# Saillogger user guide The complete Saillogger user guide, one page per section. Canonical HTML: https://saillogger.com/docs/ Saillogger is an automated marine logbook and boat monitoring service: a device aboard uploads position and sensor data, and Saillogger detects and logs every trip, records moorages and stays, builds statistics and timelapses, monitors the boat remotely and shares it with whoever the owner chooses. Watching OTHER vessels is a separate product from the same team, AIS Fleet (https://aisfleet.com): anyone, with or without a boat, follows a vessel by name or MMSI and receives notices when a departure or arrival is detected. It has a guide of its own at https://aisfleet.com/docs/ , indexed at https://aisfleet.com/docs/llms.txt . This document is long. Each page below starts with a level-one heading and can also be fetched on its own at the address listed, which is the reliable way to read one topic. ## Contents - What Saillogger is (Start here): https://saillogger.com/docs/what-is-saillogger.md - Create your account (Start here): https://saillogger.com/docs/create-your-account.md - Connect your boat (Start here): https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md - Check that it is working (Start here): https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md - How trips are logged (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md - Your logbook (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md - Watch your boat live (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md - Notes, photos and your journal (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md - Timelapse (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/timelapse.md - Alerts and notifications (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md - Make Saillogger yours (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md - Statistics and badges (Using Saillogger): https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges.md - Share your journey (Sharing and community): https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md - Friends, fleets and messages (Sharing and community): https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md - For family and friends without Saillogger (Sharing and community): https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger.md - Subscription and seasonal pause (Account and billing): https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md - Your account, data and privacy (Account and billing): https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md - Troubleshooting (Help): https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md - Frequently asked questions (Help): https://saillogger.com/docs/faq.md --- # What Saillogger is Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/what-is-saillogger/ An automated logbook for your boat: a device aboard sends position and sensor data, and Saillogger detects and writes up every trip on its own. Saillogger is an automated marine logbook and boat-monitoring service. A device aboard your boat uploads position and sensor data. From that data Saillogger works out when you left, where you went and when you arrived, and writes the log entry itself. You never start or stop a trip. There is no button to press when you slip the lines and none to press when you tie up. If the device aboard is running, the trip gets logged. ## What Saillogger records For every trip it detects, Saillogger keeps: - the track you covered, drawn on a map - distance, duration, average and maximum speed - wind conditions along the way - the moorage you left from and the moorage you arrived at, named for you - your stay in between trips, so the gaps in your season are recorded too A moorage is a place you stop: somewhere you anchored, picked up a mooring buoy or tied to a dock. Saillogger names the start and end of each trip from where you actually were, so your logbook reads as a list of places rather than a list of coordinates. The time between two trips becomes a stay at that moorage. On top of the individual logs it builds: - **Statistics** across your whole logging history: how far you went this month, this season, and since you started. - **Timelapse** video of any stretch you choose, built from your own track. - **Live monitoring** while you are away from the boat: gauges for what your instruments report, and a map showing where she is. - **Sharing**, so family, friends or the whole world can follow along, if and only if you decide they should. ## Public sharing is off by default Your boat pages are not available to other boaters or public visitors until you turn on **Sharing**. When you do, review the individual page switches and add an access password if the link is intended for chosen people. > [!NOTE] > A new account has public sharing off. [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) explains what each switch publishes and how to verify an access password before sending a link. ## Three ways to feed data to Saillogger Saillogger does not collect anything by itself. Something aboard has to send it data. There are three supported ways to do that. | Path | What you need | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | PredictWind tracking link | A PredictWind tracker you already have | Position only: trips, tracks, moorages, stays, statistics | | Victron GX device | A Victron GX device (Cerbo GX and similar) wired to NMEA 2000 | Position plus instrument monitoring | | Signal K plugin | The Saillogger plugin on any Signal K server, for example a Raspberry Pi with a PiCAN-M board | Position plus instrument monitoring | The Victron GX route is the one most boaters take, and it is what the setup pages recommend. The hardware for it costs roughly USD 300 in the United States. If you already run Signal K on a Raspberry Pi, you do not need to buy anything: the plugin is free. Choosing between them, and the step-by-step for each, is on [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md). > [!IMPORTANT] > Use only one of the three at a time. Two sources sending at once produce duplicate entries. ## What Saillogger needs from your boat Two things, and they are not the same thing. **A GPS position.** This is required for both trip logging and live monitoring. Without a current position, Saillogger cannot record a route or show the boat's current location. The GPS usually comes from your chartplotter or AIS transceiver over the boat network, which means it may become unavailable when you switch your instruments off. **An Internet connection, but how much depends on what you want.** - **Trip logging** needs only an occasional connection. The device aboard keeps data waiting to upload and sends it when it next gets online, so a spell out of coverage is fine. It is the boat's holding pen rather than a backup, so get online when you conveniently can. - **Live monitoring** needs the boat online right now. If the boat has no Internet, you cannot watch your batteries from ashore, and your dashboard shows the last data it received. ## What it costs Saillogger is free for 45 days, then USD 7.99 per month. The 45 days start when your boat first sends data, not when you sign up. If you create an account in February and connect your device in June, your trial starts in June. You do not need a credit card to start the trial. Billing, cancelling and pausing for the off-season are covered in [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). ## Where you use it Sign in at [saillogger.com](https://saillogger.com/) and you land on your **Dashboard**: your boat on a chart, her latest readings beside it. Everything else is one tap away from there, at [saillogger.com/app](https://saillogger.com/app). There are also Saillogger apps for iOS and Android, with the same account, boat and data: - iOS: [apps.apple.com/us/app/saillogger-app/id6479176158](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/saillogger-app/id6479176158) - Android: [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saillogger.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saillogger.app) On a wide screen the navigation is a sidebar down the left. On a phone it is five tabs along the bottom, **Dashboard**, **Logbook**, **Moorages**, **Friends** and **More**, with everything else under **More**. ## Questions boaters ask before they start **Do I have to remember to do anything when I set off?** No. Trips are detected from the data, so there is no trip button to press at departure or arrival. **Do I need Internet at sea?** Not continuously for logging. The device aboard can keep data waiting and upload it after the connection returns. Reconnect periodically because data that has not uploaded still depends on that device and its storage. You do need Internet for anyone ashore to watch the boat live. **What if my instruments are off?** Then there is no GPS position, and nothing is logged. Saillogger needs a position for both logging and monitoring. **Does it work for a motorboat?** Yes. Boat type is one of the things you set up, and **Motorboat** is one of the choices. **Can I see it working before I pay?** Yes, twice over: the demo account below, and 45 free days on your own boat with no card. ## Look before you sign up There is a read-only demo account at [saillogger.com/demo/](https://saillogger.com/demo/). The credentials are filled in for you on that page, so you can sign in and click around a real account with real logs, statistics and monitoring. Nothing you click there can change the account, which makes it a safe place to see what your own will look like. ## What to read next The guide is written to be read in order if you are new. The first four pages get you from nothing to a working logbook: 1. [Create your account](https://saillogger.com/docs/create-your-account.md): signing up, what the fields mean, referral codes, and when your trial actually starts. 2. [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md): the most important page. Pick one of the three paths and follow it to the end. 3. [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md): where to look to confirm data is arriving, and what to expect in your first days. 4. [How trips are logged](https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md): how Saillogger decides a trip started and ended, and why your first log takes about an hour to appear. If something is not behaving, [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md) is organised by symptom and begins with safe checks. For anything this guide does not answer, the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) is where boaters and the Saillogger team work through problems together, and info@saillogger.com reaches a person. > [!NEXT] > Start with [Create your account](https://saillogger.com/docs/create-your-account.md), which takes about two minutes. --- # Create your account Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/create-your-account/ Sign up, understand what each field does, and know when your free trial actually begins. Signing up takes about two minutes and no credit card. It creates your account and, at the same time, creates your boat, ready for a device to link to it. Two fields deserve attention before signup: the e-mail address becomes your username, and a referral code normally has to be entered before you submit the form. ## Before you fill in the form Have these to hand: - **The e-mail address you intend to keep.** It becomes your username and cannot be changed later without asking support. - **A referral or promo code, if someone gave you one.** Enter it during signup so both accounts receive the advertised credit. You do not need your boat, your device, or anything from the boat's network yet. None of that is asked for at signup, and you can sign up at home in the winter with the boat ashore. ## Sign up 1. Go to [saillogger.com/accounts/create/](https://saillogger.com/accounts/create/). 2. Enter your **Email address**. This becomes your username, so use an address you will keep. 3. Enter a **Password**. It must be at least 8 characters. 4. Enter your **First name** and **Last name**. Each must be at least 3 characters. 5. If you were given a code, click **Have a promo or referral code?** and type it into the field marked **Promo or referral code (optional)** before submitting. 6. Tick **I agree to Terms of Service**. 7. Click **Submit**. There is an invisible reCAPTCHA on **Submit**, so nothing extra is normally asked of you. If the page does not move on after a few seconds, reload it, check the fields and try once more. Contact us if the form still does not complete. After you submit, you land on the Getting Started page, which is where you choose how to connect your boat. That is the next page of this guide. > [!TIP] > If a browser password manager offers to save the password, let it. The e-mail address you signed up with is the username it should store. ## Your e-mail address is your username The address you sign up with is your login. It cannot be changed later from anywhere in the Saillogger interface. If you need to change it, for example because you have left an old provider behind, write to info@saillogger.com from the address currently on the account and ask for it to be changed. Everything else about you (your name, your boat's details, your preferences) you can change yourself at any time in **Settings**. ## Promo and referral codes A referral code has to go in at signup. If a friend gave you one, click **Have a promo or referral code?** before you submit the form and enter it. If the signup form itself failed while you were entering the code, write to info@saillogger.com and we will look at it. What a referral code does: - You get 25% off your first paid month. - The boater who referred you earns one free month, once you make your first payment. If your friend sends you a share link rather than a bare code, it looks like this: ``` https://saillogger.com/accounts/create/?referral=CODE ``` Opening that link takes you to the same signup form with the code already filled in, which is the least error-prone way to use one. > [!IMPORTANT] > Enter a referral code while you are creating the account. There is no way to add one afterwards, and both your discount and your friend's free month depend on it. ## One account, one boat Signing up creates one boat for you automatically. You do not create it yourself, and you do not name it here: for most setups the boat's name comes from your Signal K server, which is covered in [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md). One account holds one boat. Boaters who own more than one boat, or who keep an old boat's logs while running a new one, use a separate account for each. Saillogger staff can link those accounts together so that a **Switch boat** group appears in your account menu, at the top right of every screen, and you can move between them without signing out. Ask for it at info@saillogger.com or on the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com), naming the accounts you want linked. > [!TIP] > The iOS and Android apps show the same signup form as the web site, so it does not matter which you use. The account is the same account either way. ## After you sign up Until your boat sends its first data, signing in takes you to Getting Started instead of the usual home screen. That page keeps the connection choices close at hand until the first data arrives. Getting Started offers four ways to connect a boat, and you pick one. The next page walks through all four, so you can leave that screen for now. Once data arrives, the redirect stops and you get your normal home screen. ## When your free trial starts Your 45 free days start when your boat first sends data, not when you sign up. Signing up in the winter and connecting your device at launch in the spring costs you nothing in trial days. Until the first data arrives, **Settings** > **Subscription** shows: > Your trial period hasn't started yet. > > It will start automatically when your monitoring device is linked. When that message is gone and the tab shows your plan and its dates instead, your trial has begun, which also tells you data has arrived. Full details of what happens at the end of the 45 days, and how to pause over the winter, are in [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). ## If you never link a boat An account that never links a boat is closed after 60 days. You get a warning e-mail 7 days before that happens, at the address you signed up with. No action is required while the account is within those 60 days. If you need more time, or if the account has already been closed, write to info@saillogger.com from the registered address. Contacting us before creating another account helps keep your boat and history together. ## Passwords **If you cannot sign in**, use **Forgot your password?** on the sign-in form, or go straight to [saillogger.com/accounts/password_reset/](https://saillogger.com/accounts/password_reset/). You get an e-mail with a reset link. **If it does not work:** - Check the address you typed is the one you signed up with. The reset only goes to a known address. - Look in your spam folder for the message. - If your account was cancelled or closed, the reset can fail without telling you why. Write to info@saillogger.com from the registered address and ask for the account to be re-enabled. **To change a password you already know**, sign in and open **Settings** > **Account**, find the **Password** row and choose **Change password**. ## Before you connect your boat - An account you can sign in to. - A boat that exists but has never sent data, so your trial has not started. - Getting Started waiting for you every time you sign in. The next page turns that into a boat that is actually logging. > [!NEXT] > Go to [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md) and pick one of the four ways to send data. --- # Connect your boat Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat/ The three ways to send data to Saillogger, step by step: a PredictWind tracking link, a Victron GX device, or the Saillogger plugin on Signal K. This is the page that turns an empty account into a working logbook. Everything else in Saillogger depends on data arriving from the boat, and this is where you arrange that. There are three supported paths. Pick one, then follow only that section. Setup lives at [saillogger.com/getting_started/](https://saillogger.com/getting_started/), which offers exactly these three: **Use PredictWind Tracker**, **Use a Victron GX Device (Recommended)** and **Use Raspberry Pi (Advanced)**. ## Which path is yours | Path | Choose it if | You get | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | PredictWind | You already have a PredictWind tracker and a tracking link | Position only: trips, tracks, moorages, stays, statistics | Nothing extra | | Victron GX | You want instrument monitoring and are buying hardware | Position plus instrument monitoring | Roughly USD 300 in the United States | | Signal K | You already run Signal K, or you build your own boat computer | Position plus instrument monitoring | Free if you have the hardware | > [!WARNING] > Use only one data source at a time. Running a PredictWind tracker and a Victron GX together sends the same voyage twice and produces duplicate entries in your logbook. If you are moving from one to the other, stop the old one first. ## Your Collector ID Whichever path you take, the credential that ties a device to your account is your **Collector ID**. Find it in **Settings** > **Boat**, under **Identity**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/boat](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/boat). Treat it like a password because it connects a device to your boat. Do not post it in a public forum thread or include it in a screenshot. The PredictWind path is the exception: those boats show **PredictWind** in the **Collector ID** row rather than an identifier, because the link is made with the tracking URL instead. --- ## Path 1: PredictWind tracking link Three screens, and no hardware to buy. Note the limitation before you start: a PredictWind tracker sends position only. You get trips, tracks, distances, moorages, stays and statistics, but no instrument monitoring, because there are no instrument readings in the feed. Have your tracking link ready. Saillogger accepts either of these two forms, where `` is your own boat's part of the address: ``` https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display// https://www.predictwind.com/tracking// ``` 1. Go to [saillogger.com/getting_started/](https://saillogger.com/getting_started/) and click **Use PredictWind Tracker**. 