It is intended that the Club Race Officer Manual is made available in electronic format, the possible formats being Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. The Club Race Officer Manual is currently undergoing a re-write  to take into account changes in club procedure and major restructuring, following a realisation that the order of information presentation was not related to the order a Race Officer & Team carry out tasks!

The club has had a 'black box' device, stored in a yellow box, to provide the Race Team with a means of automatically sounding the sound signals at 3 minute intervals and also recording the time each boat finishes, when the Race Officer signals that the boat has finished. However this equipment was rarely used in recent years because it has had problems; unfortunately old age, it is now approaching 20 years old, have made it so unreliable that it cannot be used.

A specification was put together for a replacement system that would run on a PC, this was taken up by a student as a final year project. Unfortunately the student did not pass the program over to Datchet and it has therefore been lost.

A club member has written a program being called PROlog.  This was tested for the first time for Club racing on Sunday 22nd December 2002 and worked exceptionally well.  More testing & training of race teams is to be undertaken before it is available for general use. PROlog is a valuable addition to the facilities available to a race officer and can be available on both club committee boats. Any one wanting instruction it the use of PROlog is encouraged to ask.

There is an alternative called RaceDay, but is more difficult to use in the opinion of the WebMaster!

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