Name: Lift: Sailing Race Timer
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: MikeSilverman

Lift: Sailing Race Timer
Race together.

Lift turns your Garmin watch into a crew-wide sailboat racing instrument. From the pre-start sequence to the final leg, every member of the crew gets the numbers that matter to their job - on the same shared race picture.

One race, the whole crew in sync
Lift's standout feature is connectivity. Watches on the same boat share race state in real time over the boat's Wi-Fi - start the countdown on one watch and it starts on all of them; ping the committee boat end of the line and every watch knows the line; set the course, capture a wind shift, advance a leg, and the whole crew stays on the same page. No shouting numbers across the rail.

A screen for every seat on the boat
The Race Compass adapts to your role with dedicated presets:
- Tactician - laylines, VMC to the mark, wind trends and shift detection, and which side is paying.
- Helm - target vs. actual TWA side by side, so you can stees steer-to-mark mode when you're laying the buoy.
- Trimmer - speed against polar target and percent-of-target, so the trim is always pointed at boatspeed.
- Bow - distance and time to the line and to the next mark.

Built for real racing
-  Precision start timer with line-snap pings, time-to-burn, and distance-to-line - plus Autostart: when the committee announces the start, set the time of day and the countdown launches itself, right on the gun.
- Polar-based targets, laylines, and VMG/VMC from a built-in boat library or your own polars (up to 8 boats).
- Automatic leg advancing as you round each mark.
- Wind shift detector with trend history.
- Manual TWD entry when you don't have a wind instrument.
- A race Health screen - heart rate, calories, and race averages - recorded straight to the FIT activity.

Growing with your boat
Lift is built to plug into your boat's instruments. SignalK integration is on the way: boats running a SignalK server will feed live wind and position straight to every crew watch, so targets, laylines, and the me from the boat's own sensors - no manual entry needed. The connectivity layer is already in place; richer live data is coming.

Join the boat Wi-Fi, pick your seat, and race together.