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SAILING ATELIER
An Oyster 595 under spinnaker in open water

A private club for Oyster owners and skippers

The knowledge stays with the yacht

Every question asked and every fix found on board is kept, searchable and shared under the names you already know from the owners' group. Access is by approval, so everyone here runs one of these yachts.

On an iPhone or iPad? Get the app from the App Store. On Android or a computer, the website does everything the app does.

Why it exists

The answer you need was given two years ago, in a chat nobody can search

Someone asks about a failing bow thruster. Three owners who solved it write back. A year later the same question comes round again, because those answers are four thousand messages up the scroll.

Sailing Atelier keeps them. Same people, same candour, but filed by system and findable in seconds.

Nothing gets lost

Every problem and its solution is filed by system, so the next owner finds it in seconds instead of asking again.

Approved, one by one

Every member is approved before joining. You are among the owners and skippers of these yachts, under real names, just like the WhatsApp group.

Built around your yacht

Tie a discussion to the exact model, engine and equipment on board, so the advice you read actually fits your yacht.

One answer, kept current

Each thread carries a single solution that any owner can improve, and the others mark whether it worked on their yacht.

The cockpit of an Oyster 595, twin wheels and primary winches

Sail an Oyster 495, 565 or 595?

Tell us which yacht you run, whether you own her or skipper her. Every request is read by a person, not by a form, so it takes a day or two.