Product updates, racing stories, and life on the North Sea. Written from the pontoon at Scheveningen.
Talking to sailors at HISWA te Water confirmed what our own numbers already hinted at: QuarterMates lives on people's phone. A native app is on the way, but you don't have to wait to get an app-like icon on your home screen.
This weekend the QuarterMates team will be at HISWA te Water, and we'd love to meet you.
Halfway through the season, most crews plateau. The ones that get faster from June to September are the ones that stop for five minutes and actually talk.
The first ever World Sailing Day brings together sailors from 60+ countries and 800+ events, from Olympic classes to model boats on a pond. Here is why it matters.
Most races are lost before the gun. These five mistakes have nothing to do with boat speed and everything to do with the hour before you leave the dock.
April means the boat comes out of its winter cocoon. A love letter to antifoul fumes, corroded shackles, and the stubborn optimism of fitting out.
The feature skippers asked for most is here. Share one link in WhatsApp, by email, or on the clubhouse whiteboard, and your crew are aboard in seconds.
The water is green-grey, the tide runs sideways across the finish line, and the wind ignores the forecast on principle. A love letter to club racing out of Scheveningen.
We have apps for everything. Yet skippers everywhere still run their crew from a group chat with 47 unread messages. Why is crew management such a mess?
Seven crew confirmed for the Ijspegel. Two didn't show. One had the wrong Sunday. This is the story of how QuarterMates got sketched on a beer coaster at Jachtclub Scheveningen.
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