Dinghy Sailing Race Control
The app:
- Stores and manages competitor information, including:
Fleet name, Helm name, Boat class, Sail number, and PYN (rating)
- Can built a list for single fleet or multi-fleet, multi-start racing. Either:
- From imported competitor information
- Fleets manually defined
- Manages single fleet main start sequence (5, 4, 1, Go, 3, 2, 1, Go, Custom, or RC Countdown), provides mixed fleet flag reminders, optional 'horn' reminders, and optional voice or beeps at 10s, 5s ,4s, 2s, 1s prior to next horn/flag
- Optional pre-start countdowns (0, 10s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, or custom) prior to main start sequence
- Manages multi-fleet rolling starts sequences based on fleet/start sequences defined by user
- Manages planning and starts for pursuit races, including advance/delayed starts
- Manages RC single fleet races, with reduced single class info displayed
- Includes single fleet race abort to reset starting sequence e.g. general recall, followed by full restart when ready
- Includes multi-fleet race abort, individual recall, general recall of each fleet, and termination of rolling starts i.e. 'All Clear' on last planned start
- Captures and displays individual boat last lap times, plus number of laps completed (adjusted to fleet start for multi-fleet)
- Uses differing colours for each increasing lap to aid identification of whose have not yet crossed the timing line
- Includes search by Sail No and Helm name
- Allows for incorrect lap timing via long press, which reduces lap count by one and reversion to previous lap time
- Optionally allow the 'instant undo' of the last timings capture by pressing the same entry a second time
- Allows assignment of race code (RET, DSQ, etc.) to individual competitor
- Allows corrections to be made during or post race, including adding competitors
- On race finish, applies PYN handicaps to calculate corrected times, and from these, finishing positions
- Optionally displays elapsed and corrected times in mm:ss or seconds
- Can automatically or manually save race results for post race or later review, and file management (.txt, and optionally .pdf)
- Multi-fleet results are displayed by fleet, and the final position with each fleet (Coded competitors listed last)
- Allows race number to be defined, displayed at race time, and used as part of results filename (auto incremented upon Reset), and editable post race
- Can optionally, export results in:
Postscript .pdf
Sailwave compatible .csv (including series)
HAL compatible .xls
- Displays previous race results, which can also be shared externally (pdf viewer, email, drive, etc). And with Lollipop upwards, display pdf results internally
- Via the settings screen, options can be set as required
- Settings saved at Exit, and restored when next used
- Contains help text on operation and options
- Contains 'hint' popup on initial use to get you started (can be turned On/Off)
- Has Help/Results text zooming to aid readability on smaller devices
- Has competitor import via .txt or .csv file, so you can 'swap' fleets if required
- Includes 'experimental' use of Bluetooth or WiFi remote relay module as 'slave' of sound (when BT of WiFi horn On) - Note Wifi relay module requires specific code installed
Category : Sports
Reviews (8)
outstanding app. We started to use it up in Perth sailing club. Brilliant. One possible enhancement: an undo button on race screen to back out a lap time for the most recently recorded competitor. This would be in addition to the existing lap-1 button on each competitors popup. How do you handle multi-race series? Perth sailing club run many series throughout the year.
Excellent software for sailing clubs. Nicely sr up and great features
We use it to manage and record races then import results into Sailwave for publishing to our website. The ability to automatically upload results to "the cloud" is extremely useful. We will probably take all ok at the features to control lights etc later in the year.
Fantastic App for Radio Controlled Sailing Results. Used to gather finish times against sail numbers this app enables you to score races & supply emailed pdf results immediately after each race if required or even better it enables you to record a whole series of a days sailing of multiple races & then import them into Sailwave & produce a result sheet scored with a series winner (including elapsed times from first boat finished of each race) within 2 mins of the last boat finishing.
used this last Sunday as I was on assistant race officer duty and must say did the job very well. I managed ok just with app on phone but would be better on tablet if your fleet gets beyond 10 boats. We took manual times as well but from this app I had the results straight away.
This is excellent and so easy to use as Race Officer. It is useful to be able to export competitors and share so that others in the club can use it without having to enter each time.
Excellent app, you can see how much effort has gone into this. I'm going to use it along side our RO next time were out to fine tweak it.
This is a great App for sailing clubs with small fleet racing, It creates instant results which can be uploaded to cloud storage if required. Robbie has recently put in a lot of hard work to add many new features including competitor signon, and position on race course for simplifed finisheds. It interfaces seamlessly with Sailwave the scoring system used by many sailing clubs. The Interface is simple and once set up, a 3-minute tutorial can have any one up and running. Go on give it a go along side your existing scoring system you won’t be disappointed. Robbie welcomes any feedback.