Swift 18 Owners

A suggestion if I may,

Would it not be possible to re arrange the Boat Registry page a little, perhaps loosing the entry # in favour of Sail Number, Boat Name, RYA Sail No (where applicable) & perhaps an additional column for previously known Names / Comments? Anyone else agree?

Where Sail / Build Numbers are not known, perhaps drop the sail number "0" & place by Boat Name alphabetically.

I believe trying to build a full boat build/history database would be most beneficial to all concerned.

Sounds good to me
Pauline

Mar 1, 2009 08:38:13 AM, forum-hintsandtips@swift18.org wrote:

A suggestion if I may,

Would it not be possible to re arrange the Boat Registry page a little, perhaps loosing the entry # in favour of Sail Number, Boat Name, RYA Sail No (where applicable) & perhaps an additional column for previously known Names / Comments? Anyone else agree?



Elwyn Williams

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I don't quite understand. The register does place boats in order of sail number. After that I think it is in members registration date next. The main problem, as I see it, is that it doesn't recognise double entries very well when boats get sold and their names change. I understand that at some time soon, Andy (web site owner) will be revamping the site.

The primary selection is entry # i.e. 1st column. what I was suggesting is 1st Column should be sail/ build number split between variants ie Swift 18, Swift 23 etc, where sail number is not known perhaps these should appear as unknown not 0,

Then perhaps from this a history can be developed from the Sail/Build Number, just a suggestion

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For further ref see, it would certainly help in this sort of situation

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Elwyn Williams

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Hi,

As Terry said, the boats are sorted by sail number and then by forum join date. Duplicate sail numbers are problematic, as it would be wrong for me to prevent members from entering a sail number that already exists in the database and unfortunately those members that move on don't delete their user account.

I am currently working on a new version of the site as the hosting ISP is getting ready to change web server technology, however this is not proving straight forward

For the new site I will look at how to solve this issue, but it may be a little while. In the mean time is there are sail numbers with duplicate entries, if the current owners can let me know, then I will remove the boat details for the previous owners.

Andy

Hi Elwyn,
The entry # is irrelevant - it simply numbers the rows. By default the register displays sail number in ascending order. There are options in the drop down boxes top right to display the results in other ways eg by Boat name.

As i understand things it's never going to be the kind of definitive register you're looking for. There's some opacity around the exact dates when builders changed; some boats have a builder's plate, and some not, and so on. It makes for an interesting trail though, and I enjoyed reading about yours.

cheers,
martin