RaceFlow
RaceFlow is an ORC tool for offshore and coastal handicap racing. It runs a weather-routing forecast for every boat in your fleet over the course you set, then provides time-on-time and time-on-distance factors for the scoring software to turn the elapsed times into corrected times. Each yacht is rated according to the wind that she will face during the race.
A single event in RaceFlow ties together five things: the race parameters, the fleet, the course, the exclusion zones, and the routing runs you request against a weather model.
You work through them on one dashboard, save your changes, then request a routing. RaceFlow uses the PredictWind engine, which calculates the optimal track for each boat and predicts the optimal elapsed time (PET). RaceFlow then calculates time correction factors and gives you maps, per-yacht tracks, animated time-lapse playback, duration-weighted wind & routing analyses, portable track downloads, and printable scratch sheets to share.
Set the race
Name, start time, distance, weather model, course and starting divisions.
Build the fleet
Pull boats from ORC certificates by country and rating family, or import from ORC Scorer.
Run the routing
Request a weather-routing run; each boat gets a forecast-optimal track.
Read the result
ToT and ToD factors, wind distributions, scatter correlations, animation and scratch sheets.
