Easy Sail

We do not explain how sailing works. You find out.

Easy Sail is for someone who has never been out on the water. There is wind, there is a boat, and there is one instruction: make the boat move.

You turn towards the wind. The sail loses its shape and the boat dies. You turn away, the sail fills, and the boat goes.

That is the moment you understand the relationship between wind, boat and sail — without anyone having told you.

THE WORDS COME LAST Most sailing lessons open with terminology. This one does the opposite: you feel it first and learn what it is called afterwards. You find the dead zone yourself; only then do we name it. You work out for yourself that getting upwind means zig-zagging; the word "tacking" arrives after.

ELEVEN SHORT DISCOVERIES, IN TWO ACTS

At sea — making her go • Make the boat move — why a boat cannot sail straight into the wind • Reach the buoy — why speed depends on your angle to the wind • The buoy upwind — tacking • Make the boat faster — sail trim • Turn through the wind — the manoeuvre itself • Turn with the wind behind you — the gybe, and why the boom matters

In the harbour — making her stop • Stop at the mooring — a sailing boat has no brakes • Come alongside — why you always arrive into the wind • Anchor beside the mark — why the anchor goes upwind of where you want to lie • Get off the shore — why a lee shore is left by beating, not by running • Stern-to the quay — what is really holding you off it

At the end of each act, what you found out is read back to you. After both, the sea is yours.

WHAT IT IS NOT Not a test. No scores, streaks or badges. Not a simulator claiming realism either — the aim is to feel right, not to compute right.

No ads. No account. No data collected; the app does not even connect to the internet.

About twenty minutes. After that you understand what is happening out there.

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