FAQ

Absolutely! You can score and view races from a laptop, tablet, or phone—right from the dock or the committee boat. Just make sure you’re connected to the internet and have a modern browser.

Yes. SailScores is cloud-based, so you’ll need an internet connection to enter results and publish scores. Offline support is on our radar, but not available yet.

SailScores supports a range of scoring systems:

• Appendix A low point (with and without rule 5.3)
• Appendix A with modified first place values
• High Point Percentage
• Low Point Average
• Cox-Sprague

For all scoring methods, you can set custom calculations for the standard codes, or you can create custom codes, such "VOL - Volunteer Race Committee."

SailScores is aligned with the 2025–2028 Racing Rules of Sailing, including updates to rounding and scoring penalties.

Reach out if you need another method supported.

No. While SailScores currently will capture the times of finishers and can publish them, it does not yet apply handicaps. If handicap results are calculated in another system, the finishers can be ordered correctly in SailScores for publishing.

Combining race results for heats or team racing is also on the development roadmap, but not yet implemented.

Absolutely! SailScores supports both long-running series (like a summer club series) and short regattas. Run them side by side within the same season.

Yes. Multiple accounts can share the scorekeeping responsibilities within a club. They’ll be able to enter results, manage events, and help keep things running smoothly.

Nope. Competitors don’t need to log in to view results. Only scorekeepers need accounts to manage the site.

Definitely. You can create a club and try out scoring, fleets, and formats. It’s a great way to get familiar with the system before race day. Let us know if we'd like some of the tests cleared out.

You can keep your club unlisted and still share direct links to results with your members. It’s a good option for testing or demonstrations. The links won't be pushed to search engines, but they'll be freely accessible to anyone with the link.

If you have Supporter features enabled, two other fast methods of entering results are available: click on the camera icon to use a picture of sail numbers to enter results; or find the microphone icon to use voice input for sail numbers. When using voice recognition, say a sail number or sailor name as it appears in the competitor list. Pause briefly between entries. The letters of a score code (e.g. "OCS"") will apply to the last added score.

We've created a quick start guide for assistant score keepers focused on race result entry, available in the Getting Started section.

yes. Mark a race in a series as provisional to display the series scores with a note indicating the scores are not final. When ready, update that race status to “Raced”. SailScores automatically recalculates series results when a race is saved.

Ties for most scoring methods follow World Sailing RRS Appendix A rules. A couple of base scoring systems, such as PWA Standard, have different tie-breaking rules.

The total before discards is not used in scoring according to Appendix A. Discarded scores are not used in most of the tie-breakers. In our experience, a "Total" column creates confusion for those new to Appendix A scoring, particularly when it doesn't match the tie-breaker results.

Each scoring system has discard rules, describing the number of discards after X races are sailed. A club can have many different scoring systems set up. Typically, clubs will have a regatta scoring system and a club sailing scoring system with different discard rules and different custom score codes.

Any collection of races to be scored together is a "Series" in SailScores. A regatta is an event, which will include a series for each fleet of boats participating. Regatta home pages have a dedicated scoring page which displays notices, documents for all and results for each fleet.

A regatta race will automatically include a result for every competitor in the fleet, while a non-regatta series won't add results for anyone that wasn't added explicitly. But scoring will assume DNC for missing competitors.

When setting up or entering results for a regatta, make sure to use the New Race and New Fleet buttons from the regatta scoring page. This will establish the link to the event.

Yes. A race can belong to multiple series. When entering the race, select all the series which include it. Use this function to help keep the competitor statistics accurate.

Yes. You can link directly to results pages or embed them via iframe. Public SailScores URLs are intended to be stable so they can be used to link directly to the scores you want to share.

In the lower right corner of a series results page there are buttons for CSV and HTML export. Export to CSV for spreadsheets or HTML for formatted pages to post.

Yes. Export HTML results and print those for the cleanest prints with minimal headers and extra text.

SailScores data will be kept accessible for at least a year after the most recent race activity. When cleaning up apparently abandoned clubs, we will reach out to the registered scorekeepers to determine the club's intent before removing data.

Log an issue on GitHub or email the team .

Yes. SailScores welcomes feedback, code contributions, translations, and documentation help. We are particularly eager to accept features that improve the site for many users.