Interactive learning tool for seaman, sailing and motor boat captains. It's usefull for test preperation or to refresh your knowledge before heading out to sea. Sailing schools, with this test's help, can test their students. The test has questions, pictures, animation, learing, and a help section.
The test is frequently updated with new questions. Currently the following themes are...
Andrejosta is an excellent opportunity for you to park your yacht because of security we provide (Guarding 24/7), comfortable environment and prices, which will satisfy everyone. We are located in the centre of Riga – we are the closest harbour to Riga old town.
The closest public transport stop is only 250 meters away, which provides you with a simple way to get to Central Train Station, Bust...
Many sailboat owners in Latvia are quite happy with their compact Gulf of Riga sailing area, a couple of regattas per season and the typical odd over-the-weekend destination Ruhnu (a tiny Estonian island), worse even, I am told that locked in a lake in Kurzeme (formerly known as Kurland) isolated from the sea there is a 32 foot Bavaria among quite a few smaller sailboats united by the lake-based...
Here are some of the movies on sailing I have seen in my life. As far as the honorable directors have managed to portray it. Some of the movies are about competitions and in some movies the yachts are used as a backdrop for a crime thriller or the depiction of comical or funny adventures. What sailing movies have you seen?
An aura of secrecy and a specific appeal is added to the lighthouse by stories of the robber David, who made false fires on the shore to endanger the passing ships. There had been a humongous oak in the precipice of the Zilie kalni before the Slītere lighthouse was built and it was also marked in all the sea maps. The oak was destroyed by lightning. The Slītere church built by the Danish Vikings...
The cat of nine tails. Every single man on the ship was subjected to the captain. He could punish the insubordinate. The captain would shorten rations for lesser offenses, but major offenses were punished by tying the man to the mast and whipping him with a rope-end (up to 100 lashes) or up to 30 lashes with the cat of nine tails (a whip made of several strips of leather with pieces of metal...
A long time ago Antoine de Saint Exupery once said that “There is a poetry of sailing as old as the world.” What does sailing really mean for us, sailors, and not the ones just looking at us?
The number of answers to the questions are as many as the sailors themselves. One cannot deny that everyone has a small daredevil inside, a sort of an adventurous spirit inside us that makes us look...
One of the best days of the voyage.
After a good night’s sleep I am sitting at the breakfast table with a fellow traveler and he has decided to join the ranks of the yachtsmen – I guess my stories have made him believe, that it is going to be fun. I expected the chili with mixed vegetables and shrimp to be a bit spicier, but it was good nevertheless. We had mango shake for dessert – it cost very...
We have created an e-mail list, where the sailors will get a chance to exchange their opinions as well as ask for help and give advice. Maybe a captain is looking for crew members for a race, a voyage or just a trip. Or maybe someone just wants to become a crew member. The list would give you a chance to talk about yachting, competitions, leisure sailing, seafaring, ports/harbors and the good and...
A few hundred years ago the greatest menace for every European seafarer were the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Nowadays the most dangerous zone of pirate activities is considered to be the coasts of Somalia where a ship is being captured almost every week. The pirates have attached 100 million dollar oil tankers, as well as a Ukrainian ship with a mysterious weapons shipment on-board. Latvian...
Black cats and Friday 13th are just a small portion of all the superstitions. The strange thing about this article is the fact that it was written on Friday 13th and thus makes me smirk a little. Everyone can decide on his own, if he believes it or not, but as it turns out, the yachtsmen are a bit superstitious. Here are just some examples of superstitions about sailing and the sea.It’s for you...
sheet bend, round turn with half hitches, reef knot, clove hitch, bowline, double sheet band, coiling a line
We arrive at the airport at 11AM and I meet with Ralfs. Māris and Uldis arrive soon and we check in and go through the control zone to the tax-free area. We have a meal in LuLu and get on the plane that would get us to Paris in 2.5 hours. The plane is the same as any plane around so we take our time and fool around with our handheld GPS, following the course, speed and altitude of the plane. The...
The day we had agreed to meet at the airport has come and we are going to fly from Riga to Marseilles via Stockholm. We are a bit worried about the size of our luggage and the weight of it so we weight our bags and try to even it out. After the security check is finally over we get on the plane that should take us to Stockholm. After 4 hours we will take our flight to Marseilles. We have lunch...
