Sailing – Regatta Timer

[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…