2. Paste your PredictWind tracking link and click **Continue**. 3. Choose your boat type, **Motorboat** or **Sailboat**, and click **Continue**. PredictWind does not send this, so Saillogger has to ask. 4. Wait. The setup page tells you: "It may take up-to 5 minutes for changes to be recognized." The page refreshes itself when the link goes live, so leave it open. **If it does not work:** - A link Saillogger cannot read is refused on the spot with **Invalid tracking link**. Copy the address out of your browser's address bar on the PredictWind tracking page rather than typing it, and keep the trailing slash. - Check the tracking page actually loads for you in another tab. If PredictWind is not publishing positions, there is nothing for Saillogger to read. - Allow the full 5 minutes before trying the setup again. --- ## Path 2: Victron GX device This is the recommended path and the one most boaters use. It takes eight steps and you have to be aboard for most of them. Allow an hour, and more if the plugin install runs slowly on your device. ### Step 1: hardware You need a Victron GX device (a Cerbo GX or similar) and the Victron VE.Can to NMEA 2000 micro-C cable, which connects the GX to your NMEA 2000 backbone. > [!IMPORTANT] > You must be aboard and on the same network as the GX device to complete this setup. The configuration screens are on the device itself, not on saillogger.com, so they are not reachable from home. ### Step 2: enable the large firmware image On the GX device, go to **Settings** > **Firmware** > **Online Updates** > **Image Type** and choose Large. The standard image does not include what the next step needs. ### Step 3: turn on Signal K Go to **Settings** > **Venus OS Large features** > **Signal K** and switch it on. Wait a couple of minutes for it to start. ### Step 4: enter your boat's details Open [http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/settings](http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/settings) while on the boat network, and under **Vessel Base Data** fill in: - **Name** - **MMSI** - **Ship Type** All three matter. A missing MMSI in particular has left boaters with no monitoring data at all, weeks later, in a way that is hard to trace back to this screen. If you do not have an MMSI, enter 123456789. It does not affect anything else. ### Step 5: install the Saillogger plugin 1. Open [http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/appstore/apps](http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/appstore/apps). 2. Type Saillogger into the search box at the top right. 3. Click **Install**. 4. Wait. > [!WARNING] > Installation time varies by device. Let it finish without interrupting it or rebooting. If it appears stuck, note what the screen says and contact support before removing configuration or starting over. ### Step 6: reboot the GX On the device, **Settings** > **General** > **Reboot**. ### Step 7: paste in your Collector ID 1. Open [http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/plugins/signalk-saillogger](http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/plugins/signalk-saillogger). 2. Enter your **Collector ID** in the field of that name. 3. Click **Submit**. If that address does not load, the GX may still be rebooting from step 6. Wait a few minutes and try again. ### Step 8: wait for the connection The setup page sits and waits for your boat, and moves on by itself as soon as data arrives. Leave it open. **If nothing happens after a few minutes**, check each of these: 1. The Victron GX is powered on and connected to the Internet. 2. The Victron GX is connected to your NMEA 2000. 3. The NMEA 2000 network is powered on. 4. There is a GPS source on the NMEA 2000 network and it is powered on. 5. Your Collector ID is entered correctly, with no leading or trailing space. 6. The Victron GX and your chartplotter are set to the same timezone. Check the GPS point carefully. Your position usually comes from the chartplotter or AIS transceiver, so if the instruments are off, the GX may have Internet but no position for Saillogger to log. If you have worked through all six and the page is still waiting, [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md) covers install failures and Signal K problems in detail. --- ## Path 3: Signal K on your own hardware The plugin is `signalk-saillogger`, and it runs on any Signal K server, not only a Raspberry Pi. If you already have Signal K running, this takes minutes. 1. Open your Signal K server's admin page and go to the app store. 2. Search for `signalk-saillogger` and install it. 3. Open the plugin's configuration and paste in your **Collector ID**. 4. Restart the Signal K server. Your boat then appears as connected on [saillogger.com/getting_started/](https://saillogger.com/getting_started/), which refreshes itself once the device links. **Recommended hardware if you are building from scratch:** a Raspberry Pi 4 with a PiCAN-M HAT. The PiCAN-M gives the Pi its NMEA 2000 connection and can also power the Pi from the NMEA 2000 network, which saves you a separate supply. The plugin's source code is at [github.com/itemir/signalk-saillogger](https://github.com/itemir/signalk-saillogger). --- ## The plugin's settings Whether the plugin is running on a Victron GX or on your own Signal K server, it shows you the same two fields. | Field | What to put in it | | --- | --- | | **Collector ID** | Required. From **Settings** > **Boat** on saillogger.com. | | **GPS source** | Leave it EMPTY unless you are fixing a bad GPS. | **GPS source.** This is an advanced option for boats with conflicting GPS receivers. Leave it empty unless you are resolving that specific problem with support; a wrong source stops trip logging until the field is corrected. **Everything else is on saillogger.com.** Choose which sensor feeds depth, wind, pressure, temperature, humidity, battery voltage and battery charge under **Settings** > **Sensors**. If an older instruction sends you to the plugin for those choices, use the website instead. See [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). ## Your boat's name comes from Signal K Boat name, MMSI and ship type are not Saillogger settings. They arrive from Signal K, and Saillogger displays them read-only in **Settings** > **Boat**. To change any of them, open your Signal K server and go to **Server** > **Settings** > **Vessel Base Data**. On a Victron GX, when you are on the boat network, that is [http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/settings](http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/settings). Changes take a little while to show up on saillogger.com, so do not keep editing if the old name is still displayed a minute later. ## Keep the plugin up to date Update the Saillogger plugin from the Signal K app store when an update is offered. Version matters for what you can configure: - **3.0.0 or later** is needed for sensor-source settings and custom monitoring sections. Below that, monitoring sources are still configured in the plugin rather than on saillogger.com, and several of this guide's instructions will not match what you see. - **5.x** adds native engine logging, which records engine hours per trip without any hand-built configuration. You can see which version Saillogger is receiving in the **Plugin version** row of **Settings** > **Boat**. ## Starlink If your boat has Starlink, you need nothing special for tracking. Saillogger sees Starlink as an Internet connection like any other, and an Internet connection is all tracking needs. Your position still has to come from the boat, though: Starlink does not share its own position with the local network. If your usual GPS disappears when the instruments are switched off, fit a USB GPS receiver to the monitoring device. > [!NEXT] > Once your device is linked, go to [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) to confirm data is really arriving. --- # Check that it is working Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection/ Where to look to confirm your boat's data is arriving, what each status means, and what to expect over your first days. You have linked a device. This page helps you confirm that data is arriving and understand what normally appears during the first few days. Almost everything you need is on one screen. Reading the **Status** card, which gives a verdict and how long ago your boat was last heard from, usually shows whether the next step is to wait, check the GPS or check the connection. ## The health panel: Settings, Boat Open **Settings** > **Boat**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/boat](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/boat). This is the health panel for your connection. (The older `/boats/` address now redirects to your settings, so an old bookmark still works.) The screen is four cards: | Card | What it holds | | --- | --- | | **Status** | The headline verdict, with a colour, a sentence explaining it, and how long ago data last arrived. See below. | | **Photo** | Your boat's photo, used across Saillogger and in e-mails. | | **About** | **Type** (sailboat, motorboat and so on) and **Make & model**, both yours to set. | | **Identity** | What your boat tells us about herself: **Boat name**, **MMSI**, **Integration**, **Monitoring device**, **Plugin version** and **Collector ID**. | The **Status** card is the one you will come back to. **Plugin version** matters when a feature described in this guide is missing from your account: an old plugin is a common reason. ## What each status means **Status** is one of six things. The exact wording of each is below, because the difference between two of them is easy to miss. | Status | Colour | What it means | | --- | --- | --- | | **Not Linked** | Red | "Your boat is not configured for Saillogger yet". No device has ever sent data with your Collector ID. | | **Offline** | Yellow | "Your boat has been offline since ... but it is configured for Saillogger, things should be fine when she comes back online". | | **No GPS positions** | Red | The device is reaching the Internet, but it is sending no position at all. | | **Online** | Green | "Your boat is online". Everything is working. | | **Online** | Yellow | "Your boat is online but we have not received enough information for trip logging yet. This should auto-resolve in a few hours." | | **Paused** | Red | Collection has stopped because the subscription is not active. | Three of these are worth dwelling on: **Offline usually means the boat is switched off.** Saillogger has not heard from the device recently, which is what happens every time you shut things down. Data waiting aboard normally uploads after the next connection. Reconnect before resetting or replacing the device, because unuploaded data still depends on its storage. **Online in yellow means setup is still completing.** Data is arriving, but Saillogger does not yet have enough of the right kind for trip logging. It normally turns green within a few hours. If it remains yellow, continue with the checks below or contact us. **No GPS positions in red needs a GPS check.** The device is reaching Saillogger but is not sending a position. Confirm that the GPS and instruments are powered, the position timestamp is current and the monitoring device is connected to the boat network. ## What "Online" actually measures **Online** means data arrived recently, not that the boat is connected this very second. A device with Internet reports continuously, so a healthy boat clears that bar with room to spare. The consequence worth knowing is that the status lags reality by a few minutes: a boat that has just lost its connection still reads **Online** for a short while. That is why the time beside the status is worth reading alongside it rather than instead of it. The status tells you the state, the time tells you how current that state is. ## A GPS position is required A GPS position is required for both monitoring and trip logging. An Internet connection by itself is not enough; without a position, the boat cannot log trips or show current monitoring. If your GPS comes from the chartplotter, switching the instruments off also makes that position unavailable. Leave the monitoring device and GPS source running after arrival when you want the trip to appear promptly. ## Checking from the Signal K side If you have a Signal K server, including a Victron GX, its dashboard shows the Saillogger plugin's connection status and whether data is waiting to upload. On a boat with Internet, the last connection should remain recent. A low or zero waiting count can be healthy because it may mean the collected data has already been sent. If the last-connection time keeps growing, check the device's Internet access, then compare it with the time on the **Status** card. ## What to expect in your first days The first records normally appear in this order: 1. **Data starts arriving.** Within minutes of linking, the **Status** card goes to **Online** and its time starts counting from just now. 2. **Monitoring populates.** Your dashboard begins showing what your instruments report. If you have a Victron GX or Signal K, expect gauges. With PredictWind, expect position only. 3. **Your first trip appears about an hour after you arrive.** Not while you are underway, and not the moment you tie up. Saillogger waits to be sure the trip has ended before writing it up. 4. **The logbook and journal start filling.** Each subsequent passage adds a log, and the moorages and stays between them build up as you cruise. > [!IMPORTANT] > Your first trip normally appears about an hour after you arrive. Leave the monitoring device, its Internet connection and the GPS source running during that time so Saillogger can confirm the arrival. If the device was switched off at arrival and the trip has not appeared, power it on again at the same place and leave it connected for a while. The trip normally completes after another position report. ## Before you leave the boat Three things worth doing: - Leave the monitoring device powered and the instruments on for a while after you arrive, so the trip can finalise. - Check **Status** reads **Online** in green before you go. - If you want to watch the boat while you are away, leave her Internet connection up. Without it, monitoring shows only the last data received. Shutting everything down as you leave is fine. Your trips are still logged, they appear once the device is next online, and there is no live monitoring while she is off. ## If nothing arrives after an hour Work through these in order: 1. **Is the device powered and online?** Confirm at the device itself, not from ashore. 2. **Is the Collector ID correct?** Compare it character by character with the **Collector ID** row in **Settings** > **Boat**. A trailing space counts as wrong. 3. **Is a GPS source set in the plugin?** It should be empty unless you deliberately set one. A wrong value here makes Saillogger ignore every position, and the symptom is exactly this: nothing logged. 4. **Are the boat electronics and the GPS switched on?** The monitoring device sees a position only if something on the network is producing one. 5. **Restart the Signal K server.** This is a safe final check before moving to the more specific troubleshooting steps. If you get through all five and **Status** is still not green, [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md) goes deeper, and the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) has boaters who have met most setups. ## If monitoring works but no trips are logged If your dashboard shows live values but no trips ever appear, the device is connected but Saillogger may not be receiving a usable track. The troubleshooting page has a checklist for that specific case. Go to [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md), which covers this case specifically. > [!NEXT] > Read [How trips are logged](https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md) to understand how Saillogger decides a trip started and ended. --- # How trips are logged Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging/ Saillogger decides on its own when a trip started and ended. Learn what to expect, what a finished trip records, and why your last trip is sometimes missing. There is no start button. You never tell Saillogger you are leaving, and you never tell it you have arrived. It watches the positions your boat sends and works out the rest. The timing below explains when to expect a new trip and why a passage may remain open after arrival. ## Nothing happens the instant you move Saillogger reads the positions your boat has uploaded and works out, a little after the fact, whether a trip started, whether an open trip has ended, and whether a moorage or a stay needs creating. Your logbook does not change the moment you slip your lines. It catches up shortly afterwards, on its own. ## When Saillogger decides a trip has started Saillogger opens a trip when the positions from your boat show that it is genuinely under way. Routine movement while anchored or tied up is filtered out so that it does not fill your logbook with false departures. ## When Saillogger decides a trip has ended A trip ends when your boat has stayed put for about an hour. The arrival recorded is the moment you actually stopped, not the hour later when Saillogger became sure of it, and time spent sitting still at the end is not added to your passage. A trip also closes on its own if your device stops sending and the boat has not moved since. Shutting everything down on arrival does not leave a trip open indefinitely. > [!NOTE] > A boat that stops reporting **while moving** may be on a passage outside coverage. Saillogger keeps the trip open so a later upload can continue the same passage rather than splitting it at the connectivity gap. ## When your trip appears A finished trip normally appears about **an hour after you arrive**, and only if the monitoring device stays powered and online after you arrive. Saillogger needs positions during that period to confirm the boat has stopped. If the device goes off as soon as the anchor is set, the trip stays open until reporting resumes. > [!IMPORTANT] > A common reason for a delayed last trip is that reporting stopped soon after arrival. The trip normally completes after the device reconnects and reports from the same place. Data that has not yet uploaded still depends on the device and its storage, so reconnect before resetting or replacing it. For prompt finalisation, leave the monitoring device and instruments running for about an hour after arrival. On most boats the GPS comes from the chartplotter or AIS transceiver, so it becomes unavailable when those instruments are switched off. If a trip is genuinely stuck, [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) shows you where to read your boat's status, and [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md) covers the case where trips never appear at all. ## A stop of about an hour ends a trip Because of the rule above, a stop of about an hour gives you two trips rather than one. Each leg remains a separate part of the recorded journey. The same principle answers three things boaters often ask us for: - **Merging trips.