Jenny
Your practice of only having one timer on your boat is a disaster waiting
to happen. Should that watch fail or be reset by accident you will not
have any results. Using the time of day is a much more reliable method
and only requires that you synchronize your watches at the start of the
days racing, then anyone and everyone who has a wrist watch can provide
the time… With a single time piece taking times you also do not have a
double checks to correct misreads of the stop watch etc…
I would strongly encourage you to use the time of day for your results.
Sailwave does a great job of calculating elapsed time and it will prove
to be less error prone in the long run.
Mark
From:
sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 03:20:31 PM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Different fleet start times
`Thanks for the help, but this is the REAL problem. There is only one
timer on any start boat and that is started at the FIRST fleet start.
The finish time from the clock which is entered on the timesheeet is
an elapsed time from that first start.
Therefore the REAL elapsed time for 2nd and subsequent fleets is
progressively 5, 10, 15 minutes etc less than the time on the finish
sheet. This does not matter if the fleet is a one-design class fleet
but can make significant differences for the PY handicap fleets.
What is needed is for the start time entered for a fleet to be able
to be flagged as an OFFSET from the first start, rather than an
absolute clock time, OR to be able to enter an offset for each fleet
in addition to its start time. Otherwise the poor folks entering the
data or taking the times on the water would have to know how many
minutes to deduct for a particular class and errors would be made.
We are talking about 400 results per day over a 5 day regatta to be
entered.
Sorry to re-state this Colin, I did ask about it last September or so
Jenny
Hi Jenny,
The way to do it as present is either what Bill said, or, prior to
using the
sail wizard, enter the start time for one (any) boat in each fleet
and then
Sailwave will ‘catch on’ as to what’s happening when using the
sailnum
wizard.
However, I realise that this is not obvious and a little clunky and
will add
a tool to actually set the start times for all boats in a race on a
per
fleet/class basis; as promised to a lot of folk…
Regards,
Colin J
www.sailwave.com
From: Jenny Fletcher [mailto:jfletcher@j…]
Sent: 10 April 2003 17:45
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Different fleet start times
Colin
This was something I was asking about last year, and not sure if
you’ve now included it, or are planning to shortly.
One organisation I know that would like to use Sailwave needs to be
able to input different start times for each fleet over for each
race
of a series, such that they can then input all results together.
Two start boats each control about 10 fleets starting at 5 minute
intervals and a further boat controls 3 fleets.
At present each fleet would have to be entered as a completely
separate event. This would vastly increase the time spent entering
results which come in from the committee boat/race box as a series
of
clock times with all fleets mixed together.
The only way around it at the moment would be to create some kind of
data entry system for the times and t
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