[sailwave] FW: New User (via CJ)

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RE: [sailwave] FW: New User (via CJ)
I am in the process of of setting up Sailwave to score our week night summer series (4 time-on-time fleets and 1 Portsmouth fleet). I set up a single file for the series with the 5 different fleets. When entering the results by sail number - use the enter Start/finish time option. For the first sail number that you enter in each fleet, fill in the start time. Subsequent sail numbers in the fleet will default to that start time. I am writing up my notes to create a ‘Getting Started’ example for the FAQs.

Al Ouellette

Malletts Bay Boat Club

Colchester, VT USA

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-----Original Message-----

From: Colin Jenkins [mailto:colinjenkins@talk21.com]

Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:27 PM

To: Sailwave User Group

Subject: [sailwave] FW: New User (via CJ)

Hello

I’m a new Sailwave user who has a couple of questions to ask the “veterans”.

If anyone has any hints to offer on the following, it would be greatly

appreciated:

  1. Most of the PHRF racing we do around Vancouver is time-on-time. In the

interests of keeping the scorer sane, our previous program (way to old to

even contemplate keeping) was able to

assign separate start times to individual divisions (classes). This meant

that when a time for a particular boat was punched in, the corresponding

start time for the division in which that boat belonged was assigned and

used to calculate corrected time. In my playing with the program it looks,

so far, that I can enter a start time for the first division

that starts when entering results for the first boat, but it maintains that

time for the remainder of the boats, regardless of what division they are

starting in. So my question is: Do I have to individually enter the start

times for each boat outside of the first division? OR, is there anyway to

assign start times to a division so that it will default to the appropriate

start time once a boat is selected? Or, is the simplest thing for me to

score each division in a separate file?

  1. When registering competitors is there anyway, once a competitor has been

registered, to move directly to a new form without going back to the

spreadsheet and double-clicking on the space? This is more a convenience

thing than anything, so just curious.

Thanks in advance for any feedback that you may be able to provide.

Fraser Pearce

Sailing Director, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club

3811 Point Grey Road

Vancouver, B.C.

V6R 1B3

Phone: (604) 224-1344

Fax: (604) 224-4146

Email: sail_dir@royalvan.com

Web: www.royalvan.com

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Unfortunately, the action you describe won't help Fraser - here in Vancouver, we often have several starts at 5 minute intervals for different classes on the same course. At the finish, the classes are, of course, mixed up, and we just record sail number and finish time - there is often no time to figure out what class each boat is in. The person entering times in the result program doesn't want to figure out who is in which class either - that should be a "computer job", and our ancient user-hostile DOS program would take care of the problem. The first step when entering results was (IIRC) to enter the start times for each class, then we could enter the sail numbers and finish times without regard to class, and the program would apply the correct start time to each boat.

While thinking about PHRF (or other handicap) scoring, it would be nice to have both elapsed time and corrected time displayed simultaneously both on-screen and on the printout when viewing a single race.

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At 12:33 PM 18/12/01 -0500, you wrote:

I am in the process of of setting up Sailwave to score our week night summer series (4 time-on-time fleets and 1 Portsmouth fleet). I set up a single file for the series with the 5 different fleets. When entering the results by sail number - use the enter Start/finish time option. For the first sail number that you enter in each fleet, fill in the start time. Subsequent sail numbers in the fleet will default to that start time. I am writing up my notes to create a 'Getting Started' example for the FAQs.

Al Ouellette
Malletts Bay Boat Club
Colchester, VT USA

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