Most sailing clubs run entries on a spreadsheet and safety on a wooden tally board. Both work until the day they do not: an entry list that is out of date by the time racing starts, or a peg that somebody forgot to turn. WeMuster replaces both with one system, built around how a club day actually runs.
Publish an event with its fleets and entry classes, each priced its own way, and share one link. Sailors enter and pay by card, and one person can enter a whole crew in a single checkout. Entry lists are public, and can show an initial and surname rather than full names, which is what a junior or youth event should be doing.
Money goes into the club's own Stripe account, not ours. Card details never touch the platform and the amount charged is worked out on the server, so a price cannot be tampered with in a browser. Refunds stay between the club and the entrant.
Each sailor gets an NFC wristband at registration. They tap it as they launch and again as they land. The screen flashes and sounds so a volunteer can keep their eyes on the water rather than on a phone. It works without signal: scans are held on the device and upload in order when the connection returns, keeping the time each one was actually taken.
The safety lead sees a live count of everyone still afloat, searchable by name, sail number or class, with medical notes against each sailor. The number has to reach zero before anyone goes home, and it is a prompt to go and look rather than a statement that everybody is safe.
A beach master can hold or release each fleet. A held fleet cannot be tallied out: the tally device refuses the scan and sounds an alarm, so the slip cannot let them go by mistake.
Entry lists can be shortened so children's full names are not published against a boat, a venue and a date. Entries for under-18s are made by a parent or guardian, medical information is limited to the people who need it, and the platform has no messaging, comments or profiles, so there is no route through which a stranger could contact a young sailor.