Your page, at your handle

Go to Profile → Settings and pick a handle. Your profile lives at mainsheet.in/@yourhandle and brings together:

• An activity chart for the year: regatta days, training sessions and the events you photographed.
• A career timeline of every regatta you've sailed, newest first, with your placing and the event's photos.
• Your clubs, worked out from where you've actually sailed rather than a form you fill in once and forget.

Claim the results that are already yours

Open your profile and, if we've found regatta results that look like yours — matched on your name, your sail number, or both — you'll see a Claim your results card. Only you can see it. Claim them and your placings appear on your timeline straight away.

If we got one wrong, choose This is not me on that result and it comes off.

Private until you say otherwise

Claiming a handle doesn't make anything public. Your profile stays private until you turn on Public profile in settings, and you can turn it off again at any time.

Sign in and claim your profile — it takes about a minute.

For sailors

• Live badge. Events racing today now carry a Live badge on the events page, so you can find the regatta that's on the water right now.
• Kudos. Give a 👏 to a sailor's result at an event. They'll get an email — one per burst, not one per clap.
• Story cards. Share a placing from your timeline as an Instagram story card, with the photographer credited.
• Follower emails. You'll get an email when someone follows your profile.

For clubs and organisers

• Event visibility. An event can be a draft, unlisted, members only or public — you choose who sees it, and when.
• Contributors. Invite photographers and helpers to an event by email. Their photos are credited to them on the event page and in the lightbox.

For photographers

• Watermarks with a default on your setup page and a per-event override.
• Free coupon codes to give photos away — to the sailors you shot, or a club's prize winners.
• Download every photo of a boat from its stack in one go, with graduated prices for bulk orders.
• Sales history listing every download you've sold.

Got an idea, or found something broken? Email hello@mainsheet.in — we read everything.

For sailors

Favourite the photos you want as you browse an event. Your favourites from each photographer become a basket: check out with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card, then download the full-resolution files. Bulk prices kick in as you add more photos.

For photographers

• Connect your own Stripe account. You're the seller: your name is on the buyer's receipt and the money goes straight to you.
• Set your prices once, then adjust them per event: one price for a club race, another for a championship.
• Coupon codes for discounts, or to give photos away free.

Photographers can set up in Profile → Photography. If you shoot regattas and want to sell on Mainsheet, email hello@mainsheet.in.

A console for your organisation

Club and association admins get a Manage console, linked from their page and the profile menu:

• Details: your logo, description, website and socials.
• Events: create events, edit them inline, and manage entrants, results and documents. New events stay hidden until you're ready to publish them.
• Members: add people by email and choose who else can admin.
• A dashboard showing participation in your events by fleet.

More than one organiser

Many regattas are run jointly, such as a class association hosted by a club. An event can now have several organisers, with one as the organising authority, and every organiser's logo appears on the event.

If you run a club or association and want access, email hello@mainsheet.in.

A stack for every boat

Events open on Boats: one stack per boat, with its best photo on top and its name across it. Tap a stack to see just that boat's photos. Anything nobody has identified yet sits in an "Everything else" stack at the end, so no photo is out of reach.

Prefer the old view? Switch to All photos, now laid out uncropped so every shot shows as the photographer framed it.

Better viewing

• A full-screen viewer that steps through the boat you're looking at, not the whole event.
• On a phone, double-tap a photo to favourite it.
• Photos can be tagged by boat name as well as sail number, so boats are found even when the sail number is hidden.

Two sources to start

• Sailwave, the scoring program most clubs use, from its published results pages.
• sailingresults.net, including its older page formats, so we can bring in championships going back to 2015.

Checked, not just copied

We don't simply copy the published table. Mainsheet re-scores every series itself, applying discards, tie-breaks and penalty codes, then compares every total and placing against the published page. If anything disagrees, a person reviews it before it's published.

This is the foundation for something sailors have asked for since the start: a record of every regatta you've sailed, in one place.

Class associations — from a state association up to a national and international body — now have their own page on Mainsheet, with their logo, a banner of photos from their events, and the regattas they sanction.

An event only appears under an association once the association approves it, so the list is always theirs to control.

Every club, class and sailor at one simple address

Clubs, associations and, soon, sailors all share one set of short names, so mainsheet.in/your-club is your club's page, and nobody else can take it.

