Regatta results & reports — Digital Sailors How to find and read regatta results: scoring systems, discards, handicap corrections, provisional standings, and where official results are published. https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results 2026-08-23T15:24:57.301Z Digital Sailors Low point scoring is the default https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-1 2026-08-23T15:24:57.301Z A boat scores its finishing position as points, and the lowest total wins. Penalty codes score worse than the number of entries, which is why one bad code can be decisive. Discards reshape the series https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-2 2026-08-23T15:24:57.301Z Longer series drop each boat's worst races. The published standings already include discards, so adding raw finishes by hand will not match. Corrected time decides handicap racing https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-3 2026-08-23T15:24:57.301Z Elapsed time is multiplied or adjusted by the boat's rating. Two boats finishing an hour apart can be seconds apart corrected. Provisional means provisional https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-4 2026-08-23T15:24:57.301Z Results are provisional until the protest time limit passes. Scoring inquiries and redress hearings routinely change the top of a leaderboard.