Your profile
Set up your name, contact details, emergency contact, and sailing bio.
Your profile is how the rest of your club knows you — skippers picking crew, administrators reaching out, and crewmates coordinating a sail all rely on it. Take a minute to fill it in.
Account vs. club profile
Zeil keeps two layers of profile information:
- Your account is global. Your name, photo, phone number, mailing address, emergency contact, and sailing bio travel with you across every club you belong to.
- Per-club details let a club show you under a specific display name if you go by something different there.
Edit your profile from the Profile area, then Edit profile.
A club administrator can also update your account contact details — name, phone, mailing address, emergency contact, and sailing bio — from their member roster, for example to fix a typo when you're hard to reach. A change made this way applies across every club you belong to, just as if you'd made it yourself. Your email address and photo are yours alone to change.
What to fill in
Photo
A photo helps crewmates recognize you at the dock. Choose Add photo to upload one (JPEG, PNG, or WebP, up to 5 MB) — you can change or remove it any time. Without a photo, Zeil shows your initials instead.
Display name
The name shown to other members on crew lists and the member directory.
Phone number
So a skipper, admin, or crewmate can reach you about a sail — especially useful on the day. Fellow members see a one-tap call button next to your name once it's on file.
Like your name, your phone number is collected when you first sign up and is required — you can update both here, but you can't leave them blank.
Mailing address
Where your club posts course documents — certificates, workbooks, and the like. It's optional here, but required when you register for a course that mails its documents: if it's missing, the course page asks for it and saves it back to your profile. See Courses & the sailing school.
Emergency contact
A name and number for who to call if something happens on the water. This is one of the most important fields to keep current.
Sailing bio
A short note on your experience — boats you've sailed, roles you enjoy, anything that helps a skipper crew up confidently.
Keep your emergency contact current
Sailing carries real risk. An up-to-date emergency contact is the single most useful thing in your profile if a sail goes wrong.
Your credentials
Your profile also shows the certifications and skipper endorsements your club has granted you, and which boats you're cleared to skipper. You don't edit these yourself — administrators grant them. See Certifications & skipper status to understand what they mean.
Your achievements
On a phone, the Profile page also carries an Achievements row — the badges, Fathoms points, and community rank you've earned at the club. On a wider screen, Achievements sits in the sidebar instead. See Achievements & Fathoms.
Notification preferences
Choose which emails you want to receive — for example, the weekly announcement digest — under Profile → Preferences. See Notifications.
Managing or closing your account
You can export your personal data or request account deletion from your profile. See Your account & data.