Put it on your own website

Clubs and associations can now embed Mainsheet on their own website with one snippet:

• Events: an association's regattas, latest first, linking to each event's photos.
• Marketplace listings: a club's own listings, a class's listings, or a class at particular clubs.

The embeds stay up to date on their own, so nobody has to edit the website after every regatta. Get the code from the events embed builder.

Each issue can include images and a block of marketplace listings for the class, and before it goes out we preview exactly who will receive it.

Sailors subscribe to the newsletters they want, and every issue has a one-click unsubscribe. We track deliveries, opens and clicks, so we can tell the association how each issue did.

If your association would like a newsletter, email hello@mainsheet.in.

Sign-on at the desk

Put an iPad on the registration desk with the event's sign-on page open. Sailors type their email and sail number, the iPad plays a start horn, and they're subscribed to their boat's photos from the regatta.

They get an email that signs them in on their own phone. The iPad never stays signed in to anyone's account, so the next sailor can step straight up.

Dolly tags that scan

Once the boats launch, the dinghy park fills with dollies, and someone has to make sure the right one is waiting when each boat comes ashore.

Organisers can now paste in the entry list and print a tag for every dolly on a Dymo label printer: class, fleet, sail number, sailor name and a QR code. In the park, scan a tag with a phone camera to mark that dolly launched or returned, with a different sound for each so you can work without looking at the screen.

Listings that belong to a club

Every listing is posted through a club, so buyers can see where the boat is and who's selling it. Browse by club, class, price and condition, as a list or a grid, and save the listings you're watching.

Talk to the seller without swapping numbers

Message a seller in Mainsheet and they get an email; their phone number and email only show if they choose to share them.

Built for the noticeboard too

• Print a listing on one A4 page with a QR code, for the club noticeboard.
• Share to WhatsApp in one tap, for the class group chat.
• Listings also appear on the club's page and the club's event galleries, in front of the sailors most likely to want them.

Browse the Marketplace, or list something you're ready to part with.

Sail numbers, read for you

When photos are uploaded to an event, Mainsheet reads the sail numbers in them using AI. A person then checks every match before it's published, so the photo tagged with your number really is your boat.

On the event page, filter by sail number and you see only your boat.

An email when your photos are ready

Subscribe to your sail number and, once an event's photos are published, we'll email you a few of the best shots of your boat, with a link straight to the rest.

A slideshow for the clubhouse

Clubs can also put an event's photos up on the clubhouse screen: a full-screen slideshow that cycles through the day's photos while everyone's packing up.

From your profile you can add your boats and gear — hulls, sails, spars and foils — picked from a catalogue of manufacturers and products, with the serial number on each piece.

We started with the Optimist, where a single family can own several hulls and a stack of sails, and the catalogue will keep growing class by class.

This is also groundwork. Knowing what you sail is what lets Mainsheet link your photos and results to the right boat later on.

A page for every club

Events now belong to a club, and each club has its own page listing its regattas. Every event page links back to the club that ran it, so you can go from one regatta's photos to the rest of the club's season in a tap.

Faster galleries

Event galleries used to download full-size photographs. They now ask for resized images, sharp enough for a retina screen but a fraction of the size, and only load each one as it scrolls into view. Big regattas open noticeably faster, especially on mobile data at the club.

The sail numbers you follow

Add your sail number, or your kids', or the boat you crew on, and Mainsheet knows which boats are yours. It's the first step to finding your photos without scrolling through a whole regatta.

Your photos, kept

Tap the heart on any photo and it's saved to your favourites, ready to view and download again, long after the regatta's over.

Make it yours

Pick an avatar, or none at all. It shows next to your name across Mainsheet.

Where it's going

This is the seed of something bigger: a single place for a sailor's whole record — every regatta, every placing, every season. Profiles have grown a long way since; claiming your profile is the latest step.

Mainsheet started on 10 March 2025 with a single page per event: the regatta's photos in one place, filterable, and behind a quick sign-in so the people in them could find and keep them.

Why we're building it

Our mission is to engage and grow the sailing community. We want more sailors on the water tomorrow than there were today.

Photos were the obvious place to start. They're what sailors share, what parents look for on a Sunday night, and what makes someone who missed the regatta want to be at the next one.

What came next

The first version was deliberately small. Everything in these updates, from sailor profiles and results to the marketplace and club tools, grew out of watching how sailors, clubs and photographers used that first page.

You can read more about who we are on the About page.