Take a photo
Take a photo with your phone and our computer vision model gets to work.
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Faster By Numbers with SailScan
Machine-learning sail analysis off a phone photo. Camber, draft, entry, exit and twist — read in the field, in real time.
Signal / 01Field Telemetry
SailScan reads your sail shape in the field and in real time.
Reads any sail from an optimist to a super maxi - Mainsails and headsails - Port or starboard tack. Use your mobile phone to analyze draft stripes for accurate camber, draft, entry, exit and twist data.
Camber14.2%
Draft41%
Entry22°
Exit11°
Twist8.5°
Signal / 02How it works
Read and measure
SailScan finds each draft stripe and traces the curve from luff to leach to compute sail shape parameters such as Camber (depth), Draft (position of max depth), and Twist (angle relative to the boom).
Adjust and record
Make adjustments in real time. Save scans for later debrief, comparison, or reuse the same settings to increase sail speed and efficiency
Signal / 03Radio traffic
We trimmed the main off SailScan numbers all weekend and found half a knot upwind.
The draft stripes read in seconds. What used to be an evening of photo markup is done before we hit the dock.
Camber and twist on every tack, logged. It's part of our debrief like the GPS track.
I'm a weekend racer, not an engineer. SailScan tells me what to ease and when.
Hoist it. Scan the sail.
Signal / 04Enterprise
Welcome computer vision aboard
The SailScan VLM platform can be customized for your company, team, or coaching needs. Embed a powerful sail scanning and recommendation engine with outputs for sail design, team coaching, and recording into your workflow.
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Signal / 05About
Built by a sailmaker who races what he builds.
SailScan LLC was founded by veteran racing professional Alex Higby to compute key aerodynamic metrics and make recommendations to optimize sail performance in the field. Alex has competed in major international circuits including the 34th America's Cup, the 52 Super Series and the Extreme Sailing Series. SailScan is built and maintained in San Francisco, CA by Seamaphore.