Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data
[From someone that can barely distinguish the top and the bottom of a boat ...]<p>Nice captcha. I guess it&#x27;s easy for the people that are the target of the site, but uncommon enough to be difficult for robots. (Adding some decorations may make it more difficult for robots, if they become a problem.)<p>Are robots really a problem or the problem are just morons that create too many boats?<p>How many boats do you have currently? If I don&#x27;t log in for a month, is my boat sink&#x2F;rescued?<p>When I read race, I expect at least two boats. Is there a record board when I finish the race. [I have to go from Sydney to a random point in the middle of the sea in the East, but there is too much wind and my boat is going north ... I don&#x27;t expect to finish soon.] Do you organize some kind of events where people can race against other people?<p>It would be nice to see the target area in the map [I had to open Google Maps.] and the trajectory. (And perhaps a log of the commands.)<p>How do you calculate the direction. From another post, I remember it is a mix of the direction of the wind and the direction of the boat (and the direction of the sail?). Is this a standard boat model? Is it a good idea to add more models of boats?