06/10/2026
Hi, everyone — some news from GYBEHUB HQ.
Before getting into the update, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this. GYBEHUB is still growing, and one of the simplest ways you can help is by sharing this post to your profile or club group.
First, I want to give a few well-deserved shoutouts.
This journey has been quite a ride so far, and I’m incredibly grateful to have built GYBEHUB to the point where clubs are not simply testing the platform in principle by scoring old races, but actively using it in practice for their current race programs.
That early confidence has already led to several great use cases, helpful feedback, and meaningful platform upgrades.
One club I especially want to recognize is North Star Sail Club, known for running a strong and well-organized race program. They have fully embraced GYBEHUB this year, and we have been in touch weekly about ways to keep improving the platform. While we have not seen any major failures, their feedback has helped us refine an experience that I have been told is already smooth for both sailors and race officials.
I do not say that to pat myself on the back. I say it because I want everyone to know that GYBEHUB is improving constantly, and the best improvements are coming directly from real clubs using it in real race environments.
Second, I want to give a very important thank-you to the Grosse Pointe Sail Club for trusting GYBEHUB as the first club to try this platform.
In full transparency, GYBEHUB was originally conceived as a solution for this club specifically. But as word got out about what we were building, we thought we might as well let others in on the fun. What started as a way to help one club has grown into something that can support many different types of race programs.
I also want to recognize the Brookville Lake Sailing Association, which is using GYBEHUB for a very different type of racing program than the ones I am most familiar with. Their use of the platform has helped drive innovation in areas that traditional race management tools often overlook.
For example, GYBEHUB now allows racers to indicate their intent to race for individual races within a series before the race occurs. For smaller racing programs, this can help build participation, give sailors a better sense of who plans to come out, and make it easier for race committees to prepare — especially when the weather looks less than ideal.
This may not be a feature used at the highest levels of competitive sailboat racing, but it fits a real need in an area where there is tremendous opportunity to grow our sport. We want GYBEHUB to be part of that growth.
Another shoutout goes to an early adopter, the Gulf Coast Sailing Club in Florida. They run a strong race program that utilizes pursuit-style starts, and their collaboration helped push forward a major platform update. GYBEHUB can now make it easy to score pursuit races and automatically generate the appropriate timing sheets for all boats.
Finally, I want to make everyone aware of another update released this week: GYBEHUB now supports scoring and aggregating multi-race race days that are part of a larger series.
Those in the Detroit area will be familiar with this format through the DRYA Counter Series, where some weekly regattas are a single point-to-point race, while others include multiple windward/leeward races in one day that are scored together as one overall finish for the day.
While GYBEHUB is not being used for this race series, this series was highly influential on the addition of this feature, and I'm happy to report that this functionality is now available on GYBEHUB
Thank you to the clubs, race committees, sailors, and volunteers who have trusted GYBEHUB early. Your feedback is helping shape the platform into something more flexible, more useful, and more responsive to the real needs of sailing clubs.
GYBEHUB is being built with sailing clubs, not just for them.
More updates coming soon.
