The main features of HAL's Race Results are:

• It is robust and simple to use. It can be used by race officers with minimal computer skills.
• It can cope with all classes in a season of club sailing, regattas and championships.
• It produces results for individual races or series, using the Low Points or Bonus Point schemes from the Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008, with discards as desired.
• It can be used for handicap races - using Portsmouth Yardstick, IRC, IRM, Small Cat, SBR, CYCA, ECHO and IHS - as well as non-handicap (level rating) events.
• It allows you to set up Tandem Series that derive their input from other series. Use them to re-compute results using another set of handicaps, for instance, or to pick out the gold fleet in a championship.
• It incorporates Portsmouth Yardstick data so that handicaps for PY classes default to the published value, but can be changed if desired.
• It will sort out the various classes taking part in an event. Boats can be entered in the order they cross the finishing line, leaving the computer to place each boat in its correct class.
• It can produce entry lists and round sheets for the race-management team, as well as lists of winners and other statistics for the sailing secretary.
• It protects access to boat lists, handicaps and race schedules with a password, so that the sailing secretary can control important data while other people are free to input new results and view old ones.
• It has in-built help pages and a comprehensive manual.
• It has been tested by the US Sailing Association and shown to be fully compliant with the Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008.
• It runs on most personal computers. Click here to see the technical requirements.