The Entry
- Ask exactly what your event needs and nothing it does not
- Start on the dock and finish at home — an emailed link brings you back to where you left off, no account needed
- Your boat, your clubs, your rating already filled in from last time
Sailing Event Management
AboutRegattaWeb
One place to run your racing and see your results. Built by sailors, for sailors and race managers — from Wednesday night beer cans to world championships.
Every discipline scored to the RRS. Live results on every screen. One race day or a multi-stage championship — same platform. With the flexibility to score your event the way you want it.
For the sailors — competitor profiles; easy to set up, then easy to see your results across events and disciplines. Skippers can add crew easily by linking to their profiles. All in one place.
Racing Disciplines
Three Ways to Race
Fleet, Match, and Team racing — score each discipline by the RRS, all run the same place.
Fleet Racing
Traditional one-design and handicap racing
The backbone of competitive sailing — from Wednesday night beer cans to world championships.
Racing Formats
One DesignIdentical boats — pure boat-handling and tactics
PHRFPerformance handicap — corrected times for mixed fleets
ORC · IRC · ORRRating certificates for offshore and inshore racing
Key Features
Series Scoring Done Right
Low-point, high-point, or bonus-point scoring with automatic discards. Run a single race or a season-long series with the same confidence.
Multiple Classes, One Event
Score J/24s, PHRF A, and Lasers together and get independent standings for each class — no spreadsheets required.
Rating Certificates on File
Know which certificate every boat is racing under, across PHRF, ORC, IRC, and ORR — and who on your committee checked it. When a rating gets questioned, the answer is already there.
Category Awards, Properly Scored
Corinthian, Junior, Women, and Masters scored as real divisions, not filtered afterwards by hand. Who qualifies is settled once racing starts, so it cannot drift as the regatta goes on.
Polished Scratch Sheets
Scratch sheets you can hand straight to the race committee, and a warning when the copy you printed is no longer the current one.
Match Racing
Head-to-head tactical boat-to-boat racing
Two teams race directly against each other in flights. The most tactically intense format in sailing — every maneuver matters when there is nowhere to hide.
Racing Formats
Round RobinEvery team races every other team — perfect for seeding
KnockoutChoose the number of points to win and what happens next
King of the HillProgressive ladder — win and you advance
Key Features
Multi-Stage Championships
Chain a Round Robin into a Knockout into Finals. Stages can run side-by-side sharing the same boats.
Boat Management Without the Headache
Plan draws, swaps, and handoffs across every stage. The platform tells you when two stages want the same boat.
70 Rotations, Ready to Sail
Every configuration from 4 to 16 skippers against 4 to 16 boats is already on the platform. Pick your numbers and the rotation is there — with print-ready rotation and pairing sheets, QR-coded for the dock. Like your rotation better? Upload it, save it and reuse it (but ours might be better).
Public Invite Requests
Competitors apply online, you triage on a kanban board, and accepted teams confirm with a link. No accounts needed.
King of the Hill Ladders
Winner advances, loser drops a place. Run it to decide the podium, or to settle a consolation range.
Team Racing
Team-vs-team with combined scoring
Each team fields 2 to 4 boats and the team with the lower sum of finish positions wins. Requires coordination, communication, and tactical awareness across the entire team.
Racing Formats
Round RobinEvery team races every other — leagues and invitationals
Swiss LeagueTeams paired by record each round — scales to large fleets
KnockoutElimination bracket, typically after a qualifier
Key Features
Combination Scoring
Sum of all boat finish positions per RRS Appendix D. Non-finishers and DSQs handled correctly, automatically.
Gold, Silver, Bronze Fleets
Split the fleet into multiple groups with or without wins carried forward. You decide how to group the final standings.
Named Boat Groups
Yellow, Pink, Black — organize your fleet the way your venue already does, and the colour you pick is the colour on every race card.
99 Rotations, Every Format
From 4 to 10 teams against 2 to 10 boat sets, in 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4. Whatever turns up on the day, the rotation is already there. Like your rotation better? Upload it, save it and reuse it (but ours might be better!).
Swiss League
Teams on similar records meet each round, repeat matchups avoided, byes handled fairly. Scales to a 24-team invitational.
Who Sailed Which Boat
Know which sailors are in which hull before the start, and keep a record of it afterwards.
Standings and Rotation, Ready to Print
Export standings and rotation sheets straight from the stage, with team names and boat-group colours.
Rotations
Fair to Every Sailor.
Fast for Your Race Committee.
The rotation decides who you race, which boat you get, and how much rest you get in between. Get it wrong and the schedule quietly decides the regatta before anyone leaves the dock — and every competitor knows it.
RegattaWeb’s rotations are built so nobody can point at the sheet afterwards and say it cost them the day. They are also built to move: flights turn around quickly, so you get more racing out of the same daylight. Nothing to work out on the dock at eight in the morning.
And it holds at every fleet size — a four-boat club final through a sixteen-boat championship. That is what the sport has rarely had access to, and it is already on the platform for every club.
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Rotations on the platform
Pick your number of entries and your number of boats. The rotation is already there.
