Results from the recent Annapolis Race Week

Results from the recent Annapolis Race Week



RegattaBase, a MySQL database designed to collect and distribute regatta results, was officially launched on Wednesday of this week. Conceived and developed by Rob Emmet, who founded pyacht.com in 1997, the database provides a web-based interface through which registered users are able to submit regatta results, and a text based report of the event along with an image. Once the information about the regatta is in the database, a web page is automatically generated. The results and reports are then available on the Internet from a link on the regatta organizers website, from a link that can be sent via email and they are searchable from the RegattaBase website.

"This is a very powerful tool designed to be used by individuals with no experience publishing content on the Internet." Emmet states. "At the same time, it is flexible and scaleable enough to be used by experienced Webmasters interested in streamlining result distribution and archiving their results in a database that is based on the latest technology."

For computer savvy race organizers, the user interface allows them to upload output from JavaScore, a regatta-scoring program written by Sandy Grosvenor of Annapolis. "Once a Race Committee is done with their scoring duties, they can connect to RegattaBase from any Internet connection, browse to the JavaScore file on their computer, select it for upload and they're done. Their results are available on the web in a matter of minutes. This will greatly simplify the life of Webmasters, who are becoming frustrated with demands placed on them to get results published quickly.", says Emmet.

Anyone interested in getting regatta results on the web can sign up to use RegattaBase. "This is a very user friendly service." notes Emmet. "The flexibility of our database design allows us to cater to everyone from a competitor in a Tuesday night Laser series who volunteers to keep score for his buddies, to International Class Associations in need of a complete scoring solution."

For more information about RegattaBase and JavaScore, visit the Company's website at www.regattabase.org , or contact Rob Emmet at [email protected].