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COMPUTER TIMING ­ Short Course Protocol (2012)

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If announced at Start of Day

If the short course is announced prior to the start of racing, the Start Line stations instead are to be set up at Riverside Boat Club (RBC). The Riverside station will not be used.

  1. Station Lead for Start ­ inform all volunteers on the Start roster to report to RBC.
  2. Station Lead for RBC ­ inform all volunteers on the RBC roster that they are free to leave. Station Lead should head to RBC (without equipment) to help set up Start stations as needed.
  3. Set up Start (both stations) using Short Course marker on the upstream side of RBC dock.

Announced During the Day

If the short course is announced mid­day, the following protocol is to be followed. Note that a mid­day change to short­course is announced, we will never reset back to standard course on that day.

Starting Line

  1. As soon as the last race which will use the standard course completes, break down station as if it was end of day.
  2. Pack all materials for return to CBC.
  3. Station Lead ­ return materials to CBC. Rest of the volunteers are free to go.

Riverside ­ Split Station

  1. As soon as the last boat, in the event preceding the first short­course race, crosses the split line and has been evaluated.
    1. All times sent to HOCR and confirmed
    2. At the RBC split station, open Windows Explorer and copy the folder c:\regatta\lynx\results, then paste the folder so that you have “Results­Copy” as a folder in c:\regatta\lynx.
  2. On the RBC split station, delete all the files in c:\regatta\lynx\results
  3. Change BestSync to send files to Start1 instead of Station1.
    1. You need to first stop all BestSync tasks (use the button shown below or choose “Stop all Tasks” from the Actions menu

      Stop all Tasks

      Stop all Tasks

    2. Edit the task that is currently sending files to Station1, by right­clicking on it or choosing Modify Task from the Edit menu option
    3. Change this task to send the data to Start1 instead of Station1, in the Folder 2 box (see mouse pointer in the image below). Start1 has no spaces in it.

      SetUp Synchronization Folder

      SetUp Synchronization Folder

    4. Click OK
    5. Restart all BestSync tasks by clicking the button shown below or picking “Start All Checked Tasks” from the Action menu.

      Start All Checked Tasks

      Start All Checked Tasks

  4. The RBC split station is now Start1 as far as RegattaMaster knows.
  5. At this point, as soon as Backup Timing arrives, races may start. There is only 1 electronic start station at this point, so it is critical to be attentive so as not to miss any times.

aStation Role – Evaluator: Finding a Missing Boat

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NOTE: Only use this procedure if you have the time. If boats are passing it is MOST important to ensure the correct capture and marking of the race. Make a note of the event and boat number then come back to this as soon as you have time. Each Station will need to have all boats accounted for before the end of the day and you can go home.

Challenge: You have realized that you missed a boat when evaluating results. In this example we will be looking for bow number 8. First you check with the person recording the finish order to find out which boats the missing boat is between. We find that bow 8 is between bow 24 and bow 14 (boat order can vary, do not expect the boats to pass in Bow Number order except at the Start and even there things can get out of order though much less frequently). You could scroll through the image to try and find the missing boat, but there is a feature built into FinishLynx that makes it much faster to locate the missing boat.

Locate the Magnifying Glass in the menu bar above the entries

Find Bow Search Icon

Find Bow Search Icon

When you select this button a new window will pop up in the middle of the screen as seen below:

Bow Search Number Entry

Bow Search Number Entry

Enter the bow number of one of the bows that you know the missing boat is between. In this example I will enter 24 and select OK.

Found Marked Bow from Search

This will then locate the front of the bow 24 on the screen. Scroll the screen to locate the missed boat. In this example bow 8 is very close to bow 24. Note that there is no red line on bow 8. This indicates that bow 8 does not have a time recorded. Evaluate normally then hit CTRL + Z to save the file.