Regatta RC didn't start in a boardroom or a venture-capital pitch deck. It started on the race course at the Detroit Regional Yachting Association, where our development team sails or runs Race Committees (R.C.) on weeknights and most weekends from May through October. We got tired of waiting hours for results, wrestling with spreadsheets that broke when someone changed a column, and explaining to new volunteers how scoring actually works.

So we built the tool we wished we had. DRYA formed a sub-committee to study the problem of selecting a new scoring system at the end of 2024. The costs and features of existing scoring systems were compared and the sub-committee recommended that something new be developed. The DRYA Board of Directors approved the recommendation that MicroCODE, Inc. develop a new scoring system. Regatta RC was born.

Every feature in Regatta RC comes from a real problem encountered on real water. The duplicate-boat resolver exists because two sailors registered the same Hull ID with different sail numbers. The multi-certificate viewer exists because one boat raced PHRF on Wednesday and ORC on Saturday. The live leaderboard exists because spectators on shore kept asking "who's winning?" and nobody could answer until hours later.

Our roadmap isn't driven by market research — it's driven by what we need next season. We race the product, find the gaps, and ship fixes before the next start. DRYA is our home fleet, but the problems we solve are universal. Every yacht club, every sailing association, every offshore event struggles with the same scoring pain. We started local, and now we're taking what we've learned to clubs and fleets around the world.