Pre-course email
Send the readiness quiz and one printable a week before training so students arrive with weaker topics already visible.
Free sailing club resources for student prep
Link these free quizzes, simulators, and printables from a pre-course email, club newsletter, member portal, marina notice, or training page. They are independent revision aids, not official RYA training, exams, or certificates.
Readiness quiz
A no-login quiz clubs can send before Day Skipper, Coastal Skipper, Yachtmaster, or SRC training.
Open resourceFree Day Skipper test
Short public questions for tides, buoyage, COLREGs, chartwork, weather, and passage planning.
Open resourceFree SRC radio test
Quick checks for Mayday, Pan-Pan, DSC, Channel 16, Channel 70, and VHF call decisions.
Open resourceIALA buoyage quiz
Card recognition, safe-side prompts, and light-sequence practice for Region A marks.
Open resourceDocking simulator
A free practical-prep simulator for fenders, lines, wind, stream, prop walk, and slow approaches.
Open resourceFree tools hub
Boat anatomy, chart reading, tides, compass, sextant, course to steer, signal flags, COLREGs, and radio tools.
Open resourceUseful-links page
Add the tools hub, buoyage quiz, docking simulator, and SRC test to member resource pages where plain links are easiest to maintain.
Printables
Use the PDF prompts as handouts or reminder links. They keep the revision light while pointing learners to the relevant practice.
Printable revision aids
Send useful PDFs to students or members
These forms email the printable to the learner and keep a record of which resource was requested, so Compass can measure which topics bring useful interest.
Free printable
Day Skipper practical prep checklist
A printable checklist for the theory to refresh before stepping aboard: pilotage, tides, buoyage, weather, COLREGs, safety, and passage planning.
Independent revision aid, not official RYA material.Privacy policy
Free printable
Mayday and Pan-Pan script card
A printable spoken-call prompt for distress and urgency structure, channel choice, vessel identity, position, and assistance required.
Independent revision aid, not official RYA material.Privacy policy
Free printable
IALA A buoyage cheat sheet
A compact printable for lateral, cardinal, isolated danger, safe water, special, and emergency wreck marks.
Independent revision aid, not official RYA material.Privacy policy
Free printable
Charter abroad paperwork checklist
A practical prompt sheet for checking certificates, radio paperwork, local rules, crew details, insurance, deposits, and passage constraints.
Independent revision aid, not official RYA material.Privacy policy