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Updated Ratings available in Rating Library

Thank you to Huw who has created new Sailwave rating files for 2021 from the original sources

Not much changed this year due to the Covid-19 situation

  • 2021 RYA PN List – no changes to rating values just changes of year dates
  • 2021 RYA Limited Data PN List – one change of rating for National 18
  • 2021 SCHRS – no changes for 2021 so same as 2020
  • 2021 SCHRS PN Lookalike – no changes for 2021 so same as 2020
  • 2020-2021 Great Lakes Handicap List – this was updated in October

Downloads are available from
https://www.sailwave.com/rating-files-library

Sailwave acquires ezTrap

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

 

Great Lakes Ratings file available

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.

2020 RYA PY List available

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.

NEW 2019 RYA PN RATINGS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

UPDATE 4th March 2019 – Due to some missing PY’s in the limited data file the  RYA have reissued it and the changes have now been reflected in the Sailwave rating files available for download.  If you have already downloaded them please update with the current version.

The new 2019 Portsmouth Numbers released today by the RYA are available for download from the rating file library of the Sailwave website.

There is also a limited data file of ratings for classes which have not received enough feedback to be included in this years updated ratings.  You can load multiple files with Sailwave if you place them in your ratings directory.

SCHRS and SCHRS PN equivalents have also been updated for 2019

You can examine and edit these file with a text editor or compatible spreadsheet.

Thanks to Huw Pearce for creating these files in Sailwave compatible format from the RYA  files

Possible down time

Wednesday 30th January – Essential network improvements
Scheduled for Jan 3021:00 – 22:00 GMT
Scheduled
As part of our continued investment in our infrastructure to improve your service, our Network team will be replacing a number of switches on Wednesday 30th January. Some customers may experience downtime during these essential works. We expect downtime to last no more than 1 hour. These works will begin at 9pm.

We understand your Heart Internet services are important to you and we are very sorry any potential downtime comes at such short notice. We have not taken this decision lightly and have decided to take immediate action so we can make the fix and maintain the quality of our service. We really appreciate you’re understanding and we will notify this page as well as social media as soon as the works has been completed.

Posted about 7 hours ago. Jan 292019 – 14:08 GMT

New 2018 RYA PN Ratings available for download

The new 2018 Portsmouth Numbers are available for download from the rating file library of the Sailwave website.

There is also a historic file of ratings for classes  which have not received enough feedback to be included in this years updated ratings.  You can load multiple files with Sailwave if you place them in your ratings directory.

SCHRS and SCHRS PN equivalents have also been updated for 2018

You can examine and edit these file with a text editor or compatible spreadsheet.

Thanks to Huw Pearce for supplying the files

 

Australian Sailing Yardsticks update

Thanks to Brian Chapman, there are new Australian Sailing Yardsticks available in the Rating library.  I’ve attached a copy of his email below as this gives a good update on the naming used.  I haven’t currently changed the internals of Sailwave so you can still use these with the Sailwave version you are using – but please lookout for changes in the future.
Oh and thanks Brian for the compliment!

The yardsticks table was originally known as the Victorian Yachting Council (VYC) yardsticks table and more recently as Yachting Victoria Yardsticks.

You may or may not be aware that Sailing administration in Australia has undergone an extensive re-structuring over the past few years, with individual State Associations (such as the Victorian Yachting Council – more recently known as Yachting Victoria) having now been incorporated under the Sailing Australia banner (previously known as Yachting Australia).

Consequently, the long standing VYC yardsticks table has had 2 recent name changes – firstly to “Yachting Victoria yardsticks” and now, for the past 2 years,  “Australian Sailing yardsticks”.

I’ve been responsible for several years now for maintaining and updating the AS otb Catamaran yardstick table and before that the YV and VYC Catamaran yardstick tables. I’m also the Australian Sailing representative on the SCHRS World Council.

The purpose of this email is to provide Sailwave users (primarily in Australia and New Zealand) an easy to source and download up to date “ratings file” for AS yardsticks for otb Dinghies and Catamarans + selected keelboats.

I have no objections should you wish to “hardwire” Sailwave for an “AS” ratings file in lieu of “VY”. However, many (if not most) Aussie sailors/clubs still refer to the yardsticks table as VYC, so if you wish to leave “VY” in place that is fine too.

Best Regards and thanks for what is probably the finest Sail boat racing results program available, in my humble opinion.