About

Fleet Racing Products is a small design and integration company located in Penfield New York, USA, just south of Lake Ontario. Fleet Racing Products was incorporated to commercialize the RS1, a starting systems, to provide a more autonomous start sequence. The staff at FRP draws on their combined sailboat racing, manufacturing and engineering experience to make a product designed to meet the needs of the race committee and racers.

Backstory

So I belong to a rather small yacht club on Lake Ontario called Pultneyville Yacht Club. At the time we did round robin committee boat duty, where a boat was supposed to give up racing that day to start the race for the rest of the fleet. With everyone essentially doing it once, to say we had consistent starting sequences, would be a bit of a stretch. I had ended up doing committee boat several times in a row as my regular crew (my wife) was unavailable due to pregnancy. So I was sitting out there with the Fleet Captain starting another race when in a flash I realized that I can make a machine to start races! And thus the concept was born. We wanted a truly autonomous system, so thus the need to be remotely started and display flags. This differentiates FRP’s RS1 from the competition.

Scott Nichols
President

Marketing Collateral

Logo for when Fleet Racing Products sponsors an event.

Sample code for using the logo:

< a target="blank" href="http://www.FleetRacingProducts.com" >
  < img border="0" src="http://www.FleetRacingProducts.com/images/FRPlogo4Sponsorships.png" 
    alt="Logo of Fleet Racing Products, Inc." > </a>

Supporting Organizations

Organizations that have provide support during the design, development and manufacturing stages of this project. Having the internet, design tools and component models makes product development a more exact process, providing higher quality, reasonably priced products to the customer.

Pultneyville Yacht Club (www.pultneyvilleyachtclub.org) where the inspiration for an automated race starting system occurred while on committee boat duty. And special thanks to the racers and Fleet Captains for providing feedback and suggestions during the preproduction and commercialization stages.

McMaster-Carr (www.mcmaster.com) for its online catalog and 3D CAD files of components.

Alibre Design (www.alibre.com), an excellent 3D CAD program that is easy to learn and reasonably priced.

SMC (www.smcusa.com) for the high quality pneumatic components and excellent 3D models.

CDA Machine (www.cdamachine.com) for precision machined components.

xTuple ERP: PostBooks Edition (http://www.xtuple.com/postbooks) – Open source ERP management software for small and mid size companies.