If you write a message (intended for all boats or another boat) your message is written in a log file that Tacticat administrators usually read.

Some questions have been asked between users sailing and have been answered either no completed or wrong:

1. My boat name changes color, what does it mean?
Red: computer projected all boats speeds and positions and found that you will be hitting another boat next seconds, and you will have no ROW. Obviously computers dont (yet) read minds and cannot foresee changes of mind of other boats...
yellow: your boat is being monitored because overlapped and has some restrictions (rules 17 and 17.1)
black: your boat has hit another boat, or a buoy, or out-of-line. It is your responsibility to do a 360 turn. (Exceptions: Out-of-line conditions and recovery dependent of commite flag. Buoy hitting not always require 360)


2. Enter an double enter.
Tack or gybe with enter, boat will do depending the current angle against the wind. Once the tack or gybe is started pressing ENTER will stop the tack or the gybe(fouled tack).
Double enter is when pressing ENTER twice (less than a third of second apart), double enter causes the boat to perform a quick gybe.

Quick gybe is like jamming the rudders crazy. Its quick, true, bat slow to goo deep. You only do it when 360ing or in some buoy roundings (where you have no interest to go deeper than neccesary).

3. Messages sometimes are lost.
We know it, its a bug of current version. Sometimes you improve the code to correct some bugs and other things stop working. It will be corrected.

4.Barging at the start line.
Before the start shot, if there is a collision of two boats in the same tack and overlapped the computer is instructed to black-tag the windward boat.
After the starting shot it is the same, with the exception of boats having aquired the overlap by aft-lee. In those cases the lee boat cannot luff more than its due course (defined in tacticat as the space bar course, going to telltales).

5. Use of mouse
Mouse should not be used often!. You use the mouse to:
- Regatta management: Rst and Rst2 buttons.
- Right-click on a boat, to know about the driver.
- Left click, to center the wiewing window where you click.

Notice that hyperspace agrement can be changed by clicking the Hyper-OK box, but it is much better to use the H key.

See you at La Parcela.
aestela.