Built by Sailors,
For Sailors
QuarterMates started on a beer coaster in Jachtclub Scheveningen and grew into this endeavour to take the confusion out of crew management.
It Started With WhatsApp and Google Sheets
It was a Sunday's Ijspegel race out of Scheveningen. Seven crew confirmed. Two didn't show. One had the wrong Sunday, one had quietly unconfirmed with a thumbs-down emoji that nobody spotted.
We sailed shorthanded and finished last. Post-race, sitting in the clubhouse over some bitterballen, the question formed: why is crew management still so hard?
Every skipper seems to have their own way of managing crew. Some use Google sheets to manage the season, and turn to WhatsApp for crew comms. Others rely on a mix of phone calls, Doodle polls, and smoke signals. The common thread: it's all a bit of a mess. The need is obvious. Nobody had built the right thing yet. Something made specifically for how club racing actually works.
So we built it.
Scheveningen Harbour
52°5.779'N 4°15.983'E
Our Mission
One Boat. One Crew. One App.
Stop chasing crew. Go sailing.
Meet the Team
The crew behind QuarterMates.
Tilman
Skipper · Scheveningen
Passion for everything on the water. Sailed the seven seas on a Roberts 35. Programs at night, building tools for things that annoy him.
Esmeralda
First Mate · Scheveningen
Master victualiser and the one who actually knows how to hold a luff. Raced the Fastnet and lived to tell the tale.
Islay
Boat Mascot · Scheveningen
Chief rodent deterrent and morale officer. Makes sure nothing lives under the planks that shouldn’t.
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