Forum: Training Materials, Presentations and Classes

A New Tool for Teaching & Learning Sailing – Check Out SailTalks.com

Odey Hariri
Nationality: United States
Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a website I’ve been building called SailTalks.com — it's a virtual whiteboard built specifically for sailing coaches, instructors, and learners.

The idea is simple: sailing hasn’t kept up with the tech age, and we’re trying to change that. Sail Talks lets you:

  • Drag and drop boats and marks to create clear, interactive diagrams

  • Animate lessons with a full timeline — play, pause, rewind, and slow down

  • Save your lessons or scenarios to the cloud and access them from any device

  • Explore community lessons created by other coaches and sailors

  • Use it in person or virtually to prepare for class, run chalk talks, or review races

Whether you're a coach who’s tired of whiteboards and magnets, or a student trying to learn on your own, Sail Talks is designed to help.

It's free to use (with optional premium features coming soon), and I'm actively developing it — so feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are super welcome.

Would love if you gave it a try and shared it with other sailors!

⛵ Try it out: https://sailtalks.com
📬 Reach out with questions/ideas: sailtalks.com@gmail.com

Let’s bring sailing education into the 21st century 🚀

— Odey
 Creator of Sail Talks

Created: 25-Apr-12 08:08

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Michael Butterfield
Looking forward to trying this.
Seems desktop oriented as the pen did not work on my android tablet.
What we are looking for is a simple tool to prepare diagrams to lodge with electronic protests.
It is hard to prepare as a scribe with the scantinformation we now receive.
Created: 25-Apr-12 09:16
Gordon Davies
Nationality: Ireland
A small detail - when using TSS I align boats to grid so b convention boats close-hauled are at 45° to the wind.
Either a grid, or a heading indicator when we rotate boats would be helpful.
Other wise this looks useful
Created: 25-Apr-12 10:16
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Angelo Guarino
Forum Moderator
Nationality: United States
Couple quick comments .. 

  1. First .. Very cool .. great start and thanks for sharing it with our forum members
  2. Undo/Redo .. a must have for at least the last operation.
  3. Line tool -> Needs a way to draw a straight line.  The universal shortcut for that is holding the shift-key down while dragging.   The most flexible implementation of that is that the straight-line is between the origin and the current cursor point so that you are not limited to 0/90 degrees. 
  4. grid as others have mentioned
Created: 25-Apr-12 13:03
Reinhard Schanda
Nationality: Austria
How can I export the lesson (diagramms) to other applications, such as Powerpoint or Word files, or send them by e-mail?
Created: 25-Apr-12 20:09
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Angelo Guarino
Forum Moderator
Nationality: United States
Odey .. I had an idea for the straight-line draw when in touch-mode.  Maybe implement a 2-finger touch mode for the line drawing such that a straight-line is drawn between the 2 touch points as you drag both points around.
Created: 25-Apr-13 10:52
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