We Boat License

Pass your boating licence — content checked against the official texts

We Boat prepares seven European licences: the French coastal and inland permits, the Belgian restricted and general brevets, the Dutch Klein Vaarbewijs 1 and 2, and the German Sportbootführerschein See. Up to 487 lesson sheets and reference plates depending on your licence, animations, over 2,000 questions, and mock exams scored the way yours really is. All of it offline, with no account.

CHECKED CONTENT, AND SOURCED
Every rule points to the text it rests on — COLREG, CEVNI, Division 240 (2024 ed.), the Belgian royal decree of 1981, RPNE, BPR, SRW, SRE, SRKGT, SeeSchStrO. You don't memorise a claim: you know where it comes from. Audited article by article against those texts.

EVERY EXAM HAS ITS OWN SCORING
That is what separates a useful mock exam from a plain quiz.
• France, coastal and inland — 40 questions, five mistakes allowed, no eliminating subject (decree of 28 September 2007)
• Belgium, restricted and general — three parts, at least 50 % per part and 60 % overall
• Netherlands, Klein Vaarbewijs 1 — 40 questions, 80 points, 70 % pass mark
• Netherlands, Klein Vaarbewijs 2 — 27 questions, 50 points, 90 minutes, pass mark 35 (the CBR's own toetsmatrijs)
• Germany, Sportbootführerschein See — three independent parts: fail one, fail the exam

NEW — THE KLEIN VAARBEWIJS 2
The second Dutch certificate, in full: ruim water (SRW, SRE, SRKGT), navigation, and the four chart-plotting exercises worth 12 of the 50 marks. 266 topics, 23 chapters — and every topic names the area its rule applies to, because the SRW departs from the sea rules.

THE SYLLABUS
20 universal chapters, plus your licence's own — 38 topics in Belgium, 61 in the Netherlands (+57 for KVB2), 36 in Germany:
• Navigation lights: up to 72 configurations depending on the licence, each flashing its real character, seen from 4 angles and drawn on its own vessel's silhouette
• IALA-A buoyage by day AND by night: at night every mark beats its light's real character
• Inland signs: from 91 to 111 panels depending on the licence
• Steering and give-way rules (COLREG), with the national departures
• Sound, fog and distress signals · VHF (MAYDAY, PAN-PAN, SÉCURITÉ)
• Safety and required equipment (Division 240)
• Charts · Compass and bearings · Tides · Currents
• Marine weather (Beaufort, Douglas) · Knots · Manoeuvres
• Engine and pre-departure checks · Pollution (MARPOL)
• The 40 flags of the International Code of Signals
• Maritime glossary: 269 terms explained
• Tips and the exam's classic traps

UNDERSTAND, NOT JUST REMEMBER
The animations show what a still diagram cannot: give-way, crossing, the real rhythm of lights, buoyage by day and night, tides, knots, manoeuvres.

PRACTISE
Over 2,000 questions: never the same wording twice. Including 302 written by hand in the style of each exam, and the 284 official German ones.
• Quizzes by subject
• Recognition of lights, signs and day shapes
• Field photos: real signs and marks, not just pictograms
• 18 practical scenarios · Calculations: compass, rule of twelfths
• An explanation after every answer
• Targeted review of your mistakes (Pro)

YOUR COACH
Enter your exam date: countdown, weakest subject first, reminders. And a question a day to keep the rhythm.

WORKS EVERYWHERE
• 100 % offline — no connection needed to study
• No account; your results stay on your device
• The free version is ad-funded; Pro removes them

WE BOAT PRO
All the animations, unlimited mock exams, detailed statistics, targeted review of your mistakes, no ads. One-time purchase of €9.99 — no subscription.

We Boat does not replace official training: it complements it, so you can revise anywhere, at your own pace. Fair winds!