Sailing Atelier
Shared knowledge, kept aboard
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The answers owners and skippers have already found, searchable in seconds, even at anchor without a signal. Alongside them, your yacht's full record.
Sailing Atelier is a private club for the owners and skippers of a family of
blue-water cruising yachts. It keeps what its members have learned at sea, and
makes it easy to find again.
A fault at anchor rarely happens for the first time. Somewhere, another crew
has already met it and worked it out. Sailing Atelier turns those answers into
a library you can search, and puts your own yacht's record alongside it.
ASK THE CLUB
Describe a symptom, a part or a system and see every discussion where members
met it before, with the solution that worked at the top. Questions about a
country or a harbour also bring up the club's area guide, from clearing in to
local hazards. When nothing fits, ask the members directly: your search
becomes the question, and you are told when someone answers.
ABOARD WITHOUT A SIGNAL
The discussions, guides and the text of the manuals are kept on your phone,
so search works at anchor and offshore. Download every manual and attachment
before you leave. Anything you add without a signal waits on your phone and is
sent once you are back in range.
DISCUSSIONS THAT READ LIKE A LOGBOOK
Each discussion leads with the answer, shows who last updated it, and lets
every member say whether the fix worked on their own yacht. Add photos, PDFs
and spreadsheets to a question, answer or reply. Solutions are shared and
improve over time. Share one with your crew or your WhatsApp group in a single
tap.
THE LIBRARY
Manuals chapter by chapter, step-by-step how-tos, owners' guides to the
questions that keep coming back, and refit guides for the bigger decisions.
Parts, equipment, manuals and discussions link to each other. Find a rigger,
sailmaker or engineer near any harbour, starting with the ones other members
have actually used and rated.
MY YACHT
Her own record in one place:
- what is due, by date or by engine hours, with your own checks or ones from
the library, and what was done last;
- departure lists of your own to tick off before you sail, shared with your
crew;
- the equipment actually fitted, so parts and guides match your yacht;
- the spares locker, counted against what experienced crews carry;
- a private vault for surveys, certificates and yard reports. Photograph a
report at the dock and it is filed before you are back aboard;
- yard visits: a work list you build job by job, share with the yard by link,
or send as a PDF for a quote or as a work list the yard signs off;
- crew, each with their own access;
- a handover that passes her record to the next owner when she is sold.
THE FLEET
See the other yachts in the club, and, only if their owners choose to share
it, where they are sailing.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Membership is by approval: every request is checked by hand before anyone sees
a member's name, a home port or a document. Discussions are never public and
are not indexed by search engines. Sharing your home port and your live
position are separate choices, and both are off until you turn them on. You
can delete your account from within the app at any time.
Sailing Atelier is independent and is not affiliated with any yacht builder.
Questions, or trouble getting in? Write to info@sailingatelier.com. Every
message is read by a person.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Version 1.3 is built for life aboard, with or without a signal.
- Works offline: discussions, guides and the manuals' text are kept on your phone, and search works at anchor. Download every manual and attachment for offline use from Profile.
- Anything you add without a signal waits on your phone and is sent once you are back in range, never twice.
- Yard visits: a compact list, edit or swipe away a job, reorder, a standard haul-out list, and a PDF for a quote or as a work list for the yard to sign off.
- Maintenance: add your own checks or pick them from the library, and edit, move or delete them. Correct a log entry.
- Departure lists: make your own lists to tick off before you sail, shared with your crew.
- Photos and PDFs in discussions, and add your own to a question, answer or reply.
- Ask the club now includes the area guides, so a question about clearing in finds the right country.
- Guides open as their own page, and parts, equipment, manuals and discussions now link to each other.
- Supplier ratings are shown on every card.
- Edit or delete your own question or reply, and change crew roles.
- A short walkthrough the first time you open a screen.
- Forum links from email or messages open in the app.
- Pull down to refresh, and many smaller fixes, in landscape and on iPad in particular.
The developer, Alec Brugman, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Search History
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alec Brugman
- Size
- 48.3 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alec Brugman