Booking a sail

Reserve a boat for a time window, snap to 15-minute slots, and handle conflicts.

Booking a sail means reserving a boat for a window of time. Here's how it works and what to expect.

Make a reservation

Pick a boat and time

Start a new reservation, choose an active boat, and select a start and end time. The calendar shows when boats are available and what's already booked.

Times snap to 15 minutes

Start and end times line up to the quarter hour (:00, :15, :30, :45). Zeil enforces this both as you pick and when it saves.

Confirm the window

If the slot is free, your reservation is created. If the boat needs a skipper, you'll sort out crew and skipper next — see Build your crew.

You can only book inside the availability windows your club's administrators have set for a boat. Outside those windows — or during a blackout (for maintenance or a club event) — the boat isn't bookable. If you can't find a slot you expected, the boat may simply not be open then. See Availability for how admins set this up.

No double-booking

A boat can hold only one reservation for any given moment. Zeil prevents overlapping bookings on the same boat at the database level — it's not possible to slip two sails into the same slot.

Slot just taken?

If someone books the same boat and time a moment before you, Zeil will tell you the slot is no longer available. Pick a different time or boat and try again — nothing about your account is wrong.

Draft vs. confirmed

A new reservation usually starts as a draft while you assemble the crew and meet the boat's requirements. Once the crew and skipper requirements are met, it becomes confirmed. For the full lifecycle, see Reservation states.

Editing or cancelling

You can manage a sail you've booked — adjust crew, or cancel it — from Manage your sails.