Stop Watches
The stopwatches being used are 1000/2000 memory recording stopwatches, which are attached to boards to prevent wrong buttons being pressed. The left hand button records a split time, and the top button recalls times back from the current one. After recall, use of the left hand button immediately records a new time. Practice needed. Watches are all started at a convenient time GMT. Two radio controlled clocks are used for this synchronisation. All timekeepers should also synchronise their own wrist watches which can then be used for timing in emergency if other systems fail. Barnes and Hammersmith times are recorded as GMT, rounded to 1/10 second. This rounding is normally done by Stopwatch as he reads the times out.
Leave watches running after the race has finished, because times are downloaded from them into PCs. These watch times are used to cross-check other times.
Paper Records
The standard paperwork provided is not much more than plain paper with columns ruled to encourage tidy writing. There is a printed column which shows the sequence number, then a blank column for the crew number. Then columns for hours, minutes, seconds, tenths and hundredths. (HORR timing is recorded to hundredths, though the .01 second is of course unreliable.)
Radios
It is useful to have two radios to communicate between the two timing teams when they want to synchronise sequence numbers
Other Equipment
Stop watches attached to board. All watches will have new batteries ,Spare stop watch
Paper forms for recording times
Tape recorder or laptop with voice recorder
Pencils - lots (biros fail at the crucial time!)
Radio controlled clock
Long power multi-plug lead
Spare batteries for radio
(By Members of team)
Mobile phone (if available)
Warm clothes (if outside)
Binoculars if you have them. (Particularly Spotter)