- Match racing
- 70
- Team racing
- 99
Set it once and sail. The rotation drives the schedule, the sheets on the noticeboard, and the race cards on the water — so what your competitors read is what your race committee runs.
Bring your own, too. Load the rotation your club has run for thirty years in from a spreadsheet and reuse it every season, with every earlier version still there if you need it. And whatever mix of entries and boats turns up on the day, you get a rotation — never “unsupported.”
Race Day
Built for the Water
Score from the committee boat. Check results from the dock. Follow live from shore. Every screen is designed for the conditions you actually race in.
Score from a Phone or Tablet
Big touch targets, swipe gestures, and layouts that work one-handed on a pitching committee boat.
Know Why a Flight Can’t Start
Everything outstanding, listed at once, each item linked to the screen that fixes it — instead of finding one problem at a time.
Works Without a Signal
Keep scoring when you lose cell service. Everything syncs the moment you are back in range — no lost results, no reruns.
Live Results on Every Screen
Spectators on shore, coaches on the water, sponsors at the yacht club bar — everyone sees results the moment they land.
Club TV Mode
The Clubhouse Screen Runs Itself
Put the racing on the television over the bar and leave it there. A full-screen, sports-broadcast scoreboard for club TVs and kiosks — no laptop, no operator, and nobody refreshing a browser tab between races. Members watch the regatta the way they watch anything else on that screen.
Every discipline
Fleet finishes, match flights, and team heats each get their own broadcast treatment — alongside round-robin cross-tables, knockout brackets, ladders, and Swiss cards. Whatever your regatta is running, the screen knows how to show it.
It never goes blank
The screen never sleeps. Between races it counts down to the next start; with nothing running it settles into a calm stand-by. Even when it needs signing back in, the board stays up — someone scans it with a phone and it carries on.
You control it
Hand out a short passphrase to put a screen on the wall. Change it and every screen signs out at once. Staff can tell at a glance whether what is showing is current.
Regatta Navigator
From First Gun to Final Whistle
Multi-stage championships are a different sport from single-race weekends. The Navigator keeps the whole regatta in view — planning it, running it, and handing off between stages without losing the thread.
- Lay out the whole regatta
Drag Round Robins, Knockouts, and Finals into order. Set team counts and boat capacity per stage. Competitors see a public timeline long before the first warning signal.
- Spin up the next stage
When conditions are right, turn a planned chip into a live stage with one click — schedule, fleet, and seeding already configured. No retyping, no paperwork.
- Run the stage
Concurrent stages share the same fleet. The Navigator tells you when two stages want the same boat and keeps scoring, rotations, and results aligned across the whole event.
- Between stages, no guesswork
When a stage finishes, the between-stages ceremony walks the OA through cascade decisions — seeding into the next stage, carry-forward wins, protest impacts — before anyone returns to the dock.
- The championship, scored through
Provisional to official, finals to podium — all under the same program model, all visible to competitors, umpires, and spectators in real time.
Getting In
Entries People Actually Finish
Most entries are abandoned halfway through, on a phone, because something was missing. So the form remembers what it already knows about you, lets you walk away and come back, and asks only the questions this event actually needs.
Entry Fees
- Early-bird and standard pricing, with competitors seeing what they owe before they submit
- Take cheques and club-account transfers with a proper record — you do not need card processing set up to use any of this
- Card details never touch RegattaWeb. Your payment provider takes those on their own page.
Waivers
- Sailors sign from a link in their email in under a minute — no account, no password, nothing to install
- Parents sign for juniors. We never ask anyone for a date of birth.
- One list of who still has not signed, and a nudge you can send them without leaving it
Money and paperwork stay separate on purpose. Someone who has not paid yet is a different conversation from someone who has not signed yet, and you should not have to untangle which is which.
Platform
Everything Else the Platform Handles
Running a regatta is more than scoring races. Weather, profiles, documents, protests, audit trails — the quiet machinery that keeps a championship running smoothly so the race committee can focus on the sailing.
On-Water Conditions
Live wind, waves, and sea temperature with sailing briefings written for the fleet. Historical venue profiles help you plan events still weeks away.
Wind knLast 12 hours
AI Event Summaries
Narrative recaps after every scoring update — standings shifts, decisive moments, and the conditions that shaped the racing.
“After the big-breeze second beat, Northwind Racing found a left shift that nobody else saw and took the lead for keeps. Harbour Match kept the pressure on but could not convert — a second place tonight is still enough to hold the series lead by two.
Generated moments after the last finish
Competitor Profiles
Sailors, teams, and boats each get a public profile that builds itself from results — a career record nobody had to type in, searchable and shareable.
And everything else
Protests and Inspections
File a protest, track the hearing, record the decision, and have the standings update automatically. Equipment inspections built in.
Document Management
Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, amendments, and results — all in one place, all version-controlled, all easy to find.
Every Change, Explained
Who entered that result? When was it changed, and why? A readable activity feed answers the questions before they are asked.
Real Committee Boat Tools
A signal flag log in the language of the flag bag, attributed to the boat that raised it. Officer rosters, postponements, and abandonments logged as you make them.
