Sportity vs Fleet Start

Sportity is a Sport Event Information Distribution App for all kinds of sport events. The app helps organisers to distribute event related information to all the participants quickly and efficiently. Participants can be divided into different categories so that they receive information only relevant to them. For example, Media will have its own category for their specific needs (media shuttle schedule, press center opening times etc). The organising committee will have its own information available through the app and teams all the information relevant for them. In addition to specific information, all users can have results, starting times etc available through the app. Participants need to download the app and enter a password which will take them directly to the information according to their profile. The password will be made available from the organiser. The organiser needs to contact Sportity Ltd for the use of the app.

Fleet Start turns every phone on the water into the same race clock. The race officer creates a race and shares a six-character code. Everyone who joins sees the identical countdown, hears the same horn signals, and sees the correct signal flags — because the app syncs the schedule to a shared clock rather than streaming ticks. Phones stay in agreement even on patchy marina connections. FOR RACE OFFICERS • Run the World Sailing Rule 26 five-minute sequence, or a three-minute dinghy sequence • Choose the preparatory flag — P, I, U, Z or the black flag • Postpone with AP, signal an individual recall (X) or a general recall (First Substitute) — with the correct flags and sound signals • Count down to the gun: start in 5 or 10 minutes, or at an exact time • Pick the class flag for your fleet — numeral pennants, one-design classes, a flag you type, or your class insignia uploaded from your phone • Run an evening of starts under one code, and record each finishing order • Share the race with one tap FOR SAILORS • Join from the list of active races, or with a race code • Big, legible countdown that turns red in the final minute • Horn signals and a spoken countdown, in your choice of five cadences — from minutes only to a call every few seconds, or a 5-4-3-2-1 count into every minute so you can sync a watch • Spoken announcements when the officer postpones or recalls • Keeps working with the phone locked or in your pocket APPLE WATCH Follow the countdown on your wrist: the phase, the time to the gun and the next signal, with a tap at every signal and a tick through the last five seconds. It keeps counting if your phone drops out of range. TRACKS AND THE REPLAY When the race officer allows it, and only if you choose to, record your own GPS track through a race. It records only while the app is open, never in the background, and nothing is uploaded until the race is finished. Afterwards, compare the fleet's tracks over each other and scrub back to the gun, with speed, VMG and heading for every boat. Published tracks can be seen by anyone using the app. THE START LINE When the race officer allows it, ping the ends of the start line from the boat and see your distance to it, the bearing to each end, and which end is favoured. Whoever lays the windward mark can ping that too. Pings are shared with the race, so the replay draws the line the fleet actually started on. This tool is off by default and only the race officer can switch it on for a race. Many one-design classes prohibit electronic distance-to-line aids, and that call belongs to the officer, not to each competitor. RESULTS Standings for each regatta by the Low Point System, with the discard the officer sets, and a season table across a series. Past races stay searchable by name, class, code or club for 30 days. LEARN THE FLAGS A built-in reference explains every signal flag — AP, X, First Substitute, the preparatory flags (P, I, U, Z, black flag) and the numeral pennants — with what each one means on the water. PRACTICE ALONE Practice mode runs a full start sequence on your own phone, with no network and no race officer. Ideal for training your starts. No account needed. No ads, no analytics, and nothing used to track you across apps.