We Boat Licence vs Accoste

Pass your boating licence — content checked against the official texts We Boat Licence prepares eleven European licences: the French coastal and inland permits, the Belgian restricted and general brevets, the Dutch Klein Vaarbewijs 1 and 2, the German Sportbootführerschein See, the Spanish PER and PNB, and the Italian patente nautica within 12 miles and with no limit. Up to 487 lesson sheets and reference plates depending on your licence, animations, over 2,000 questions, and mock exams scored the way yours really is. All of it offline, with no account. CHECKED CONTENT, AND SOURCED Every rule points to the text it rests on — COLREG, CEVNI, Division 240 (2024 ed.), the Belgian royal decree of 1981, RPNE, BPR, SRW, SRE, SRKGT, SeeSchStrO. You don't memorise a claim: you know where it comes from. Audited article by article against those texts. EVERY EXAM HAS ITS OWN SCORING That is what separates a useful mock exam from a plain quiz. • France, coastal and inland — 40 questions, five mistakes allowed, no eliminating subject (decree of 28 September 2007) • Belgium, restricted and general — three parts, at least 50 % per part and 60 % overall • Netherlands, Klein Vaarbewijs 1 — 40 questions, 80 points, 70 % pass mark • Netherlands, Klein Vaarbewijs 2 — 27 questions, 50 points, 90 minutes, pass mark 35 (the CBR's own toetsmatrijs) • Germany, Sportbootführerschein See — three independent parts: fail one, fail the exam • Spain, PER — 45 questions, 13 mistakes allowed, per-unit caps (RD 875/2014); PNB — 27 questions, 10 mistakes • Italy, entro 12 miglia and senza limiti — both tests of D.M. 323/2021, carteggio included THE SYLLABUS 20 universal chapters, plus your licence's own — 38 topics in Belgium, 61 in the Netherlands (+57 for KVB2), 36 in Germany: • Navigation lights: up to 72 configurations depending on the licence, each flashing its real character, seen from 4 angles and drawn on its own vessel's silhouette • IALA-A buoyage by day AND by night: at night every mark beats its light's real character • Inland signs: from 91 to 111 panels depending on the licence • Steering and give-way rules (COLREG), with the national departures • Sound, fog and distress signals · VHF (MAYDAY, PAN-PAN, SÉCURITÉ) • Safety and required equipment (Division 240) • Charts · Compass and bearings · Tides · Currents • Marine weather (Beaufort, Douglas) · Knots · Manoeuvres • Engine and pre-departure checks · Pollution (MARPOL) • The 40 flags of the International Code of Signals • Maritime glossary: 269 terms explained • Tips and the exam's classic traps UNDERSTAND, NOT JUST REMEMBER The animations show what a still diagram cannot: give-way, crossing, the real rhythm of lights, buoyage by day and night, tides, knots, manoeuvres. PRACTISE Over 2,000 questions: never the same wording twice. Including 302 written by hand in the style of each exam, and the 284 official German ones. • Quizzes by subject • Recognition of lights, signs and day shapes • Field photos: real signs and marks, not just pictograms • 18 practical scenarios · Calculations: compass, rule of twelfths • An explanation after every answer • Targeted review of your mistakes (Pro) YOUR COACH Enter your exam date: countdown, weakest subject first, reminders. And a question a day to keep the rhythm. WORKS EVERYWHERE • 100 % offline — no connection needed to study • No account; your results stay on your device • The free version is ad-funded; Pro removes them WE BOAT PRO All the animations, unlimited mock exams, detailed statistics, targeted review of your mistakes, no ads. One-time purchase of €9.99 — no subscription. We Boat Licence does not replace official training: it complements it, so you can revise anywhere, at your own pace. Fair winds!

A berthing simulator, and the course that goes with it. Accoste reproduces what makes coming into a harbour hard: the momentum of five tonnes, the prop walk that throws the stern sideways in astern gear, the rudder that goes dead the moment you back up, the wind that puts the bow off the moment you lose steerage. You manoeuvre from above, at full scale, on a chart. SEVENTEEN MANOEUVRES Alongside a quay — getting the feel of her, berthing in calm weather, in an onshore wind, against a current, and springing off between two neighbours. Finger berths — a Breton marina at real dimensions: main pontoon, 8.4 m fingers, berths at 5.2 m centres, a 23 m fairway. Bow in, stern to, cross wind, and leaving with the wind pinning you on. Hard situations — force 5 downwind, a cross set, a neighbour backing out at the wrong moment, a jammed gearbox with no astern power, force 6 gusts, arriving at night, and rafting up on the visitors' pontoon. WHAT THE MODEL REPRODUCES Prop walk, to be checked before anything else. Prop wash over the rudder, which gives you steerage at zero speed going ahead and nothing at all going astern. The pivot point, calculated in real time — not drawn a third of the way back: it moves with the way she carries, and you watch the stern swing. Mooring lines under real tension, each pulling on its cleat with its own lever arm: forward spring, engine ahead, helm to seaward genuinely holds the boat still, and springing off genuinely works. OBJECTIVES THAT ARE MEASURED Every exercise marks itself. Contact speed is measured in metres per second. Impacts are counted. And making the bow line fast instead of the spring does not tick the box — because it does not work on the water either. THE COURSE Ten chapters: how to use the course, the vocabulary aboard, the names of the lines and what each one forbids, the five effects that account for failed manoeuvres, the five-minute check before going in, the manoeuvres one by one, locking in, lying against a tidal wall, the classic mistakes, the exercises to do offshore before your first entry, and a crib sheet to laminate. Plus a ten-question quiz, with the reasoning after every answer. HONESTLY The hydrodynamic constants are eyeball-calibrated for an 11.4 m yacht. The orders of magnitude are right; the feel is no substitute for twenty minutes of real practice in clear water, nor for checking the prop walk on your own boat. ASKING FOR NOTHING No account. No network. No data collected, no trackers, no advertising. Everything runs on your iPhone, including at sea, out of signal. Four manoeuvres and two chapters are open. The rest opens with a single purchase, no subscription: the content is finite, and it stays yours.