Races

Each race consists of the following data categories

Time of Starts and Protocol

The time of starts split in two portions:

The time of the 1st start of the race is called global start time of the race. The starting time for the following starts are time-offsets to the global start time.
You can review and enter all the start times here. It is explained in the race settings dialog. Please read the instructions there.

For the calculation of elapsed times the offset time of each group is added to the global time of the 1st start. The group starting at the time of the 1st start consequently receives an offset time equal 00:00:00.

The protocol comprises some more race dependend information which is requested by the ISAF rules of sailing.
Some data is calculated automatically from the finishing times (e.g. time of first and last yacht) and listed for your information.
Some more data (e.g. course length) is provided as input field; please note: this course length is entered just for general information on the printout and is not used for any succeding calculation. It must not be mixed up and is not connected with the course specification data.

"Race" Dialog

This dialog is one of two options to register the finishing times of the yachts:

The yacht's finishing time is used to determine the yacht's elapsed time to finally find the ranking of the yacht as follows

<yacht's elapsed time> = <yacht's finishing time> - <global races starting time> - <group's individual time offset>.

The yachts finishing time may be the time of the day, or in case of night or long-distance (switch off the "one day race" option!) races the time and date of the point of finishing.

Yacht's Scoring Status

All scoring options like disqualification, redress, etc. described in the ISAF's rules of sailing are called "status".

A scoring status might be set in addition to the finishing time.

In general, if there is a status set, the finishing time is not required nor taken into account,
except for the status ZFP, SCP, RDG.
These particular status need a regular finishing time to find the original ranking, which is then corrected to find the final ranking.

 

"Race Real Time Input" Dialog

This dialog is the alternative option to register the finishing times of the yachts. It provides advanced functionalities to allow to register the finishing times in real time, i.e. at the finishing line.

Pressing <enter> will register the system time in the actual row of the grid.

In the status column the key <space> or <shift>+<space> switches the status back and forth, respectively.

You can either register the time for given regular yacht entries,

or

you register the finishers manually by typing in their identification (e.g. sailno, etc) by hand, and register the time by pressing <enter>.
In this sense you can also type in multiple IDs in advance and add the times to them as the pass the finishing line, or vice versa.
Such type of manual input needs to be assigned to the regular yachts anytime later, before the result is to be calculated: The assignment options are displayed on the right hand side of the dialog.

Particular scoring options, e.g. with RDG, etc. are displayed also on the right hand side of the dialog, but only for those results that belong to regular yachts.

Furthermore by double-clicking on a regular yacht, a dialog with the details of scoring will show up.

The dialog will provide the best usability if you maximize it. In the center of the dialog you find a splitter bar, which allows to adjust the portion between left and right hand side.

 

Course Specifications

Each scoring type that requires additional parameters needs a "Course Specification".

Depending on the scoring type the additional parameters might be only the overall course length, e.g. for a time-on-distance scoring method.

IMS and ORC-Club provide much more scoring options thus offering a much greater choice of scoring options to the user.

In every course specification dialog you will need to select the class and the race first for which the course specification shall be entered.

The dialogs itself are interactive and will automatically adjust their input fields to match the requirements of the scoring type and the particular choices as they are entered on the dialog.

IMS Course Specification

The course specification is defined by a combination of the following options:

Dansk Handicap (DH) Course Specification

In the dialog DH Course-Specification the type of scoring is selected for each class and each race individually.
Dansk Handicap offers you two scoring options:

If time on distance is selected you will have to enter the courselength (naut. miles) additionally. It is defined implicitely by the sum over all legs.
For details of computing see Dansk Handicap Calculation.

ORC-Club course specification

The type of scoring is selected in the dialog ORC-Club Course-Specification for each class and each race individually. ORC-Club offers three scoring options:

If any time on distance is selected you will have to enter the courselength (naut. miles) additionally. It is defined implicitely by the sum over all legs.
For details of computing see ORC-Club Calculation.

Catstick course specification

The evaluation is based on 3 windspeed ranges: LW = less than 3,5 m/s, MW = between 3,5 and 8 m/s, SW = more than 8 m/s. In the dialog Catstick Spezification you have to enter all the times when the windspeed changed from one range to another; e.g. from LW to MW. There is one line for each moment of change. E. g.: MW 14:22 , LW 14:41 , SW 15:08 , MW 15:25 etc.

GPS Menu

The GPS menu is an utility to calculate leg length and directions in a set of GPS positions or vice versa.

GPS coordinates are entered bei a pair of numbers, latitude N|S dd°mm.mmm', longitude E|W ddd°mm.mmm'.

It allows


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