** An out-and-back stays as two recorded legs. - **Splitting a trip.** A recorded trip stays whole. - **Adding a trip by hand.** Every log is built from a recorded track, so there is nothing to fill in by hand. If another service recorded the track, contact us and we will check whether it can be imported. The stop duration used to finish a trip is not currently a user setting. If you have a track from elsewhere you would like added, see the import note in [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). It is an e-mail to a human rather than a button, and it works in narrow circumstances, but do ask. ## What a finished trip records Every saved trip carries: | What | Notes | | --- | --- | | The track | The route reported by your boat | | Start and end moorage | Created automatically, see below | | A name | Automatically `From to `, and you can change it | | Start and end time | Local time, trimmed to when you actually moved and stopped | | Distance | In your preferred distance unit | | Average and maximum speed | | | Wind | Average and maximum, when your boat reports wind | | Engine hours | Start, usage and finish, when the engine reports them over NMEA 2000 | | A map image | Used in e-mails and previews | | A notification | In your feed, and by e-mail if you have that switched on | Reading and editing all of this is covered in [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). ## Moorages: how a place gets into your logbook A **moorage** is a place your trips start and end. You never create one. The first time a trip starts or ends somewhere new, Saillogger adds that moorage for you and gives it a practical place name. Later visits nearby are grouped with that place. **Nearby stops may share one moorage.** A harbour with an anchorage, mooring field and marina may therefore appear as one place in your logbook. What you can do is label each visit differently. Every stay carries its own type, so the week on the anchor and the weekend on the marina wall read correctly even though they share a moorage. That is set on the stays page, and covered in [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). You can also rename a moorage, set a default stay type for it, and mark it as your home port. Same page. ## Stays: the time between two trips A **stay** is the visit between an arriving trip and the next departing trip at the same moorage. Like everything else here, stays are created for you. A stay's duration is counted in whole days, rounded to the nearest one. So two days and fourteen hours reads as a three day stay, and two days and six hours reads as a two day stay. Stays are named automatically, in these shapes: - `3 days stay at in ` - `1 day stay at in ` - `Short stay at in ` for a visit under a day You can rename any of them, and clearing the name brings the automatic one back. ## Sailing and motoring For sailboats, a trip also shows how long you sailed and how long you motored, in hours and as a percentage. Saillogger works this out from when the engine was actually running, so there is nothing to switch on and off as you go. It is computed only when both of these hold: - Your boat's **Type** in **Settings** > **Boat** is **Monohull sailboat** or **Sailing catamaran**. (If you have left **Type** unset, an AIS sailing vessel type also counts.) - Your engine reports data over NMEA 2000, so Saillogger can tell when it was running. If the breakdown is missing from your trips, the boat type is the first thing to check: [saillogger.com/app/settings/boat](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/boat). ## Trips that should not exist If you find trips of zero miles and a minute or two while the boat sits at the dock, or the same passage logged twice, the cause is almost always an extra, unreliable GPS source. When two sources report slightly different positions for the same boat, the difference between them looks exactly like movement. This is usually fixable by checking which GPS position Signal K prefers. Start with Signal K source priorities. If that does not resolve it, contact support before changing the plugin's advanced GPS source, because an incorrect choice interrupts trip logging. [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md) has the safe sequence. Once the GPS source is reliable, you can correct affected records. On the trip page, the red trash button at the bottom of the panel removes a false trip entirely. If only one incorrect position affects an otherwise useful track, delete that position from the map instead. Both are covered in [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). > [!WARNING] > Deleting a trip also deletes any stay bounded by it. The deletion is permanent, so export first if you may need either record. ## If a trip is missing Work through these in order: 1. **Wait an hour**, with the monitoring device powered and online. Most trips that have not appeared yet are still finishing. 2. **If reporting stopped when you arrived**, power the device on again at the same place and leave it connected for about an hour. 3. **Check positions are really arriving**, not just that the device has Internet. Being online and reporting positions are two different things. **Settings** > **Boat** shows both, and [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) explains what you are reading. 4. **Check the clocks agree** between your chartplotter and your monitoring device, including daylight saving. A mismatch produces out-of-order or future-dated positions, and those break trip detection. 5. **If no trip appears**, write to [info@saillogger.com](mailto:info@saillogger.com) with the date and your boat name. We can check whether enough tracking data is available to help. > [!NEXT] > Now read [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md) to browse your trips, tidy up the ones that need it, and export the lot. --- # Your logbook Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook/ Browse and read your trips, rename them, delete a bad position or a whole trip, curate your moorages and stays, and export trip, stay, moorage and track data. Saillogger writes your logbook for you. This page covers what comes afterwards: reading a trip, giving it a useful name, correcting records affected by a bad GPS position, organising moorages and downloading copies of your data. If the automatic trip and moorage behaviour is unfamiliar, [How trips are logged](https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md) explains it before you begin editing records. ## Browsing your logbook Your logbook is at [saillogger.com/app/logbook](https://saillogger.com/app/logbook), and it is the **Logbook** tab on a phone. ![The logbook list, with one row per trip](https://assets.saillogger.com/static/docs/logbook-list.png "Every trip Saillogger has logged, newest first.") One row per trip, newest first. Each row carries the trip name, the route beneath it as `from` to `to` with the time under way, and the distance and date on the right. Beside the heading is a count of what you are looking at, such as **25+ trips**, and **Load older trips** at the foot of the list fetches the next batch. **Search trips**, above the list, matches the trip name and both moorage names, so typing a place name finds every trip that touched it. Three letters is enough. ## Reading a trip Tap any row. A trip opens as a page you read from the top down: the chart with your track on it, then the passage, then the figures, then your own words. ![A trip page, with the passage and the figures Saillogger recorded](https://assets.saillogger.com/static/docs/log-detail.png "A trip page. Saillogger fills in everything except the notes.") | On the page | What it shows | | --- | --- | | The title | The trip name, with your boat and the date beneath it. Tap it to rename, see below | | **Departed** and **Arrived** | The moorage at each end and the local time. Tap either to open that place. A passage still in progress reads **Underway** on the arrival side, with the time you left, until Saillogger closes it | | The figures | **Distance**, **Duration**, **Average speed**, **Max speed** and **Wind**, with the strongest wind of the passage under it | | **Speed and wind** | Your boat speed and the wind, drawn against each other for the whole passage | | **Sailing vs motoring** | Hours and percentage of each. Sailboats with engine data only | | **Engine hours** | Hours run this trip, with the meter reading at each end. **Port** and **Starboard** separately on a twin-engine boat | | **Conditions** | The lowest, average and highest reading of everything else you monitor, for this trip. Yours alone | | **Notes** | Your account of the trip, see below | A row appears when Saillogger has something to put in it, so two trips can look quite different. **Conditions** is the quietly useful one. If you have built monitoring sections for your tanks, batteries or engine, each trip carries their range. See [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md) for how to add them. Two actions sit in the heading: **Share**, covered in [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md), and **Classic view**, which opens the older trip page where you can correct positions and delete the trip. Two more sit over the chart itself: **Timelapse**, which replays this passage, and a button that fills the screen with the chart and brings you back out. ## Renaming a trip Automatic names use the detected place names, which may differ from the names you use aboard. Rename a trip whenever a more familiar title would make the logbook clearer. 1. Open the trip and tap its title. 2. Type the name you want. 3. Press Enter, or tap away. To go back, clear the title the same way. An empty name brings the automatic `From X to Y` name back. ## Jumping to a moorage from a trip The **Departed** and **Arrived** blocks open that place, where you can rename it, set its usual stay type, mark it a home port or write notes about it. That is the fastest way to fix a place shown as **Unknown**: correct it once, and every trip and stay that uses it reads correctly from then on. Renaming a moorage does not rewrite trips you have already named. If a trip still carries an old automatic name, clear its title as above and the current place names are used. ## Writing notes on a trip The **Notes** card at the bottom of a trip is where you write what happened. **Write about this trip** opens it when it is empty, **Edit** when there is already something there, and **Save** stores it. Nothing saves on its own. Notes attached to individual positions are separate from the trip note and also appear in the journal and timelapse. They are covered below and in [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). ## Deleting one bad position A single incorrect GPS position can add distance to a trip and distort its maximum speed. You can delete that position without removing the rest of the trip. This is done on the trip's **Classic view**, which is where the track's individual positions can be opened. 1. Open the trip and choose **Classic view**. 2. Click the boat marker at the bad position. A popup opens with the time, boat speed, wind speed and position. 3. Click the red trash button in the popup, and confirm. The point is gone. Saillogger then recalculates the trip's distance, average and maximum speed, maximum wind, and start and end times from the remaining positions. Use this for a handful of spikes. If incorrect positions affect most of the track, removing individual points is unlikely to recover it. Export anything useful, then consider deleting the trip. > [!NOTE] > A track made mostly from incorrect GPS positions may not contain enough reliable data to repair. Export anything useful before deleting it, then check the GPS source as described in [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ## Adding a note to a position The same popup has a **Notes** box. Click a marker anywhere along the track, write your note, save it. This lets you add a position note retrospectively. Position notes appear in the timelapse and journal at the point on the track where you place them. ## Deleting a whole trip Deleting a trip is also on its **Classic view**: the red trash button at the bottom of the panel. It warns you first: *"This will permanently delete the Log Entry and any associated Stays."* > [!WARNING] > Any stay bounded by that trip is deleted with it. For example, deleting the passage into a harbour also removes the stay that followed. There is no undo, so export first if you are unsure. Delete a false dock trip when you no longer need it. For a real trip with only a few bad positions, remove those positions instead so you can keep the rest of the record. ## Moorages A **moorage** is a place your trips start and end. Saillogger creates one for a detected place and reuses it on later visits. A name you give it, or a usual stay type, also applies to those later visits. Your places are at [saillogger.com/app/moorages](https://saillogger.com/app/moorages): a chart at the top and the same places listed beneath it. **Search places and notes** finds one by name or by something you wrote about it, **All** and **Home ports** narrow the list, and the sort beside them offers **Most stayed**, **Recently stayed** or **Name**. Two chart buttons sit together at the top left, in both the small chart and the full-screen one: - **Full screen**, to fill the window with the chart and come back out. - **Center on my location**, which finds where you are and frames you with your nearest saved places. It answers "which of my places am I near", so it does not zoom all the way in. Tap it again to clear the marker and return. The second button appears only if your device can share its position, and the first time you use it your browser or phone asks permission. Denying it is remembered by the device, not by Saillogger, so turning it back on is done in your device settings. Tap a place, on the chart or in the list, and a panel opens with everything about it: | Control | What it does | | --- | --- | | The name at the top | What you call this place. Used wherever the moorage is shown, and on every future visit | | **Usual stay type** | The type new stays here get, so you classify a place once rather than per visit | | **Home port** | Marks this as a home port. Home ports are set on the place, not in **Settings** | | **Total stay** | How long you have spent here in all, and how many visits that was. Tap it for those stays | | **Arrivals & departures** | How many times you have come and gone, and how many trips that was. Tap it for those trips | | **Moorage notes** | Anything you want to remember about the place: holding, the approach, the ferry wake | Renaming a place does not automatically retitle trips that already exist. Rename any existing trip titles you want to update, as described above. > [!WARNING] > **Delete moorage** at the bottom of the panel removes the moorage **and every log and stay attached to it**, including trips that merely ended there. Use it only for a moorage created in the wrong place, and export first if you may need any of those records. Nearby stops can share a moorage, so one harbour may not split into separate anchorage and marina records. Label each visit with its own stay type to preserve that distinction. ## Stays A **stay** is your visit between arriving and leaving again. Your stays are at [saillogger.com/app/stays](https://saillogger.com/app/stays), every visit night by night, newest first. Each row carries the place, the dates you arrived and left, how long you were there and how you stayed. Four chips above the list narrow it: **All**, **Away**, **Home ports**, and **Type**, which opens a picker holding the built-in types and your own. Whenever a filter is on, a line beneath the chips totals what you are looking at, such as **34 days · 12 stays**, which is how you answer "how many nights did we spend at anchor". Two more chips appear when you arrive here from somewhere else, and each carries a cross to clear it: a place, when you came from a moorage's **Total stay**, and a date range, when you came from a **Nights** row on [your statistics](https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges.md). Those are the way to ask about one place or one season: open the question where the figure is, and this list opens already narrowed to it. Tap a stay to open it. Inside are its name, **Arrived**, **Departed**, the **Moorage** it belongs to, **Stayed at**, **Max wind during stay** when wind was recorded while you were there, and **Stay notes** for how the holding was, the swell, the town. **Stayed at** is the type of the visit. Four are built in: - **Unknown** - **Anchor** - **Mooring Buoy** - **Dock** If you have made your own stay types (Yacht Club, Guest Dock, Raft-Up, Haulout, whatever you need) they appear alongside those. Creating them is covered in [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). This is the answer to the one-moorage-per-harbour limit. Three visits to the same place can read anchor, mooring buoy and dock. There is no separate delete button for a stay. A stay is associated with the trips on either side and is removed if a bounding trip or its moorage is deleted. ## Exporting Four exports, and they are specific data exports rather than a complete account archive: photos and journal media are not included. Your running totals across these trips are in [Statistics and badges](https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges.md). | Where | Button | You get | | --- | --- | --- | | [Stays](https://saillogger.com/app/stays) | **Export** | A CSV of every stay | | [Moorages](https://saillogger.com/app/moorages) | **Export GPX** | A GPX of every moorage, as waypoints | | [saillogger.com/logs/export/](https://saillogger.com/logs/export/) | opens and downloads | A CSV of every trip | | [saillogger.com/timelapse/export/](https://saillogger.com/timelapse/export/) | **Export** | A GPX of your tracks | The two CSV exports are one press and a download, and you can bookmark them directly at `https://saillogger.com/logs/export/` and `https://saillogger.com/stays/export/`. Use the **Export GPX** button on the moorages page rather than its address, because opening `https://saillogger.com/moorages/export/` yourself shows the GPX in the browser instead of saving it. The track export is the one with choices on it. The page is headed **Export Tracks** and offers: - **Choose Trips**, a switch. Leave it off for everything; turn it on to pick a **Start Trip** and an **End Trip** and export that range. - **Granularity**, which sets how far apart exported positions have to be. Coarser means a much smaller file. **Normal** is preselected. Choose a finer option for a more detailed track or a coarser option for a smaller file. > [!TIP] > Pick **Extremely Granular** when another chart program needs the most track detail. Pick a coarser option for a smaller overview file for a blog or map print. ## Importing Imports are done by the Saillogger team rather than from your own settings, and they are often possible. GPX tracks, PredictWind history, or a Victron VRM log export can sometimes be brought in by the Saillogger team. On a Victron GX, the export is the CSV download on the VRM Portal's **Advanced** page, covering the dates you want recovered. Imports are most likely to be possible before you log newer trips after the gap. If you have a passage you would like recovered, write to [info@saillogger.com](mailto:info@saillogger.com) promptly with the file and the dates it covers. We will check it and tell you whether an import is possible before making any change to your logbook. Trips made with the system switched off are a different matter: logs are built from tracking data, so there is nothing to reconstruct a passage from, and no way to type one in afterwards. > [!NEXT] > Read [Watch your boat live](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md) for the other half of the picture: what your boat is doing right now. --- # Watch your boat live Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring/ Read your dashboard: what each instrument means, what the buttons do, the anchor circle, map layers, and the setting that draws your track. Your **Dashboard** shows the boat's latest reported position and readings. Check the update time before treating them as current. This page explains what each value and button means. ## Open your dashboard Signing in lands you there, and it is the **Dashboard** tab on a phone. Its address is [saillogger.com/app](https://saillogger.com/app). The screen keeps itself current: your readings, the AIS traffic your own receiver hears, and the **AIS Fleet**, **Friends** and fleet layers refresh on their own. Leave it open and you normally do not need to reload it. ![The dashboard, with the boat on the chart and her card beside it](https://assets.saillogger.com/static/docs/monitoring.webp "The boat card carries her status and her headline readings. Only readings your boat actually sends appear.") ## The boat card The card is your boat at a glance, on the chart she is drawn on: - **Her name**, and under it a status: **Underway**, or where she is lying, such as **In Red Bluff Bay**. - **The passage so far**, beside that status while you are under way: how far you have run and how long you have been going, for example **Underway · 42.6 nm · 8h 10m**. It counts from where this trip began, not from the start of the cruise. - **Heading to ``**, when you have set a destination. Otherwise the card shows your **Make & model**. - **A row of headline readings**: **Speed**, **Heading**, **Depth**, **Wind** with its direction and the last hour's strongest, temperature (air, with sea and cabin beneath it) and **Battery** with its voltage. A reading your boat has never sent is not shown at all. - **When it last reported**, at the foot: **Updated just now**, or how long ago. If your boat has gone quiet the card says so. **Heading** is true. A boat whose compass publishes only a magnetic heading is corrected for the magnetic variation at her position, so the figure can differ from her compass card by that amount. The chevron at its corner folds the card down to a single pill, which is what you want when the chart matters more than the numbers. Tap the pill to open it again. Folded, it still carries her name, whether she is moored, at anchor or under way (her speed, while she is going), and how long ago she last reported. If she has gone quiet the pill says so in words rather than leaving you to notice. Three chips sit at the bottom of the card: - **Instruments**, the full gauge panel, below. - **Journal**, this cruise's notes and photos: see [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). - **Share**, which hands over your public live address. It reminds you that anyone holding that link can see where your boat is. ## The instruments **Instruments** opens the panel built from what your boat actually reports. A section your boat does not send is hidden, not shown empty. That is why two boats can have quite different panels, and why a section can appear the day you add a sensor. - **Wind and depth** shows wind speed with a direction arrow, and depth. When Saillogger has a figure for the last hour it adds a `1h max` caption underneath. - **Temperature** shows outside, inside and water temperature. Each one appears only if you have a source for it. - **Humidity** shows inside and outside humidity. - **Battery** is an arc for state of charge with the voltage printed in the middle. This is your main or house battery. - **Barometer** shows the current pressure. Its trend line is different: it needs a few hours of readings behind it before it can draw anything, so a newly connected boat sees the number before it sees the line. - Any **custom sections** you have built yourself appear below these. ### The wind arrow points where the wind is going The arrow shows the direction the wind is blowing **toward**, not where it comes from. An arrow pointing south means a northerly. Weather charts and wind barbs commonly use the opposite convention, so compare the arrow with its label when the direction looks unexpected. ### Where wind direction comes from The wind arrow uses the Signal K path `environment.wind.directionTrue`. Most NMEA 2000 networks do not carry it: instruments broadcast apparent wind, and true direction has to be calculated. The Signal K **derived-data** plugin ([github.com/SignalK/signalk-derived-data](https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-derived-data)) can calculate it. After installing the plugin, enable **True Wind Angle, Direction and Speed** in its configuration. The calculation also needs heading and speed through water. > [!TIP] > If the wind gauge shows speed but no arrow, check whether Signal K is publishing current true wind direction. ### Why a value is blank rather than wrong Saillogger leaves a reading blank when it is no longer current. Check the sensor's timestamp, power and selected source rather than treating a blank as zero. ## The buttons on the chart Three controls sit on the chart itself, and they are yours alone. Visitors to your public page see none of them. - **Map layers**, which opens the panel described below. - **Set a destination**, the flag. It appears only while you are under way. - **Center on your boat**, for when you have panned away. A panel you open from these buttons appears beside them, and the button stays lit while it is open. Close it with the **×** in the panel's corner, by pressing the same button again, with **Esc**, or by tapping the water. On a phone, and on any screen too narrow to hold a panel beside the chart, the panel slides up from the bottom instead. Pull its top bar down to close it, or tap the bar; on a vessel card, you can pull from the name at the top as well. The panels that belong to your boat card, **Instruments** and **Journal**, open beside the card rather than out here. The card for a boat you tap on the chart opens beside **her**, with a small arrow joining the two, and it stays with her while you pan and zoom. It steps around your own boat card and around the buttons, so it can end up on either side of her. While it is open it covers that patch of water: to reach a boat underneath it, close the card first. On a phone the same card comes up from the bottom of the screen, where your thumb is. ## Set a destination While under way, press the **flag** and then tap the chart. Saillogger names the point, marks it with a checkered flag and puts **Heading to ``** on your boat card. Tap the flag on the chart for the **Distance to go**, which updates as you run it off. To move it, press the flag button again and tap the new spot. To clear it, tap the flag on the chart and choose **Clear destination**, which asks once before it goes. ## The anchor circle If a circle appears around your boat when you are anchored, it reflects the anchor position and radius published by your boat as `navigation.anchor`. Change the alarm radius aboard and the displayed circle changes with it. Tap the circle for its **Swing radius**. Your track is drawn behind you, so a night's swinging on the hook shows on the chart as it happens. ## Map layers **Map layers** opens **Show on map**. The layers are yours alone: visitors to your public page never see which you have on, or the fleets and friends they name. | Layer | Colour | On by default | What it holds | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Track** | | yes | Your own cruise track behind the boat | | **Places** | | yes | The stops and notes of this cruise | | **Local AIS traffic** | magenta | yes | Only what your own AIS receiver can hear | | **AIS Fleet** | slate | no | Broader AIS coverage for the part of the chart you are viewing; busy areas may show a limited set | | **Friends** | green | yes | Boats you follow | | One row per fleet | amber | yes | The members of that fleet | | **My vessel photos** | gold | yes | Vessels you have photographed | Each row carries a live count of what is on the chart. A layer that is on with nothing to draw says **None nearby** rather than disappearing. In a busy area, **AIS Fleet** may say that more vessels are out there than the chart is drawing. **My vessel photos** appears once one of your photos is published in a vessel's gallery, and not before. It shows every vessel you have photographed, in gold, each at her latest recorded position and not only the ones near you. A vessel that has not been heard from lately is still drawn, faded, and her card leads with when she was last seen: that mark is where she was, not where she is. Her speed, heading and distance are left off rather than repeated from an old report. See [Vessel photos](https://aisfleet.com/docs/vessel-photos.md). **Show all** and **Hide all**, at the top of the panel, set every layer at once, which is quicker than working down the rows when you belong to several fleets. **Show all** includes **AIS Fleet**, which is otherwise off by default; **Hide all** leaves your boat alone on the chart. Your choice is remembered, as it is for a single row. Joining a fleet later puts it on your chart, whichever way you last set these: a new fleet always announces itself. **Local AIS traffic** and **AIS Fleet** can overlap. They may differ because your own receiver and the broader AIS coverage do not always hear the same vessels at the same time. ### Find a boat on the map The modern app's map can find a boat by name, MMSI, call sign or IMO number: the magnifier button opens the search. Results are listed closest to your boat first, with your own boat, boats you follow and your fleet-mates ahead of ordinary traffic. Pick a boat that has reported recently and the map takes you to her and opens her card. A boat that has not been heard for a while opens her card without moving the map, and the card says how long ago she was last heard. She stays on the chart for as long as she is selected. ## Wikipedia points of interest Saillogger shows a handful of Wikipedia places near the boat, each with a short extract from the article. It is on by default. To turn it off, open **Settings**, go to **Dashboard**, and switch off **Wikipedia points of interest**. ## Choose where the displayed cruise begins **Show my cruise from** defines the historical range shown on your dashboard and in your journal. Your chart can draw the whole cruise behind you, not just the current trip. It does that from one setting: **Settings** > **Dashboard** > **Show my cruise from**. You pick a trip, and Saillogger draws everything from that trip onward. With **Latest position only** chosen instead: - there is no historical track on the chart, only the trip you are on - the journal panel and the journal page are **empty** because no display range is selected A blank journal usually means Saillogger has not been told where your cruise starts, so it has no range of trips to collect notes from. Setting the starting trip makes those existing entries visible. Saillogger normally sets this for you after your first trip, so a blank one usually means a new account, or one where the setting was cleared. To set it: 1. Open [saillogger.com/app/settings/dashboard](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/dashboard). 2. Find **Show my cruise from** at the top of **Dashboard**. 3. Choose the trip your cruise starts with. Choose the oldest trip in the list to draw your entire history. 4. Reopen your dashboard. Your track and your journal are both there. To clear it again, choose **Latest position only**, the first entry in the same list. > [!NOTE] > This setting changes what is displayed; it does not delete records. You can change it again, for instance at the start of each season. ## What else you can tap on the chart Your own boat's story is the card, above. Everything else on the chart opens a card of its own: - **Another vessel**, whether she came from your own receiver, from **AIS Fleet**, from **Friends** or from a fleet. The card names her, then carries whatever AIS knows about her: **MMSI**, **Status**, **Speed**, **Heading**, **Type**, **Size**, where she says she is bound, how far off she is and when she last reported. A row her broadcast does not carry is left out rather than shown empty. **Status** never puts a boat at a place she has left: it names where she is lying once her reporting confirms she is there, and otherwise says plainly that she is moored or under way. A photograph comes with it when the catalog has one, and you can add one yourself. Depending on the boat and your relationship, the card also lets you follow or message her, draw her last 24 hours, or add her to a fleet you own. **Add to fleet** opens a sheet listing your fleets; choose one to add her, and the sheet reports the result. A boat that logs with Saillogger carries a link to her pages. - **Your destination flag**, with the **Distance to go**. - **Your anchor circle**, with its **Swing radius** and how far the boat is lying from the anchor. - **A Wikipedia place**, with the opening of its article and a link to read the rest. ## History charts The instruments show current readings. For the last day or week, go to **History**: [saillogger.com/app/history](https://saillogger.com/app/history). You can look at **24 hours**, **48 hours** or **7 days**, including your own custom sections. > [!NOTE] > A gap in a history chart means readings were missing during that period. New points resume when the reading returns; the missing interval remains a gap. > [!NEXT] > Notes and photos turn the chart into a record you can keep and share: see [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). --- # Notes, photos and your journal Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes/ Write notes and add photos as you go, then read, print and share them as a journal, and restore entries when the journal appears blank. Saillogger records where you went on its own. The notes and photos are the part only you can add, and they are what turns a set of tracks into something worth reading later. Everything you write is pinned to the position you wrote it at, so it comes back on the map, in the trip, in the journal and in a timelapse. ## Three ways to write a note - **The Journal chip on your dashboard.** This is the one to reach for at sea: type into **Add to your journal…**, press **Post**, and the note lands on the boat's current position, anchored to the place and the moment. - **The Journal page**, which is the same writing surface with room to read. Open an entry's pencil to tidy up something you typed one-handed, or to add to a stay. - **A position marker in a finished trip**. Open the trip, choose **Classic view**, click one of the little boat icons along the track and type into the **Notes** box in the popup. This is how you add a note after the event, at exactly the right place. There is no wrong order. Many boaters write a line or two under way and fill in the details at anchor that evening. ### Where a note ends up You write it once and it appears in four places: - on your dashboard, as a mark on the track, which anyone following you can open - in the finished trip, on the position it belongs to - in the journal, both the panel and the page - as a caption in a timelapse, as the boat reaches that point Editing the note updates it everywhere Saillogger displays that entry. ### A note about a place belongs to that visit Notes and photos you attach to a stop belong to **that stay**, not to the place itself. Come back to the same anchorage next year and you start with a clean entry: last year's note stays with last year's visit, where it makes sense, instead of resurfacing on top of the new one. ## Adding photos Two ways: - **The camera beside the composer**, in the journal panel or on the journal page, for a photo of where you are right now. It needs no text with it. - **The camera on any entry**, to add a photo to a note you have already written. Accepted files: `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.gif`, `.heic` and `.heif`, up to 20 MB each. HEIC and HEIF are what an iPhone produces by default, so you do not have to convert anything. If a photo is too big, Saillogger says: **Photos must be 20 MB or smaller.** Resize it, or send a smaller version from your phone's share sheet. > [!TIP] > Photos upload over the current connection. On a weak link, start the upload and leave the page open until it completes rather than tapping the button again. ### If a photo will not upload - **"Photos must be 20 MB or smaller."** The file is too big. Most phones offer a smaller size when you share a photo; use that. - **The file is refused before it starts.** Only `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.gif`, `.heic` and `.heif` are supported; videos and PDFs cannot be uploaded here. - **"This photo is too large for us to open."** The picture contains more detail than Saillogger can safely process, even when the file itself is under 20 MB. Save or share a smaller copy as a JPG and upload that one. - **"This photo could not be read."