Study Guides

A learner-friendly look at the Beaufort scale and how reading the sea and sky helps you understand the weather, plus how Maritime Master, Skipper and CalcDeck support your revision.

A study guide to traffic separation schemes, Rule 10 of the COLREGs, and how two Maritime Master apps can help you learn and revise the concept.

Passage planning and pilotage are core ideas in any shorebased course. Here is what they mean at a learner level, and how three Maritime Master apps can support your revision.

Celestial navigation lets mariners find their position using the Sun, Moon, planets and stars. This gentle guide explains the core ideas and shows how CalcDeck helps you practise the working.

A short, practical revision checklist for the season ahead, pairing five maritime theory topics with the Maritime Master apps that help you study each one. For study and learning only.

A practical study guide to preparing for Officer of the Watch written exams and orals, covering little and often revision, drilling recognition, practising calculations, and knowing the regulations, plus how the Maritime Master OOW app supports each part of your revision.

A beginner's roadmap to day skipper shorebased theory. See the main topics a course covers, from chartwork and tides to the COLREGs, buoyage, and weather, and how the free Skipper app helps you practise each one as a study companion.

A gentle, conceptual study guide to marine radar for learners: what a radar picture shows, the ideas behind CPA and TCPA, and what ARPA target tracking is for. Plus how the Maritime Master Radar app lets you practise these concepts on a simulated display.

A friendly learner's guide to the IALA buoyage system. Meet lateral marks, cardinal marks and their link to the compass, and the two regions, then see how the IALA Buoyage app helps you study and test yourself for iPhone and iPad.

A friendly guide to five knots almost every sailor benefits from learning, including the bowline, clove hitch, round turn and two half hitches, figure of eight, and sheet bend, then how the Maritime Master Knots app helps you study them in animated 3D. A learning aid only.

A learner friendly guide to tides: what causes high and low water, how spring and neap tides differ, and how the rule of twelfths estimates the height between them, plus how TideDeck and CalcDeck help you study and plan.

New to the water and keen to learn the theory? Here is a friendly, sensible order of study using our free and one-time-purchase apps, from broad foundations to focused topics like knots, buoyage, and the rules of the road.

A conceptual study guide to how anchoring works and what scope means, written to build a firm foundation for learners studying seamanship.

Learn what a tidal stream is, how it differs from tidal height, and what a tidal stream atlas shows, with study tools in the free Skipper and CalcDeck apps.