Safe Skipper: Marine Safety

A practical boating safety app with emergency guidance, MAYDAY support, location tools, crew details, and quick-access to favorites. Safe Skipper is a practical boating safety companion designed to help skippers and crew stay prepared, organized, and ready to act when it matters most!

The app brings together essential onboard safety information in one easy-to-use place. Whether you are planning a trip, refreshing your knowledge, or responding in a stressful moment, Safe Skipper helps you reach the right information quickly.

Save key vessel details in advance, including vessel name, call sign, MMSI, vessel description, and persons on board, so they are ready when needed. A dedicated MAYDAY support section helps structure a clear emergency call, while current location tools make it easier to capture and use your position quickly.

Safe Skipper also helps with day-to-day preparedness, with sections covering PREPARATION, SAFETY, COMMUNICATIONS, DISTRESS & EMERGENCIES, with over 75 sections & sub-sections in total - search for topics such as engine failure, save your most-used pages as favorites, and keep important crew and vessel information close at hand.

Designed for real use onboard, Safe Skipper supports learning, readiness, and calm decision-making when every second counts.

KEY FEATURES

• Emergency guidance organized for quick access

• MAYDAY call support with pre-saved vessel details

• Dedicated GET CURRENT LOCATION within the MAYDAY section

• CREW REGISTER and VESSEL DETAILS section

• Search to find topics quickly

• Create FAVORITES for one-tap access to key pages

• Local on-device saving of important information

• Personal ordering of saved favorites

• Clear mobile-friendly layout for onboard use

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT!

• Helps you prepare before every trip

• Makes critical information faster to find

• Supports a clearer, more confident emergency response

• Keeps essential boat and crew details ready in advance

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USER 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

COMMUNICATIONS including:

* AIS

* DSC radio

* GMDSS

* Inmarsat C

* Signals

* Morse code

* Navtex

* SSB radio

* VHF radio

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 so much more - over 75 sections & sub-sections in total.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***

Safe Skipper is designed to support learning, preparation, and practical onboard reference. It does not replace formal training, proper seamanship, required safety equipment, or official emergency procedures.

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