** The file is damaged or arrived incomplete, which happens when a copy or a download was interrupted partway. Sending it again will not help, so reach for the original, or another photo. - **The upload never finishes.** Check the connection, reload the page, sign in if prompted and try once more. If the same supported file still fails, contact us with its format and approximate size. ## The journal panel The **Journal** chip on your boat card opens the panel beside the chart. It lists this cruise's entries, newest first. Each entry carries an anchor icon if it is a stay and a boat icon if it is a passage, the place, how long ago it was, the text and any photos. Every entry you own carries three small buttons: a camera to add a photo to that entry, a pencil to edit the text, and a pin, **Show on the chart**, which flies the chart to where it was written and opens its mark. That last one is the quickest way to answer "where were we when we saw that". The pencil opens a box with **Save**, **Cancel** and **Delete**, so an entry you no longer want can go entirely; **Delete** asks once before it does. Each photo has a bin over it to remove it on its own. The panel is the writing surface next to the boat. For reading and sharing there is a full page, and the same notes and photos appear in both. ## Your journal The journal is the same collection of entries as a page of its own: [saillogger.com/app/journal](https://saillogger.com/app/journal), and **Journal** in the navigation. ![The journal, one entry per stop and passage](https://assets.saillogger.com/static/docs/journal.webp "The journal collects your notes and photos, newest first.") Each entry shows an anchor icon for a stay or a boat icon for a passage, the place, the date, the position it was written at, your text and your photos. Entries are grouped by month, so a long cruise reads in order without you counting dates. The composer sits at the top of the page, exactly as it does in the panel, and it writes at wherever the boat is now. You do not have to be under way to use it. Two actions sit beside the heading: **Share** and **Print**. ### Sharing the journal **Share** uses the public address of your journal, `https://saillogger.com//journal`, rather than the private address you are viewing. Visitors do not need a Saillogger account, but they must enter your access password if you set one. The journal has no sharing switch of its own. It is published by the same switch as your live page: **Live tracking & monitoring** in the Sharing settings. If that is off, there is nothing public to share, and **Share** says so and offers **Go to Sharing settings** rather than sending a link that would not open. ### Printing the journal **Print** opens the journal's printable page in a new tab, at [saillogger.com/monitor/journal/](https://saillogger.com/monitor/journal/), with the navigation and the on-screen controls stripped out. Print from there, in a desktop browser in landscape for the best result. Printing to PDF works the same way and is a convenient way to keep a season. This page was previously called the printable logbook; older links to it, `/monitor/logbook/` among them, still open the journal. ## A blank journal If your journal shows its heading and nothing else, first check whether **Show my cruise from** is set. This setting controls which trips appear; changing it does not delete notes or photos. Without a starting log, the journal, its panel and the track behind the boat have no selected range to display. [Watch your boat live](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md) has the steps. Saillogger normally sets this for you after your first trip, so a blank journal usually means a new account, or one where the setting was cleared. ### If it still looks empty - You set the starting log to a recent trip: choose an older one. Only trips at or after it are collected. - You have logged no trips yet: notes need a track to attach to. - You are looking at someone else's public journal: it shows only what its owner has written. ## Notes show up in your timelapse A note attached to a position becomes a caption in a timelapse as the boat reaches that point. Writing one under way places it at the current position; you can also add it retrospectively from a finished trip. Notes stay attached to their positions and appear as captions in every timelapse that includes them. See [Timelapse](https://saillogger.com/docs/timelapse.md). > [!TIP] > Short departure and arrival notes, such as "left at first light, fog until 09:00", make useful reminders and concise timelapse captions. > [!NEXT] > Turn a season of tracks and notes into something you can watch: see [Timelapse](https://saillogger.com/docs/timelapse.md). --- # Timelapse Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/timelapse/ Replay a passage or a whole season as an animated track, share it as a link, and save it as a video. A timelapse replays your logged tracks as a moving boat on a chart, with moorage names and your own notes appearing as captions along the way. It can be one passage or every mile you have ever logged. You can watch it, share it as a link, or save it as a video file. ![The timelapse player replaying a passage](https://assets.saillogger.com/static/docs/timelapse.webp "A timelapse of one passage, with the range you are watching named in the corner.") ## Watching Your timelapse is at [saillogger.com/app/timelapse](https://saillogger.com/app/timelapse), and **Timelapse** in the navigation. **Play the voyage** starts it. Along the bottom: - **play**, **pause** and, at the end, **replay** - a **scrubber** you can drag to any point, with a tick where each trip begins - the **date** you are watching, and a **distance** that counts up as the boat runs, in your own units Down the side: - **Satellite imagery** or the **Marine chart**, one press apart - **+** and **-** to zoom. A pinch or the mouse wheel does the same, and the camera stays with the boat at your new scale - **Follow the boat**, which appears once you pan away and brings the camera back Captions fade in as the boat reaches them: the moorage you left, the moorage you arrived at, and your own notes wherever you attached one to a position. See [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). ## Choose what plays The button in the top left corner always says what is playing: **All history**, a year, or the dates you chose. Open it for **Range**: - **All history**, the whole voyage. - **A tile for each of your years**, saying how many trips and how far each one holds. Choose one and it starts playing straight away. - **Custom range**, where you pick a span by **Trips**, with a **Start trip** and an **End trip**, or by **Dates**, with a **Start date** and an **End date**. Check the preview line, then **Play range**. **All history** is always the way back. > [!TIP] > The range you are watching rides in the address, so a timelapse set up exactly the way you like it can be bookmarked or sent as a plain link. ### If it does not look right - **Nothing plays.** The chosen range holds no logged trips. Widen it, or go back to **All history**. - **The boat runs off the edge.** Zoom out a step, or press **Follow the boat**. - **The track is hard to see.** Switch between **Satellite imagery** and the **Marine chart**. ## Share a timelapse The **Share** button sits beside the range pill and hands over the range you are watching: pick a season and that season is what plays for the person you send it to, starting and ending where yours does. **All history** sends the whole voyage. Sharing needs **Timelapse** switched on in your Sharing settings. If it is off, the button tells you the page is not public and offers **Go to Sharing settings** so you can turn it on. Turning it on publishes your timelapse at your boat's public address; it does not publish anything else. ## Save it as a video Next to **Share** sits **Save video**: it turns the range you are watching, whatever the button in the top left corner says, into an MP4 file you can post or keep. Pressing it opens **Save as video**, which first checks your range and restates it: how many trips, how far, and the dates. Then choose how the video should look: - **Map**: `Satellite Overlay`, `Satellite` or `Street Map`. These are the video's own map styles rather than a capture of the chart on your screen. - **Track color**: eight colours, as swatches. Pick one that stands out against the map you chose, because a dark track disappears over deep water. - **Framing**: how close the camera stays to the boat. `Close` for a day sail, `Standard` for a cruise, `Wide` for a season, `Ocean` for a passage. Saillogger suggests one from the distance of your range; change it if you want a different feel. - **Place names**: leave on for moorage-name captions, or switch off for a clean chart. Press **Save video** at the bottom of the panel and Saillogger takes it from there: the video renders in the cloud, portrait and sized for social feeds, and you land on the **Videos** screen. You can close the app; rendering continues without you, and a notification on the bell tells you when it is ready to download. If your range is too long for one video, the panel says so before anything is queued: press **Change range**, narrow it, and save the voyage in parts. > [!NOTE] > On an iPhone or iPad, a downloaded MP4 lands in **Files**, not in Photos. Move it across before posting it to social media. ### The Videos screen [saillogger.com/app/timelapse/videos](https://saillogger.com/app/timelapse/videos) lists your videos with live status: **Queued** with how many are ahead of yours, **Processing** with roughly how long is left, then **Ready** with the file size. Press **Download** to save the file. The page updates itself. > [!WARNING] > Videos are deleted 72 hours after they are made. Each row shows when it expires; download the ones you want to keep. ## Export your tracks as GPX [saillogger.com/timelapse/export/](https://saillogger.com/timelapse/export/) gives you a GPX file for a chosen range of trips. GPX opens in chart plotters and most navigation software, so this is the way to take your tracks somewhere else, or to keep a copy of your own. - **Choose Trips**, a switch, with **Start Trip** and **End Trip** when it is on. Off means everything you have logged. - **Granularity**: how many points the file holds. `Extremely Granular`, `Very Granular`, `Granular`, `Normal` (the default), `Coarse`, `Very Coarse` or `Extremely Coarse`. Coarser means fewer points and a smaller file. - **Export** to download it. Start at `Normal`. Go finer if you want every wiggle of a harbour approach, and coarser if the file is too big for the device you are loading it onto: some older chart plotters refuse a track with too many points. > [!NEXT] > Tell Saillogger when to call you about the boat: see [Alerts and notifications](https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md). To decide who can see your timelapse in the first place, see [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). --- # Alerts and notifications Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications/ Set the thresholds that raise an alert for your boat, and choose how each kind of news reaches you. Saillogger has two settings sections that are easy to confuse. **Alerting** decides *what* raises an alert. **Notifications** decides *how* it reaches you. If a low-battery alert does not arrive, the first table below shows which setting to check. ## Which one do you want | What you want | The section | | --- | --- | | Be told when the wind gets up or the battery runs low | **Alerting** | | Change the wind speed or battery level that counts as too much | **Alerting** | | Stop an alert firing at all | **Alerting** | | Stop the e-mails about your trips, or get them on your phone as well | **Notifications** | | Turn everything off for a while, then turn it back on | **Notifications** | An alert has to pass both: the threshold under **Alerting** decides that something is worth telling you about, and the row under **Notifications** decides whether that news is sent to your e-mail, your phone, both or neither. --- ## Alerting: what raises an alert Open [saillogger.com/app/settings/alerting](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/alerting), or **Settings**, then **Alerting**. At the top is one master switch, **Alerting**. It is **off** when you start, and while it is off the section shows nothing else: every threshold is hidden. 1. Turn on **Alerting**. 2. The threshold rows appear, in four groups: **General**, **Weather**, **Temperature** and **Depth & battery**. 3. Type a number into the rows you care about, and clear the rows you do not. ### The thresholds Every threshold except the first can be switched off by clearing the box. An empty box reads `Off`. | Row | It alerts when | Starting value | | --- | --- | --- | | **Minimum time between alerts** | Quiet time before the same alert can repeat | 6 hours | | **Wind speed** | Wind rises above this | 30 knots | | **Pressure** | Pressure falls below this | 990 hPa | | **Pressure drop in 12 hours** | Pressure falls this much within 12 hours | 12 hPa | | **Outdoor temperature** | It falls below **Below**, or rises above **Above** | Below 3 C, Above off | | **Indoor temperature** | It falls below **Below**, or rises above **Above** | Below 7 C, Above off | | **Water temperature** | It falls below this | 10 C | | **Water depth** | Depth falls below this | 1 m | | **Battery charge** | Charge falls below this | 50% | | **Battery voltage** | It falls below **Below**, or rises above **Above** | Below 12.5 V, Above off | **Minimum time between alerts** is the one row you cannot turn off. It is a whole number of hours, and the lowest it will accept is 1. Leave it at 6 and the same alert will not repeat more than once every six hours, however long the gale lasts. The three temperature rows can go below zero. Each has a **±** button beside it, because a phone's number keypad has no minus key. #### Rows with two boxes **Outdoor temperature**, **Indoor temperature** and **Battery voltage** can alert in both directions, so each has two boxes: **Below** and **Above**. They are two separate alerts sharing one row, and each is set and cleared on its own. Leave **Above** empty and you keep exactly the alert you had before. **Above** starts empty on every boat, including boats that have been using Saillogger for years. Nothing starts alerting because this arrived; set a number only where you want one. What the upper box is for: - **Indoor temperature** is the one most boaters want. It catches a fridge or freezer that has failed while you are away, a cabin heater stuck on, or a boat getting hot enough to matter to a pet aboard or to your electronics. Point it wherever your inside sensor is: many boaters put that sensor in a fridge or an engine bay rather than the saloon. - **Battery voltage** catches a charger, alternator or regulator stuck high, which cooks a battery bank and takes electronics with it. Set the number **above** your charger's absorption voltage, or normal charging will trip it. If you are not sure what that is, your charger's manual gives it. - **Outdoor temperature** is the weakest of the three, because there is rarely anything to do about it from shore. It is most useful set high, as a rough "something is very wrong" signal. > [!TIP] > Put the smaller number in **Below**. If **Below** ends up at or above **Above**, every reading is outside the band, so the row alerts constantly. Saillogger will say so under the row rather than stopping you, because while you are moving a pair of numbers one of them is briefly on the wrong side. Thresholds are read and written in **your own display units**, whatever you have chosen under **Settings** > **Units & appearance**. If you have set wind in knots and depth in feet, that is what these boxes mean. See [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md) for the unit settings. > [!IMPORTANT] > **Leave a box empty to turn that alert off.** An empty **Water depth** does not mean zero and does not mean "warn me at any depth": it means the depth alarm is not armed at all. On a row with two boxes, each one is its own alert, so clearing **Above** leaves **Below** exactly as it was. ### There is no Save button Each field saves on its own the moment you leave it: tap or click somewhere else, or press the done key on a phone. The row tells you when the value is stored. Anything that is not a number is refused rather than saved, with a line under the row explaining what it wants, so a mistyped threshold cannot quietly disarm an alert. > [!TIP] > Editing a threshold is tap and type. Tapping the field selects what is in it, so typing "35" over "30" replaces it rather than making "3035". ### If an alert never fires - The **Alerting** master switch is off. Turn it on before checking the individual thresholds. - The threshold is empty. Empty means off, not zero. - Your boat does not report that reading at all. An alert can only fire on a value the boat actually sends. Check on your [dashboard](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md) that the reading appears there first. - It already fired inside the quiet period set by **Minimum time between alerts**. - The alert fired, but the **Monitoring Alerts** row under **Notifications** has e-mail and phone both switched off, so it had nowhere to go. --- ## Notifications: how anything reaches you Open [saillogger.com/app/settings/notifications](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/notifications), or **Settings**, then **Notifications**. This is a grid: six kinds of news down the side, and up to two channels across the top, **E-mail** and **Phone**. Each column has a master switch in its heading, above the individual switches. ### The six kinds of news **About Your Boat** | Row | What it covers | | --- | --- | | **Critical** | When your boat comes online or goes offline | | **Navigation** | New logbook entries, stays, and daily & weekly summaries | | **Monitoring Alerts** | Threshold alerts from the Alerting section, and geofence alarms | **From Other Boaters** | Row | What it covers | | --- | --- | | **Friends** | New followers, and arrivals or departures of boats you follow | | **Direct Messages** | Direct messages from other Saillogger members | | **Fleet Messages** | Group chat messages from fleets you belong to | Everything you set under **Alerting** arrives through one row: **Monitoring Alerts**. So does a geofence alarm, if you have an area set around the boat. ### E-mail The **E-mail** master switch is **on** when you start, and so are the individual rows. Turn off a single row to stop that kind of e-mail and keep the rest. Turn off the master to stop all of them at once. > [!NOTE] > Account and billing e-mails are always sent, even when notifications are off. Turning the **E-mail** master off does not stop a receipt, a payment failure or a password reset. ### Phone The **Phone** column is not there until you link a Pushover account, and the **Phone** master switch is off until then. Pushover is a separate app made by another company, and it is a paid app: Saillogger sends your push notifications through it. Under **Notifications** you will find a **Phone notifications** panel below the grid. There are two ways to link: 1. Press **Set up Pushover**. You are taken to Pushover to subscribe with your Pushover account, and Saillogger stores the key for you when you come back. 2. Or paste the key yourself: open Pushover on your phone, copy the user key from its main screen, paste it into **Pushover user key**, and press **Save**. This is the way to do it inside the Saillogger app, where the first method is not offered. Either way, the **Phone** column then appears beside **E-mail** with its master switch on. Turn off any rows you do not want on your phone, and keep the categories that matter for how you use and monitor the boat. A push is only ever sent when both the **Phone** master and that row's phone switch are on. Nothing bypasses the master. ### If your phone alerts stop arriving A Pushover user key can stop working: you moved to a new phone, reinstalled Pushover, or made a new Pushover account. When that happens the panel says **Not delivering** and tells you when Pushover last refused the key. Open Pushover, copy the user key from its main screen, paste it into **Pushover user key**, and press **Save**. Saillogger checks the key with Pushover before storing it, so you find out there and then whether it is right, and your row choices are kept exactly as you had them. **Send test** pushes one alert to your phone straight away, which is the quickest way to be sure it is really working. **Disconnect** forgets the key and switches phone alerts off; your e-mail notifications carry on unchanged. ### Turning a master off When you turn a master switch off, its column dims and stops sending, but **your individual choices are kept**. Use the master for a temporary pause, such as a winter ashore, and individual rows to keep particular categories off. --- ## The notifications page inside Saillogger Not everything has to arrive as an e-mail. The same news is listed at [saillogger.com/app/notifications](https://saillogger.com/app/notifications), newest first, and the bell at the top right of every screen carries a count of what you have not read. The envelope beside it does the same for unread messages. Two things to know about that count: - **Opening the page does not clear it.