Sailwave (sailwave.com), the premier sailing results/scoring application for windows has acquired ezTrap, a unique MS Excel© based application for designing and managing sailboat racecourses. As with Sailwave, ezTrap is available as a free download for unrestricted use.

ezTrap has been available since 2009 and is in use by Race Officers around the world for Trapezoid, Windward/Leeward, Optimist; RS:X Slalom; 505 Worlds, Triangle, and Lipton Cup courses along with a flexible ‘round the buoys’ course for Yacht Clubs and other sailing associations.

Two of the biggest challenges with sailboat racing are significantly improved with ezTrap – set-up time and accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, it is the only app that instantly:

• Provides Latitudes & Longitudes of all Marks & Pins;
• Calculates BRGs & Distance of all Marks & Pins to/from RC Signals Boat;
• Estimates sailing times by leg; and,
• Scales up/down the course to meet Target Race Times for multiple fleets.

ezTrap was developed and supported by Ed Bottrell, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and will continue to be available from his website Bottrell.ca until the end of February 2021. Ed has retired and is pleased that Sailwave will continue to provide downloads and support through the Sailwave User Group. Future development and enhancements are possible with current and future Sailwave volunteers.

You can download the full version of ezTrap for free from the Download section of the Sailwave Website.  If you are just curious you can view the User Manual from the same section.

There is a new section in the Forum for ezTrap support – If you have any questions or suggestions please post them there.

Jon

The 2020/21 Great Lakes PY list is now available for download from the Sailwave ratings library.    These should be downloaded to your ratings folder – The location of this folder is defined within Sailwave at Menu – Settings – Global options – Folders – My rating files.  The default location is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sailwave\Ratings.  Sailwave allows you to have different rating folders so you can specify a subdirectory of this should you wish to have both these and RYA PY ratings available.  Thanks to Huw for creating the Sailwave format of them.

The new 2020 RYA PY list is now available for download from the Sailwave ratings library.  Two files are available the standard PY list and the limited data list.  These should be downloaded to your ratings folder – The location of this folder is defined within Sailwave at Menu – Settings – Global options – Folders – My rating files.  The default location is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sailwave\Ratings.  Sailwave allows you to have different rating folders so you can specify a subdirectory of this with different years as an example.  Thanks to Huw for creating the Sailwave format of them.

The 2020 SCHRS International small catamaran rating system ratings have been updated and are available from the Sailwave rating library https://www.sailwave.com/rating-files-library   For more details about the SCHRS system please see https://schrs.com

A new addition has been added to the third party page

Dinghy Sailing Race Control (DSRC)
A free android app, controlling race signals, (option of an external horn) race data that will import into Sailwave.  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.g0hyn.DSRC

If any of the other details are out of date please let me know

Jon