Hi Calum.
It can be a bit of a pain as you say but once you get the hang of it its not too bad. If you get sailwave setup first it can save time. I havent got mine in front of me but things like if you set the race date in sailwave it shouldnt ask again in pys.
It will take time if you have lots to upload in one go but once done youll have 2 or 3 races a week to do. Any results you get back ti the RYA has to be an improvement over what you did before if you didnt do returns. Please perservere as the more results we get back the more accurate they will be.
Chris
P.s. Anymore probs let me know as i may be able to help you out as i send all my results back.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Calum Polwart <yahoo@wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk>
Sent: 31 October 2009 20:31
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] RYA Results - Ugggh!
I just had my first forray into the world of the RYA... OMG thats
unenjoyable! I thought they made the process quick and simple...
So firstly - am I missing something or is it a clart on? They say its
only 4 mins per race - I have 50 races to upload is that 200minutes of
my life lost?
Secondly I'm having to reconfirm things I already confirmed about 5
times: Example - before I upload I tell sailwave what I call a Mirror SH
Spin. Then I uplaod it, I have to tell it the race date again (which I
have no actual way of deciphering from PYS.org.uk as I uplaoded a series
in one go... ) then I have to confirm all those settings on the race
are correct? Then it seems to give me an entirely random PY result!!
Thridly I have non-handicap results in my data - am I right in thinking
I have to delete all of them as they only have places not times and they
don't have classes set... makes it a bit of a pain. Submitting without
doing that results in what seemed like an ininite loop but it may just
have been volume of data.
You'll gather I'm yet to be convinced its worth the effort... anyone
want to convince me otherwise? (I never did the old paper based system)
Calum
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