** Notifications remain unread until you open the individual row or mark them all read. - A notification is marked read when you **open that row**, or when you use **Mark all read** beside the heading. If you skim the list without opening individual rows, the badge remains so you can return to them later. --- ## The weekly summary e-mail Once a week Saillogger sends a summary of where you have been. It rides the **Navigation** row along with new logbook entries, stays, the daily passage update and your badge e-mails, so there is no separate switch: turning **Navigation** off stops all of them. What is in it is on [Statistics and badges](https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges.md). ## If notifications stop arriving altogether - Check the **E-mail** master switch first. One tap turns off everything in this section. - Check the individual row. **Friends** and **Monitoring Alerts** are especially worth rechecking. - Check the address on your account is one you still read, under **Settings** > **Account**. - Look at [saillogger.com/app/notifications](https://saillogger.com/app/notifications). If the notification is listed there but absent from your inbox, check the e-mail address, spam folder and e-mail switches. - If the news is not there either, nothing was raised. For an alert, that sends you back to **Alerting** and the checks above. If those checks do not resolve it, we are glad to help through the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) or [info@saillogger.com](mailto:info@saillogger.com). > [!NEXT] > Units, your home port, the map you prefer and the rest of the settings: [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). --- # Make Saillogger yours Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger/ Set the units you think in, name your own stay types, build monitoring sections for your own tanks and sensors, and choose how Saillogger looks. After your boat is connected, Saillogger starts with default display settings. You can change them to match how you use the boat: feet or meters, your name for a familiar pontoon, or a fuel gauge beside the water tank. All of it lives in **Settings** at [saillogger.com/app/settings](https://saillogger.com/app/settings), one section per subject. Reach it from **Settings** at the foot of the navigation, from your account menu at the top right, or under **More** on a phone. Changes save as soon as you make them: there is no **Save** button on most of these screens. ## Units Open **Settings** > **Units & appearance** ([saillogger.com/app/settings/units](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/units)). **Units** starts with a **Unit system** switch: - **Metric** sets every measurement below to its metric default. - **Imperial** sets every measurement below to its imperial default. - **Custom** is not a button. It appears on its own the moment you change any single measurement, to tell you that is where you are. A convenient starting point is to choose **Metric** or **Imperial**, then change any individual measurements you prefer differently. The switch moves to **Custom** automatically. > [!IMPORTANT] > Choosing **Metric** or **Imperial** resets every measurement to that system's defaults. If you have customised anything, Saillogger asks you to confirm first, so an accidental tap cannot quietly throw your choices away. ### The eight measurements Each row has its own list, and you can mix them freely. | Measurement | Your choices | | --- | --- | | **Boat Speed** | Knots (kn), Kilometers per hour (km/h), Miles per hour (mph), Meters per second (m/s) | | **Wind Speed** | Knots (kn), Kilometers per hour (km/h), Miles per hour (mph), Meters per second (m/s) | | **Distance** | Nautical miles (nm), Kilometers (km), Statute miles (mi) | | **Depth** | Meters (m), Feet (ft), Fathoms (ftm) | | **Temperature** | Celsius (°C), Fahrenheit (°F) | | **Barometric Pressure** | Hectopascals / millibars (hPa), Inches of mercury (inHg), Millimeters of mercury (mmHg) | | **Volume** | Liters (L), US gallons (gal), Imperial gallons (imp gal) | | **Engine Pressure** | Kilopascals (kPa), Bar (bar), Pounds per square inch (psi) | ### What the two systems actually change | Measurement | Metric | Imperial | | --- | --- | --- | | **Boat Speed** | Knots | Knots | | **Wind Speed** | Knots | Knots | | **Distance** | Nautical miles | Nautical miles | | **Depth** | Meters | Feet | | **Temperature** | Celsius | Fahrenheit | | **Barometric Pressure** | Hectopascals | Inches of mercury | | **Volume** | Liters | US gallons | | **Engine Pressure** | Kilopascals | Pounds per square inch | > [!NOTE] > Speed and distance are nautical in both systems: knots and nautical miles, whichever you pick. The two systems really differ on depth, temperature, volume and pressure. If you are a metric boater who wants feet on the depth gauge, change **Depth** on its own and leave the rest. Your choices apply everywhere Saillogger shows your data: maps, gauges, logs, statistics, e-mails and alerts. There is no separate setting for e-mail. ## Your own stay types Every stay and every moorage carries a type, so you can see how much of your season was spent at anchor rather than in a marina. Open **Settings** > **Stay types**. Four types are built in and cannot be changed or deleted: - **Anchor** - **Mooring Buoy**, meaning a buoy or ball you tie up to, not a berth in a marina - **Dock** - **Unknown** Under **Your types**, add your own: 1. Press **Add type**. 2. Type a name, up to 30 characters. The field suggests `e.g. Marina`. 3. Press **Save**. You can have up to 20 of your own types. Each one carries a pencil to rename it and a bin to delete it. Your types then appear in the type picker on every moorage and every stay, and in your statistics, next to the built-in four. > [!NOTE] > Deleting a type does not delete anything else. Every moorage and stay that was using it reverts to **Unknown**, and Saillogger tells you how many that is before you confirm. ## Monitoring sections of your own Your instruments panel shows depth, wind, temperatures, batteries and so on. Anything else your boat network carries, you add yourself as a **monitoring section**: a titled group of readings, for example a **Tanks** section holding Freshwater, Wastewater and Fuel. Open **Settings** > **Sensors**, and scroll to **Additional monitoring**. 1. Press **Add a section**. 2. Give it a title. The field suggests `Section title, e.g. Tanks`. 3. Choose what it **Measures**. That choice controls conversion and display, as explained below. 4. Under **Fields**, press **Add field** once per reading. Each field takes a name of up to 15 characters (the field suggests `Name, e.g. Freshwater`) and a data source, chosen from the list of everything your boat has reported. 5. Turn on **Show on public pages** if visitors should see this section, off if it is for you alone. To remove one, use **Delete section** at the bottom of that section. You can rename a section or a field, add a field, or change whether visitors see the section, without losing the readings it has already collected. Changing what a section **Measures**, or swapping a field's data source for another, starts its history afresh, because the old readings would no longer mean the same thing. > [!IMPORTANT] > **Measures** decides how the number is displayed, not just its label. Choose **RPM** for engine revolutions and **Duration** for engine hours. If the type does not match the reading, Saillogger may show revolutions in Hz or runtime in seconds. The full list of types is: Other, Length, Distance, Speed, Percentage, Volume, Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure, Battery, Direction, Industrial Pressure, RPM, Duration, Rate for Volume. > [!NOTE] > This needs version 3.0.0 or later of the Saillogger plugin. On an older version these controls are replaced by a message telling you to upgrade. Your plugin version is shown in **Settings** > **Boat**, under **Identity**. Changes have to reach the boat, so the boat must be online. The screen shows a countdown while that happens, and you can leave it while it continues. Reopen your dashboard after the countdown ends. ## Which sensor Saillogger reads A well-equipped boat often reports the same measurement from more than one place: two depth sounders, a masthead unit and a handheld anemometer, three temperature sensors. **Sensor sources**, in the same **Sensors** section, is where you say which one Saillogger should use. There is one row per reading: - **Depth** - **Wind speed**, **Wind direction** - **Inside temperature**, **Outside temperature**, **Water temperature** - **Inside humidity**, **Outside humidity** - **Barometer** - **Battery charge**, **Battery voltage** Each list contains sources the boat has reported. Pick the blank option at the top to clear a choice. **If the list is empty or the reading you want is missing:** - Confirm that the boat network is publishing the reading and that its timestamp is current. - Your plugin is older than 3.0.0. Upgrade it, then come back here. - The boat is offline, so a change you make cannot reach it. Wait until it is back online. ## Where the monitoring track starts The first row of **Dashboard** is **Show my cruise from**. It picks the trip your chart draws the track from, so you can show the whole passage from your home port rather than only the last few hours. Choose **Latest position only**, the first entry in the list, to clear it. The dashboard itself is covered in [Watch your boat live](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md). ## Your boat's details Open **Settings** > **Boat**. **Type** decides two things: the icon that represents your boat on charts, and whether Saillogger calculates the sailing versus motoring split of your trips. The choices are: - Not specified (use AIS vessel type) - Monohull sailboat - Sailing catamaran - Motorboat with inboard engine - Powerboat with outboard engine - Motoryacht - Superyacht **Make & model** is free text, shown alongside your boat. **Photo** is a picture of your boat. Press **Add a photo of your boat**, pick the file, and wait while it uploads. The photo appears on your pages and to friends who follow you. **Remove** takes it down again, asking once first. > [!NOTE] > Your **Boat name** and **MMSI** are not editable here. They are sent from Signal K, so to change them you open your Signal K server and go to **Server** > **Settings**. The **Identity** card also shows read-only facts that are useful when something is wrong: **Integration**, **Monitoring device**, **Plugin version** and **Collector ID**, with the connection verdict in the **Status** card above them. ## Light or dark Under **Settings** > **Units & appearance**, below the units, **Appearance** offers a **Light** or a **Dark** theme. The theme is remembered on the device you set it on rather than on your account, so your phone can be dark for night watches and your laptop light at the chart table. ## Finding your way around On a wide screen the navigation is a rail down the left. It rests as a strip of icons and opens over the chart when you point at it, without pushing anything aside; the button at its foot pins it open, and Saillogger remembers that. On a phone there are five tabs along the bottom, **Dashboard**, **Logbook**, **Moorages**, **Friends** and **More**, and **More** is the complete index of everything else. **Settings**, **Referrals** and **Sign out** sit at the foot of the rail, and **Settings** and **Referrals** are in your account menu at the top right too. On a phone the same three are at the end of **More**, under **Account**. When you need a hand, open **Help** in the rail or the **Help** group under **More**. **Docs** is first and opens this guide, followed by **Video Tutorials**, **Community**, **Terms of Service** and **Privacy**. ## On your phone There are Saillogger apps for both platforms: - iOS: [apps.apple.com/us/app/saillogger-app/id6479176158](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/saillogger-app/id6479176158) - Android: [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saillogger.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saillogger.app) Same account, same boat, same data. Sign in with the e-mail address and password you already use. > [!NOTE] > Subscription management is not in the apps. For anything to do with billing, your payment method or the seasonal pause, use the website. See [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). > [!NEXT] > See what a season of this adds up to in [Statistics and badges](https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges.md). --- # Statistics and badges Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/statistics-and-badges/ The running totals Saillogger keeps for your boat, the badges it awards for them, and the weekly summary e-mail that reports on both. Every trip and every stay adds to a set of totals for your boat: how far you have gone, how long you were under way, how many nights on the hook, how many countries. Saillogger keeps them all, and you can look at any stretch of time you like. Badges sit on top of the same data. They are the milestones worth remembering, awarded on their own as you reach them. ## Open your statistics **Stats** in the navigation, or [saillogger.com/app/stats](https://saillogger.com/app/stats). On a phone it is under **More**, in the **Records** group. If you have published your boat, your stats also have a public address, `https://saillogger.com//stats`, which is what the **Share** button hands over. ## Choosing a period A row of chips sits under the heading: **All time**, then one chip per year you have logged anything. A year is one tap, and everything below it follows. Every figure counts only the period you have chosen, **Unclassified** nights included, so a number and the list it opens always agree. **All time** is the whole record. ## What the page shows First, eight tiles: | Tile | What it counts | | --- | --- | | **Trips** | Trips in the period | | **Distance** | In your preferred distance unit | | **Time under way** | Hours, or days once the total passes a couple of them | | **Longest trip** | Your record trip by distance, with its duration underneath. If a different trip was longest by time, that one is named too | | **Max speed** | Your fastest recorded speed | | **Max wind** | The strongest wind recorded on a trip | | **Moorages** | How many places you have stopped, with how many you have marked a home port | | **Countries** | How many countries you have visited | Then **Nights**, one row per way of staying, in days: - **At home port** - **Away**, and beneath it **At a dock**, **At anchor**, **On a mooring buoy**, then any stay types of your own - **Unclassified**, nights whose stay type you never set Your own stay types appear alongside the built-in ones. Making them is covered in [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). Last, **Countries visited**: a chip per country, with its flag. On a computer, resting the pointer on one names the regions you visited within it. If you have logged nothing in the period, the page says **No trips in this period** rather than showing a wall of zeros. If that is true of every period, no trip has been logged yet: [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) is where to look next. ## Open what is behind a number Most figures are links to the thing they are counting. - **Trips**, **Distance** and **Time under way** open your logbook, showing the trips the number was made from. - **Longest trip**, **Max speed** and **Max wind** open the trip that set the record. - **Moorages** opens your places. - Every row in **Nights** opens those stays. This is the quickest way to tidy up **Unclassified**: tap the row, then set the stay type on each one. A stay leaves the list as soon as you classify it, so the pile visibly shrinks as you work. These links carry the period you are reading, so tapping a figure while a year is selected shows you that year. Going back returns you to your statistics with the same year still chosen. ## Sharing your statistics Your statistics are private until you publish them. Turn on **Sharing** and then **Stats** under **Settings** > **Sharing**, and your stats page becomes visible at the public address above. