Hi Nick,
yes, thats what I'd expect.
I'm saving them by going to Edit marks>Mark/waypoint folders, selecting 'Start' and than hitting the 'Table' button. Then saving as .csv file. 

The file then looks like this:

,P,S
P,,087°0.15
S,267°0.15,

Is there anywhere an option that I'm missing to change the file format of the .csv?



I actually never looked at the events list before.. Thanks for the tip. Would be nice to have the positions of the starting marks at the time of the starting gun in there too. I don't think it's necessary to save every single ping (for example if the pinend is pinged twice because the mark was moved, only the second position is relevant).

Exporting the events table gives correct positions (lan/lon) by the way.

In the events file there is a percentage number for start events in the comment column. Is that %target boatspeed? Or %polar boatspeed? And which polar is used? The starting polar or the performance polar? 

Last edited by nav (5/22/2016 1:42 am)

This would be a really great feature for me - I have my own software which fulfils a similar role to the KND offering and prestart performance is something ive been thinking about adding for a while, but putting off with the thought of having to keep track of the startline position separately.

This could be expanded to track mark roundings too to help with putting things into context in terms of looking back over race performance at a later date.

Perhaps this request could be summarised as:
-At 'start gun' log port and stb end lon and lat to events database
-At 'Auto Mark Advance' trigger log current active mark lon and lat to events database

In both cases this could  just be a text string in the comments, so long as it was a consistent format that could be parsed by some other software.
 

I think an additional useful information for the comments in the event file would be:
1) TWA at start gun. Together with the information already included (boat lengths to line and %target speed) that gives a clear picture of how the boat was placed.
2) Seconds until crossing the start line after the gun. (In case of an early start the seconds the boat was over the line too early)

Here is a made up example that shows, why these two additional informations could be useful:
At the time of the start gun the boat was 1 boat length behind the line doing 105% target speed - so far so good, numbers are looking like a good start.
But the boat was reaching at a TWA of 80° almost parallel to the line and just coming up 10 seconds after the gun to cross the line 15seconds after the gun. With this additional information it is clear that the start was bad.