Frequently asked questions

Voyage Fuel is the energy that powers SailR. Longer conversations and more complex tasks consume more fuel because holding a longer memory of the conversation takes more energy.

Two habits stretch a day’s fuel:

• Start fresh: when you’re done with a topic, start a new chat. Carrying a long thread forward burns more fuel.
• Be specific: a precise question gets the answer in one pass, with less back-and-forth.

Your tank refills automatically every day at 00:00 IST (Indian Standard Time).

Best for: troubleshooting, risk assessment, and general advice.

Technical queries, operational troubleshooting, risk assessments, and day-to-day maritime guidance.

Best for: oral exam preparation.

Examines you the way surveyors do — relevant technical questions across the topics that come up in viva voces.

Best for: written exam preparation.

Structures answers to the model standard — precise, point-wise, and where the question calls for it, an introduction, main points, and conclusion.

No. SailR handles conceptual layouts only — flowcharts and mindmaps that explain how a system works.

No. SailR Helm-2 is calibrated against the maritime regulatory corpus, but like any AI system it has limits and can be wrong. Use it alongside your official references, and verify anything critical before you rely on it.

We update the databank monthly, once that month’s exams have concluded across all centres — so you have the latest questions asked at MMD.

We don’t just match text. We flag repeats by meaning — if two questions ask the same concept in different words, they’re marked as repeats, so you can see what’s actually worth studying.

Thousands of past questions across the major competency exams, with new papers added every month:

Filter by subject, function, year and month to find exactly what you need.

Yes — SailR is on the App Store and Google Play. Get it from sailr.in/app, which sends you to the right store for your phone.

No. Sign in with the account you already use on the website — your plan and your progress come with you, and there is nothing to buy again.

No. That was a shortcut to the website, and it will not receive notifications or work with an App Store or Google Play subscription. Install the real app from sailr.in/app and delete the old shortcut.

No. SailR needs a working internet connection, so plan to use it in port or wherever you have a usable signal onboard.