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md), including how to put a password on it so only the people you choose can read it. The **Share** button beside the heading hands over that public address, carrying the period you are reading: pick a year and the person you send it to opens on that year. **All time** sends the whole record. Your earned badges appear on your public pages too. Locked badges never do, and neither does your progress towards them. ## Badges Your badges are at [saillogger.com/app/badges](https://saillogger.com/app/badges), and **Badges** in the navigation, under **Records** on a phone. Beside the heading is a count of how many you have earned out of the total, for example **7 of 28 earned**. Below that, an **Almost there** row appears when you are close to a badge and shows the two or three nearest milestones with progress bars. If no badge is close, it is simply omitted. Then the badges themselves, in categories: - **Milestones** - **Seamanship** - **World & Regions** - **Latitude & Extremes** Each category header carries its own count, like **3 / 6**. Three chips above them filter the lot: **All**, **Earned**, **Locked**. ### Reading a badge An earned badge shows its medallion in colour, its name, the month and year you earned it, what you did to get it, and often a line such as **Held by 4% of boaters**. A locked badge is a faded medallion with what you have to do to earn it. If it is the counting kind, it also shows a progress bar and how far along you are, for example **3 of 5**. A badge with no recorded progress has no progress bar. A few real examples, so you know the shape of them: | Badge | What earns it | | --- | --- | | **Helmsman** | Your very first logged trip | | **Proud Owner** | Adding a photo of your boat | | **Explorer** | 10 nights away from your home port. You need a home port set first | | **Anchormaster** | 25 nights at anchor away from home | | **Wake Maker** | A top speed over 15 knots on any trip | | **Traveler** | Moorages in 2 different countries | | **Stormtrooper** | A trip through winds over 30 knots | | **Viking** | Moorages in any 3 of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands or Greenland | | **Night Owl** | One trip of 16 hours and 50 miles that runs right through the night | There are others for particular waters, from **Club Alaska** to **Round Britain**. ### How badges are awarded Three rules, and they cover almost every question about them: - **They arrive the day after you earn them**, rather than the moment you qualify. The badge for today's passage turns up tomorrow. - **They are never taken away.** Once a badge is yours it stays yours, even if you later delete the trip or the stay that earned it. - **They are worked out from your whole history.** A new badge is awarded for things you did years ago, not only for what you do next. There is nothing to opt into and nothing to claim. ### The badge e-mail When you earn something, Saillogger e-mails you. The subject is **You earned the `` badge**, or **You earned `` new badges** when several land together. The e-mail shows each medallion, what it was for, how many badges you now hold, and which one you are closest to next. It rides the **Navigation** notification group, so it arrives only if **Notifications** are on for e-mail and **Navigation** is switched on within them. Turning **Navigation** off stops the badge e-mail along with your new trip and weekly summary e-mails. See [Alerts and notifications](https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md). You also get a row in your in-app notifications feed reading **You unlocked a new badge: ``**, which opens your badges page. ## The daily passage e-mail While you are on a long passage, Saillogger sends a daily update instead of making you wait for the week. The subject is **Daily Passage Update: ``**. It goes out only while you are genuinely on passage: more than a day under way, with real distance behind you. An afternoon sail or a weekend hop never triggers it. It rides the same **Navigation** group as the weekly summary and the badge e-mail, so one switch governs all three. ## The weekly summary e-mail Once a week, Saillogger sends a summary of your boat's week. The subject is **Boating Summary for the Week of ``**, the date being the start of the seven days it covers. It contains, when there is something to put in each: - **Number of Trips** and **Total Distance Covered** - **Places Visited**, one line per stay, in the form `3 days at ` - **Max Wind Speed** - **Minimum and Maximum Outside Temperatures** - **Minimum Battery Voltage and Charge**, the low points of your week - a **Pro Tip**, one of a rotating set Then, for each fleet you belong to: - its **New Members** for the week, or a line saying there were none - **Number of Trips by Fleet Members** and **Distance Covered by Fleet Members** - **Top movers**, the three most active boats in the fleet with their distance and trip count If you are in no fleet, that section invites you to join or start one. [Friends and fleets](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md) explains how. The summary is not sent at all in a week with nothing to report: no trips, no fleet, no wind, no temperature and no battery readings means no e-mail. A quiet winter does not fill your inbox. It arrives on the same **Navigation** group as the badge e-mail, so the same switch governs both. The summary also appears in your in-app notifications feed, as **Weekly summary for ``: `` trips, ``**. That row opens your statistics page with the dates already set to that week, which is the quickest way to look at one week on its own. > [!TIP] > If a figure looks wrong, start with the records behind it. A false zero-mile trip still counts as a trip, and a stay without a type appears under **Unclassified**. [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md) explains how to review both, after which the statistics update. > [!NEXT] > Read [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) to decide who gets to see your statistics, your badges and everything else. --- # Share your journey Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat/ Turn on public sharing, choose which pages are visible, put an access password on them if you want only a chosen few. Your Saillogger boat pages are unavailable to other boaters and public visitors until you turn sharing on. This page explains what happens when you do, what each page switch exposes, and how to share with chosen people without leaving your live position open to anyone with the link. A vessel may still appear through public AIS broadcasts independently of these settings. ## Turn on sharing 1. Open **Settings**, then **Sharing**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing). 2. Turn on the top row, **Sharing**. This is the master switch for every public link. 3. The rest of the screen fills out: your **Public boat name**, a switch for each page you can share, and the access password rows underneath. 4. Every page switch is now **on**, and each one shows the public address it has just published. Review the page switches straight away and turn off anything you do not intend to share. Turning it on publishes all page types initially; after that, you can switch individual page types off. Turning it off makes them all private again. It reaches two switches that are not on this page. **AIS Fleet** and **Windy** live under **Settings** > **Integrations**, because neither publishes a Saillogger page, and the master switch turns both on and off with it. A note under the **Sharing** switch says so, and names only the ones your boat can actually use. If you have set either of them deliberately, check them in Integrations after you move the master. ## What each switch exposes Under **Pages you can share**, each row is a separate public page, with its own switch and its own address. | Switch | What a visitor sees | | --- | --- | | **Live tracking & monitoring** | Where the boat is now, and the instrument readings you monitor | | **Timelapse** | The animated replay of your season | | **Stats** | Distances, days out, ports and the rest of your numbers | | **Logbook list** | The list of your trips | | **Individual log pages** | A single trip page, for anyone who has a link to it | Your **journal** has no switch of its own. It is published with **Live tracking & monitoring**: turn that on and your journal is public too, turn it off and both are private. That is worth knowing before you write anything personal in a note. On your live page, the panel naming the boat sits over the chart. Whoever opens the link can fold it down to a single line with the small arrow in its corner, which hands the rest of the chart back, and tap that line to open it again. Folded, it still says which boat this is, whether she is moored, at anchor or under way, and how long ago she last reported. On a phone held sideways it starts folded, because there the open panel would leave almost no chart to read. > [!WARNING] > With **Live tracking & monitoring** on and no password set, Saillogger warns you on that row: anyone with the link can see your live location, and **Require access password** below is what restricts who can open it. A public live position is a real decision, not a formality. If you are not sure, use the password recipe further down this page. ## Your public address **Public boat name** builds your address out of two parts: - a prefix: **SV**, **MV**, **SY**, **MY** or **RV** - your boat name, at least 3 characters Together they make addresses like these: | Page | Address | | --- | --- | | Live tracking and monitoring | `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance` | | Journal | `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance/journal` | | Stats | `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance/stats` | | Logbook list | `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance/logs` | | Timelapse | `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance/timelapse` | Each row shows its own address once the switch is on, so you can copy the exact link rather than typing it. > [!IMPORTANT] > Changing the prefix or the boat name changes every one of these addresses. Links you have already sent, printed on a card, or pasted into a blog post stop working. Pick the name you want before you hand the link around, and change it as rarely as you can. A name shorter than 3 characters is refused, and the old name stays. If a rename appears to do nothing, that is almost always why. ## Share with a chosen few: the access password Two rows under **Access** turn your public pages into pages only your people can open. 1. Turn on **Require access password**. 2. An **Access password** field appears. Type a unique passphrase of 12 to 30 characters and leave the field so it saves. Do not reuse a password from another account. What to know about it: - It is **not your account password**. It is a separate word you hand out, and anyone who has it can view the public pages you enabled. Do not reuse the password you sign in with. - A visitor is asked for it once. After that they stay unlocked in that browser for the rest of their session, so a family member is not typing it every time they check on you. - Changing it locks out **everyone** who had the old one, including people already following you, until you send them the new one. An AIS Fleet follower without the current password still sees your AIS position, like any AIS app shows it, but none of your pages or journal. - Until a password has been saved, **Require access password** does not restrict the page. Set the password immediately, reload the settings to confirm it was saved, and test the link in a private browser window. ### Private sharing, step by step This is one way to make the boat visible to selected family and friends without opening the pages to everyone who obtains the link. 1. Open [saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing). 2. Turn on **Sharing**. 3. Turn off every page you do not want to publish. Remember that **Live tracking & monitoring** also publishes the journal. 4. Set your **Public boat name** now, before you send anything: pick the prefix and the boat name you intend to keep. 5. Turn on **Require access password**. 6. Type a unique **Access password** of 12 to 30 characters and tap or click somewhere else so it saves. Reload the screen and check it is still there. 7. Copy the address shown on the **Live tracking & monitoring** row. 8. Send the address and the password to your people, in the same message or in two, as you prefer. The warning under the live tracking address disappears when the requirement is switched on, but that alone does not confirm that a password was saved. Reload the screen, then test the link in a private browser window before sending it. > [!TIP] > Before sending the link, open it in a private or incognito window. Confirm that it asks for the access password and opens only after you enter it. ## Update your position on AIS Fleet Under **Settings** > **Integrations** ([saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations)), the **AIS Fleet** switch decides where your boat's position on the AIS map comes from: on the map at [AIS Fleet](https://aisfleet.com), our vessel-watching site, and on the AIS layers inside Saillogger. Your boat is on AIS Fleet already, whatever you do here: once an AIS receiver has heard her MMSI, anyone there can follow her, with no account needed from you and nothing to switch on. What these switches decide is how much a follower sees. With **Sharing** and **Live tracking & monitoring** on, they get your journal, the passage you are on and your photo of the boat, and richer departure and arrival e-mails. With them off, or with an access password they do not hold, they keep your AIS position and plainer e-mails built from it, the same signal any AIS site carries. Turning a switch off withdraws your detail, it does not end anyone's follow, and it takes effect immediately for the people already following you. [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md) is the full guide to the site. - **On:** Saillogger sends the position, speed and course your boat reports to us, so your boat stays current wherever you are, including waters where no AIS receiver can hear you. - **Off:** your boat appears as AIS receivers hear it, the same picture every AIS site shows. > [!IMPORTANT] > This is not an AIS off switch. It chooses where your position comes from, not whether your boat can be seen. Saillogger refreshes an AIS record that already exists; it never creates one and never withdraws one, and if your boat broadcasts AIS, receivers and public AIS sites report it entirely outside Saillogger. It shares no page, which is why it sits under Integrations rather than with your public pages, and it behaves differently because of that: - **The access password does not silence it.** Your pages stay behind the password while your own position keeps reaching the AIS map. That is the point of it: you can keep your pages for a chosen few and still have family watch the boat move on AIS Fleet. The position itself is public, as any AIS position is. - **It does not follow the page switches.** Turning **Live tracking & monitoring** off does not turn this off, and turning this off does not affect your link. - **The master Sharing switch still owns it.** Turning Sharing on turns this on, and turning Sharing off turns it off, from the other page. If you have switched it off on purpose, check it again after you move the master. Two things it needs: - **Your MMSI.** Saillogger reads it from your boat, so if the switch is greyed out, the number has not reached us. [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md) covers where it comes from. - **To have been heard.** Saillogger refreshes an existing AIS record rather than creating one, so nothing appears until an AIS receiver has picked up your boat at least once. Switching it off stops the next update from us rather than erasing the last one: the position you have already sent stays on record until an AIS source replaces it or it ages off the map. ## The Share buttons You do not have to copy addresses by hand. There is a **Share** button wherever there is something to share: on your boat card, beside **Instruments** and **Journal**; on your journal, your stats and any trip page; on the timelapse player beside the range; and on a fleet map. It hands the link to whatever your phone or computer shares with: messages, mail, or the clipboard. What it hands over is always the public address, never the page you are looking at while signed in. So the person you send it to opens the same boat page any visitor would. Two of them carry more than the address. Sharing the timelapse sends the range you are watching, so the season you picked plays for the other person too, and sharing your stats sends the period you are reading. If the page you are trying to share is not switched on under **Sharing**, the button does not send a dead link. It tells you the page is not public yet and offers **Go to Sharing settings** instead. An access password does not stop you sharing. The link still goes out, and the Share button reminds you to send the password along with it, because the person opening the link is asked for it. ## Put your boat on your own website If you keep a blog or a website, you can embed your live page in it. Paste this where you want the map, with your own address in place of the example: ```html ``` The frame shows the same public page as the link, so it only works while that page is switched on. If you require an access password, the password prompt also appears inside the embed; a direct link may be clearer for those readers. ## Publish your weather to Windy The **Windy** switch, under **Settings** > **Integrations** ([saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations)), publishes your boat's observations as a weather station on [windy.com](https://www.windy.com). It is useful in places where there is no other station for miles. The switch stays disabled until Saillogger has received a monitoring reading from your boat carrying at least one weather value: wind, outdoor temperature, humidity or barometric pressure. Whatever your boat measures is published, and the rest is simply left off the station; a boat with only a wind sensor makes a perfectly good station. Wind needs no special setup. Saillogger combines your masthead's apparent wind with the boat's heading, course and speed to calculate wind over the ground. A magnetic heading is enough: a compass that publishes only `navigation.headingMagnetic` needs no extra plugin, because Saillogger applies the magnetic variation at your position itself (Saillogger plugin 5.3.0 or later). A source that already supplies ground-referenced wind can be used directly. Water-referenced true wind is not silently relabelled as ground wind, because doing that accurately would also require current set and drift. If a reading cannot be converted without guessing, Saillogger leaves out the affected wind value until enough information returns; any valid temperature, humidity or pressure still publishes. Each update summarizes the usable readings in its latest 15-minute window, publishing their average as sustained wind and their peak as the gust, so a momentary lull at publishing time does not hide what actually blew. Once a qualifying reading has arrived the switch becomes usable. The master **Sharing** switch also turns it on and off, so if you have set it deliberately, check it after you move the master. Turning it on sets your station up in the background, so the row shows its Windy address shortly afterwards rather than straight away. Windy can take up to 15 minutes to finish activating a new station and discards readings sent during that setup window, so Saillogger waits until it has passed before publishing your observations. Your first reading normally appears on the next 15-minute publishing update after that. If you are not a subscriber you can still contribute to Windy: there is a free Signal K plugin at [https://github.com/saillogger/signalk-windy-plugin](https://github.com/saillogger/signalk-windy-plugin). ## Publish your position to NoForeignLand {#noforeignland} [NoForeignLand](https://www.noforeignland.com) is a platform for boaters to connect and stay in touch. Saillogger can keep your position there up to date for you. In order to submit your positions automatically: 1. On [NoForeignLand](https://www.noforeignland.com), open **Boat settings**, then **Boat tracking**, then **API Key**, and copy the key it shows you. 2. In Saillogger, open **Settings** > **Integrations** ([saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/integrations)). 