I have to ask - Are they able to be used for GPS team challenge? Has anyone used these yet? Are they an updated fortrex from the early 2000's?

Short answer.. probably not

Not waterproof enough - IPX7 = Same rating as old Fortrex 201 etc that always drowned.

I read the whole manual and cant find the output file format, but odds-on it is NMEA.

The main difference in this is that it has a Ballistic Computer. Useful for target shooting. Not so much for windsurfing.
And a wireless connection to your phone so you can get your emails and messages while your are sailing with your phone . LOL!

I tried reading up on it too but was limited, the specs were not detailed enough I thought. I don't think I'll be using a long arm or a glock while I'm sailing either.

Thought I put it to the tech heads for their thoughts.

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AusMoz . I don't think I'll be using a glock while I'm sailing .

I've never thought of sailing in the US either.
Do they have boom holsters in Texas ?

Ballistic GPS, Boom Holster, Rambo survival knife, Kevlar Neil Pryde flotation vest - Helmet with night vision drop down visor - just hunting for catfish US style

I found it highly entertaining they called it a ballistic GPS - wtf?

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I found it highly entertaining they called it a ballistic GPS - wtf?

Follow the money. Gun owners outnumber windsurfers in the US by at least 1000 : 1, and probably by more than 10,000 : 1 (81 million gun owners own close to 400 million guns - if you add police and military, it's more than 400 million). It's quite likely that they ratio of long-range shooters (who might have a use for the ballistic software the watches offer) to speedsurfers is just as high. For every sessions posted by US teams on the GPS Team Challenge in 2022 (120 so far), there are more than 4 mass shootings (532 so far, www.gunviolencearchive.org/). Mass shootings are good for gun business - sales and stock prices go up. In 2021, "gun right advocates" spent 15.8 million dollars for lobbying. That's probably a lot more than the total for windsurfing gear sales in the US.
wft, indeed.

Goes along the same lines as Citizen when they made the Windsurfer Watch