Where Mainsheet started
Mainsheet began as one simple idea — every photo from a regatta, on one page, findable by the sailors in them.
Every regatta produces hundreds of photographs. Most of them end up in a shared drive, a Facebook album or a photographer's hard disk, and the sailors in them never see them.
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.