A clear and simple interface, designed for every rower, including those who rarely use a computer. To start an outing, you simply click on the boat: the start time is already filled in. Each rower is found by typing the first letters of their first name or surname, without worrying about accents or capital letters. On return, the “Now!” button fills in the end time.
NewRowingBeacon 2.1: automatic updates, damages, statistics
The simple and free digital rowing logbook for your rowing club
Replace your paper logbook with our digital rowing logbook. Speed up your outing records, empower your rowers, increase safety on the water and track your training progress.
Version 2.1
See everything that's newNew in RowingBeacon 2.1
Automatic updates, a fuller boathouse, damage tracking, boat reservations and a statistics hub with an AI assistant. Still free, offline and compatible with efa2.
Automatic updates
The app offers the new version and backs up the club data just before installing it.
Read more (Automatic updates)A fuller boathouse
Sunrise and sunset, an “all boats are back” reminder, unavailable boats and the seats left at departure.
Read more (A fuller boathouse)Outings entered after the fact
Enter a forgotten outing, fix an outing that is already saved.
Read more (Outings entered after the fact)Damages
Severity, follow-up until repair and a warning at departure, compatible with efa2.
Read more (Damages)Boat reservations
One-off or weekly reservations, shown in the boathouse, compatible with efa2.
Read more (Boat reservations)Statistics
Dashboard, 29 reports, printable annual report, SQL queries and an AI assistant.
Read more (Statistics)
New in v2.0
Using efa2? Switch to RowingBeacon without retyping anything.
RowingBeacon 2.0 imports an efa2 project directly from a ZIP backup made by efa.
Read the migration guide
Rowing Beacon Cloud
No computer in the boathouse? A shared logbook on phones.
Discover the shared logbook on phones and join the waiting list. For now it is aimed at French clubs.
Features
What RowingBeacon does
Built for rowers on the pontoon and for the people who run the club: quick outing logs, clear tracking of boats and incidents.
In case of an incident, rowers can report it directly from the app. Incidents are then recorded in a log, accessible at any time.
Each boat can require a minimum category, for example J16 and above, or a competitor level. When an outing starts, the application warns or blocks it, depending on the thresholds set by the club.
Installation takes a few minutes. On first launch, you choose a profile (Simple, Full club or I'm coming from efa), then paste the lists of rowers, boats and routes, or import your efa2 project directly. The club can then start logging its outings.
For each rower and each boat, the application calculates the number of outings and the time spent on the water. For each rower, it also shows their most frequent partners. These figures help to put crews together and to spot boats that are rarely used.
The outing history can be exported for the period of your choice, in Excel, OpenDocument, CSV or JSON format. You can then analyse it in the software you already use.
Boat reservations
In the next versionReserve a boat for a regatta, a course or a slot that comes back every week, such as the junior group on Saturday mornings. In the boathouse the boat shows as “reserved” shortly before the slot, and a notice appears if an outing overlaps the reservation, without ever stopping anyone from going out. Reservations in an efa2 project are imported, and written back when you export.
Coach supervision tracking
Since v1.18Record whether each outing is supervised by a coach. This information is visible in the history, statistics and CSV exports.
The application runs on modest computers. It has been tested on a second-hand mini PC that cost €75. The Windows installer weighs 5.8 MB, and the application works without an Internet connection.
What clubs say about it
“The user interface is as simple and fast as a paper logbook with the advantage of being able to specify the boat name and the full name of each rower.”
Vincent ROY
SNB Aviron Besançon
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- Administrator interface
- The administrator interface gives us the ability to have statistics on rowers and boats, to receive reports of any problems with a boat that has gone out.
- Crew management
- Club supervisors can more easily compose crews and assign boats by looking at member statistics.
- Continuous evolution
- Rowing Beacon is constantly evolving, to offer new features or improvements to have more options, whilst keeping a very simple user interface.
- Definitive adoption
- Rowing Beacon will be permanently installed at SNB aviron club in the coming weeks to replace the paper logbook and thus have better tracking of our boats and members.
They have already downloaded RowingBeacon
A selection of 24 clubs across 7 countries: 
France, 
United States, 
Netherlands, 
Austria, 
Italy, 
New Zealand and 
South Africa.
