From the first membership renewal of the season to the last gun of the championship, Zeil covers the workflows generic software ignores.
Membership management
Every member, dues, and credential in one roster.
Profiles with boat ownership, US Sailing certifications, and membership tier — full, junior, social, crew, racing. A club can set up recurring membership dues in Zeil, and members can subscribe and pay from their Billing page. Dues renew automatically through Stripe on the club’s own account.
Member profiles with certs, boats, and tier
Recurring dues paid from the member’s Billing page
Renewal invoices, reminders & lapsed-member workflow (beta Dec 15, 2026)
Member directory with privacy controls
Fleet & boat scheduling
Club-owned boats, booked without the clipboard.
A real-time availability calendar for club-owned vessels, with eligibility checks before a boat is reserved. A member-owned boat registry is not in the product today. PHRF certificate registry for racing scoring enters beta on October 15, 2026.
Real-time booking for club-owned boats
Eligibility checks before a boat is reserved
PHRF certificate registryBeta — Oct 15, 2026
Race series & scoring
Not live yet — in your hands from October 2026.
One-design and handicap fleets (PHRF, Portsmouth, ORC), sign-up and scratch sheets, results entry, season standings scored to the current Racing Rules of Sailing, and the boat and PHRF certificate registry the scoring reads from enter beta on October 15, 2026 and reach general availability on December 1, 2026, alongside the duty-roster auto-scheduler.
A briefing for every sail, written before you cast off.
Zeil reads the forecast, the boat, the skipper’s qualifications, and your club’s local knowledge, then writes a plain-English briefing for each reservation — conditions, a suggested sail plan, explicit safety notes, and sunset. It regenerates when the forecast shifts.
Personalized per reservation, 24–48h out
Forecast + boat + skipper + local notes
Suggested sail plan, safety notes, sunset time
Regenerates automatically when conditions change
Communications
One channel the whole club reads.
Club-wide announcements go out from a channel the club owns, and a weekly email digest keeps the dock in the loop without another mailing list. Sending to a segment — racing members only, flag officers only — and mobile push are roadmap, with no committed date.
Club-wide announcements
Weekly email digest
Segmented sends (roadmap, no committed date)
Mobile push notifications (roadmap, no committed date)
Events & regattas
Open registration, take entries, run the regatta.
Create events with online registration and payment, collect waivers with e-signatures, register transient guests, and run multi-day, multi-fleet regattas — with entry fees paid out to your club via Stripe.
Online registration + payment
Waivers & e-signatures
Transient / visitor registration
Multi-day, multi-fleet regatta management
Growing with your club
More as you need it
Turn these on when the season calls for them — no migration, no new vendor.
Sailing school & junior program
Course catalog and enrollment, course fees, and certifications awarded on completion — live school ops on Club Pro.
Instructor scheduling — Beta Feb 15, 2027
Financial management
Membership dues collection is live today. Treasurer reports and accounting sync are dated commitments, not live.
Financial reports — Jan 31, 2027QuickBooks sync — May 31, 2027
Member mobile app
A member-facing iOS & Android app with the schedule, live results, tides and weather, and sign-up from the phone.
Tides & weather built in
NOAA tides and Open-Meteo forecasts power Sail Briefs and weather-based race-day alerts.