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We’ve found 14 activities:
Nautical navigator
Keep track of your position out at sea by obtaining a fix and using a dead reckoning.
Supported by
Trinity House
4 hrs
Outdoors
Wild wind
Find out how to tell a fresh breeze from a near gale in this game about the Beaufort scale.
Supported by
Trinity House
30 mins
Indoors
Build a bottle boat
Learn some basic sailing terminology in this bottle-based, boat building bonanza.
Supported by
Trinity House
45 mins
Indoors
Rules of the nautical road
Find out who has right of way on the waves and learn about the International Regulations for Preventing Collision at Sea.
Supported by
Trinity House
1 hr
Indoors
When tides collide
Find out what makes the highest high and the lowest low in this game of tidal flow.
Supported by
Trinity House
30 mins
Indoors
Port pilots
Use sound to get around, as we look at the nautical navigation of tricky tides, coursing currents and packed ports.
Supported by
Trinity House
30 mins
Indoors
Learn how to make the boatswain’s call
Pipe out instructions with a boatswain’s whistle as we learn how sailors at sea share nautical messages.
Supported by
Trinity House
25 mins
Outdoors
Seafaring scenes
Create nautical narratives from your aquatic adventure kit as we learn how to be safe at sea!
Supported by
Trinity House
45 mins
Indoors
Forecast enthusiast
Find your inner weather forecaster as you get stuck into deciphering a synoptic weather map.
1 hr
At home
Play ship-tac-toe
Learn about water safety with this special game of noughts and crosses.
Supported by
Trinity House
20 mins
Indoors
Get afloat
Build a boat and find the perfect place to sail it.
Supported by
Trinity House
40 mins
Indoors
Play Captain’s Coming
Scrub the deck, climb the rigging and warm up in this fun game. Then take it to the next level with some sailing terminology!
10 mins
Indoors
Water safety decoded
Decode the SAFE water safety code (running between) around four activity bases.
1 hr
Outdoors
Dinghy sailing
Get out on the water and navigate a small sailboat to experience sailing.
4 hrs
On water