Our club operates something called classless series.
In essence, the helm is the entry not the boat, e.g. they can enter as a Laser Radial this week, a Laser Full next week and a RS200 the week after. All the points count as one entry despite 3 different boats.
I have been wracking my brain as how to handle this in SailWave ( without some extra programming ).
The issue is that the races are elapsed time handicap races.
So even if you change the sail numbers and classes you still have to have the PY number to calculate the places. And having a different PY number creates a separate entry.
You can handle that with Sailwave - although it is a little difficult to display all the info
Basically you can allow the competitors to change boat by specifying a different handicap for different races
If you enter a value in the Race Rating it will use this for this race and this race only. If you tick the box below it will use the new rating until you change it again
Our club operates something called classless series.
In essence, the helm is the entry not the boat, e.g. they can enter as a Laser Radial this week, a Laser Full next week and a RS200 the week after. All the points count as one entry despite 3 different boats.
I have been wracking my brain as how to handle this in SailWave ( without some extra programming ).
The issue is that the races are elapsed time handicap races.
So even if you change the sail numbers and classes you still have to have the PY number to calculate the places. And having a different PY number creates a separate entry.
We used a different bit of software, and every entry had a helm ID, the software had two levels of data race results and series so places in the series are compiled from the places in the race merged by unique helm id that is entered on the sign on sheet.
Although the main software is open source (somewhere? planesale) the author passed away this spring and the implementation was impossible (for me - and I have only been a programmer since 1978! ) to unravel.
