First To The Mark
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FIRST TO THE MARK

Hands-free through
the start. A full analyst
after it.

Set it up before you sail. Don't touch your phone again until the race is over.

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SEQUENCE START TACK MARK JIBE FINISH
00:00 — Before you start

One thing worth doing, sailed past once.

Highly Recommended

Mark the line

Sail past the boat end and the pin end, tap once at each. GPS coordinates confirmed right on screen. Skip it and your report won't include starting-line performance analytics — there's nothing to measure against.

T+00:00 — The race itself

Then it goes quiet.

Start the five-minute sequence and the countdown runs itself — clear call-outs through your earbuds, so your eyes stay on the fleet, not your phone. Once the gun goes, the app tracks everything in the background: your GPS track, every tack and jibe, every mark rounding — including offset marks, recognized automatically — with no button presses required.
Post-race — Your report

This is where it earns its keep.

Per maneuver
1.4 BL avg lost
Boat lengths lost per tack
Why it matters: "that tack felt slow" becomes an actual number — so you know if it's worth changing your technique, or if it was already fine.
Per maneuver
24% speed loss
How much speed each tack cost
Why it matters: separates a tight, fast tack from a wide, slow one — the difference between boat-handling and just bad luck.
Per maneuver
+0.3 kt VMG
Paid off
Why it matters: tells you whether the shift you took was actually worth it — not whether it felt right in the moment.
Auto-flagged
⚠ 2.9× your typical tack
Outlier detected
Why it matters: out of a dozen tacks, this finds the one actually worth reviewing on video — instead of scrubbing the whole race to guess.
Start line
Pin +2.1 BL favored
Line bias
Why it matters: tells you where you should have started, not just how the start you actually took went.
Trend
↓ Better vs. last 10 races
Are you actually improving?
Why it matters: one race is noise. Ten races is a trend — the only way to know if a change you made is really working.
Share it in seconds

Get it in front of a coach.

Sync to your race video

If you have a full-length race video uploaded to YouTube, provide the link and enter the video timestamp of the starting signal from the video, and the app syncs every tack, jibe, and mark rounding with your video's actual timeline — ready to paste straight into your YouTube description as clickable chapters, or click straight through from any moment in your report to that exact point in the video.

Send a report straight to your coach

Sending it to Sailboat Instructor is attached and ready to review, right from the app — no exporting, no emailing files around. Prefer a different coach? Download the report or the raw GPX track and send it yourself, however you'd normally share a file.

Built for what actually happens

Real starts get messy. The app keeps up.

General recall? Race abandoned? Discard it with one tap — nothing gets saved, nothing skews your averages. Keep your race history as long as you want, or clear it and start fresh whenever you like.

Sail it. Then let's watch it back.

Every report from First To the Mark is built to hand straight to a coach — timeline, video, and all.

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