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Passage Planner
Pick a passage, work out your timings, tidal gates and bolt-holes, then submit your plan to the AI Yachtmaster examiner. Training data only — not for navigation.
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Solent and Dorset
Cowes to Poole Harbour
A classic daylight coastal hop west through the Solent, out of Hurst Narrows and across Poole Bay.
≈ 29 nm
Catalan coast (home waters)
Barcelona coastal hop to Port Ginesta
A short daylight passage south-west past the commercial port and airport approach to Port Ginesta.
≈ 15 nm
Coastal Skipper
North Antrim coast and North Channel
Coleraine to Carrickfergus
Out over the Bann bar, east through Rathlin Sound and round the Antrim coast to Belfast Lough.
≈ 65 nm
North Channel and County Down
Portrush to Strangford
A long coastal passage through two serious tidal gates: Rathlin Sound and the Strangford Narrows.
≈ 85 nm
English Channel and Channel Islands
Lymington to St Peter Port, Guernsey
Out via the Needles Channel, across the shipping lanes to the Casquets and down the Little Russel.
≈ 87 nm
English Channel and Channel Islands (Tidetech English Channel sample)
Poole to Braye, Alderney
From Poole across the shipping lanes to Alderney, timed so the Swinge or the Alderney Race doesn't catch you.
≈ 57 nm
Mallorca (Tidetech Biscay & Iberia sample)
Round Mallorca from Palma
A multi-day coastal circuit of Mallorca, anticlockwise, with headland roundings and exposed sections on the north coast.
≈ 143 nm
Costa de la Luz and Strait of Gibraltar (Tidetech Biscay & Iberia sample)
Cádiz to Gibraltar
About 60 nm south past Cabo Trafalgar and Tarifa into Gibraltar Bay, with the Strait as the tidal gate.
≈ 68 nm
Yachtmaster
Western Channel and North Brittany
Dartmouth to Paimpol, Brittany
An offshore crossing of about 95 nm, through the shipping lanes to a rocky, large-range tidal coast.
≈ 97 nm
Balearic Sea
Barcelona to Palma, Mallorca
An open-water crossing of about 125 nm with overnight watches and a landfall in the Bay of Palma.
≈ 126 nm
Balearic Sea (home waters)
Barcelona to Fornells, Menorca
The crossing between our two bases, about 130 nm, with a landfall on Menorca's exposed north coast.
≈ 119 nm
English Channel (Tidetech English Channel sample)
Weymouth to Cherbourg
A cross-Channel passage clearing Portland Race, crossing both traffic lanes and arriving at Cherbourg's Passe de l'Ouest.
≈ 66 nm
Balearic Sea (Tidetech Biscay & Iberia sample)
Barcelona to Sant Antoni, Ibiza
About 150 nm of open sea from Barcelona south to Ibiza: overnight watches, a weather window and a night landfall.
≈ 158 nm
Western Mediterranean and Strait of Gibraltar (Tidetech Biscay & Iberia sample)
Ibiza to Cádiz
About 450 nm offshore along the Spanish coast and out through the Strait of Gibraltar: several days, watch systems and a major tidal gate.
≈ 441 nm