Sailing – Regatta Timer

zweizudrei

@Jamie-BG
thanks! Yes, I refer to the duration from start to finish because I am sailing both single class regattas and Yardstick where I need to calculate the handicap. Yes, tracking from pre-signal and then subtract the 5 min, would work. Still it would be so much nicer to count down to the start and then count up just like the old Suunto once had it …

surfboomerang

@zweizudrei I start the lap 5 min before the start. The datafield shows 0 min and counts up to 5 min. It doesn’t give any signals, but by looking at the watch during start, I can try to cross the startline at exactly 5 min. After start I don’t set the watch anymore until the finish.

Jamie BG

@zweizudrei - you need to get stronger hands - if helming you need to learn to be able to hold tiller/tiller extension and mainsheet in one hand…
if crewing you definitely should have a free hand.

It is never going to be perfect, especially if you are having to tack or make adjustments for other boats as your cross the line, but in a lot of cases you should be fine.
But this is part of the reason why I used to use my method (subtract 5 mins).

zweizudrei

@Jamie-BG
it is tiller and both sheets, so stronger hands would indeed be good - so today I only used the normal timer again (which is good) and trusted the regatta team for taking the total time correctly. And maybe I’m looking for a good excuse for not being first today …

zweizudrei

@surfboomerang
thanks surfboomerang, but to start the laps duration field don’t I have to start the race first? I arranged the laps duration field on page 3 of my sailing training. But in order to get to page 3, must I not start the race first? Sorry for being confused.

surfboomerang

@zweizudrei
Not in my case… let me give you an example how I use the watch during windsurfing races with a 5 min start

Iets say we sail a race of 5 heats. All with a 5 min start.
The first start (5 min signal) will be at exactly 1:00 PM.

My watch has some fields I use for windsurfing but one field is the Laps Duration field. Lets say that I have that field on my 3rd page.
What I will do in this situation is that I start a windsurf activity when I enter the water and I will sail to the start area. So my actiivty starts before 1:00 PM.

I press the middle button of my S9 Baro until I an on page 3 with the Laps Duration field
On the 5 min start signal, I press the manual lap button which will reset the Laps Duration field to 0:00:00 and it will start counting towards 0:05:00. So I know I have to cross the start line on exactly 0:05:00. After that the watch keeps counting seconds during the race.

Lets say it takes me 10 minutes to complete the course and cross the finish line Once I finish the Laps Duration field will show 0:15:00 and is still counting. On this point I have two options:

1: Press the manual laps button again to create an intermediate lap just for analyzing purposes
2: Leave the counter running

I press the manual laps button again on the 5 min start signal of the next heat which will reset the Laps Duration field to 0:00:00 and the process described above repeats all over until all 5 heats are finished.
After I leave the water, I stop the windsurf activity and that will finish the whole recording.

zweizudrei

thank you very much @surfboomerang for the detailed explanation!
Instead of laps, I had set up a page with intervals: set 5 intervals each 1 min and 0 recovery time. That was my fault.
So your lap 1 is the way to the start and the regatta field and lap 2 is the 5 minutes before the starting gun plus the entire race to the finish? At the finish line you manually stop lap 2 to create an intermediate lap and subtract 5 min, which is your race time. At least that’s how it works.
Warm greetings from sailing.

surfboomerang

@zweizudrei said in Sailing – Regatta Timer:

So your lap 1 is the way to the start and the regatta field and lap 2 is the 5 minutes before the starting gun plus the entire race to the finish? At the finish line you manually stop lap 2 to create an intermediate lap and subtract 5 min, which is your race time. At least that’s how it works

Correct.
If you are interested in race times, then you start lap 3 right after the finish. Your race time is then lap 2 (- 5 min).
If you’re not interested in the race time, you can leave lap 2 running until the 5 min start of the next race and then start lap 3.

Artem Lavrynenko

@zweizudrei In addition to normal countdown it should have an option to sync to desirable minute by pressing up and down button. As sometime the race comity signal are off.

isazi

A sail racing timer has been added to the S+ store.

surfboomerang

@isazi Already available or after fw update? I can’t find it.

isazi

@surfboomerang I can see one of them in the S+ store, under watersports, but I would not believe it works before the firmware update.

surfboomerang

@isazi Then it’s probably disabled for the S9P. I only see “Direct Path” under watersport

isazi

@surfboomerang still testing it then, I am sure it will be available with the update.

surfboomerang

@isazi
Good job Suunto!

Oliviero Conte

@surfboomerang A good job would it be to have a countdown directly in the sailing activity. I find it very stupid from suunto that 15 years ago had this feature in it’s watches and now we have to do workaround to just have a countdown for regattas.

DMytro

@Oliviero-Conte maybe this being an s+ feature is just a stepping stone before its implemented directly into an activity? Better than to have nothing anyways.

Egika

@Oliviero-Conte not every sailing activity is a regatta…