SailingClick Learn
Learn to sail: free interactive lessons before your first charter.
Short, focused lessons with interactive quizzes, built for new sailors who want the essentials to click before they step aboard.
Navigation Lights: What Every Light Configuration Means
Learn to read sidelights, masthead lights and sternlights so you can tell a vessel's type, heading and right-of-way status at a glance, after dark.
BeginnerIALA Buoys and Marks: Reading the Channel
Decode IALA Region A lateral, cardinal, isolated danger, safe water and special marks: shape, colour, topmark and light, all in one place.
IntermediateCOLREGS: The Rules of the Road, Simplified
Head-on, crossing and overtaking situations, who gives way, and the sound signals that back it all up: the core COLREGS rules every skipper needs cold.
BeginnerAnchoring 101: Scope, Setting and Swinging Room
How much chain to pay out, how to set the anchor properly, and how to judge swinging room before you commit to a spot for the night.
BeginnerVHF Radio: Channels, Calls and Emergencies
Channel 16, Mayday vs Pan-Pan vs Sécurité, the phonetic alphabet, and how a proper radio call is actually structured.
IntermediateWeather for Sailors: Beaufort Scale and Reading a Forecast
What the Beaufort scale actually feels like on deck, how to read wind direction and isobar spacing, and why afternoons in the Med get windier.
IntermediateMan Overboard: The First 30 Seconds and the Recovery
What to shout, press and throw in the first moments after a crew goes over, and the three recovery patterns skippers actually use to get back to them.
BeginnerPre-Departure Checklist: What to Check Before You Cast Off
An interactive checklist for the walk-round before you leave the dock, plus the reasoning behind each check, not just a list to tick blindly.