%
M-04Holding · Pin74%
M-05Idle · reserve18%
Command queue
rotate +6°
ack M-01
ack M-03
nudge M-02 8 m
align to wind
Broadcast
A race
worth watching
The same telemetry drives a broadcast suite: a director that cuts on the story, ladder rungs that show who is really ahead, and a 3D course that turns tactics into something a viewer can read at a glance.
- FeedsRace · 3D · weather · standings
- DirectorPriority-cut, min 6.5 s
- GraphicsLaylines · rungs · gaps
- Gap readLadder height, in metres
Timing towerRace 4 · RS21
The future starts here
Autonomous total race management
The marks are already in the water.
The question is how long anyone will keep dropping anchors.