FAQs

Typically 80–90% on handwritten sail numbers with a good photo. Two AI passes vote on each card; agreement = high confidence, disagreement is flagged LOW in yellow so the recorder pays attention. Always review the entries before tapping Transmit — the app treats each read as a first draft, not a final answer.

Yes. On the On Water tab, tap any race in Submitted Races to reopen it. Edit any row, then tap Update — a new version is saved with the previous one in history (tap the EDITED badge to see the trail). A full delete button is inside the edit screen.

On the review screen, tap the position number on that row to open the code picker: DNF (did not finish), DNS (did not start), OCS (on course side at start), RAF (retired after finishing), RET, DSQ, or DNC. The remaining positions auto-renumber.

Single-day is for a regular regatta — one or two days of races scored by sail number. Series mode is for ongoing weekly racing (Thursday Night, etc.): roster is keyed by skipper name so the same person can show up in a different boat each week, scores accumulate across the season, and drops are applied per night rather than across the whole series. Both are free.

Series organizers pick one of two scoring models in Settings → Series scoring:

• Cumulative low-point (default) — sum of placings across races, lower wins. RRS Appendix A standard.
• Average placing — mean placing across the races each skipper sailed. Friendlier to skippers with attendance gaps.

You can also set a qualification % — the minimum share of series races a skipper must contest to be ranked. Skippers below the threshold appear in a separate Provisional section on the Scoring tab. All series settings are editable any time.

That's governed by the missing-from-a-race policy in series settings:

• Lenient (default) — if a skipper is on the night's check-in but doesn't appear in a race's results, that race is excluded from their score. Late joins, early departures, and partial-night attendance don't hurt.
• Strict — same case is scored as DNF (worst-place penalty).

Either way, an explicit DNF marked by the RC always counts. DNF means the skipper started the race but didn't finish — RC marks it on the review screen.

Drops follow RRS Appendix A defaults — 0 drops at 0-3 races, 1 drop at 4-6 races, 2 drops at 7+. You can override the count from Settings (gear icon). In series mode the drop count applies per race night, not across the whole season: two nights of 7 races each → drop 2 from each night, 4 total.

They simply don't appear in that night's standings — no DNC penalty for a night they weren't signed up for. The penalty for races within a night they were checked in for depends on the missing-from-a-race policy (lenient by default — no penalty; flip to strict for DNF). An explicit RC-marked DNF always counts regardless.

Just share the regatta URL — same /e/<code> for everyone. There's no separate "shore login." Anyone with the link can view live, scores update in real time. The race committee on the boat and shore staff are looking at the same page.

Tap the field on the review row and type the correct number. Low-confidence reads are highlighted in yellow specifically so they're easy to spot. The picture you uploaded is shown right above the entries so you can compare side-by-side.

Settings (gear icon) → Merge skippers. Pick the duplicate and the canonical name, and every roster entry + historical race finisher gets re-keyed under one name.

Three implicit roles, no permissions UI to manage:

• Owner — the person who created the regatta. Can do everything: edit settings, manage the roster, transmit races, delete the regatta. There’s exactly one owner (the signed-in user at create time).
• Scorer — invited by the owner via Settings → Scorers. Can record races, edit the roster, transmit results — but can’t change scoring rules or delete the regatta. Scorer accounts are free; the owner pays (only if they need unlimited regattas).
• Viewer — anyone with the regatta URL. Read-only. No sign-in required.

This matches the way clubs actually work: one person sets up the regatta and invites the RC volunteers who’ll be on the boat. The volunteers don’t need their own paid accounts.

Useful when more than one RC member is recording the same race independently. Each recorder enters or photographs their card; submissions stack up locally. The app compares them — full agreement transmits straight to shore; disagreements open a reconcile view where you pick the correct value per position. Disputed positions can be deferred for video review.

iPhone photos taken in HEIC are auto-converted to JPEG by the app before they hit the AI reader, so picking a photo on iOS Safari works out of the box. The only case where you’ll still see a HEIC error is uploading a HEIC file from a desktop browser that can’t decode it (Chrome / Firefox on Mac or Windows). Fix for that: open the HEIC in Preview / Photos and export as JPEG, or take a screenshot. The in-app error tells you which case you’re in.

Per-race Copy buttons on the Scoring tab put a single race's results on the clipboard, ready to paste into whatever scoring tool your club uses. The Export all to CSV button at the top of the Scoring tab dumps the whole regatta as structured CSV. Both are free.

For real-time sync to shore, yes — but if you lose signal, the app keeps working locally and syncs once you reconnect. There's also an SMS Backup button that copies results to your clipboard and opens the Messages app, so you can text them to shore over voice/SMS coverage when data's spotty.

Series end date is editable in Settings — just set it to a past date when the season ends; the directory status badge flips to Concluded automatically. To delete a regatta entirely (including every race and check-in), Settings → Delete this regatta at the bottom; you'll be asked to type the regatta code back as a safeguard.