[sailwave] Partial Laps

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The more "correct" solution for this is probably to take the time to sail from the start to the finish the first time and then do laps from there.

so elapsed time becomes something like :-

1st partial lap time + ((time for remaining laps * max laps)/number of laps sailed)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Jenkins [mailto:colin@sailwave.com]
Sent: 15 July 2004 16:48
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Partial Laps

Hi Jon,

My assumption has always been that you would never know exactly what the
fractional lap value would be precisely; the norm for average lap racing
(ALR) is to make everybody do an integral number of laps of some well
defined course; so that the correctly times can be computed fairly. What
you could do in the short term is multiply everything by two, so that you're
recording half laps instead of whole laps - I could tweak things to allow
fractional laps if you really wanted that as a feature; let me know. In my
experience your setup is unusual.

Regards,
Colin J
www.sailwave.com

-----Original Message-----
From: donjon12001 [mailto:jonald@lineone.net]
Sent: 15 July 2004 16:23
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Partial Laps

Please forgive me if this is a simple problem but I'm new to OOD
duties and am trying to see if sailwave can help us out. At my club
we have a static finish line but move the start line to an
appropriate point on the course as required by wind direction etc.
When it comes to calculating the corrected results (for the handicap
fleet) we use fractions of a lap in the calculations. For example, if
the start line is 1/2 way around the course the number of laps sailed
maybe 5.5. When trialling sailwave I notice that results entry only
allows for integer laps. Is there any way around this - other than
reorganising the way we start?

  Thanks,
      Jon

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