A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was working on a new software suite to do some of the jobs on the committee boat deck. One of the original design goals was to have a system that could be interfaced with Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and exporting finish times.
I'm happy to announce the availability of this software. This is an early beta release, and is only being announced on the Sailwave group.
Here is a brief summary:
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race officer. Pre-plan race courses, import competitors from Sailwave and predict course times based on boat polars. CBS will also do a verbal countdown of races, time the race, update predicted race times based on mark times, and record finish times (which can be exported to Sailwave). While Committee Boat Suite will work well as a stand-alone system, it can also be used in conjunction with Sailwave race scoring software. Committee Boat Suite is freeware.
Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated. We have been using this software here at Vallarta Yacht Club for some of our recent races, and it's pretty impressive. Keep in mind this is an early beta, and should be treated as such. As every good race officer knows, nothing is better than a good paper backup!
We hope you all enjoy it, and it enhances your use of Sailwave, the world's best race scoring software!
A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was working on a new software suite to do some of the jobs on the committee boat deck. One of the original design goals was to have a system that could be interfaced with Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and exporting finish times.
I'm happy to announce the availability of this software. This is an early beta release, and is only being announced on the Sailwave group.
Here is a brief summary:
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race officer. Pre-plan race courses, import competitors from Sailwave and predict course times based on boat polars. CBS will also do a verbal countdown of races, time the race, update predicted race times based on mark times, and record finish times (which can be exported to Sailwave). While Committee Boat Suite will work well as a stand-alone system, it can also be used in conjunction with Sailwave race scoring software. Committee Boat Suite is freeware.
Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated. We have been using this software here at Vallarta Yacht Club for some of our recent races, and it's pretty impressive. Keep in mind this is an early beta, and should be treated as such. As every good race officer knows, nothing is better than a good paper backup!
We hope you all enjoy it, and it enhances your use of Sailwave, the world's best race scoring software!
Whats its core langauage? Whats the hope of putting it on android? 2.1 devices are SO cheap now you could risk dunking them! And they have longer battery lifes than laptops, are easy to run from 12V power using a very cheap adaptor etc…
C
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0000, Andy wrote:
All,
A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was working on a new software suite to do some of the jobs on the committee boat deck. One of the original design goals was to have a system that could be interfaced with Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and exporting finish times.
I’m happy to announce the availability of this software. This is an early beta release, and is only being announced on the Sailwave group.
Here is a brief summary:
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race officer. Pre-plan race courses, import competitors from Sailwave and predict course times based on boat polars. CBS will also do a verbal countdown of races, time the race, update predicted race times based on mark times, and record finish times (which can be exported to Sailwave). While Committee Boat Suite will work well as a stand-alone system, it can also be used in conjunction with Sailwave race scoring software. Committee Boat Suite is freeware.
Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated. We have been using this software here at Vallarta Yacht Club for some of our recent races, and it’s pretty impressive. Keep in mind this is an early beta, and should be treated as such. As every good race officer knows, nothing is better than a good paper backup!
We hope you all enjoy it, and it enhances your use of Sailwave, the world’s best race scoring software!
Having followed the link in Andy's announcement it is a Windows XP
and above environment, in an earlier post about 11th December Andy
said about his friend
:-) Funny about the Linux compatibility thing - he is
writing it in .NET, and I’ve been trying to point him to the
Mono project, which is a .NET compatibility layer for Linux.
*
There are things that allow Mono (.NET for Linux) apps to run on
Android. There is a Mono for Android web site
. So it may be possible to run the
CBS software on an Android tablet in the future, be great if it did.
Kind regards,
Huw
Whats its core langauage? Whats the hope of putting it on
android? 2.1 devices are SO cheap now you could risk dunking
them! And they have longer battery lifes than laptops, are easy
to run from 12V power using a very cheap adaptor etc…
C
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0000, Andy wrote:
All,
A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was working on a
new software suite to do some of the jobs on the
committee boat deck. One of the original design goals
was to have a system that could be interfaced with
Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and exporting
finish times.
I'm happy to announce the availability of this software.
This is an early beta release, and is only being
announced on the Sailwave group.
Here is a brief summary:
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race officer.
Pre-plan race courses, import competitors from Sailwave
and predict course times based on boat polars. CBS will
also do a verbal countdown of races, time the race,
update predicted race times based on mark times, and
record finish times (which can be exported to Sailwave).
