The club calendar
Browse the whole fleet a day at a time — sails you can join, windows you can book, and why a boat is out.
The Calendar answers the two questions members actually have: when can I get a boat? and what can I join? On a phone it opens on the List view — a cross-boat agenda of what's coming up — with the day board and Week a tap away. On a wider screen it keeps the familiar boats-and-hours grid.
Zeil remembers the view and day you had open for the rest of your visit, so tapping into a sail and coming back to the Calendar lands you where you left off instead of resetting to the default. Open a fresh tab and it starts over at List (Week on a wider screen).
The day board
Pick a day from the strip along the top, step through with the arrows, or tap the calendar icon to jump to a date. The board then lays the day out in sections, most useful first.
Under each day in the strip, small dots hint at what's there: an amber dot means there's a sail you could join or take the helm of, a blue dot means a boat you're cleared to skipper has water free.
Open sails
Every sail on the water that day, each on a card with the skipper's name, the boat, the time range, and how the seats are looking. The ones you can act on sort to the top, and the count beside the heading is how many you can actually join.
| Pill | What it means |
|---|---|
| N seats open | Room for more crew — ask to join. |
| +N needed | The sail is still short of the boat's minimum crew. |
| Full · standby | Every seat is taken, but you can wait in line. |
| Needs skipper | A confirmed sail lost its skipper and is looking for one. |
| Skipper | It's your sail — you're at the helm. |
| Aboard, Requested, Invited, On standby | Your own standing on that sail. |
Tap Join on the card to request a spot without leaving the board — the button becomes Requested ✓ and the skipper is notified. Tap the card itself for a closer look (seats filled, what the sail is for) and the action that fits: Request to join, Join standby list, or View details for the full page.
If the day has no sails yet, the board offers to start one — once the sail exists, crew can find you.
Sails you can't join
A boat held for an on-water course session isn't a sail you can join or inspect — it shows up under unavailable instead. See Courses.
Free to book
Every boat with water left in the day. Boats you're cleared to skipper are listed first and marked You can skipper; where a boat asks for a certification level you don't have, the row names the level instead — so you can tell at a glance what's realistic. See Certifications & skipper status.
Each row carries a slim bar sketching the shape of that boat's day, plus time chips — the gaps that are genuinely free. A chip is only offered once Zeil has checked it against the boat's availability windows, any blackout, sails already booked, and course holds. Gaps shorter than 30 minutes aren't worth a chip, and on today's board anything already past is dropped.
- Tap a chip and Zeil offers only the starts and durations that fit inside that gap — nothing that runs past its end — then opens the booking form with the time filled in.
- A boat that's open from end to end shows Free all day.
- A long list of chips folds behind +N more.
- Tap the boat's name to open its own day: a Next free shortlist you can book straight from, and the hour-by-hour grid for that one boat.
A chip is a head start, not a reservation
Zeil checks the time again when it saves, so a slot someone books a moment before you can still come back as a conflict. Pick another time or boat and try again. See No double-booking.
Cancelled sails
A sail that's called off doesn't vanish from the day — it stays on the board in its own Cancelled section, dimmed and struck through with a Cancelled pill, so the day still tells its story. Tap the row to open the sail page and read the cancellation reason. A cancelled sail no longer holds any water: the freed time shows up again under Free to book as if the booking had never existed. (A cancelled course hold simply disappears — the boat is just free again.)
What's unavailable
The rest of the fleet folds away behind N boats unavailable. Open it to see why each boat is out for the day:
| Reason | What it means |
|---|---|
| On the water | Booked solid — no gap left. |
| Blackout | Closed for maintenance or a club event (with the admin's note, if there is one). |
| Course day | Held for an on-water course session. |
| Availability not posted yet | Your club hasn't set the boat's hours for that day. |
When nothing at all is on offer, the board says Harbor's quiet — nothing to book and points you at the next free day, with the number of boats waiting there. Tap it to jump.
Week and List
The Week and List toggles reframe the same seven days.
- Week is the whole fleet at a glance: one row per boat, seven columns, each a small bar of that day's shape. An amber dot marks a day with a sail to join. A legend spells out free, booked, open sail, blackout, and course. Tap any cell to open that day's board.
- List is a cross-boat agenda: the sails you can act on as cards, one tinted line summarizing the day's free boats and best window, and everyone else's sails as quiet rows you can tap through to.
Weather
On the day view, the next week of days carries a short wind summary so you can weigh a day before committing to it. For the full picture — and the AI-written advisory for a sail you're on — see Weather & Sail Brief.
How far the calendar reaches
The calendar covers today through about 90 days ahead. You can't page back before today — a past slot can't be booked — and the far edge stops where your club's posted availability does, so you're never shown open water the club hasn't actually opened yet.
Days, times, and "today" all follow your club's timezone, not your phone's.
Taking the helm
If a confirmed sail loses its skipper, it goes to Needs skipper while the club's grace window runs. Any member cleared to skipper that boat can open it from the board and choose Take the helm — one tap puts you at the helm and confirms the sail, rescuing it before it's auto-cancelled. The sail still has to meet the boat's crew rules to go back to confirmed, so if the crew has thinned out in the meantime, fill the gap first. See Reservation states.
On desktop
On a wider screen the calendar keeps its Day, Week, and Month grid, with a filter for All boats or a single boat. Availability, blackouts, and course holds paint the same way there. Cancelled sails show up too — as narrow, muted ghosts beside the live schedule in the Day and Week grids, and as dimmed struck-through chips in Month view — each clicking through to the sail page, never covering the freed slot's booking controls or crowding a live sail out of a full day.