I would encourage you NOT to use elapsed time. My point is not that it does
not work in sailwave, but the fact that you have created a single point of
failure, the stopwatch. Should someone loose, drop, restart or otherwise
cause the stopwatch to be inaccurate you have no way of calculating elapsed
time. If you use time of day then you are always able to obtain finish
times.
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At my club we generally use Elapsed Time from a stop watch to record results, but we always note the exact start time of the race as a backup. At 08:45 AM 4/25/2006 -0700, Mark Townsend wrote: