How Extracted Results create extra motivation for UK dinghy racers - Sailjuice Winter Series
by Andy Rice 4 Sep 02:41 BST
Extracted Results are now available for the Sailjuice Winter Series © SailRacer
Compare your scores in 'Extracted Results' in the Sailjuice Winter Series
The Sailjuice Winter Series enters Season 18 with a new title sponsor - Navigators & General - and a new website offers lots of opportunities to compare and contrast your performance with other dinghy racers in the UK.
One of the reasons why Park Run has been so phenomenally successful is the different ways of looking at your run times. Not just your actual run time, but how you compare in terms of age and gender, for example.
The Sailjuice Winter Series has been doing something similar for a number of years. An enormous database of almost 20 years of results gives you the ability to create a set of bespoke results based on your chosen criteria and see how you compare with similar boats and sailors.
It's like competing in your own tailored fleet, against only the boats that match your selected class, age, type or other criteria. Follow your results across each event and see how your performance develops throughout the season.
View Extracted Results by Season: Select a season
One of the great strengths of the Sailjuice Winter Series is its diversity. Sailors of different ages, backgrounds and experience levels compete alongside an enormous range of dinghy classes, from modern high-performance designs to boats that have been racing for decades.
The Stories within the Story
The Extracted Results take the main Sailjuice results and automatically create additional rankings, allowing competitors to see how they performed against sailors or boats with similar characteristics.
The objective is simple: to create more meaningful races within the race, without changing the official overall results.
How Extracted Results work
All rankings are extracted from the same underlying Sailjuice results.
Rather than recalculating a race with a different handicap, competitors who do not meet the selected criteria are simply removed from the results. The remaining competitors can then see their position relative to others within that group.
In effect, you are still racing exactly the same event, on the same course and using the same corrected results, but viewing the outcome through a particular category.
This makes it possible to follow your progress not only in the overall Series, but against sailors of a similar age, boat type or other category.
See Extracted Results at sailracer.info/extracted-results-index
Sailor Categories
The Series currently provides extracted rankings for:
- Top Lady
- Junior
- Youth
- 19-30
- 31-60
- Masters
These provide another way of recognising achievement across the very broad demographic competing in Sailjuice events.
Boat-Type Rankings
Boats can also be grouped according to their general configuration:
- Fast Symmetric (FAST S)
- Fast Asymmetric (FAST A)
- Slow Symmetric (SLOW S)
- Slow Asymmetric (SLOW A)
These extracts make for some particularly interesting comparisons. Instead of only seeing how your boat performs against the entire handicap fleet, you can compare your results with boats of broadly similar style and performance.
Old Boats
The Old Boats ranking celebrates sailors competing in older designs and boats.
Sailjuice events regularly bring together some of the newest dinghy designs with boats that have been competing for many decades. The extracted ranking provides a way of recognising the performance of these older boats within the modern handicap fleet.
Forces Challenge
The Forces Challenge provides an extracted ranking for eligible competitors associated with the Armed Forces, creating another competition running across the Series alongside the main results.
More Than 100 Individual Class Rankings
Perhaps the most powerful part of the system is the ability to extract results for 100+ individual dinghy classes represented across the Series.
Select your class and the results are filtered so that you can see how you performed against sailors racing the same type of boat.
This effectively creates a class series within Sailjuice.
A class may have boats competing at different events throughout the winter, and the extracted results bring those performances together. Sailors can therefore follow their position against fellow class members across the season, even where individual events do not have a separate class start.
For class associations, it also provides another way of tracking participation and performance across some of the UK's biggest winter handicap events.
One Result Set - Hundreds of Ways to Explore It
The important principle behind Extracted Results is that they don't replace or alter the official Sailjuice results.
There is still one set of race results. The extraction system simply provides different ways of looking at those results.
Whether you want to know where you rank amongst the youth sailors, the Masters, asymmetric boats, older boats, or simply the other sailors in your own class, the aim is to make the huge depth of competition within Sailjuice easier to discover.
Keeping up the noise during the quiet months
While the one-design dinghy racing scene traditionally winds down over the winter, the SailJuice series keeps the UK's most passionate, active, and dedicated dinghy sailors on the water from November through to February.
For marine manufacturers, chandleries, and service providers, this winter window represents a concentrated, high-value marketing opportunity that is difficult to match during the busy summer months.
John Tuckwell, Business Development Manager at Navigators & General, offered his reasons why he and his team decided to back the Series: "We're delighted to be title sponsor of the Navigators & General SailJuice Winter Series for the 26/27 season. This series brings together sailors from across the UK and from an incredible variety of classes, making it a perfect fit for Navigators & General as a specialist insurer supporting almost every type of dinghy class on the water."
Want to know more?
To find out more about participation and sponsorship opportunities, get in touch with Simon Lovesey,
and watch the launch video for this season...
The events
The following events are in the Navigators & General SailJuice Winter Series 2026/27:
- Fernhurst Books Draycote Dash, Draycote Water Sailing Club - 21 & 22 November 2026
- Datchet Flyer, Datchet Water Sailing Club - 5 & 6 December 2026
- Polar Chase, Chase Sailing Club - 12 & 13 December 2026
- Yorkshire Dales Brass Monkey, Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club - 27 December 2026
- GJW Direct Bloody Mary, Queen Mary Sailing Club - 9 January 2027
- John Merricks Tiger Trophy, Rutland Sailing Club - 6 & 7 February 2027
- Oxford Blue, Oxford Sailing Club - 13 February 2027
- Prizegiving at RYA Dinghy & Watersports Show, Farnborough - 20 February 2027
Find out more about the Series www.SailJuiceSeries.com