Flying Start handles 200-boat fleets, multi-race series, live GPS tracking, and instant results publication — from iPads on the committee boat. No servers to provision, no IT budget required.
National championships aren't club racing at scale. They demand precision scoring, live results, and infrastructure that works under pressure.
Online entry forms with class selection, handicap confirmation, and emergency contacts. Competitors register themselves. No more spreadsheet chaos before the event has even started.
6 to 12 races over 3 to 5 days. Series standings auto-update with discards and tie-breaks calculated per RRS Appendix A. Publish after each race — no waiting until the prize-giving.
Configurable fleet intervals — 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Per-fleet countdown timers running on a single master clock. One PRO, one iPad, all fleets managed.
Results published to a dedicated event page within minutes of the last boat finishing. Sailors check their phones on the walk back from the boat park. No queuing at the notice board.
Post course changes, sailing instruction amendments, protest hearing schedules, and safety notices — all pushed to your event page and competitors' phones in real time.
CSV, Sailwave (.blw), and XRR (World Sailing standard). Feed results directly to national ranking systems and Manage2Sail. No manual re-entry.
Turn your championship into a spectator event — even for people who can't see the water.
Competitors opt in via the Flying Start app. Their positions appear live on an interactive race map.
Your championship gets a public event page at flyingstart.app. Link to it from your own site — spectators follow the racing from the shore, the clubhouse, or the other side of the world.
Your sponsors get live visibility on the tracking page. Your spectators get live drama. Everyone wins.
The workflow for running a 3-day, 200-boat national championship.
Most championship organisers cobble together three or four separate tools. Each one does part of the job. None of them talk to each other.
Scoring only. Windows desktop. No live results, no online entries, no tracking. Someone has to type in every finish position by hand after each race.
Live tracking only. No scoring, no entries, no results publication. Paid subscription on top of everything else. And it only covers one piece of the puzzle.
Error-prone, slow, no live anything. Someone misreads a sail number, and the results have to be corrected after the protest time limit. Every championship organiser has a horror story.
Good for entries and admin, but no on-the-water race management, no live tracking, and no integrated scoring. You still need Sailwave and eStela alongside it.
Entries, race management, scoring, live tracking, and results publication — in one free platform. One system for the organiser. One app for the competitor. No duct tape required.
Designed from the ground up to handle the demands of multi-fleet, multi-day championship racing.
IRC, PY, PHRF, and NHC fleets running simultaneously — each with its own scoring, discards, and standings.
Multiple iPads across committee boats, syncing finishes in real-time. Master/helper architecture — no single point of failure.
Continuous audio capture from countdown to scoring. When two boats cross the line together, you have a timestamped record to review.
Local-first architecture — works even when marina WiFi fails. Capture finishes offline, sync when connectivity returns.
Unlimited events, series, races, and competitors. We make our money from the sailors' app. Your event is our marketing channel — and we want it to be brilliant.
Everything you need to manage a national championship. Nothing you don't.