Close finish

Hi,

There was a very close finish in our Friday evening race yesterday evening. There were only three competitors in Fleet A, and one retired. I entered the times into Sailwave and it placed T first and M second. However, on calculating the results manually, it resulted in M narrowly winning over T. The manual calculations are below and I attach the .blw file.

Am I doing something wrong in Sailwave?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Regards,

Sue Fortescue, East Dorset Sailing Club

'Have just redone calls following mins x 60 + secs divided by py x 1000 divided by 60. Using this T comes out at 67.23 and M at 66.33

Finish times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’

Hi Sue,

  I have just done the

manual maths and arrive at:

  • Streaker 1565 Tim Lewis PY 1128 ET 67:27 CT 59:48
  • Laser 2000 Martin Baker PY 1112 ET 66:33 CT 59:51
    Which are the same
    as calculated by Sailwave, so even though the Laser 2000
    finished first on the water after the rating calculations they
    finish 3 seconds behind on corrected time.

Kind regards,

Huw

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On 04/05/2019 17:20, Susan Fortescue
[sailwave] wrote:

sfortescue@gmail.com

Hi,

            There was a very close finish in our Friday evening

race yesterday evening. There were only three
competitors in Fleet A, and one retired. I entered the
times into Sailwave and it placed T first and M second.
However, on calculating the results manually, it
resulted in M narrowly winning over T. The manual
calculations are below and I attach the .blw file.

Am I doing something wrong in Sailwave?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Regards,

Sue Fortescue, East Dorset Sailing Club

              'Have

just redone calls following mins x 60 + secs divided
by py x 1000 divided by 60. Using this T comes out at
67.23 and M at 66.33

              Finish

times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’


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Hi Sue,

There seems to be a discrepancy between what’s in your Sailwave file and the calculation you did.

The Elapsed times in the Sailwave file are being correctly turned into corrected times. In the Sailwave file, one of the Elapsed is 66:33, the other 67:27, but you seem to have done your calculation based on Finish times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’

Ian Day

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Sent: Saturday, 4 May, 2019 17:21
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Close finish [1 Attachment]

Hi,

There was a very close finish in our Friday evening race yesterday evening. There were only three competitors in Fleet A, and one retired. I entered the times into Sailwave and it placed T first and M second. However, on calculating the results manually, it resulted in M narrowly winning over T. The manual calculations are below and I attach the .blw file.

Am I doing something wrong in Sailwave?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Regards,

Sue Fortescue, East Dorset Sailing Club

'Have just redone calls following mins x 60 + secs divided by py x 1000 divided by 60. Using this T comes out at 67.23 and M at 66.33

Finish times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’

Many thanks Huw and Ian. I will pass your comments to the member who did the manual calculation!

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On Sat, 4 May 2019, 17:49 Huw Pearce huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk [sailwave], sailwave@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Hi Sue,

  I have just done the

manual maths and arrive at:

  • Streaker 1565 Tim Lewis PY 1128 ET 67:27 CT 59:48
  • Laser 2000 Martin Baker PY 1112 ET 66:33 CT 59:51
    Which are the same
    as calculated by Sailwave, so even though the Laser 2000
    finished first on the water after the rating calculations they
    finish 3 seconds behind on corrected time.

Kind regards,

Huw

  On 04/05/2019 17:20, Susan Fortescue > sfortescue@gmail.com [sailwave] wrote:

Hi,

            There was a very close finish in our Friday evening

race yesterday evening. There were only three
competitors in Fleet A, and one retired. I entered the
times into Sailwave and it placed T first and M second.
However, on calculating the results manually, it
resulted in M narrowly winning over T. The manual
calculations are below and I attach the .blw file.

Am I doing something wrong in Sailwave?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Regards,

Sue Fortescue, East Dorset Sailing Club

              'Have

just redone calls following mins x 60 + secs divided
by py x 1000 divided by 60. Using this T comes out at
67.23 and M at 66.33

              Finish

times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’


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Mystery solved! Inexperienced race officer put times in wrong box on race form! Thanks again for the help!

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On Sat, 4 May 2019, 18:19 Susan Fortescue, sfortescue@gmail.com wrote:

Many thanks Huw and Ian. I will pass your comments to the member who did the manual calculation!

On Sat, 4 May 2019, 17:49 Huw Pearce huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk [sailwave], sailwave@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Hi Sue,

  I have just done the

manual maths and arrive at:

  • Streaker 1565 Tim Lewis PY 1128 ET 67:27 CT 59:48
  • Laser 2000 Martin Baker PY 1112 ET 66:33 CT 59:51
    Which are the same
    as calculated by Sailwave, so even though the Laser 2000
    finished first on the water after the rating calculations they
    finish 3 seconds behind on corrected time.

Kind regards,

Huw

  On 04/05/2019 17:20, Susan Fortescue > > sfortescue@gmail.com [sailwave] wrote:

Hi,

            There was a very close finish in our Friday evening

race yesterday evening. There were only three
competitors in Fleet A, and one retired. I entered the
times into Sailwave and it placed T first and M second.
However, on calculating the results manually, it
resulted in M narrowly winning over T. The manual
calculations are below and I attach the .blw file.

Am I doing something wrong in Sailwave?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Regards,

Sue Fortescue, East Dorset Sailing Club

              'Have

just redone calls following mins x 60 + secs divided
by py x 1000 divided by 60. Using this T comes out at
67.23 and M at 66.33

              Finish

times were T 75.53 and M 73.46’


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