Race Master Sail Timer Speed Reviews

No help on this subject anywhere.

Thanks for the response. However following your instructions still leaves RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed active on iPhone X running iOS 13. It behaves the same as navigation does when following a route in maps. The only way I’ve found to stop it is by manually closing RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed .

All and all a good timer for the starts but after that it gets very frustrating to end a race and check to course. Hopefully in a few more updates they’ll get it right. Updated after the iOS 11 update- the gps appears to not be working. The location arrow on my Apple Watch lights up but the SOG and bearing no longer work and the map feature of the course is empty.

I used this a couple of years ago so I could count down the time for race starts and it worked well and it was free so expectations matched. Just purchased a silver subscription expecting a distance and time to the line. I also expected to be able to drive by Race Committee boat and pin of the line and ping each end but was surprised to find out those functions were not in my subscription. This is potentially a 5 star app if pinging the line, distance and time to line were included. Unfortunately they are not with silver subscription. Please include those functions and it would be a great inexpensive app for every weekly sail boat racer. I would pay for the gold subscription at $2.99 a month but am afraid I won’t get what I need and it will be too late once I’ve already paid. Therefore, I recommend a 7 day free trial so subscribers can test out the functions before fully committing to paying monthly or quarterly. Again, great potential and a large number of boats with antiquated chart plotters need your app. I look forward to seeing it developed fully.

I’ve used RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed for timing regatta starts for over a year and was curious about using the other features so upgraded to Gold for a few months and about a dozen races this summer. Unfortunately I found the other features glitchy and unintuitive.

For example, if you keep the timer visible to monitor SOG and COG the other features are buried on a separate menu page making it a clumsy process to get to while racing; potentially useful stuff like wind shift and Live Map are hard to read and sometimes don’t show up.

There’s no real description or information on a lot of the features or how to use them. For example what is the difference between the Compass feature and the Smart View? And why can’t I use True North instead of magnetic?

Dropping marks is also a challenge, the Race History sometimes works sometime not. The Stop Racing process is a joke as is the always on location tracking. Yes I know I can use Siri to do it. But I don’t want to.

Honestly, it’s a great feature set, and I tried hard to use the upgraded Gold features but I feel that they were dumped into RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed and not rigorously tested on the water in actual regattas.

I’m giving Race Master 3 stars since the Timer function is very good and I plan to keep using it, but I cancelled the Gold subscription and cannot currently recommend it.

The basic functionality of RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed seems to work. I have only tested it in an open area while walking since I’m not sailing today.

The GPS resolution appears to be about 5 meters with clear sky so that’s good enough for me for now.

The “time early / late” to line seems to be glitchy. Setting the TC and Pin was easy enough. A “pin set” positive feedback would be a nice addition.

I see no way to delete “races” without deleting all my data. It would be nice to be able to click on specific races and delete them.

My biggest concern is that I can’t seem to completely shut RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed off even when I follow the directions. The timer remains persistent on my Apple Watch even when I kill RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed on my phone.

It will be interesting to test RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed on the water to see if it behaves any differently than walking around on a field.

It’s a great app, but I don’t possess the ability to turn it off. I shut it down on the iPhone and the iwatch and it starts up automatically immediately. Very frustrating as I’m no longer racing and I don’t want to look at the RaceTimer all the time. How do you turn it off?

Use it on my watch. Countdown display freezes but the count continues behind the scenes. Tap on it and the display jumps to the correct time. Glitch. Also sometimes keeps running even though you’ve reset. Display goes back to 5 (or whatever) but the count continues. Glitch.

Works well during regattas. But when I’m done and off the boat I force close on both watch and phone and it continues to open on watch. Very frustrating

RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed is my favorite of the race timer apps out there. Controls aren’t super intuitive, once you get the hang of it it works well. Could there just be up and down buttons instead of sliding up/down to change to the current minute? I like the audio signals, but could there please be a final 10 second countdown? We still need to manually do the counting.

Love RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed!! It is so racer oriented! Having the ability to add or subtract a second or minute is so helpful when you miss the gun. Question—I went to use it today and don’t see the option to enter an ‘exact start time’. Did something change? I no longer have the “settings” page on my watch.

I’ve been using RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed for one design racing. I use the timer on my Apple watch and it’s terrific. RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed is updated regularly with great customer service and troubleshooting.
If your class allows, it’s got very nice start line graphics and speed and CMG stats.
Get RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed and the Gold subscription.

Was useful not just for the timer but also useful for figuring course size (often disputed). Suggest two improvements - have the map function slider buttons with a slider that encompasses wider options for fat fingers. Also suggest a STOP button for the timer.

I’m glad it seems to be working just fine. First of all it’s free and it has Apple Watch support. Why do the others cost?

Great update! I have hundreds of apps on my phone and I think this is the first time I wrote a review and the dev fixed it a few days later! Nice job. Sync works like you would expect, it advances the clock to the next even gun sound to zero seconds.

Sadly, it's now autumn on the East Coast and the sailboats have been pulled out of the water for the winter! But I'll play around with RaceMasterSailTimerSpeed during the winter (walking around work, etc) and get used to using it so in the spring, I can use it on the water. I'm especially eager to see how the GPS features work because 1 degree of lift or header makes all the difference in a close race.

Very nice start timer.