Sailracer or Sailwave?

Until now, I've completely steered clear of all this working out results on handicap nonsense other than to moan about it on here and try and fathom some logic to it all, there is none, I have however come under a little pressure from the sailboard community to try an get something formal organised for Boards. I've noticed Sailracer and Simon Lovesy who kindly posts on here from time to time, but there's another outfit, Sailwave is it?

So could someone explain what you do, how you use these two, are they similar, does one work better than the other, what algorithms do they employ (one of them spits out a yardstick recommendation apparently) can't remember which one it is and of course which one if possible runs native on a mac or is it a cloud software web browser sort of deal?

Explain as if addressing a child please(I'm sure there are lots of others who read these things that up until now neither know nor care), my crew has put his back out, I'm thinking of finding him something useful to do, but he's totally new to sailing and all your bollox, so words of not too many syllables please... (I'm not saying he's a child or thick, i want it explained simply to me as well, I'm not totally stupid but sailing stuff generally, if there are two ways to do things, an easy and a difficult way you know which way you lot choose..)it is also 2014 and Windoze is dead, an iPad app is my preference and Mac compatibility a definite.

1) How do we go about recording the result on these programmes?
2) Which one do we use?
3)Then Uploading them to a central site.

Their websites suck by the way.

Edited by iGRF - 08 Sep 14 at 11:07am

Sailracer is a site for collating your results and doing some analysis (I seem to recall it is part of the PYS online system or vice-versa).

So you need both then?

Sailwave is ancient, 2001 low tech, needs a steam PC to work, that Sail racer looks more recent but does it do the same thing, it's not obvious from its website..

Edited by iGRF - 08 Sep 14 at 12:51pm

Originally posted by iGRF   OMG so it's all your fault its going so pear shaped then and there was I moaning about the RYA and PYAG and all along your computer programme is probably wrong...

Originally posted by iGRF So how long have you been doing this Simon? Oh and do I use your programme for my board project or do i have to get a steam PC and run Sailwave?