Step 1 Set up your offering — sessions, team, resources, capacity.
Step 2 Customers find you and book themselves in.
Step 3 Confirm payment, gather waivers, send the brief.
Step 4 Run the day with the right tools to hand.
Step 5 Issue records, stay in touch, win the repeat.
Online bookings, multi-boat scheduling, payments, instructor management, certificates and fleet maintenance — one platform. RYA, ASA, IYT or your own bespoke courses. Dinghy, yacht, keelboat or powerboat.
A busy week: courses, boats, instructors — one calendar.
Broad Reach replaces the spreadsheets, email templates, paper sign-offs and standalone widgets most sailing schools rely on. Whether you run two dinghies or a fleet of yachts, the platform fits.
The full RYA syllabus is in from day one — Start Yachting through Yachtmaster Ocean, plus Dinghy, Powerboat, Windsurfing and Personal Watercraft schemes. Run ASA, IYT or your own bespoke courses alongside.
Run a Day Skipper Practical, a Competent Crew, and a private lesson off the same pontoon. Share an instructor across two yachts. Stack a dinghy session on Saturday morning. Conflicts caught before you save.
For mile-builders, prep weeks and any liveaboard course: sell cabins per berth, per tier — aft, fore, twin, single. Allocation, capacity and per-cabin pricing handled automatically.
Own-boat tuition, mile-builders, family charters, refresher hours, taster sessions — bespoke pricing, custom hours, on the same calendar as your scheduled courses.
Your course syllabus — RYA, ASA, IYT or your own — on any device, on the boat. Instructors tick competencies as they go. Sync to the student record. Bring it up at the end-of-week debrief.
RYA-format, your own design, or both. Generated on completion. Your branding, instructor signature, emailed straight to the student. Optional — turn it off if you prefer manual issue.
Tomorrow’s manifest in one click. A student’s full course history in another. Search any past trip by boat, instructor or date — useful when you need to look something up two years later.
Students see their progress, certificates, next course. Instructors see their roster, students, sign-off sheets. The shore office stops being a phone-answering service.
Yachtmaster Instructor, Cruising Instructor, Powerboat Trainer, Dinghy Senior — track every qualification and expiry. First-aid, sea survival, DBS, VHF — reminders fire before anything lapses.
Per-boat logs for services, defects, coding renewals, and reminders. From a single Wayfarer to a fleet of yachts — one place where the maintenance picture lives.
Marine forecast and tide times overlaid on every trip. Plan course start times around the tide, brief students on conditions, decide on weather contingencies for dinghy sessions.
Confirmations, joining instructions, pre-course pre-reads, post-course certificates, follow-ups, feedback requests — all written, all branded, all triggered at the right moment.
Sell theory online between practical weeks. Recurring revenue, weather-proof. In active development — ask about the roadmap.
Not every booking is a course. Bareboat charters, skippered days, and delivery trips on the same calendar. In active development.
Most booking tools were built for hotels and gyms. Multi-boat scheduling, instructor revalidation, syllabus sign-off, MCA-coded fleet tracking — first-class here, not bolt-ons.
Online booking, payments, calendar, certificates, waivers, instructor portal, student portal, email and SMS automation. One platform, one bill, one place your data lives.
1.75% platform fee on bookings. No monthly fees. No per-booking caps. Quiet winter months cost nothing. Busy summer weeks are still profitable. See pricing →
Yes. Broad Reach is built around a generic course catalogue — RYA, ASA, IYT and bespoke courses sit alongside each other. You can use only the bits that matter to your school.
Yes. Dinghy sessions, half-day sailing tasters, week-long camps, RYA Dinghy Levels, RYA Powerboat — the calendar handles any session length, any group size, and any boat-type combination.
Yes — RYA-format, your own branded design, or both. On course completion, with your centre branding and instructor signature, emailed automatically. Optional and can be turned off.
Online payments via Stripe (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay), deposits and balances, digital waivers signed on any device with audit trail. Wired up from day one.
1.75% platform fee on bookings. No monthly fees, no per-booking caps. Full platform access from sign-up. Free in months with no bookings. Full pricing here.
Yes — most schools switch in a single weekend. We import courses, students, instructors and historical data. Read the switching guide.
15-minute walkthrough. Real school data. We’ll show you exactly how your weekly schedule, sign-off and certificates would work.