Sailboat Race Starter and Regatta Timer App Reviews

This app does all that it purports to do. It produces clear essential info for sailboat race starts on our iPhone. This would be even better if we used an iPad. We had some minor difficulty with an operating system change and the purveyor of the App was on it right away with the fix (that now others will not have to deal with). Five stars easily.

I race several boats with different performance profiles and this app provides all I need to know to get any of the boats on the line at the gun. Also a quick calculation tells me the latest time to take that critical tack to port by watching the Time Since Start option. Take distance in miles to windward mark/1.15 NM/1.141*2/speed in knots/60 to get minutes to "corner".

This is a nice big timer on the iPad. But it needs rolling 5 minutes with audio countdown in the last minute, every 10 sec, every sec in last10 or 15 sec. Still have not tried time/time to line function. Does this really work accurately?? JH

Like the app and the included functionality to mark / time the starting line. It would be cool if the flags appeared in the last 5 minutes of any timer amount or in the increments for each class start. For example, I could set the timer at the beginning of the regatta for 25 minutes to coincide with the start of my class. Within the last 5 minutes, the flags and notification (even the timing to start line). for starting sequence would display. Better yet, it would be good to see them for each 5 minute starting sequence within the 25 minutes along with a sound or alert on screen. Just suggestions - no complaints b

I selected this one because it shows the distance and time to the line between the committee boat and the pin. One would logically expect that when you press the Mark Pin button, the app jumps to a map where you touch the pin location, with an option to enter lat-long coordinates. But no. It instantly marks your current spot! Same for the committee boat. So, while youre trying to get started and youre in the tenth class out of about 12, with more than a hundred boats playing dodge-em ahead of you in earlier classes, and youre trying to get the boat ready, this app expects you to sail right up to BOTH the boat and the pin! Seriously? Not where I race! I figured it was the most expensive starting app to pay for the extra work of the mapping feature. The current method is worthless to me. Its a nice timer but no better that the free ones. Dont waste your money on this one unless you can sail right up to both starting points while all the other classes are crossing the line every five minutes. It MUST let me enter those positions! Get a free one until it includes that feature.