• Klein Vaarbewijs: the mock exam now follows the CBR test matrix question by question and only asks what the CBR examines. • New: reading height scales and water-level gauges, computing bridge clearance and channel depth. • Lights catalogue: practise section by section, with the vessel's silhouette behind its lights. • Corrected: weather warnings, VHF on inland waterways (channel 10), several Dutch rules. • Your free mock exam is no longer lost by an accidental back tap.

What's new in 1.4.0 • New mini-game "Buoy the Harbour": put the buoys of real harbours back in place, then watch your boat sail in. One mistake and it runs aground. • One free harbour every day, plus your own country's. Every harbour with Pro. • Keep your daily streak going and share your result. • Choose your sailing area, IALA A or B: lateral buoys adapt (red and green swap in region B). In Settings or the Buoyage section. • Your exam stays on your licence's system, whatever area you choose. • Maps from OpenStreetMap, checked against official charts. Not for navigation.

What's new in 1.3.0 • More varied mock exams: questions really rotate, and chart plotting legs are drawn at random (Netherlands, Spain). • Over 80 new lesson cards and 250 new hand-written questions: Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy and French inland waters. • French inland licence: RGP rules and lights now replace the maritime rules. • Listen to a MAYDAY, PAN-PAN or SÉCURITÉ call, and to the radio alphabet. • Lights: recognise them head-on, from astern and from starboard too. New colour-blind mode: colours written as letters. • New diagrams: Rules 17 and 19, dead reckoning, reading a light on the chart, distress signals. • The cleat hitch in real photos, plus 19 new field photos of signs and buoys. • Buoyage: main channel / secondary channel exercises, and a chart to complete with 10 buoys. • Illustrated glossary: 37 new plates, and the term highlighted on its diagram. • Content re-checked against the official texts: DSC alert, black water, duplex VHF, equipment expiry. • After your exam, tell us whether you passed.

One name everywhere The app is now called We Boat Licence on the App Store, under its icon and on its own screens: the same name in all three places. That is the only change in this version. Fair winds!

What's new in 1.2.9 • A NEW NAME: WE BOATING LICENCE — The app is now named after what it helps you earn, in your language, right down to the name under its icon. • NIGHT LIGHTS: TRAIN LIKE YOU'RE AT SEA — New "Vessel silhouette" setting. Start with the hull drawn in to see where each light sits, then switch it off: only the lights remain against the dark night, exactly what you will see from the helm. One tap, on any light's page or in Settings. In the mock exam, the lights always appear on their own, just like on the day. • TWO DIAGRAMS NOW FIT THEIR FRAME — The points of sail and the hull profile (draught, air draught) spilled slightly over their edges. Fixed. Fair winds!

The glossary finally explains. All 296 marine terms now open on a detailed sheet, and 247 of them are illustrated: boat anatomy, rigging, sail, points of sail, rope. The knots are real rope photographed step by step — bowline, figure of eight, reef, sheet bend. A complete new fire chapter: classes A, B, C, D and F, what each one demands, what makes it worse, and a table that shows at a glance which agent works and which is forbidden. Spain and Italy join the app: PER and PNB, patente entro 12 miglia and senza limiti, with their official marking schemes.

Two new countries: Spain (PER and PNB) and Italy (patente nautica), each with the exam rules its own State publishes. And no more English left in the German and Dutch modules. Spain — Patrón de Embarcaciones de Recreo and Patrón para Navegación Básica • Both licences, with the marking scheme of Royal Decree 875/2014: PER 45 questions in 90 minutes, pass at 32; PNB 27 questions in 45 minutes, pass at 17. • The three per-subject caps the decree sets are applied: 5 errors in the collision regulations, 2 in buoyage, 2 in chart work. Pass the total and fail a cap, and you fail — as in the real exam. • 180 questions written for these two licences, with four options each, because that is the form the decree prescribes. • A Mediterranean practice chart, gated to Spain: a PER candidate no longer plots on a Dutch estuary. Italy — patente nautica, entro 12 miglia and senza limiti • 1 351 official quesiti from the State catalogue, reproduced unchanged, each carrying its own number so you can trace it back. • The exam matrix comes from the decree itself: 20 questions spread over 8 subjects, plus the five chart questions that open the exam. • Those five are answered by typing your figure — a course, a distance — because the decree asks for a single answer, not a choice of four. • Sail is not covered: this app prepares the engine-only licence. Everywhere • Your country is now pre-filled from your device, with the licences it covers listed before you confirm. • Changing the language mid-onboarding no longer loses what you had entered. Fixes • The German and Dutch modules were serving English text to Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Arabic readers — around 1 170 lines, now translated. • The exam result screen showed German wording under an Italian exam.

