MCA & RYA Exam Prep · In Audio
Study while you work.
Audiobooks for yacht and merchant navy crew — written by captains and built around the syllabus, made to be studied on watch, on passage, and after a twelve-hour day. The app is now live on iOS and Android: every course, one subscription, 3-day free trial. Both COLREGs audiobooks are free inside.
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SHOP THE CATALOGUE →WRITTEN BY CAPTAINS · BUILT AROUND THE SYLLABUS · STUDIED AT SEA
BUILT FOR LIFE ABOARD
Made to be studied at sea
The whole catalogue in one player — engineered for watches, rounds, crossings and crew transfers.
Studio-quality narration
Professional audiobooks covering the full ladder, deckhand to Master.
Chapters that mirror your exam
Jump straight to the topic your examiner will ask about.
Every route in one library
Yacht, merchant navy, fishing and workboat — the whole ladder in your pocket.
FOUR ROUTES. ONE HABIT.
WHICH LADDER ARE YOU CLIMBING?
Every course maps to a real MCA or RYA ticket on one of four career routes. Pick yours and see the full run from first day aboard to command.
THE PASS GUARANTEE
Pass first time — or your next month is free.
Listen to every audiobook in your syllabus twice and walk into the exam room ready. If you don't pass first time, we add a month of All Access to your account, free — the next run at it is on us.
Applies to All Access members. Email us your result — no forms, no quibbles.
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GET THE RULES IN YOUR EARS BEFORE YOU SPEND A POUND
Try the format on the material every ticket depends on. If the voice, the pace, and the pedagogy work for you, the rest of the ladder is waiting.
3,000+ CREW ALREADY HAVE THE FREE COLREGS ABOARD
COLREGs Word for Word Audio
The full Collision Regulations, read aloud.
COLREGS Explained Audiobook
The collision-avoidance guide that teaches you to think — not just memorise.
Casualties That Wrote the Rules — Merchant Navy Edition
Real disasters that shaped the rules — for merchant navy crew.
FROM THE CREW
Rated by working crew
Reviews from crew on the ladder — deckhand to Master
“This is a great idea!! Listening to this does not sound automated or someone reading of a script. This audio is brilliantly done and cuts straight to the point. I'm not all of the way through yet but what I have heard, I am very impressed”
Michael Boyle
Business & Law — Master (Yachts)
TRUSTED BY 3,000+ CREW
THE PROBLEM
NOBODY FAILS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE
The problem is finding the time. After a twelve-hour day, the last thing you want to do is open a textbook. No space in your cabin. The bridge is busy. There's a party in the crew mess.
Audio Fastlane was built for crew who don't have time to sit at a desk — or don't have a desk at all. Press play on a passage, on rounds, in your rack — and keep progressing toward your ticket on the days the textbook never leaves the drawer.
You don't just pass. You walk into your exams sounding like someone who's already doing the job.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PASS
What the ticket buys you
Nobody studies COLREGs for fun. You do it for what's on the other side of the exam room door.
The rank
Deckhand to officer isn't a pay rise — it's a different job. The bridge instead of the brightwork. Your name on the watch bill. Decisions that are yours.
The life
Officer tickets unlock officer terms: better money, better cabins, and the rotational jobs that give you a life ashore as well as a career at sea.
The standing
Walk into the oral — and the wheelhouse — sounding like someone who's already doing the job. Competence gets noticed. Noticed gets promoted.
Every month without the ticket is another month on the old rank, the old rota, the old pay. The study time already exists — your watches, your rounds, your crew transfers. All you have to do is listen.
ALL ACCESS
Every course. One subscription.
The entire catalogue — yacht, merchant, fishing and workboat, every new release included — in the app. Start with a 3-day free trial.
EVERY AUDIOBOOK · NEW RELEASES INCLUDED · OFFLINE LISTENING · PASS GUARANTEE
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IN THEIR WORDS