Recent content by Neeps

By that definition, my assumption would be correct, yes? True wind angle would be where the wind hits the boat, relative to the bow, ignoring the actual motion of the boat. Apparent wind angle would be where the boat actually feels the wind coming from, because of motion.

Hi. I'm working on a digital filter, whose computations are dependent on calculating apparent wind. But I'm not entirely sure if I'm using the formula correct, because i find the description of variables some what vague. Would love if someone please could point out, what the alpha angle is...

Hi. I'm a computer science student developing a kalman filter for autonomous sailboat, but I severely lack knowledge of the physics behind sailboats. I have a wind sensor giving data about wind speed and wind velocity, problem is the data is unreliable. So i thought that i could estimate what...