My contribution

After a year as a member of the Williamstown Sailing Club, finally I have found a venue to contribute to the operations of the club. At the AGM Lois asked me to take on the role of a digital scorer for this racing season. I was only too happy to oblige as I was starting to feel a bit guilty about not contributing much beyond paying my membership fees.

When you live in the CBD just getting out there becomes a bit of an issue so participating in the work bees, or even just getting there early to go sailing becomes a bit of a task. Perhaps we should just move to Williamstown. Well, we have thought about it and the jury is not out yet.

The plan for scoring the races this year is to get the races scored within an hour of the last boat arriving at the dock after racing. Ian is planning an upgrade to the computer and internet facilities for members which will provide us with the equipment to do the scoring.

Perviously the software TopYacht has been used to do the grunt work but we are planning to change that to SailWave. Once the elapsed times arrive at our desk we will enter them to the system, do the calculations and then upload the results to the website after they have been announced to the sailors.

To make sure we can always provide the results on time, we plan to have several individuals trained to do this task. That way there will always be someone in the group of saiors who can produce the results and put them up on the internet.

Hopefully this will all work as planned.