Station Role – Evaluator: During the race and Missing Boats

  • Bow ball marking on the computer needs to happen quickly! If you’re not able to mark them fast enough for some events, your station lead may need to step in to assist.  Listen to your station lead if you’re falling behind in the bow ball marking
  • Continue to evaluate until all boats in race have been evaluated, IF there are missing unevaluated boats:
    • Let your Station Lead know, we work as a team and it is important to communicate, they will help resolve the issue.
    • Verify with the Recorder that they have or have not all passed, there may have been boats that did not start or dropped out, extreamly slow, etc…
    • IF THERE IS TIME, back up though captured images to try and find the missing  boat

    MISSING Boats:

    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 then evaluate normally.

    If there is a red line then the boat was most likely marked incorrectly

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