Better stopovers
Reviews and local additions help skippers understand a place before they arrive.
Marina reviews
Local places
Guides
Get rewarded for useful sailing knowledge
Share marina reviews, anchorages, useful places, photos, and practical guides. Useful contributions earn points, and 1 point equals €1.
Start with one useful review or place you know well. The best contributions are specific, local, and based on real sailing experience.
Ways to earn
Current reward values are shown below. More actions are collapsed by default.
| Action | Points |
|---|---|
| Article, published | 5 |
| Invite a friend, when used | 5 |
| Marina review Regular review: 1 point. First useful review with photos can earn more. | 1-4 |
| Add anchorage | 3 |
| Add yacht store or service | 3 |
Why it matters
Sailors.tips gets better when local sailing experience becomes clear planning context for the next crew.
Fair credit
Useful additions add points to your balance instead of disappearing into a generic database.
Trusted community
Invite-based access keeps the tone focused while content can still grow through real contributors.
What you can contribute
Focus on sailing details that help another skipper choose, approach, or enjoy a stopover.
Marina reviews
Share practical notes about approach, facilities, prices, photos, and recent changes.
Anchorages and buoys
Add stopover points where reliable local anchoring context is hard to find.
Stores and services
Add chandlers, repair points, fuel stops, and services that solve real trip needs.
Places ashore
Add attractions and useful shore notes when they improve destination planning.
Guides and stories
Turn local experience into clear advice, checklists, or practical sailing stories.
New marina records are added by the admin team. Contributors strengthen those pages through reviews, photos, nearby places, and local updates.
How rewards work
The logic is simple: add useful content, earn points on your balance, and request payout once you reach €100.
Contribute
Add reviews, photos, places, anchorages, or guides based on real sailing experience.
Earn points
Eligible additions add points to your balance.
Build balance
1 point equals €1, so your balance grows as you add useful content.
Withdraw
Once you reach €100, you can request payout to an IBAN account.
Useful content standards
There is no pre-moderation step for every post. Invite-only access keeps the bar higher, and we still monitor quality, duplicates, and abuse after publication.
Eligible for rewards
- Place-specific details, not generic travel text.
- Your own photos and observations.
- Approach, facilities, prices, depth, services, or recent changes.
- Advice another skipper can reuse during a real stopover.
Can lose rewards
- Duplicate listings or repeated reviews.
- Copied text or photos you do not own.
- AI filler, invented details, or vague summaries.
- Generic notes that do not help with a specific place.
FAQ
Ask friends who are already in, or request an invite via
Instagram
or email
[email protected].
Original and useful contributions can earn rewards: marina reviews, photos, anchorages, services, places of interest, route reviews, comments, and practical guides.
New marinas are added by the admin team. You can suggest missing marinas and add reviews, photos, nearby places, services, and anchorages.
Yes. Write in your native language. The site can translate content after saving and lets you preview the English version.
Cash-out unlocks at €100. We currently pay to IBAN accounts.
Yes. Duplicate, low-effort, misleading, copied, or system-gaming contributions can lose rewards, and accounts can lose access.