Mylne Racing
Run the race.
Sail the race.
See what happened.
Mylne Racing brings entries, race management, GPS tracking, handicaps, results and replay into one system for club racing.
The system
While the race is on
Mylne Racing is five things: Mylne Sail on the boat, Race OOD on the committee boat, Race TV in the clubhouse, Club Admin for the season, and My Boats for an owner. One set of boats, entries, courses and results underneath all five.
On the boat
It opens with one question, because a boat going racing and a boat going for a sail want different screens. Racing gives her the countdown, the next mark and the bearing to it, and keeps her track as she goes.
The chart underneath is the same either way, with the seamarks on it, and it will go full screen when the deck wants something bigger to look at.
It asks before it assumes.
Whimbrel racing — next mark E, 0.58 miles, 138°M.
The chart full screen, seamarks and all.
On the committee boat
The officer of the day gets the start sequence with its cue checklist, the signals, the finishes and the scoring, on one screen. Each boat’s handicap is taken down when the setup is saved, so a result is scored on the number that was in force that evening.
Boats that are tracking start themselves at the published time. The ood is left to watch the line.
The pilot
Built in real club racing
Mylne Racing is being developed with Forth Cruising Club and has run the club’s racing since May: sixteen races sailed so far, six still to come before the season closes at the end of September.
What a club officer opens is not a list of races. It is the state of the season — what has been finalised, who is still to sail, whether the next race is ready, and what the results say about the handicaps.
- 16
- races sailed, of 24 on the programme
- 12
- boats raced
- 7
- different boats have won a race
- 8
- boats have recorded a GPS track
What the fleet knows
The tracks can tell us more than where the boats went
A racing mark is a coordinate on a club’s list and a buoy on a mooring, and the two drift apart. Mylne Racing works out where a mark actually is from the way the fleet sailed round it — the side each boat passed, and where she turned.
At Forth Cruising Club it found one mark sixty-nine metres from its recorded position, on the evidence of nine roundings by five different boats. One boat proves nothing; a fleet is another matter.
Handicaps
A handicap can be a history, not just a number
A rolling handicap moves with how a boat sails. Mylne Racing records every value she has raced under, and keeps the one used for each result — so a race scored last May still reads as it did then.
The change is proposed, not applied. The officer of the day scores the race, looks at what the rolling system suggests for each boat, and finalises — or does not.
Louise, 2026
- 1237
- 1237
- 1232
- 1231
- 1231
- 1230
- 1235
- 1237
- 1233
- 1232
- 1233
- 1233
Her number came down as she won, went back up when she did not, and settled at 1233. Eleven results, every one of them scored on the value in force that day. Her owner can follow each step in My Boats.
Already using Mylne
Your club is the quickest way in
Every race a club has sailed is on its board, live on the night and replayed afterwards. No account is needed to watch.
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Could this work for your racing?
Mylne Racing has so far been developed and tested with one yacht club. We are now interested in working with a small number of other clubs whose racing will expose different courses, fleets and ways of working.