Create a regatta

This article covers how to create a Regatta event: a multi-day event with racing on each day. It builds on Create an event, which covers the parts common to every event. This guide focuses on what is different for a regatta.

Access. You need the Official or Admin permission on the club that will run the regatta.

Set up the regatta

Everything in this section happens on the Create Event form. It is a single page with labelled sections — Basic Details, Competition Setup, Registration & Access, Event Configuration, and Race Schedule — that you scroll through in order. There are no tabs on this form.

1. Go to your club's page and select Create Event.
2. In Basic Details, fill in Event Name and Event Organiser as you would for any event.
3. Still in Basic Details, set Event Type to Regatta.

4. In the Competition Setup section, set the Scoring Type.

5. Still in Competition Setup, open the class picker and choose the classes racing in the regatta.

6. In the Race Schedule section, set the Start Date and End Date to cover the days of the regatta, then set the First Gun Time and Races Per Day.

The Race Days Preview, at the bottom of the Race Schedule section, generates one race day for each day between the start and end dates. A three-day regatta produces three race days. Each one is tagged Auto, because Dockside generated it from the date range, and starts with the status Pending.

Leave Event Status alone for now. The Event Configuration section has an Event Status field, but it has no effect when you create an event — every new event is saved as a draft regardless of what you choose here. You publish the regatta as a separate step after it has been created (see Create and publish the regatta below).

Add a manual race date

To add a race day that does not fall inside the regular range, for example a separate practice day:

1. Select Add Manual Date. The Add Manual Race Date dialog opens.

2. Set the Date, the Number of Races, and the First Gun Time.
3. Select Add Date.

The new day appears in the preview tagged Manual, so you can tell it apart from the automatic days. If the manual date falls after the end date, Dockside extends the schedule to include it and fills in the days in between as Auto.

Once you have made manual changes, a Reset Manual Changes button appears. Select it to remove the manual dates and return to the default schedule.

If you start from an Open event

If you add a manual date while the event type is still Open, Dockside changes the type to Regatta for you and shows this note:

Event type changed to Regatta because additional race dates were added

This is because an Open event is a single day, so more than one date makes it a regatta. To go back to a single-day Open event, select Reset Manual Changes.

Create and publish the regatta

When the schedule looks right, select Create Event at the bottom of the form. Dockside saves the regatta as a draft and takes you to its event page. At this point the regatta exists, but it is not yet visible to sailors — you have moved from creating the event to viewing it.

On the event page you will see an amber Event is in Draft Status banner confirming the regatta is not public. To publish it, you switch to the edit screen:

1. Select Edit Event, near the top right of the event page.

2. Open the Basic tab. The edit screen is split into tabs — Basic, Competition, Registration, Schedule, Categories, and Sponsors — unlike the single-page create form you just used.
3. Set Status to Published. (On the edit screen this field is labelled Status, not Event Status.)

4. Select Save.

The regatta is now published and visible to sailors.