Setting up a Race Course

While setting up a race course is not required for a tracking session to run, it’s an essential step if you want to enable features like:

• Real-time classification

• Start time animations

• Post-race analysis and insights

Creating a Course

If you already know the exact location of the marks for your regatta, use the web course editor under the Configure > Course menu to define your course.

If you don’t have precise mark positions in advance, we recommend:

1. Creating an approximate course using the web editor

2. Updating mark positions later using the Buoyer app

Web Course Editor Overview

The course editor is a map-based tool that lets you place and configure race marks. There are three types of marks:

• Rounding marks

• Waypoints

• Doors

With these, you can design anything from a basic windward-leeward course to a complex coastal route. We suggest spending some time exploring the tool to understand all its features.

The editor supports entering coordinates in:

• Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS)

• Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM)

• Decimal Degrees (DD)

Reusing Courses and Waypoints

• You can save commonly used setups as Frequent Courses, which makes it easy to reuse the same layout in multiple sessions.

• Use Frequent Waypoints to store named positions (e.g., common rounding marks) that speed up course creation.

If you need assistance while setting up your course, don’t hesitate to contact us.