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.

How to use Safe Skipper
Added guidance explaining how to prepare before a trip, use Search and Favorites, keep vessel/crew details updated, and treat the app as a learning and reference tool rather than a replacement for training.

Home page search
Search directly from the home screen for topics such as engine failure, fire, collision, man overboard, first aid, or navigation lights.

Crew Register & Vessel Details
Added a practical onboard register for vessel details and crew information, including emergency and medical notes.

Favorites
Pages can be saved as Favorites using the heart button, then accessed quickly from the home page.

Search controls
Search results can now be collapsed, cleared, and reset cleanly.

Favorite ordering
Saved Favorites can be moved up or down, removed, and additional items are tucked behind a “See more” style dropdown after the first three.

Get Location section
A dedicated collapsible location tool shows the current position and supports saving/exporting location information.

MAYDAY Call Details
A new collapsible MAYDAY preparation section lets the skipper store key vessel details in advance: vessel name, call sign, MMSI, vessel type/color, and persons on board.

MAYDAY location button
The MAYDAY section now has its own Get Current Location button, so the position can be inserted without using the separate Get Location section first.

Generated MAYDAY call
The app can generate a clearer preformatted MAYDAY call, with real-life prompts for distress type, assistance required, and other useful information.

Copy/share MAYDAY call
Generated calls can be copied or shared from the app.

Robust local saving
Important data is now protected with durable native-backed storage using Capacitor Preferences, helping preserve saved MAYDAY details, favorites, vessel details, crew records, and location logs through normal app updates.

Improved navigation
Top navigation now includes a clearer back button, page favorite heart, safer tablet/phone spacing, and improved hamburger positioning.

Tablet layout fixes
Extra safe-area handling was added so controls are not obscured at the top of iPad tablet screens.

Improved section design
Get Location, MAYDAY, Crew Register, Search, Favorites, and section tabs have clearer styling, better spacing, and more readable text.

Version and platform update
Updated throughout, with modernized iOS project support.