An AI assistant connected to your Saillogger account can answer questions about your boat and your travels in plain language. For example:

• "Where is my boat right now?"
• "How far did we travel this season, and which was our longest trip?"
• "Where did we stay in July, and for how many nights?"
• "When was the engine last serviced?"
• "Did the barometer drop overnight?"
• "How fast do we sail in 15 knots of apparent wind?"

The assistant reads the data listed below, as the Saillogger app shows it to you. You can also allow the assistant to change your sensor settings, your alert settings and your maintenance records, each kind on its own. The assistant cannot read your direct messages, fleet messages or payment method. In account and status answers, an unnamed boat is shown without a name.

What an assistant can read

• Your name and your boats: where they are and where they have been recently, their latest sensor data, their recent sensor history and their connection status
• Your logbook: trips, routes, the speed and wind recorded along each trip, statistics and badges
• The places you have stayed and your journal
• Your maintenance records, parts, vendors and their contact details, your notifications and alert settings, and the notes you have written
• Your photos and timelapse videos, as links, with when and where each photo was taken
• Your subscription (plan, price, status and billing dates) and which of your pages you share
• The boats you follow, who follows your boat, and the fleets you run or belong to, as you see them in Saillogger
• Public AIS information about other vessels, such as a name, position and recent track

Your Sharing settings do not limit a connected assistant: it reads your own boat even when your pages are private. A Saillogger boat you follow appears only as far as her owner's sharing settings allow, and other vessels appear with what their AIS broadcasts show.

While Live tracking & monitoring is off, the assistant lists no followers, as on your followers page. AIS Fleet members can still follow your boat's AIS positions.

Changes you can allow an assistant to make

An assistant can make only the changes you allow, and you allow each kind separately for each connected app. There are three kinds: Change your sensor settings, Change your alert settings and Change your maintenance records. Each one is off until you turn it on.

• When you connect: on the Saillogger page that opens, select each change you want to allow before you press Allow access. If the assistant asked for a change, the page says so; it is still off until you select it.
• Later: open Settings > Account (saillogger.com/app/settings/account), press Manage next to the assistant under Connected apps, and turn each change on or off. Your choice applies the next time the assistant uses Saillogger, without reconnecting.

Allowing a change when you connect applies to your existing connections to the same app too. Turning a change off keeps the app connected for reading. Reconnecting keeps the changes you still allow. A change you switch off stays off unless you allow it again.

Manage also lists the recent changes each assistant made, newest first: the latest few, and more under Show all. As an assistant makes more changes, its oldest ones leave the list.

Sensor settings

When Change your sensor settings is on, the assistant can add, rename and remove the sections and readings under Additional monitoring in your Sensors settings, including the ones you added yourself. It can add only readings your boat reports. It cannot change the built-in readings, such as depth, wind and battery. Changes to your alerts are a separate kind, described below.

• A section the assistant adds is not shown on your public pages; you can change that in your Sensors settings. The assistant cannot add to or rename a section that is shown on your public pages, but it can remove one.
• Removing a reading deletes its history, and removing a section deletes the history of all its readings. That history cannot be restored. Any alert you set on those readings under Alerting is removed with them.
• Your boat starts sending a new reading the next time it reads its settings, usually within a few minutes while it is online. Each reading it sends adds a little data to every report, which counts toward your data use on a metered connection.

To try this, ask the assistant something like "What else could you monitor on my boat?" or "Add a section for the fridge temperature."

Alert settings

When Change your alert settings is on, the assistant can change your settings under Alerting (saillogger.com/app/settings/alerting), including the alerts you set yourself. It can turn Alerting on or off, change Minimum time between alerts, and set, change and remove each alert, such as Wind speed or the Below and Above alerts on Battery voltage. This includes the alerts on the readings of your own sections under Additional monitoring.

• A removed alert is no longer sent, and no alert is sent while Alerting is off. The anchor alarm, the geofence alarm and the notices that your boat is offline or back online do not depend on Alerting, so the assistant cannot turn them off.
• The assistant cannot change where alerts are sent. E-mail, phone and webhooks are set under Notifications.
• The assistant reads and sets the built-in alerts in knots, hectopascals, degrees Celsius, metres, percent and volts, and the alerts on your own sections in the units your dashboard shows them in. Alerting shows every number in your own units.
• If a new built-in threshold cannot be stored or shown in your units, the change is not saved. Your previous setting stays in place.
• Setting an alert on one of your own readings to the same number keeps its existing wait before it can repeat. Changing the number ends that wait.
• Manage lists the recent changes in your own units, each with the number it replaced. If an old number cannot be shown in your units, its built-in unit is shown instead.

To try this, ask the assistant something like "Which alerts do I have, and is anything missing?" or "Alert me if the house battery drops below 12.2 volts."

Maintenance records

When Change your maintenance records is on, the assistant can add, change and remove your maintenance logs and the parts, vendors and categories under Maintenance (saillogger.com/app/maintenance), including the ones you added yourself. It can also save a vendor's phone number, e-mail address, website and address, and change how many of each part are aboard.

