Get more from your Velocitek Products

You can of course just choose to use your Velocitek unit on the water for speed and VMG readouts but there is a whole lot more you can do after the sailing with the software available.

This step by step guide should help you on your way ...

Note: these instructions are based on the S10 read the manual http://www.sailgps.com/files/docs/S10.pdf

1) DONT connect the unit to the PC until you have installed the Velocitek control center.

2) Download the Velociteck control center .http://www.sailgps.com/files/VelocitekControlCenter.zip

3) Install the contol center (follow the instrunctions in the manual if needed)

4) Open the S10 and connect the USB cable (Make sure there are batteries installed)

5) Start up the Velocitek Control Center

6) Click download

7) The save to your hard disk (use a sensible file name that perhaps included the date)

8) Then click export to save the data as gpx (for GPSar) and kml (for Google Earth).

9) Now download Google Earth http://earth.google.com/

10) Install the above

11) Then start-up Google Earth and click file open then find the track xxxx.kml and open it. You should now see your track on the background (photo) of your sailing

12) Now un-tick the box on the left that turns off your track

13 Now push the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard

14) Open up a picture editing package such as Photoshop or Microsoft Pain

15) Now do edit paste then crop and save the "map" as a jpeg

16) Download and install Java RUNTIME. Visit this link http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
do the manual download (2nd one down) and install Java

17) Download GPS action replay (I am using version 3.3.2 and this works well with the VCC output, I have not tested later versions). http://gpsactionreplay.free.fr/index.php?menu=1&choice=1 Follow the instructions on the page.

18) Once you have done the above you can now start GPSar (double click on the file gpsar.jar)

19) Then open the file you exported from the Velocitek Contol Center. xxx.gpx

20) Then load in the map by clicking file, create new map and then select the jpeg that you created in step 15

21) Now you have to resize and align the jpeg to your track - this is a bit tricky. Tips here http://gpsactionreplay.free.fr/index.php?menu=1&choice=2

22) Once you have done this save the map. Click file, save maps

23) Now you can run your replay.

Tips:

- Click the far right of the button that says show graphs
- For fast boats x31 speed is about right
- Click left & right mouse on the speed v time graph to zoom in & out
- Click Options, Path view settings to change the appearance of the track.