Lay a course, sync the start across every boat, and track the fleet live ā with handicap-corrected results the moment you finish. Casual sailboat racing, run right. Free on the App Store and Google Play.
Hey Product Hunt š
I sail out of a small club, and every regatta had the same story: one
person got stuck being "the race committee." Printing course sheets,
running the start sequence off a stopwatch and a horn, scribbling sail
numbers on a soggy clipboard, then spending Sunday night typing it all
into a spreadsheet to get corrected times out. Miss one finish and the
whole night's results are guesswork.
The big race management systems are built for championship regattas
with a paid PRO and a budget to match. Nothing was built for a Tuesday
night beer can race run by volunteers.
So I built Committee Boat HQ:
āµ Build a course once, save it, reuse it every week
ā±ļø Start sequences that run themselves ā synced horns on every boat,
so the fleet hears the same countdown you do
š Live GPS tracking of the whole fleet on a real chart
š Automatic finish detection when a boat crosses the line
āļø Penalties (OCS, 360, 720, DSQ) recorded in the moment, not from memory
š PHRF corrected results the second the last boat finishes
āļø Apple Watch and Wear OS glances so you can leave the phone in your pocket
It's on iOS and Android. It also handles pursuit starts, private races
with a join code, and a shared committee roster so the work isn't
one person's job anymore.
I'd love feedback from anyone who's run a race ā what's the part of
race day you'd most want to never do by hand again?