Little Brother

Sailing race tracking & 3D drone replays Little Brother

Your club’s friendly eye in the sky.

Sailing race tracking and 3D virtual drone replays for clubs and events, from the phone or watch you already own.

Little Brother 3D drone replay of three D18 catamarans racing, with viewpoint, autopilot and speed controlsLittle Brother 3D drone replay of the start line, three D18 catamarans approaching the START line with the countdown at T minus 8 secondsLittle Brother 3D drone replay from the line, three D18 catamarans beating towards the windward mark

The drone view: fly it yourself, or let autopilot follow the fleet.

Sailing race tracking A black box, without the box

Nothing extra to buy, nothing new to break! Your phone or smartwatch (Apple, Android, Garmin) is the recorder. It shows nothing during the race, needs no data or signal, and is battery friendly.

Start on the beach. End at the bar.

Enter your name, sail number, crew and boat once. After that it’s three taps a race.

Watercolor sketch of a sailor rigging a dinghy on the beach, with a Start button to begin race trackingRigging your boatStart

Tap Start while you rig. Tuck your phone in a drybag/pouch, or wear your smart watch.

Watercolor sketch of a dinghy back on the beach, with a Stop button and a dashed GPS race track coming in from the seaBack on the beachStop

Tap Stop when you’re ashore. Recording ends right there.

Watercolor sketch of a pint of beer beside a monitor showing a sailing race track, with an upload arrowAt the clubSend

Once online, 1-tap upload your phone or watch tracks in seconds.

Replay. Coach. Share.

Replay

Drone view

A 3D virtual drone view. Fly the drone yourself or let autopilot follow a boat or fleet, or jump to a water-level view down the line.

Map view

Custom view of the whole fleet, one class, one boat or a rival pair, at any speed. Colour tracks by speed and set their length.

Data view

Stats for every boat, side by side. See how you compare with a rival per race or leg.

Coach

Draw on the chart

Mark a shift, sketch the layline, lay ladder rungs to the wind while the race plays.

Record your own clip

Pick the spot and angle, click record, add your own voice commentary, and use it for training and coaching.

Save and label races

Create a library of saved races for training and review, giving races your own labels.

Share

Share in one click

Virtual drone video of the pre-start, start and windward beat: 15 minutes of racing replayed in four.

Club TV

The last race day replays on the club TV. It plays the most recent races automatically on a loop.

Club Kiosk

Add a keyboard and mouse and anyone can take control. Fly the drone, pick a class, or compare you and a rival.

Made by a race officer

Run the day from one screen

Designed by a race officer to take work off the race officer, not add to it.

Race officer’s view
Race 1 - Fast FleetFinished
Start 14:00:00Finish 14:30:00Wind 240° / 12 kn
BoatLap 1Lap 2LapsElapsed
800014:1014:20228:30
730715:0514:30229:35
21556515:2014:40230:00
91114:35DNF1DNF
14:10 estimate from GPS (minutes:seconds)28:30 your official time (optional)

Fast and easy to use

Just add each race and its start and finish time (the last boat’s time). That’s all the app needs to work.

Automatic unofficial lap and finish time

A backup for race officers, calculated from each boat’s GPS track. Tap to add the RO’s official time.

Set race marks three ways

  1. App: from the patrol boat, set each mark’s location as you drop it, using large clear buttons in our app.
  2. AlgoMarks: Beta place missing marks in one click. Our algorithm places them.
  3. Manual: turn on all boat tracks to see where each mark belongs. Click add or move.

Sign-on sheet built in

Sailors who track already sign on with sail number, name, crew and boat. A “sign on, don’t track” option makes the app your single sign-on sheet.

Bring it to your club

Free trial for your sailing club or event. We’ll set it all up for you.

Zero-friction race tracking.

No box. No account. No fuss.