First Not Last
Match & team sailboat racing
Free · In‑App Purchases
Learn to sail in seven short lessons, then race real people in umpired match races and team races. Read the shifts, find the gusts and use the rules to win.
First Not Last is sailboat racing as it's done on the water: umpired match races and team races, where the wind, the right-of-way rules and a good start decide who wins.
LEARN TO SAIL
New to sailing? Seven short lessons, a minute or two each, and no account needed: steering, reading the wind, the fastest angles upwind and downwind, slowing down, penalty turns, match-race starts and match-race penalties.
SAIL IT FOR REAL
• Hold ◀ or ▶ to steer and hold the boat button to slow down. The sails trim themselves, so it all comes down to where you point.
• Boat speed depends on your angle to the wind. Find the best VMG upwind and downwind, then tack and gybe on the shifts.
• The breeze shifts, and gusts show as dark patches on the water.
• Every sail casts a wind shadow. Sit in another boat's dirty air and you slow down.
RACE BY THE RULES
• Right of way, room at the marks and starting early are all judged on the water.
• Foul another boat and you owe a penalty turn. Leave it too long and you're disqualified.
• Match races come with umpire flags and match-race penalties, as in real umpired racing.
RACE REAL PEOPLE
• Unranked matchmaking for 1v1 match races and 2v2 or 3v3 team races.
• Add friends, invite them to your lobby and race on the same team.
• Custom races: public or password-protected, with a windward-leeward or Digital N course, match or team racing rules, and up to four boats a side.
• Your nationality flag shows next to your name.
• Report or block any sailor in a tap. Players must be 18 or older.
SAIL ALONE
Free Sail to practise boat handling, or Solo Practice for a full race on your own: countdown, start line, marks and finish.
FIRST NOT LAST PREMIUM
An optional monthly subscription: wind shadows drawn on the water, a Best VMG button, laylines, custom races, a daily gift and twice the coins for every win. Everything else is free.
• First Not Last Premium: €0.99 per month, auto-renewing.
• Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the period.
• Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple ID account settings.
Terms of Use: https://firstnotlast.site/terms
Privacy Policy: https://firstnotlast.site/privacy
No ads and no tracking.
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• 2k: a new team mode. Two keelboats a side, spinnakers up, on the longer Digital M course. When a 2v2 is found in the queue, everyone votes Dinghies or 2k.
• Play in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch or Polish: choose it under Language in Account.
• Racing Rules: a guide on the home screen to the rules the umpires call, in plain words, and how each race type differs.
• Match races start on a longer line, with more room to set up.
• Match racing: a boat that fouls while behind and then gets ahead of the other boat takes a second penalty.
• Wind shadows reshaped: upwind, a boat's dirty air now trails right behind her.
• Sharper umpires at the marks and the finish: a boat sailing her proper course round a mark, or to the finish, is sailing her mark-room.
• More nationality flags, and race results and your friends list show whether each sailor is on iPhone, Android or a computer.
• Turn the umpire RIBs off from the pause menu.
• Fixes and improvements.
The developer, Russell Bolger, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Russell Bolger
- Size
- 83.3 MB
- Category
- Racing
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Russell Bolger
