Is it practical to use Sailwave for a whole season with several classes?

I am trying to work out whether it is practical to use SailWave for
our club.

The immediate thing that strikes me is that all the data sits in one
file.

We have several classes at our club, eg Lasers, Optis, etc. Each
class will be racing for a different 'series'. One sailing day looks
like this:

OP Le Page Trophy 2
PC K Buxton Cup 3
ST Aua Trophy 3
SU Jennifer Croft Memorial
ON Cowper Trophy 6
LA Hutchinson Cup 6
ZE K McIntyre Cup 5
PT Trevor Naylor 3

The trailing numbers refer to the race number in a series for a
class. The series can have up to 7 races or as few as 1 (Opening Day
Pennant - one for each class).

We have a mix of handicap, mark foy and non-handicap races.

Classes may start separately or together. The finishing place is
always by class, ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc for LAsers; 1st, 2nd, 3rd for
Optis. And of course, the handicaps are within a class.

It strikes me that this wouldn't be unusual. However it appears that
we would need one BLW file for each class? For each series? We
don't want anything too complex - our wonderful scorer is not
computer-literate.

Any pointers? If you don't think it will work that would be good to
know too.

Thanks

Paul

Hi

If your day's racing is for multiple class series' but the same race number(s),
SW is perfect for dealing with all results in one file.
Complete the 'fleet' column and score by fleet.
eg a club class racing series over a number of weeks, where trophies are given for each class

In your example, use the KISS principle & create one blw file for each series.
It may mean 8 different blw files but this much simpler than creating complicated scoring systems
etc etc which would certainly cause problems for your scorer.

If the basics of each series are the same, create the first blw file then save as into the other 7

Regards
Ralph

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Sent: 10 January 2006 02:06
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Subject: [sailwave] Is it practical to use Sailwave for a whole season
with several classes?

I am trying to work out whether it is practical to use SailWave for
our club.

The immediate thing that strikes me is that all the data sits in one
file.

We have several classes at our club, eg Lasers, Optis, etc. Each
class will be racing for a different 'series'. One sailing day looks
like this:

OP Le Page Trophy 2
PC K Buxton Cup 3
ST Aua Trophy 3
SU Jennifer Croft Memorial
ON Cowper Trophy 6
LA Hutchinson Cup 6
ZE K McIntyre Cup 5
PT Trevor Naylor 3

The trailing numbers refer to the race number in a series for a
class. The series can have up to 7 races or as few as 1 (Opening Day
Pennant - one for each class).

We have a mix of handicap, mark foy and non-handicap races.

Classes may start separately or together. The finishing place is
always by class, ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc for LAsers; 1st, 2nd, 3rd for
Optis. And of course, the handicaps are within a class.

It strikes me that this wouldn't be unusual. However it appears that
we would need one BLW file for each class? For each series? We
don't want anything too complex - our wonderful scorer is not
computer-literate.

Any pointers? If you don't think it will work that would be good to
know too.

Thanks

Paul

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