How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design

Re:How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design by ianburrell on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:41PM (#43738888)

The market is small, there are existing competitors, and things change slowly. I also suspect that there isn't much value that startup could bring. I bet there are fancy products for fancy yachts.

There is a lot of open source going on. There is OpenCPN chart plotter. There is also NMEA OneNet which uses Ethernet so should support things that radars, plus make wiring easier.

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Re:How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design by serkandurusoy on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:45PM (#43739330)

Thanks, yes, I agree with all of those points.

Perhaps still a big enough space for a bootstrapped indie business, for lack of VC scale.

NMEA is quite interesting, though. Coupled with Czone for digital switching and power readings, I bet there is some interesting insight waiting to be discovered, one that can be monetized.

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