Every navigation light redrawn: each vessel now carries its real silhouette, and the lights sit where the rules put them. Plus a new Dutch licence — the Klein Vaarbewijs 2. Klein Vaarbewijs 2 — the second Dutch certificate • A new licence to choose, alongside Klein Vaarbewijs 1 (renamed so the two can no longer be confused). KVB2 covers all of KVB1 and adds its own two parts: 266 topics, 23 chapters. • Part E — ruim water: the SRW, SRE and SRKGT regulations, and the BPR on wide waters. Every topic names the area its rule applies to, because the SRW departs from the sea rules. • Part F — navigation: the Dutch publications, the INT-1 legend, IALA-A against SIGNI, LAT datum and tides, leeway, GPS and its limits. • Chart plotting: the four kaartpassen, worth 12 of the 50 marks, are now drawn in EVERY mock exam. • Mock exam in the CBR's own format: 27 questions, 50 marks, 90 minutes, pass mark 35. Navigation lights and day shapes, completely redrawn • Every vessel now carries its real silhouette, and the lights sit where the rules put them: red over green at the masthead, sidelights on the hull, anchor light forward. • New day view: every shape is drawn in the place of the light it replaces. The cone of a sailing vessel under power is shown in profile, in the fore part. • Stacked lights no longer overlap, and the three inland tankers finally read the same way. • Eleven ranges and sectors corrected against the text of the rules. Buoyage: the night signal • A day / night selector on every mark. At night the buoy fades and its light beats its real character: 3 flashes east, 9 west, 6 plus a long flash south, continuous north. • A compass rose with a red north on the cardinal marks and on the placement exercises: "pass to the east" finally has its reference. • Current arrows are now wavy, so they can no longer be mistaken for the channel axis. Fixes • A Klein Vaarbewijs 1 question marked as correct, in six languages out of seven, the answer the exam counts as wrong: Dutch names a tack by the boom's side, English by the wind's side. • Inland rules no longer announce themselves as Dutch — CEVNI applies in Belgium too. • Around a hundred answer options shortened: the right answer is no longer the longest one. • Lighter home screen.

Thank you to the user who reported an error in the head-on view: a vessel approaching you shows its starboard side on your left. Green and red were the wrong way round in that view. It is fixed, and an automated check now prevents it from coming back. NEW — Sportbootführerschein See module 284 official questions from the German catalogue, reproduced word for word, with their figures. 36 SeeSchStrO topics, the Anlage I signs, and the mock exam with its three independent parts. NEW — French inland licence, and both Belgian brevets The restricted and general brevets now each have their own mock exam, with the per-part thresholds of the Belgian decree. EXAM SCORING CORRECTED The French coastal mock exam now draws 40 questions, as the decree in force requires — it drew 30. Eliminatory subjects have been removed: the decree provides for none. ALSO • You pick your country on first launch, and the exam type when you sit it • German and Dutch signs have been redrawn • Changing country no longer requires restarting the app

Thank you to the user who reported an error in the head-on view: a vessel approaching you shows its starboard side on your left. Green and red were the wrong way round in that view. It is fixed, and an automated check now prevents it from coming back. NEW — Sportbootführerschein See module 284 official questions from the German catalogue, reproduced word for word, with their figures. 36 SeeSchStrO topics, the Anlage I signs, and the mock exam with its three independent parts. NEW — French inland licence, and both Belgian brevets The restricted and general brevets now each have their own mock exam, with the per-part thresholds of the Belgian decree. EXAM SCORING CORRECTED The French coastal mock exam now draws 40 questions, as the decree in force requires — it drew 30. Eliminatory subjects have been removed: the decree provides for none. ALSO • You pick your country on first launch, and the exam type when you sit it • German and Dutch signs have been redrawn • Changing country no longer requires restarting the app

NEW — Place the buoys yourself A waterway diagram, empty slots, and it's up to you to drop in the missing marks. Channel, fork, harbour entrance, groynes, bends: the real situations of buoyage, by drag and drop. Half right earns half a point, and every mistake tells you which rule you missed. Buoyage: real photos of buoys and signs, taken on the Belgian and Dutch coast, now appear in quizzes and mock exams. New lesson: IALA-A and IALA-B — why red isn't on the same side depending on the country, with a map of both regions. Fixed a sign pictogram that allowed what it forbade.

