Program Features

Run time windows environment:

• Microsoft windows 95 or later.
• No special hardware required.
• Tested on windows XP.

Conforms to the Racing Rules of Sailing 2009 - 2012 with many customizable options. Most control information is optional and all controls default to US Sailing standard.

• Number of races to drop, score, or drop as a function of the number of races completed.
• Add or override standard score codes.
• Override computed scores - force a particular value or add / subtract a constant.

Implements the following scoring methods:

• Low Point, plus long series.
• Bonus Point - was Olympic scoring
• Low Point Average.
• High Point.
• High Point Percentage.

Program information is optimized to operate in a web based environment:

• Import (copy) Registration Information from a spreadsheet.
• Import (copy) Registration Information from another event.
• Add Registration Information from a bar code scanner.
• All Reports are generated in the form of web pages.
  • User customizable template for reports
  • CSS class names for most field and data status indications.
  • Reports may be viewed in the program or via a separate web browser window
  • Reports are web publishing ready as generated.
• Files and reports easily sent as e-mail attachments.

Operation supports vary long series with flexible registration and schedules:

• Fleets may sail zero or more races in a race results file. Not all fleets sail the same number of races.
• Race identification user modifiable per fleet start.
• Supports registration of 'extra' entries that are not included in series scoring, but are included on individual race result listings.
• Allow modification of the Sail Number and/or Skipper for a single race.

Reports generate full report or subset reports for selected entries based on:

• User defined group
• 'From' identification string
• Top # boats - where number # is defined per fleet.
• Custom user defined reports. Include control for:
  • order of record selection ( select one - list - all ),
  • print field selection,
  • file breaks, print page breaks.
  • Web index page generation

Large capacity - primary limit is the amount of memory available on the host machine:

• Up to 26 fleets A-Z
• Up to 99 race files.
• Up to 250 boats per fleet.

All data is stored as Windows text files using semicolon ';' to separate fields and coma ',' to separate multiple entries in a field.

• Easy to copy or update with standard text handling utilities
• Easy to input registration and race data to other windows programs (i.e. Microsoft excel)