https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results How to find and read regatta results: scoring systems, discards, handicap corrections, provisional standings, and where official results are published. en Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:24:57 GMT https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#how-it-works https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-1 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:24:57 GMT 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. https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#how-it-works https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-2 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:24:57 GMT Longer series drop each boat's worst races. The published standings already include discards, so adding raw finishes by hand will not match. https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#how-it-works https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-3 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:24:57 GMT Elapsed time is multiplied or adjusted by the boat's rating. Two boats finishing an hour apart can be seconds apart corrected. https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#how-it-works https://digitalsailors.org/news/regatta-results#section-4 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:24:57 GMT Results are provisional until the protest time limit passes. Scoring inquiries and redress hearings routinely change the top of a leaderboard.