While Committee Boat Suite will work well as a
stand-alone system, it can also be used in conjunction
with Sailwave race scoring software. Committee Boat
Suite is freeware.
Here's the link:
[http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software](http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software)
Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated. We
have been using this software here at Vallarta Yacht
Club for some of our recent races, and it’s pretty
impressive. Keep in mind this is an early beta, and
should be treated as such. As every good race officer
knows, nothing is better than a good paper backup!
We hope you all enjoy it, and it enhances your use of
Whats its core langauage? Whats the hope of putting it on
android? 2.1 devices are SO cheap now you could risk dunking
them! And they have longer battery lifes than laptops, are
easy to run from 12V power using a very cheap adaptor etc…
C
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0000, Andy wrote:
All,
A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was working on a
new software suite to do some of the jobs on the
committee boat deck. One of the original design goals
was to have a system that could be interfaced with
Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and exporting
finish times.
I'm happy to announce the availability of this
software. This is an early beta release, and is only
being announced on the Sailwave group.
Here is a brief summary:
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race
officer. Pre-plan race courses, import competitors
from Sailwave and predict course times based on boat
polars. CBS will also do a verbal countdown of races,
time the race, update predicted race times based on
mark times, and record finish times (which can be
exported to Sailwave). While Committee Boat Suite will
work well as a stand-alone system, it can also be used
in conjunction with Sailwave race scoring software.
Committee Boat Suite is freeware.
Here's the link:
[http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software](http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software)
Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated.
We have been using this software here at Vallarta
Yacht Club for some of our recent races, and it’s
pretty impressive. Keep in mind this is an early beta,
and should be treated as such. As every good race
officer knows, nothing is better than a good paper
backup!
We hope you all enjoy it, and it enhances your use of
That's something that I've been pushing for. This program runs on top of .NET, and there is a library available for Android. However, the library costs $400, and it's not a direct cross-compile.
Note to Colin: No intention to hijack your group. I'll try to get something set up to take this discussion somewhere else.
Whats its core langauage? Whats the hope of putting it on android?
2.1 devices are SO cheap now you could risk dunking them! And they have
longer battery lifes than laptops, are easy to run from 12V power using
a very cheap adaptor etc...
C
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:10:28 -0000, > Andy wrote:
> All,
>
> A few weeks ago I wrote that a friend was
working on a new software suite to do some of the jobs on the committee
boat deck. One of the original design goals was to have a system that
could be interfaced with Sailwave, both in importing competitors, and
exporting finish times.
>
> I'm happy to announce the availability of
this software. This is an early beta release, and is only being
announced on the Sailwave group.
>
> Here is a brief summary:
>
Committee Boat Suite is a deck aid for the race officer. Pre-plan race
courses, import competitors from Sailwave and predict course times based
on boat polars. CBS will also do a verbal countdown of races, time the
race, update predicted race times based on mark times, and record finish
times (which can be exported to Sailwave). While Committee Boat Suite
will work well as a stand-alone system, it can also be used in
conjunction with Sailwave race scoring software. Committee Boat Suite is
freeware.
>
> Here's the link:
> http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software
[1]
>
> Your testing and feedback would be most appreciated. We have
been using this software here at Vallarta Yacht Club for some of our
recent races, and it's pretty impressive. Keep in mind this is an early
beta, and should be treated as such. As every good race officer knows,
nothing is better than a good paper backup!
>
> We hope you all enjoy
it, and it enhances your use of Sailwave, the world's best race scoring
software!
>
> Andy
>
>
Okay, the Feb 2 version of the CBS is now available at the link below. Please uninstall any previous versions. I have added a link on the download site for user comments and bug reports.
Okay, the Feb 2 version of the CBS is now available at
the link below. Please uninstall any previous versions. I
have added a link on the download site for user comments
and bug reports.
Thanks again for your help.
Here's the link:
[http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software](http://www.vallartayachtclub.org/index.php/en/tools-for-sailors/category/1-race-management-software)
Andy
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:30:16 +0000, Huw Pearce wrote:
Andy,
Link gives 404 error
Huw
On 02/02/2012 17:24, Andy wrote:
Okay, the Feb 2 version of the CBS is now available at the link below. Please uninstall any previous versions. I have added a link on the download site for user comments and bug reports.
Okay, the Feb 2 version of the CBS is now available at the link below.
Please uninstall any previous versions. I have added a link on the
download site for user comments and bug reports.
