[sailwave] Re: FW: start/finish times

I believe you are always safer using time of day from a watch, even if it is off you can figure it out a later time. The problem with a stop watch is that you can reset it and once you've done that you can never work backwards into the correct result.

Mark Townsend
s_mark_townsend@hotmail.com

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From: "George Goodall" <georgeg305@cox.net>
Reply-To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
To: <sailwave@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Re: FW: start/finish times
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:27:10 -0600

I havent been following this thread very closely, but Am I missing
something. Where I race, time on distance handicap is practically the only
system used for handicaping. With time on distance, the starting time
entered really doesn't matter. I.E., the start time can be off by 1 min, 5
min or 5 days, and the proper corrected finish time will be computed.
Obviously, the correct elapsed time would not be computered but the proper
(corrected) order of finsh would be. Do you all use time on time?

George F. Goodall
1986 Catalina 30 TRBS
"Frantic"
georgeg305@cox.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Jenkins" <colin@sailwave.com>
To: <sailwave@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Re: FW: start/finish times

> Hi,
>
> >The only thing to point out is that for long ocean races most of our
> races take longer than 24 hours so we have to use elapsed time. If
> you made the finished time such that it could accept more than 24
> hours, that would do the same job.<
>
> I do plan to optionally allow date+time as start/finish times: i.e. start
> 23/10/02 12:10:00 finish 1/2/03 20:34:45.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ocean Racing Club of Victoria Rudder Cup
> [mailto:gillmm@northlink.co.uk]
> Sent: 06 December 2002 23:52
> To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [sailwave] Re: FW: start/finish times
>
> Colin,
>
> The only thing to point out is that for long ocean races most of our
> races take longer than 24 hours so we have to use elapsed time. If
> you made the finished time such that it could accept more than 24
> hours, that would do the same job.
>
> 2002 ORCV Rudder Cup
> http://www.orcv.org.au
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