Your Brand on Every Page
Club burgees throughout, your event logo at the top of the page, and a sponsor wall where every logo gets equal room — nobody cropped, squashed, or buried at the bottom.
Local Rules, Actually Scored
Change how your event scores, each setting carrying its RRS reference and your Notice of Race section. The public sees plain English, never raw configuration.
Racing Rules of Sailing
Scored by the Book
Every finish, redress, and penalty is handled the way the rulebook says it should be. Juries and protest committees can sign off without second-guessing the math.
The full result-code vocabulary
Never started
Entered but did not come to the line, or came to the line and never started.
DNC
Did Not Come to starting area
Boat was entered but never showed up to the starting area.
DNS
Did Not Start
In the starting area, but did not start the race.
Fouled the start
Over the line early, or over under a flag that disqualifies.
OCS
On Course Side (premature start)
Over the starting line when the gun went off and did not return.
BFD
Black Flag Disqualification (RRS 30.4)
Identified on-course-side under the Black Flag rule — disqualified from the race.
Did not finish
Started but something happened between the gun and the finish.
DNF
Did Not Finish
Started but did not cross the finish line.
RET
Retired
Voluntarily withdrew from the race after starting.
Adjudicated
An outcome set by the jury or umpires after the race.
DSQ
Disqualified
Disqualified by the protest committee or umpires for a rules infraction.
RDG
Redress given (points adjustment by protest committee)
Score adjusted by the jury to remedy unfair damage to a boat’s standing.
Normal finish
Crossed the line cleanly and was recorded.
OK
Normal finish
Clean finish. Points are assigned by finish position.
Results lifecycle — from draft to official
- Draft
- Published
- Racing
- Provisional
- Official
- Archived
Results are recorded during racing, published as provisional the moment the last boat finishes, and promoted to official when the protest window closes. Every transition is logged and every score is traceable back to the finish that produced it.
Event Shapes
RegattaA multi-day event with multiple races and overall standings
SeriesA season of racing scored together across many days
Race DayA single day with one or more races — Wednesday nights and beyond
Ratings and Classes
One DesignIdentical boats — pure boat-handling and tactics
PHRFPerformance handicap for mixed fleets (US and Canada)
ORCOffshore Racing Congress — the international standard
IRCInternational Rating Certificate — the European standard
ORROffshore Racing Rule — US offshore and distance racing
ORR-EZThe simplified ORR rule for club and coastal racing
Local HandicapYour club’s own system, however you score it
Certificates kept on the record
Whichever system you score, you keep a record of the certificate each boat is racing under, who on your technical committee checked it, and when. Come the rating deadline, the platform captures where every boat stood — so if someone protests a rating in week two, you are not reconstructing it from memory and old email.
RegattaWeb links you to the rating office’s own page rather than checking it for you. Verification means a person on your committee looked at the document and said so.
Who It's For
Three Sides of Every Event
Every regatta has three experiences running in parallel — the people putting it on, the people racing in it, and everyone watching. Here is what each looks like on RegattaWeb, from first thought to final bell.
Who
Race Organizers
Yacht clubs, race committees, class associations. The people with the clipboards.
- 01Act 01 · Plan the event
- Spin up a new regatta, series, or race day in minutes
- Decide your entry questions, fees, and waivers before entries open
- Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, and amendments in one place
- 02Act 02 · Run the day
- Score race day from a phone or tablet, even with no signal
- Pull a rotation off the shelf that is fair to every entry and quick to turn around
- Put the racing on the clubhouse television and forget about it
- 03Act 03 · Close the results
- Publish polished results — provisional to official at the right moment
- Protest filings, hearings, and decisions tracked end to end
- A written recap of the day ready before the trophies come out
Who
Competitors
Skippers, crews, and teams. The people on the water.
- 01Act 01 · Get in
- Enter from your phone — your boat, clubs, and rating already filled in
- Enter, pay, and sign a waiver without ever creating an account
- Find events by what is racing now, coming up, or already sailed — with search, a discipline filter, and a map view
- 02Act 02 · Race
- Standings that update live — no refreshing, no waiting for emails
- See what you owe and what you still need to sign, in one place
- Follow along on race day — no app to install
- 03Act 03 · Carry it forward
- A racing profile that builds itself from results — nothing to fill in
- Share a link or a QR code — your supporters are one tap away
- Results history that travels with you from club to championship
Who
Everyone Watching
Family, friends, coaches, and club members following the racing from the clubhouse or the other side of the world.
- 01Act 01 · Follow the racing
- Live standings and results on any screen — no app, no account
- Scores appear as they are entered, not hours after the last boat docks
- Put the racing on the clubhouse television and let it run all day
- 02Act 02 · Understand what happened
- A written recap after every scoring update — what shifted, and why
- Flights, brackets, and rotations laid out so a first-timer can follow along
- One link or QR code sends anyone straight to the racing
- 03Act 03 · Between events
- Follow a sailor’s development across seasons, classes, and disciplines
- Size up the competition before the next event — records travel with them
- Search sailors, teams, and boats by name from anywhere on the site
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