What's new in 1.2.1 The app's content has been through a full audit against the official regulations (COLREG/RIPAM, CEVNI, Division 240 2024 ed., BinSchStrO, RIPA). This version brings the resulting improvements. • BUOYAGE — Lateral mark summaries reviewed and aligned with IALA-A: the side to pass is now consistent across all 7 languages. • SAFETY AND DISTRESS — Division 240 equipment is now presented zone by zone, as the regulation does: hand flares from the coastal zone, a fixed VHF semi-offshore, an EPIRB offshore. • STEERING RULES — Narrow channel definition clarified: Rule 9 applies to every vessel under way, with a separate duty for sailing vessels and those under 20 m. • MOCK EXAM — Two questions reviewed to remove an ambiguity in the answer options. • SIGNS AND LIGHTS — Photo-to-code mappings verified; the lights catalogue consolidated against the regulations. • PER-COUNTRY TERMINOLOGY — Vocabulary aligned with the national official texts: BinSchStrO for German, RIPA for Spanish. German signs now carry their statutory wording. Fair winds!

What's new in 1.2 • A real marine glossary — 269 terms, up from 40, sorted into 8 subjects you can filter (hull, navigation, rules, tides, weather, engine, safety, radio). • Glossary terms are now tappable inside the lessons — any word you don't know is highlighted right where you meet it, and one tap gives you its definition without losing your place. • New vocabulary quiz — practise the terms in both directions: from the word to its meaning, and from the meaning back to the word. • Your revision coach — from your exam date, the app now suggests today's revision and a single recommended action, so you always know what to work on next. (Pro) • 25 new illustrations — 11 animated and 14 still — covering weather (depressions, fronts, land and sea breezes, barometer, cloud build-up), charts (sector lights, leading lights), compass, safety (zones, lifejacket classes, extinguishers, Williamson turn), radio (VHF range, distress call, MMSI) and pollution. Animations are a Pro feature; the still diagrams are free. • Better practical scenarios — all 18 now explain the answer, count towards their true exam subject, and any mistake comes back in "Review my mistakes". • Corrections — several sign photos are now identified correctly, and the VHF line-of-sight diagram was redrawn so the geometry actually shows why contact is lost beyond the horizon. Fair winds!

• Real photos now in Buoyage too — the "Buoyage" practice shows real-world photos of lateral buoys and beacons shot on the water, so you learn to recognise a mark exactly as it looks on exam day, not only as a diagram. • Seven new signs in photo form — VHF radio channel, no mooring to the bank, mooring permitted, lock signal at green and "increased vigilance" join the "Signs" practice. • 35 real field photos in total — every one shot on European waterways and matched by hand to the official sign or mark it shows. • Photos are now shown in full — on iPad and other wide screens a photo was cropped and a mark's topmark could fall outside the frame, which is precisely what the question asks about. Photos now always appear in their entirety.

What's new in 1.1.2 • Real sign photos in the quiz — the "Signs" practice now shows real-world photos of waterway signs, so you learn to recognize them exactly as they appear on the water, not only as diagrams. • Some photos show two signs at once — new questions ask you to identify both panels together. • Instant language switch — changing the app language (for example from Arabic) now restores the correct reading direction right away, with no restart. • New adaptive app icon — the home-screen icon now has dedicated dark and tinted versions to match your iOS look. • Fewer ad interruptions — a minimum delay now separates two ads, so an ad no longer shows several times in a row. • Quiz polish — sign photos are correctly oriented, prompts are clearer ("What does this photo show?"), sign questions are more reliable, and a few sign answers were corrected. Fair winds!

Your first mock exam is now free — and you can sit it in real exam conditions, with a full question-by-question correction at the end. New personal coach: set your exam date and get a day-by-day plan built around your weakest subjects. New: search every lesson, light, buoy and sign instantly, and save your favourites. New: a weekly streak freeze forgives one missed day. Redrawn buoys and engine diagrams, plus a new animated propeller-walk effect. Spotted a mistake? Report it from any lesson. Content verified 2026.

What's new in 1.1.0 • New chapter: Engine — four-stroke cycle, cooling, fuel system, kill cord, pre-departure checks and propeller effect. We Boat now covers 17 subjects. • Animated knots — the 8 essential knots now draw themselves step by step, with a realistic braided rope (Pro). • Your first mock exam is now free — try the full 30-question timed exam with an Admitted/Failed verdict. • Success certificate — passed a mock exam? Share your result with your crew. • Exam-date coach — set your exam date and get a countdown, your weakest subject to focus on, and reminders before the big day. • Italian added — We Boat now speaks 7 languages. Also: clearer light questions in the daily challenge, the Pro screen now lists everything you unlock, fixed streak wording, plus Dutch corrections and various polish. Fair winds!

Thanks for using We Boat! 1.0.9 is a big update: • NEW — Animated lessons: right of way, buoyage, tides, manoeuvres… Understand by watching the scene move, not just a static diagram. • Content reviewed and expanded across every subject. • Exam questions revised, corrected and improved. Feedback or an issue? Reach us from Settings. And if the app helps you prepare for your licence, a quick review goes a long way. Fair winds!