Various operations require you to supply competitor field names in a textual form. For example when importing competitors via CSV files you need to tell Sailwave what is in each column by supplying the first non-blank line of the file as a comma separated list of field names. Continue reading →

Sailwave can import data from and export data to CSV files. CSV stands for comma separated values. The form of a CSV file is a line of data field names followed by lines of data:- Continue reading →

Dates are used in start times and finish times. The expected date format is defined in Setup+SeriesOptions and must take one of the forms:- Continue reading →

A discard profile controls how discards are allocated to a series when scoring. Each scoring system can have its own discard profile. Continue reading →

See Start time.

If a finish time is before the corresponding start time, Sailwave assumes one midnight boundary between the two.

Elapsed times must take one of the forms:- Continue reading →

A standard Sailwave expression that allows you to define how to calculate race points. The smaller the number of points, the better the result and visa versa for high point expressions. Continue reading →

Sailwave has many of the popular rating systems hard-wired into it but occasionally you’ll want to use a rating system that Sailwave doesn’t know about. Continue reading →

A scoring system defines how to process the recorded results. You can define multiple scoring systems so that the results can be processed in more then one way. Continue reading →