A few places to begin
The busiest coastlines, the events happening soonest, and the boats going for nothing.
The whole coast, and every inland water
Clubs, schools, harbours and inland waters, on one map. Zoom in to open one.
Soonest first
Regattas, festivals, open days and open evenings with a real date on them.
You do not need a boat, and you do not need experience
Tasters, open days, crew seats, volunteering and beginner nights — every one of them in the organisation's own published words.
Nobody starts out knowing how. Every one of these places has written down, in public, how a stranger turns up for the first time.
Free boats, cheap boats, and the measurements behind them
What is going for nothing right now, and underneath it the records — most of them from certificate measurements rather than a brochure.
Boats going free, and boats under €1,000
Listings on other people's marketplaces, checked and linked straight back to the seller's own page. We index; we never sell.
Length, beam, draft, displacement, sail area
Every figure carries where it came from, and where two sources disagree we show you both.
Classes people start in
Small boats, sailed all over the world, that clubs and schools teach in. Smallest first.
Most active classes
What each one is, where it is sailed, and who runs it.
Schools and training centres
Where the teaching happens, and the youth programmes that go with it.
If you would rather just play with it
Two ways of narrowing it down, a stack of deals to swipe through, and two games that need no sailing at all.
Which boat would suit you
Nine questions about how you actually want to spend a Saturday.
Where you would want to sail
The same idea, pointed at places and harbours instead of boats.
Swipe the deals
A stack of real, dated, priced ways onto the water. Left or right.
Two games
Herd lights through a night harbour, or push ships around with a tug.
What you have been looking at Open
See what this holds about your kind of organisation
Built entirely from what is already public. Nothing is listed on anyone's behalf, and nobody has signed up to anything.