It's a company that does sailing race tracking software. I don't know exactly how it works or the exact cost. It might be a little pricey, but when you split it up among a group, it may be more reasonable.

How it works is X number of boats get a GPS. You can put it just about anywhere - tramp pocket or even in your hull. After the race, someone gathers them up and reads them in to the software via a USB cable. You mark the start and marks and assign names to each participant. It generates a movie of each race.

Anyone can watch the race on-line once its posted. There are two players - one is a web player with limited functionality and another is one you download. The one you download gives you all the metrics to analyze the race. You can toggle on and off the various boats to track whoever you want to track. You can also tell it to follow a certain boat.

What I like about it is that it seems to work with a wide variety of GPS. I don't know if they have to be Garmin, but in CRAW, I think there are about 3 different types of Garmin GPS now being used.

It is the reverse of the Velocitek model where you buy this expensive tracking unit and the tracking software is free. I believe that Velocitek only works with the Velocitek units and I think you can e-mail race files to each other, but no online viewing.

With Kattack, you buy a cheap GPS, but license the software each year. We pay for it out of our CRAW dues. I think about 20 boats now have a compatible GPS.

Here is their web site. Anyone can register and watch races.

Kattack

I like the level of analysis you can do. For example in one race, I think I found about 10% of the difference between my time and the boat I benchmark myself against was due to poor start, 20% due to slower tack/jibe/round times (this requires you do additional analysis not done in the software) and the rest due to sailing further/slower on the downwind legs.

Others have heard me on my soapbox before, but I believe with software like this you can mathematically analyze a race and pinpoint why a boat won or lost. You can have stats like baseball. Within a single race, I know it can work, but forming a basis for comparing like statistics between races or regattas still has me scratching my head a bit.