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Firstly if you don't know sailwave it is a fantastic free programme for windows (but will run under wine on linux and with some persausion mac's) written by Colin Jenkins. It is used to score sailing events and can handle almost anything you can throw at it in terms of scoring. Sailwave is free as in beer but not as in speach because its written in a proprierty language on windows. However, it publsihes HTML files for results. HTML is obviosuly good for websites, but integrating flat HTML pages within a dynamic Content Management System used on most modern websites is lets say "challenging". Colin has tried to get round this by providing an export to blog function that will let you paste the HTML into a blog article. It works but it means you have to give your scorers the rights to add anything they want to your sailing club website which might fill a few clubs with fear.
Joomla® is one of the most popular Content Management Systems available, and is free both as in beer and speach. It uses a proigraming language called PHP and a MySQL database (both of which are also free) to create HTML pages on request. The free nature and the ability to automatically hide old content makes content management systems ideal for voluntary organisations such as sailing clubs.
Sailwave4Joom is a project intended to integrate flat form HTML from sailwave into Joomla. It doesn't do any scoring. You must still do all you scoring in Sailwave, and you must continue to comply with sailwave's licencing requirement of leaving the sailwave.com footer in place. Sailwave4Joom simply takes the HTML files from Sailwave, chops off the header and footer that tells the web browser its a HTML document and puts it inside another HTML document that already had those headers and footers. It does it using a Joomla Content Plugin. The orginal code to do this was provided by Andy Barrow on the Sailwave Discussion Group in this thread.