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Port King
Harbour manoeuvres, safe and clear: 28 narrated videos, plus radio, flashcards, sea marks and checklists. Your companion for everything around sailing.
Skipperfriends builds practical sailing apps that make life on the water easier and safer – clear, uncluttered and without a subscription.
Each app is built for a real situation on board – no ballast, no subscription.
Harbour manoeuvres, safe and clear: 28 narrated videos, plus radio, flashcards, sea marks and checklists. Your companion for everything around sailing.
Your digital companion on Lake Chiemsee, Lake Starnberg, the Ammersee, the Tegernsee and the Brombachsee: offline chart, trip logbook, anchor watch, weather and webcams. The essentials are free, everything else with a single one-off purchase.
Behind Skipperfriends stands Prof. Dr Knut Hildebrand together with a circle of experienced sailing friends. An active sailor for over 20 years with many thousands of nautical miles in his wake – as a charterer in the Baltic and North Sea, Ijsselmeer, Zeeland, the English Channel, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Denmark and off Canada's west coast.
Holder of SBF Binnen and See, SKS, SSS and SRC, instructor at the Landshut Sailing Club and the JOJO sailing school in Munich. He runs skipper training in Croatia and on the Baltic, took part in the Kornati Cup – and is out on Lake Chiemsee with a Bavaria.
Our apps grow out of that practice: clear, honest and just as detailed as they need to be. No subscription, no hidden costs – just knowledge that's ready when the moment comes.
The apps themselves are built by his son Titus Hildebrand. He grew up sailing and has been on the water since childhood – the family boat lies on Lake Chiemsee, and for four years he sat on the board of the Landshut sailing association. An information systems specialist, currently writing his master's thesis at the University of Regensburg – and alongside that a self-employed developer for iOS and Android.
Binnen Skipper grew out of his own need. “Wind here, water level there, water temperature somewhere else, then the storm warning and the webcams” – and every site laid out differently. So he wrote himself an app that shows it all in one place: at first only for Lake Chiemsee, today for five Bavarian lakes.
Port King carries his signature too. The app originally sat in an off-the-shelf kit and was tightly limited in what it could do. Titus rebuilt it from the ground up – his own code, a new structure, a new design.
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