Boat haul-out appointment worksheet calculator

Calculate earliest ready-to-relaunch hour and lift arrival margin with your own figures.

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Use earliest ready-to-relaunch hour and lift arrival margin to compare changes to your inputs. The method and limits below explain the scope.

Examples

Examples

Try the starting example

Arrival at yard (hour from epoch)
8
Booked lift start (hour)
10
Lift and blocking duration (hours)
1
Inspection/work duration (hours)
6
Booked relaunch hour
18
Earliest ready-to-relaunch hour
17
Lift arrival margin (hours)
2
Relaunch appointment margin (hours)
1

Try another scenario

Arrival at yard (hour from epoch)
8.8
Booked lift start (hour)
10
Lift and blocking duration (hours)
1
Inspection/work duration (hours)
6
Booked relaunch hour
18
Earliest ready-to-relaunch hour
17
Lift arrival margin (hours)
1.2
Relaunch appointment margin (hours)
1
Calculation method

Calculation method

Earliest ready-to-relaunch hour

Ready=max(arrival,liftBooking)+liftDuration+workDuration; report arrival and relaunch margins.

Lift arrival margin (hours)

Ready=max(arrival,liftBooking)+liftDuration+workDuration; report arrival and relaunch margins.

Relaunch appointment margin (hours)

Ready=max(arrival,liftBooking)+liftDuration+workDuration; report arrival and relaunch margins.

Symbols and units
a
Arrival at yard (hour from epoch)
b
Booked lift start (hour)
c
Lift and blocking duration (hours)
d
Inspection/work duration (hours)
e
Booked relaunch hour

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Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Simple sequential yard workflow; negative margins are schedule conflicts, not appointment changes. Supported limits: All required fields must be finite values of the exact declared type and within displayed bounds. Lists contain1–1000 finite numbers. JSON tables are numeric rectangular rows, at most100 rows and30 columns; individual tools have stricter shape/domain constraints. Simple sequential yard workflow; negative margins are schedule conflicts, not appointment changes.
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