Safe Skipper 4+

Boating tips and safety advice

The Other Hat

Designed for iPad

    • 3.0 • 4 Ratings
    • $0.99

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Description

Featuring carefully researched safety information and practical tips, with quick reference graphic illustrations, photos and diagrams specially created for this app.

- Safety information & practical boating tips
- Over 100 specially created custom graphics: illustrations, photos & diagrams
- Advice on preparation, equipment, communications & emergency procedures
- Tips on how to stay safe and prevent accidents happening
- For all seafarers
- Written & illustrated by a qualified & experienced yachtsman

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Customer feedback:

"Highly recommend this App, get it on your iPhone or iPad today"

"This app is full of really useful info for anyone going to sea (or inland waterways I would think). It's presented really well, and has some good graphics. Can't believe just how much they've packed in. Recommended."

"A well written and detailed app for yachts & inland craft also quite useful for ocean going vessels - well done."

"Downloaded the app, good stuff!"

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Safe Skipper is a quick reference tool intended for all those who go to sea for pleasure, whether under sail or in powered craft.

The app features carefully researched safety information and practical tips, with more than 100 graphic illustrations, photos and diagrams which have been produced specially for this app.

The app is in three main sections:

PREPARATION, including:
* Engine checks
* International regulations
* Man overboard drill
* Passage planning
* Rig check
* Safety briefing
* SOLAS V
* Tides
* Training
* Weather
and more

SAFETY, including:
EQUIPMENT
* Anchoring
* EPIRB
* Equipment checklists
* Fire extinguishers
* Fire prevention
* First aid kit
* Flares
* Life buoys
* Liferafts
* Personal Flotation Devices
* Spares
* Safety harnesses
* Tool kit
and
COMMUNICATIONS
* AIS
* DSC radio
* GMDSS
* Inmarsat C
* Signals
* Morse code
* Navtex
* SSB radio
* VHF radio
and more

DISTRESS & EMERGENCIES, including:
* Abandon ship
* Dismasting
* Distress signals
* Engine failure
* Fire fighting
* Getting a tow
* Helicopter rescue
* Holed hull
* MAYDAY
* Medical emergency
* SAR signals

...and more - over 75 sections & sub-sections in total.

Written and illustrated by Simon Jollands, a RYA qualified yachtsman. Among his many book, tv and dvd media production credits is Serious Fun a dvd on marine safety which he produced and directed for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and was in part the inspiration for the Safe Skipper app.

Have fun afloat:

All of us who go to sea for pleasure go to have fun. Keeping safe is of prime importance and increases the enjoyment for everyone aboard, whatever their ability or age. We all know there are risks involved and that accidents can and do happen, whether you are racing across oceans or cruising in quiet coastal waters.

To avoid accidents happening in the first place or to prevent a bad situation becoming worse requires good training, a clear head and the ability to make decisions quickly.

Safe Skipper provides advice on preparation, checklists, equipment, communications and emergency procedures. The app will be updated on a regular basis and the developer team will always welcome suggestions from our users for further topics to include in future updates.

Thanks for downloading Safe Skipper and we hope you will find it a useful aid to staying safe and having fun afloat.

Find out even more by clicking the DEVELOPER WEBSITE link on the left.

What’s New

Version 3.0.3

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Improved experience with updated user interface and faster running with new code base.

Ratings and Reviews

3.0 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

Egomaniac47 ,

Very functional and useful app for quick reference

The app features different reference guides and checks/maneuvers essential to any sailboat skipper, novice or experienced. It’s always useful to have a digital reference guide to check prior to, during or after sailing. Recommend.

SunnyDazeX ,

Good quick reference

Loads of practical safety info and tips, prep, equipment, comms. Worth checking out.

Hanson24 ,

This app is stunning in its lack of usefulness

This app offers a few paragraphs in total. The screenshots cover most of the book. Typical chapter is one paragraph of overview.
I write technical books for a living and could have written this app in one hour.

App Privacy

The developer, The Other Hat, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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