Saildex Regattas
How Saildex Regattas compares
A factual comparison with the systems clubs most often use, compiled on 15 October 2026. Choose the one that fits how your club runs its racing.
Side by side
| Feature | Saildex Regattas | YachtScoring | Clubspot | Sailwave |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Browser | Browser | Browser and native apps | Desktop program |
| Online registration | Yes, free to enter | Yes | Yes | Not established |
| Class limits and waiting lists | Waiting list | Yes | Yes | Not established |
| Online waivers | Not yet | Owner waiver and crew waiver by email link | E-signature | Not established |
| US Sailing membership check | No | Yes | Not established | Not established |
| Notice of race and SIs | Generated from the event setup, versioned, with numbered amendments | PDF upload; amendments as uploads or posts | Not established | Not established |
| Official online notice board | Yes, timestamped | Yes | Not established | Not established |
| Handicap systems | PHRF (incl. triple number and pursuit), ORC (incl. performance curve and constructed course), ORR, ORR-EZ, IRC, HPR, CSA, Portsmouth and D-PN, NHC, SCHRS, Texel, MOCRA, your own formula | PHRF (incl. triple number and pursuit), ORC (incl. performance line), ORR, ORR-EZ, IRC, HPR, CSA, Portsmouth and others | Pursuit | RYA PY and NHC, US Portsmouth, PHRF, IRC, CHS, ECHO, SCHRS, user formulas |
| Scoring systems | Appendix A low point, high point, bonus point; Appendices B, C, D, E and F | Appendix A low point | Not established | Round robin, windsurfing tie-breaks |
| Qualifying and final series | Yes | Not established | Yes | Yes |
| Medal races | Yes | Not established | Not established | Yes |
| Provisional and final results | Yes | Preliminary and Final | Draft preview | Not established |
| Online protests and hearings | Protest, redress, reopening and scoring inquiry; decisions go to scoring | Protest, redress, reopening and scoring inquiry | Hearing decision documents | Not established |
| Safety tally ashore | Yes | No | Yes, with Regatta Toolbox | Not established |
| Administrator roles | Club roles and seven event roles | Full, all but financials, scoring, blogging, class administrator | Full, basic, scoring | Not established |
| Data out | CSV and a free JSON feed of entries and results | CSV and YRALIS exports | Not established | World Sailing XML results |
| Fees and payments | None | Entry fees supported | Not established | Not established |
A dash means our research did not establish the answer either way, not that the product lacks it. Sources: each vendor's public product pages and help centre, the US Sailing comparison of scoring programs, and, for YachtScoring, the screens and labels in its web application. Products change; check with the vendor before you decide. Regatta Network is described below rather than in the table, because too few of its features could be confirmed from public pages.
Where each one is strongest
YachtScoring
The deepest handicap coverage for US keelboat racing, race-specific time-on-time tables, tracker ids per boat, monitor displays, and SMS to competitors.
Regatta Network
Registration that remembers a competitor's last entry, membership checks, and modules for clubs that manage memberships alongside racing.
Clubspot
Native apps, e-signature waivers, qualifying and final rounds for one-design fleets, and check-out and check-in ashore with Regatta Toolbox.
Sailwave
The broadest scoring engine of any of them, offline on a laptop, including British handicap systems, user-defined ratings and timing-device import.
What Saildex Regattas adds
It is free for organizers and competitors, with no payments of any kind. It writes the notice of race and sailing instructions from the event setup. It scores under Appendix A and the discipline appendices B to F, including medal races and qualifying and final series, alongside the handicap systems US fleets use. Protest decisions go straight to the scorer as scoring cases.
And every event becomes part of Saildex: its final results join the archive and its sailors' records, next to the results archived from the other systems on this page.