• Each change applies to one maintenance log, part, vendor or category. When the assistant changes a maintenance log, only the details it names change; everything else stays as it was.
• Removing a maintenance log deletes it. Removing a part, vendor or category takes it off the maintenance logs that name it, and those logs keep everything else. Saillogger cannot restore a removed item or earlier details. Manage keeps a short description of each recent change. For a removal, it identifies affected logs and says whether a part's picture was removed.
• To undo a change, ask the assistant to put it back. In the same conversation, the assistant has what was removed or replaced, including the full notes and category descriptions. In a new conversation, paste the change from Manage and provide any details missing from its summary.
• Using a part on a maintenance log does not change how many are aboard. You can ask the assistant to change that number.
• The assistant sets the location of a maintenance log only when it names one of your places. Saillogger does not fill it in from where your boat was, and changing the date of a maintenance log does not change its location.
• Engine and generator hours are kept in whole hours; a fraction of an hour is dropped, never rounded up.
• A maintenance log records work that was done, so the assistant cannot add one with a date in the future. Saillogger keeps no due dates or reminders.
• Maintenance logs have no cost field. Saillogger asks the assistant to start the notes of a maintenance log made from an invoice with the invoice number, the vendor and the total.
• The Maintenance screen shows each vendor's name. To see the contact details an assistant saved, ask the assistant.
• The assistant cannot add or change the picture of a part. Removing a part also removes its picture.
• Maintenance changes have hourly limits of their own, with lower limits for changing or removing items added more than a day ago. When a limit is reached, the assistant is told when it can continue. Changes to your sensor and alert settings are not affected.

To try this, ask the assistant something like "When did I last change the impeller, and at what engine hours?" or paste a yard's invoice and ask "Add this to my maintenance logs."

Connect an assistant

The address to give your assistant is:

https://saillogger.com/mcp

1. In your assistant's settings, add Saillogger with the address above. Claude calls this a custom connector; other assistants use other names, and their help pages show where to add one. Grok Bot adds it when you ask in a chat, as the instruction on Webhooks does.
2. The assistant opens a Saillogger page. Sign in if you are asked to.
3. Check the account you are signed in as, the name of the app and where access goes: claude.ai for Claude, chatgpt.com for ChatGPT, This computer (cursor://) for Grok Bot. If anything is not what you expect, press Cancel. Otherwise, select any changes you want to allow (see above), then press Allow access.

To test the connection, ask the assistant a question about your boat.

A connection lasts until you disconnect it, as long as the assistant uses it at least once a year. An interrupted connection can recover when the assistant retries, provided you have not disconnected it. If the assistant asks you to sign in again, reconnect Saillogger from the assistant's settings.

Some assistants keep the list of what they can read from the moment you connected. When Saillogger adds something new and your assistant says it cannot read it, refresh Saillogger in the assistant's settings: in ChatGPT, open Settings > Apps > Saillogger and press Refresh, then start a new conversation. Reconnecting alone does not update the list.

Disconnect

To end a connection from Saillogger, open Settings > Account (saillogger.com/app/settings/account) and, under Connected apps, press Manage next to the assistant, then Disconnect, then Disconnect again to confirm. From then on the assistant cannot read your data or change anything. What it has already read stays in your conversations with it. The list of changes it made is shown only while it is connected.

On the classic site, Settings > General has a Manage connected apps button that opens the same list.

While your subscription is paused, Connected apps appears on the settings page. Press Disconnect next to the assistant and confirm. You can do this without resuming your subscription.

Removing Saillogger in the assistant itself may leave it listed under Connected apps. Press Manage and then Disconnect there to end it in Saillogger too.

Things to know

• Unless you allow a change, the connection is read-only, and you make every other change yourself in Saillogger.
• When an assistant tries a change you have not allowed, Saillogger tells it where you can allow it: Settings > Account > Connected apps > Manage.
• The assistant can read your alert settings, including the alerts on your own sections under Additional monitoring. When Alerting is on and low and high thresholds overlap, a reading in the shared range can trigger both alerts, subject to the repeat interval.
• In recent sensor history, quiet custom gauges and wind direction stay listed with the time of their last usable report, when one is available. Wind directions in status and history answers use true north; a direction is left blank when the report does not provide enough information.
• If a detailed sensor history is too large for one answer, ask the assistant for fewer sensors, a shorter period or wider intervals.
• For imported trips, the wind reference is unknown. The assistant is instructed to leave that wind out of apparent-wind and polar calculations.
• A link to a photo, or to a part's picture, opens it for anyone who has the link. A timelapse video link opens only for you, while you are signed in to Saillogger.
• While your subscription is on a seasonal pause, a connected assistant cannot read your data. Your data is kept in full, and the assistant can read it again once you resume.
• Through this connection, Saillogger sends nothing to an assistant on its own: the assistant reads what it needs to answer you, from the list above, while it is connected. A webhook is what sends an assistant your notifications as they happen, as with a Grok Bot routine. Whether an assistant keeps your conversations, or uses them to improve its service, depends on its own settings and privacy policy.