Introduction

In various places within Sailwave the user can select from a list of classes and/or class ratings. The content of these lists is derived from data that the user supplies in the form of rating files. The Sailwave web site contains various rating files donated by users that can be downloaded and integrated into your Sailwave installation. Sailwave provides a user interface to gain access to these files. You then edit them by hand using Excel or Notepad etc. Having edited the files, a facility is provided to reload the records in the files back into Sailwave. Sailwave does an initial load of the rating files when it starts up.

Location

All rating files must be located in a sub folder called ratings in your Sailwave installation folder, which by default is c:\program files\sailwave.

Format

• 1. Rating system code. The code is not case-sensitive and shall be one of:-

  code	Description
  py	RYA Portsmouth yardstick rating system
  texel	Texel catamaran rating system
  scr	ISAF small catamaran handicap rating system
  tcf	Any time correction factor system, e.g. IRC, IRM, ECHO
  vy	Australian Victorian yachting rating system
  uspn	USSA Portsmouth rating system
  phrf	Standard TOD PHRF
  custom	Custom rating system as defined within Sailwave

• 2. Boat class.
• 3. Default rating.
• 4. A comma separated list of wind indexed ratings. This field does not always need to be defined.

If any field contains a comma within it, the field must be contained within double-quote characters. For example the wind indexed ratings field must always be contained within double-quote characters because it contains a list of command separated wind indexed rating values.

Example records:-

• PY, Dart 18, 768
• scr, Dart 18, 1.18
• scr, Dart 18 (with spi), 1.16
• uspn, "Isotope (Sloop, 1-Up) ISTP", 74.2, "79.5,74.5,73.8,68.1"

Comment lines

Comment lines can be included in a rating file by ensuring that the first non-white-space character of the line is a semicolon. For example:-

• ; PY, Dart 18, 768
• ;note - using non-std value Dart 18, 768
•  ; this file was created by Joe Bloggs

Notes

• You can mix rating systems in a single file but it's more usual not to.
• The Sailwave web site contains various rating files donated by users that can be downloaded and integrated into your Sailwave installation.
• Sub-folders in the rating files folder are ignored.
• Files that do not have a .csv extension are ignored.

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