So, we had a race at my club last weekend and we used RaceSail to score the races. I am getting a ton of questions from one boat who "does not understand" the results. We got two races in with the 1st race averaging 15 knots and the 2nd race saw perhaps 7 knots with the wind fading quickly, then we headed to shore to watch the SpaceX launch. Below is the RaceSail print out. So the top 3 boats finished with 4 points and RaceSail went to its tiebreaker and gave the overall win to Music Maker. I also did a spreadsheet of the finish time delta s in both races. I admit I am a little bit confused, but my thought is RaceSail took the two first place finishes and calculated the difference was 18 seconds between the boats on the finish. The boat who finished 2nd in both is thinking he should have taken overall. He quoted me the Racing Rules below and my thought is RaceSail followed A8.1 and since he was 2nd in both races the tie was broken in favor of the other two boats. Thoughts?
A7. RACE TIES
If boats are tied at the finishing line or if a handicap or rating system is used and boats have equal corrected times, the points for the place for which the boats have tied and for the place(s) immediately below shall be added together and divided equally. Boats tied for a race prize shall share it or be given equal prizes.
A8. SERIES TIES
A8.1.
If there is a series-score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favor of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.
A8.2.
If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.
A7. RACE TIES
If boats are tied at the finishing line or if a handicap or rating system is used and boats have equal corrected times, the points for the place for which the boats have tied and for the place(s) immediately below shall be added together and divided equally. Boats tied for a race prize shall share it or be given equal prizes.
A8. SERIES TIES
A8.1.
If there is a series-score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favor of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.
A8.2.
If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.
| Race 1 | Race 2 | Total Points | Tie Break | |
Te-Keel-La | 0 | 10.35 | 4 | 10.35 – 10.17 = .18 | |
Limelight | 5.51 | 1.31 | 4 | | |
Music Maker | 10.17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
Indecent | 12.1 | 13.16 | 8 | | |