Member guide
Everything you do day to day as a club member — book sails, build crews, and manage your credentials.
This is your home base as a Zeil member. Once you've joined a club and set up your profile, everything below is what you'll do on a regular basis.
Your club home
When you open your club, the home page gives you the day at a glance:
- Upcoming sails — reservations you're part of, soonest first.
- Open crew spots — sails looking for crew you could join. Each one shows how many seats are open (or crew needed), or your standing if you're already involved — "You're aboard", "Pending approval", "You're invited", or "You're leading".
- Today's forecast — current conditions at the club, plus the tide times and water-level curve for the next eight hours on tidal waters.
- Latest announcements — pinned notices first.
What you can do
Find a boat
Browse the fleet and see each boat's size, crew needs, and status.
The club calendar
Browse the fleet a day at a time — sails to join and windows to book.
Book a sail
Reserve a boat for a time window, in 15-minute steps.
Manage your sails
See upcoming and past sails, confirm, and cancel.
Build your crew
Invite crew, join open sails, and meet the crew requirements.
Certifications & skipper status
Understand what you're cleared to skipper and why.
Courses & the sailing school
Browse a club's course schedule, register, and track My courses.
Weather & Sail Brief
Read the forecast and the AI-written briefing for each sail.
Achievements & Fathoms
Badges, Fathoms points, and your community rank.
Announcements
Keep up with club news.
Notifications
Choose which emails you receive.
Connecting AI assistants
Connect Claude or another AI assistant and manage your sailing by chat.
Search across your club
Use global search to jump straight to a boat, a member, or one of your own sails from anywhere in the app:
- On desktop, press
⌘K(or click the search box) to open the search palette. - On mobile, tap the search icon in the top bar — or use the search field on your club home — to open full-screen search.
Start typing and results group by type (boats, members, and your sails); use the arrow keys and Enter, or tap a result, to go straight there.
A few things worth knowing up front
- Times are shown in your club's timezone. A club in Sydney and a club in Auckland each show times locally, so what you see is what you'll sail.
- Bookings snap to 15 minutes. Start and end times line up to the quarter hour.
- A boat can only be booked once for a given slot. Zeil prevents overlapping reservations on the same boat — if a slot's taken, you'll be asked to pick another.
- So can you. You can't be committed to two sails at once — if you're already skipper or confirmed crew somewhere at that time, Zeil asks you to pick a time when you're free.
- Skippering takes clearance. Some boats require an endorsement and a certification level to skipper. See Certifications & skipper status.