Built for the way UK and Irish clubs actually run
The UK and Irish sailing season runs roughly April to October, organised around a Wednesday evening series and Saturday racing as the weekly rhythm, with winter laid up for most clubs and a handful of frostbite open meetings in between. Membership runs January to December for most clubs, the AGM falls in the dark months, and the duty roster is the single most contested document of the year. Generic US-built club software does not model any of this — it assumes a year-round indoor sport, a flat monthly subscription, and a duty model built around bar shifts rather than safety boats.
Yacht Clubs Manager is built in Northern Ireland for clubs across the four home nations and the Republic of Ireland. East Down Yacht Club on Strangford Lough is the founding customer, and the platform's data model — fleet structure, race series, duty roles, member categories — reflects how a real UK sailing club actually operates rather than a generic membership database. The overall shape of the product is covered on the sailing club software and yacht club software cornerstone pages.
GBP and EUR pricing, UK payment rails
Invoicing and payments runs on Stripe Connect. GBP card payments (Visa, Mastercard, Amex), Klarna, and Stripe Link are all live, with Euro payments handled the same way for clubs in the Republic of Ireland. Funds settle directly into the club's own connected Stripe account — there is no platform skim on top, no PayPal-only workaround, and no manual conversion from a US-dollar SaaS subscription that leaves the treasurer reconciling exchange-rate variance every quarter.
GDPR-ready member records
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 are designed into member management from the start, not bolted on afterwards. Members can request a data export, the right to be forgotten is supported, and role-based admin controls determine which committee members can see which fields on a member record — so the membership secretary sees emergency contacts but the bar manager does not. Audit logs record who edited what, which matters for clubs with a sizeable membership where multiple committee volunteers touch the same records.
Integrates with Sailwave and HalSail
Sailwave and HalSail are the two scoring systems UK clubs actually use, and both are integrated. Sailwave file uploads publish live to the public site through the race results page, with series standings, fleet filters, and corrected-time tables. HalSail integration shows series and event selectors with overall standings and per-race breakdowns rendered on the club's brand. Dedicated walkthroughs live on the Sailwave page and the HalSail page.
Onboarding, support, and pricing
UK-based onboarding, custom website creation as the Phase 1 setup, then a monthly subscription once the site is live. Pricing is scoped per club — see the pricing page for the structure.