Member guide
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.
- Today's forecast — current conditions at the club.
- 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.
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.
Weather & Sail Brief
Read the forecast and the AI-written briefing for each sail.
Announcements
Keep up with club news.
Notifications
Choose which emails you receive.
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.
- Skippering takes clearance. Some boats require an endorsement and a certification level to skipper. See Certifications & skipper status.