Seven Good Reasons For Using SailEvent - Part 4 of 4

We've already looked at knowledge, consistency, adaptability, communications, automation and integration. Now the grand finale...

No 7 It’s expected!

SailEvent is end-to-end phone friendly because today’s sailors expect to access the world on their mobile. And that’s good for event organisers too because, via SailEvent, they have a direct line to virtually all participants.

The policy is phone-first because that’s where over half of all web requests originate. Yet SailEvent is equally at home on tablets, laptops and desktops. 

With SailEvent you can do everything from putting your name down for club racing to running a world championship, all on that ubiquitous little device.

And a bonus reason - it’s free!

SailEvent’s Basic subscription tier is completely free yet provides all the functionality needed by many clubs and classes. It is limited only by capacity. 

That means it’s easy to get started with Basic SailEvent then upgrade as your usage grows.

 

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Seven Good Reasons For Using SailEvent - Part 3

Knowledge, consistency, adaptable, communications and now...

No 5 Automation

Tell SailEvent to do the boring stuff and it keeps on doing it. That leaves your volunteers free to concentrate on more important matters.

SailEvent accepts entries, sends confirmations, reminds competitors that there’s sailing today, puts up, takes down and collates signing sheets, and even pins the course to the notice board.

No 6 Integration

SailEvent works with a portfolio of services and applications to bring you the best possible software experience.

Jotform for building custom entry forms,

Stripe for collecting entry fees.

Sailwave and HalSail for results publication,

Yachts & Yachting for publicity 

and more...

Next up, the grand finale...

Seven Good Reasons For Using SailEvent - Part 2

Last time we looked at how SailEvent provides insights and supports the implementation of consistent event management.

Here are two more good reasons for choosing SailEvent.

No 3 Adaptable

No two sailing events are the same! 

Sailors are an ingenious bunch and devise many variations on the standard theme. All sailing events (probably) all have an entry list, races, winners and losers but the devil is in the detail. That’s why SailEvent can be configured for all known eventualities, and most likely some as yet unknown too. So, for everything from what goes on the ONB to how many meal tickets, SailEvent has it covered.

No 4 Communication 

Configurable virtual ONBs, Notices to Competitors, reminders that sailing is on today, entry confirmation... 

Email, text and push notifications mean it’s never been easier to keep in touch with competitors. SailEvent leverages today’s technology to keep competitors informed promptly and efficiently.

Good Reasons 5 and 6 coming soon...

Seven Good Reasons For Using SailEvent - Part 1

In the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, where a lot of sailing goes on, plans for the 2025 season are turning into reality. Here are seven good reasons why your club or class association should choose SailEvent to help your sailing programme run smoothly.

No. 1 Knowledge

Know who has entered, who is sailing today, who has finished sailing. No more spreadsheet hell and undecipherable paperwork. 

It’s all down to SailEvent’s single, central entry list held securely in the cloud. Multiple views and multiple access levels control its availability yet it’s the one and only place that holds all data for all competitors – up to date, secure, backed-up and available 24/7. 

No. 2 Consistent

SailEvent provides a repeatable, reliable yet flexible way to managing all events.

Implement your club or class methodology so that it is consistently applied from club racing to championships. Volunteers may come and go but ground rules defined in SailEvent remain the same. Established your way of working, SailEvent applies it to every event.

Two more good reasons coming soon...

SailEvent and the Yachts & Yachting Calendar

90% of UK clubs and classes plus many worldwide list their events in the searchable Yachts & Yachting online calendar. That makes the calendar a great place for sailors to find racing and for organisers to promote their open meetings and championships.

The SailEvent Y&Y submitter is a quick and accurate way to submit calendar entries straight from SailEvent. It takes information that SailEvent already knows and, with just a couple of clicks, sends your event details to YachtsAndYachting.com for immediate and automatic listing. 

With planning for the northern hemisphere 2025 season well underway, now is the time to start your publicity campaign with a Y&Y calendar entry. The submitter is available at all SailEvent subscription levels and you can read all about it here (pdf 116Kb).

Speaking of Sailwave...

...as we were in our previous post about syncing with SailEvent, Sailing Club Software has contributed a publishing effect to Sailwave’s effects library.

It’s called the Pager and shows results, fleet by fleet, in a continuous cycle, ideal for display on a screen in the clubhouse. When applied to a Sailwave series file, the Pager shows the first fleet in the series then moves on to the next. When it gets to the end it starts again from the top.

Each fleet is shown for a default 25 seconds but you can adjust that. The default number of visible rows per fleet is about 20 so the Pager is best suited to multiple small fleet series, such as club racing. For championships and open meetings with fewer, bigger fleets there’s the Scroller effect.

The Pager effect isn’t directly part of SailEvent but it does present a neat finale to SailEvent’s flow from entry form to results. It’s included in all recent versions of Sailwave and we hope you find it useful.

Import App for Sailwave

Here at Sailing Club Software we like to work in harmony with others who also offer systems and services to the leisure boating community. This, we firmly believe, is the optimum way to bring value to clubs and classes.

That’s why SailEvent comes with integrations to multiple apps. Today we focus on the ones for results services – HalSail and Sailwave.

HalSail, like SailEvent, is cloud based and so integration is straightforward using established technologies. Working together, SailEvent and HalSail offer seamless connectivity for exchanging entry lists and finish status.  That means accurate results published in record time.

Sailwave is trickier because it is strictly desktop. Nevertheless with cooperation and ingenuity we can now introduce the SailEvent Import App for Sailwave.

The Import App is a Windows application that lets you synchronise SailEvent entry lists to their corresponding Sailwave series files. No more downloading and uploading CSVs.

Suppose you are running a Solo meeting and you have 50 entries in SailEvent. Open the corresponding, but as yet empty, Sailwave series file. Run the Import App to connect the series to the Solo meeting in SailEvent. All 50 entries are copied straight into Sailwave.

Then you have some last-minute entries, a couple of cancellations, you correct a few typos. Run Import again and Sailwave is back in sync.

The Import App is available with SailEvent paid-for plans. The installation package and instructions can be downloaded from >Settings >Integrations.

Many thanks to Jon Eskdale from Sailwave for his advice and input.