3. Paste it into the **Boat API Key** field under **NoForeignland**. The field saves itself, like the rest of Settings, and the **NoForeignland** switch above it comes on: that is how you know the key took. Your first position can take up to an hour to appear. While your boat is reporting to Saillogger, your latest position goes to NoForeignLand about once an hour. Lying at anchor or at a dock does not keep resending the same position, apart from an occasional keepalive showing you have not moved. To pause, switch **NoForeignland** off. Your key stays saved, so switching it back on starts you publishing again with nothing to fetch. There is no need to clear the field, and clearing it means a trip back to noforeignland.com for the key next time. ## Changing your mind - **Turn one page private.** Switch that row off. Its address stops working straight away. - **Turn everything private.** Switch the master **Sharing** row off. Every page switch goes off with it, and so do **AIS Fleet** and **Windy** under Integrations. - **Stop sending your position to the AIS map.** Switch **AIS Fleet** off under **Settings** > **Integrations**. Your boat then appears as AIS receivers hear it; your pages are unaffected, and so are the AIS broadcasts your boat makes on its own. - **Stop publishing to NoForeignLand.** Switch **NoForeignland** off under **Settings** > **Integrations**. Your key stays saved for next time. Nothing else changes. - **Keep sharing but change who can see it.** Change the **Access password**. Everyone with the old one is locked out until you send the new one. - **Respond to an unwanted follower.** What a follower can see is controlled by these switches rather than person by person. Turn off **Live tracking & monitoring** first if this is a privacy or safety concern, then set or change the access password before sharing it again with people you trust; anyone else is left with your AIS position only, the public signal every AIS app carries, which the **AIS Fleet** switch under **Settings** > **Integrations** and your own transceiver govern. [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md) has the full steps. Turning sharing off does not delete anything. Your logbook, journal, statistics and timelapse are all still there for you, they are just no longer public. > [!NEXT] > Follow other boats, run a fleet, and see who is following you: [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md). --- # Friends, fleets and messages Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets/ Follow other boats by MMSI, see who is following you, run a fleet map for a group, and message the boaters you know. Saillogger has three social features: **Friends** puts other boats on your map, a **fleet** puts a group of boats on one shared map, and **messages** connects boats through their follows and fleets. Friends and fleets use MMSI, the number broadcast over AIS, so an AIS-equipped boat can appear even when its owner does not use Saillogger. | You want to | Use | | --- | --- | | See a friend's boat on your own map | **Friends** | | Be told when a particular boat leaves and arrives | **Friends** | | Put a rally, a club or a family of boats on one map | A **fleet** | | Write to a boater you already follow or sail with | **Messages** | | Let people ashore follow you | Neither: see [For family and friends without Saillogger](https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger.md) | ## Follow another boat **Friends** is one page, [saillogger.com/app/friends](https://saillogger.com/app/friends), and the chart is the page: every boat you follow drawn live, with boats under way trailing the passage they are on. The list floats over the chart. Beside a wide chart it is a column, open from the start; on a phone it rests as a bar along the bottom that reads like "8 boats · 2 under way · 1 arrived today", so the morning's answer is there before you touch anything. Tap the bar (or the people button on a wide chart) and the full list opens; the **Show everyone** button on the chart always brings the whole fleet back into view. The list groups itself by what matters: **Under way** first, then **Moored** (nearest to you first in each), then **Not reporting** for boats that have gone quiet for a long while, whose rows read **Last seen** with a date instead of claiming to know where they are now. Boats that have never shared a position at all sit under **Not on the chart**, so every boat you follow has a row. A boat at her own home berth says so: **At home in** her harbour. **Finding one boat.** Once you follow more than a handful, the list carries a search box. Type part of a boat's **name**, or the **place** her row names ("blind channel" finds everyone lying there), or her MMSI. The groups and their counts follow what you typed, and the line under the title reads "3 of 34 boats" so you always know you are looking at a filtered list. The chart never changes: every boat you follow stays drawn on the water while you search, so the boat you are looking for cannot vanish from the one place you would look for her. Clear the box to get the whole list back. On a computer, press **/** to jump straight into it. **Following a boat, by name.** The **Follow a boat** button at the top of the list opens a search box. Type the boat's **name** and she comes back with what tells her apart from every other boat of that name: what kind she is, how long, whose flag, which sea, how far from you and which way, and when she last reported. Press **Follow** on her row. You can search her MMSI, call sign or IMO number in the same box, and a full nine-digit MMSI is looked up exactly. Three characters is the minimum. If she is password protected, the button reads **Follow…** and asks for the password on her row: the same one her owner gives anyone opening their link. > [!TIP] > This is the fastest way to add the boat you just met. Ask their boat name rather than their MMSI, which most crews cannot read out from memory. You can follow up to **100** boats. **Picking a boat.** Tap her row and the chart glides to her: a boat under way is framed with her whole passage, a moored boat with the water around her, never a lone dot. Tap her mark instead and her card opens with the chart exactly where you left it. Either way she gets a ring, and her card leads with what you came for: what she is doing and where ("At anchor in Echo Bay", and for a Saillogger boat, since when), her **Speed** and **Heading** while under way, then her photograph, with the registry details like **MMSI** at the end. Closing the card keeps her selected, so the ring and her passage stay while you look around; **Show everyone** steps back out to the whole fleet. **Acting on a boat from her card.** **Message** leads, when the two of you are connected (see [Messages](#messages)). With it: - **Following**, which is also how you stop. Press it once and it asks **Unfollow?**; press again and she is gone. That frees one of your 100 slots, and you can follow her again later. - **Tracking** and **Journal**, when she publishes them: her live page and her written log. - **24h track**, when there are AIS positions to draw, which lays her last day's broadcasts over the chart. **Hide track** puts it away. Those fixes can be many minutes apart, so the trail is coarser than a logged voyage, and the card says so while it is on. - **Add photo**, which opens the upload right over the chart. Photographs go to the AIS gallery for that MMSI, credited to you; they never replace the owner's own boat photo. - **Add to fleet**, if you own a fleet. It lists yours, and says out loud that fleet members will see her live position. **And from her row in the list.** The **⋯** button beside each boat carries a shorter set: - **Open tracking page**, her live page, the same one the card's **Tracking** opens. - **Open journal**, when she publishes one, the same one the card's **Journal** opens. - **Message**, and **Add a photo**, as above. - **Unfollow**, which asks by name before it acts. **On a phone.** The list and the card share one sheet along the bottom of the chart, and it moves under your thumb. **Swipe up** on the summary bar to open the list, and **up again** to make it taller when you want to read more of it at once; **swipe down** to step it back, one stop at a time. Tapping the bar or the handle does the same thing if you would rather not swipe, and the small chevron beside the handle makes it taller. The sheet never disappears entirely: pull it all the way down (or press the back gesture, or Escape) and it returns to the summary bar, keeping your selection. The taller stop always leaves a strip of chart above it, because this screen is a chart first. When you pick a boat low on the chart, the chart nudges itself up so her mark stays visible above her own card. ### If a follow cannot be added - **She is not publicly viewable.** The owner has not enabled the required sharing settings, and the answer comes back on her row when you press **Follow**. Ask them whether they want to make the boat available and point them to [Sharing settings](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). - **She is not in the search at all.** No AIS receiver has ever heard that boat. Try again once she is under way near a receiver. - **You are at the maximum of 100.** Unfollow a boat you no longer watch before adding another. ### Boats that are not on Saillogger You are not limited to other Saillogger boaters. A vessel broadcasting AIS can be followed like any other, using positions available from the AIS network rather than private Saillogger records. AIS availability and coverage vary, and local rules still apply. The trade is that an AIS-only boat shows you what AIS carries (where she is, where she is heading) and nothing of the owner's own logbook or journal. ### What you get from a boat you follow You get an e-mail when a boat you follow **departs**, and another when she **arrives**, so you can receive updates without keeping the chart open. To stop those e-mails, turn off the **Friends** row in your notification settings, which also covers new-follower e-mails. See [Alerts and notifications](https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md). ### If a boat you follow has no position yet A boat that has never reported a position still gets a row, under **Not on the chart**, so you can always message or unfollow her; she joins the chart the moment she reports. ### If a boat you follow is not on your list at all {#not-on-your-list} A boat appears on your friends list only while her owner shares her position with you. If that stops (they made their boat private, or changed the access password they gave you), she leaves your list and your chart. The list never hides the fact: under the roster it says how many of the boats you follow are not on it, so a boat you have just followed is never silently absent. It cannot tell you **which** boat or **why**, and that is deliberate: naming her would tell you what another boater decided about you specifically. If a boat you used to see disappears, ask her crew rather than waiting, and if they want you back on their list, point them to [Sharing settings](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). You still follow her. Nothing is lost, and she returns to your list by herself the moment sharing is restored. She also still counts against your 100, so unfollow her if you no longer want her there. ## Who is following you When someone starts following your boat, you get an e-mail about it. Your list of followers is at [saillogger.com/app/followers](https://saillogger.com/app/followers). Each row has an action: - **Follow back**, when their boat is publicly viewable, so you can add them to your own map with one tap. - **Ask to follow**, when it is not. That sends them an e-mail asking them to make their boat viewable so you can follow them back. You can only ask the same person again after a while, so the row then reads **Already asked**. - **Remove follower**, under the action on every row. Removing takes your boat off that follower's map and list, stops their departure and arrival e-mails about you, and does not notify them. It works the same for Saillogger and AIS Fleet followers. Removing is not a lock: if your boat is publicly viewable they can follow you again (and you would get the usual new-follower e-mail). If your boat has an access password, a removed follower needs the current password to get back in, so change the password in [Sharing settings](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) at the same time if you want to keep them out. > [!IMPORTANT] > Removing a follower does not stop them from messaging you if you already have a conversation, and it does not apply to fleets you share. To stop messages, [block them](#block-a-boater). If this is about harassment or your safety, write to info@saillogger.com and we will help. ### Followers who come from AIS Fleet Some of the people following your boat will be on [AIS Fleet](https://aisfleet.com), the vessel-watching site we also run. They behave like any other follower: they carry an **AIS Fleet** badge on the row, you get the same e-mail when a new one arrives, and one who follows your boat can start a conversation with you in [Messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md#messages), exactly as a Saillogger boater who follows you can. Two differences are worth knowing: - **This list shows the people who can open your pages right now.** It is empty while **Live tracking & monitoring** is off, and an AIS Fleet follower who does not hold your current access password drops off it while still following your AIS position. So it answers "who can see my pages" rather than "who is watching my boat". A member with no boat of their own shows as **No boat** under the name they published, and there is nobody to follow back. - **When you withdraw sharing, the two kinds of follower part company.** A Saillogger boater following you through Friends normally loses your boat from their map, while an AIS Fleet follower keeps your AIS position and the plainer departure and arrival e-mails built from it. You do not need an AIS Fleet account for any of this. Friends here is included in your subscription and follows up to 100 boats, AIS-only ones among them. [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md) covers the site itself. ## Fleets A fleet is a shared chart for a group of boats: a rally, a club, a family with two boats, a charter operation. Your fleets are at [saillogger.com/app/fleets](https://saillogger.com/app/fleets), the ones you own marked **Owner**. Open one for its chart, the boats on it and how each is doing. ### Open a boat on the fleet The fleet's chart sits above its roster, nearest boat first, and it follows you down the list on a phone so it is always in view. Tap any boat, in the roster or on the chart, and she opens: - Where she is and what she is doing, with her speed, course and how long she has been under way when she is on passage. - Wind at the boat, how far she is from you, and her MMSI. - **Tracking**, which opens her live tracking page. Only boats whose owners share publicly have one. - **Message** her crew, **Follow** her so she joins your own Friends list, **24h track** to draw where she has been, **Add photo**, and **Add to fleet** if you run a fleet of your own. You see an action only where it would work: a boat you cannot reach shows no Message button rather than one that refuses. Closing the boat leaves her selected on the chart, so you can see where she sits among the others. ### Create one 1. Press **New fleet**, beside the heading on your fleets page. 2. Fill in **Name** and **Description**. 3. Decide **Public fleet**: on, and anyone with the link can see the fleet chart; off, and it is for members. 4. Create it. You land on the fleet. You can own up to **5** fleets, and a fleet can hold up to **100** boats. ### Add boats Owners add boats from the fleet's **Manage** screen, which is beside the fleet's name. Add a member by MMSI, one at a time. Both kinds of boat can be members: a Saillogger boat, and a boat that only shows up on AIS. A Saillogger boat can only be added if its owner has made it public: **Sharing** on, **Live tracking & monitoring** on, and no access password. This respects the owner's current sharing choice because fleet membership shows the boat's live position to every member. If the boat cannot be added, ask the owner to check their [Sharing settings](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). There is no self-service fleet join or fleet directory. Ask the fleet owner to add you and give them your MMSI, shown under **Settings** > **Sharing** and **Settings** > **Boat**. The boat must have **Sharing** and **Live tracking & monitoring** on with no access password before it can be added. > [!NOTE] > A member who is on [AIS Fleet](https://aisfleet.com) rather than Saillogger sees a limited number of their fleets at once, set by their plan there, oldest membership first. On the free plan that is one. If you are organising a rally and a member tells you your fleet shows them nothing, that is usually the reason: they are already in another fleet. [Your boat on AIS Fleet](https://aisfleet.com/docs/your-boat-on-ais-fleet.md) covers it from their side. AIS Fleet members on a paid plan can also run fleets of their own there, and one of those can include your boat: you get the same map and chat, you are told when you are added, and you can leave from the fleet's page. ### Delete a fleet Only the boater who created a fleet can delete it. The **Manage** screen ends with **Delete fleet**, which opens a page listing what the deletion takes with it before you confirm. Deleting is permanent, and it affects everyone in the fleet rather than only you: - Every boat stops appearing on the fleet chart, and the fleet layer leaves their own dashboards. - The fleet chat and everything written in it is removed for all its members. - The fleet's link stops working, including anywhere you have shared it or shown the fleet on a website. That address is never reused, so an old link will not open somebody else's fleet later. Nothing else about those boats changes. Their own trips, logs, photos and accounts were never part of the fleet, and its members are not told that the fleet has gone, so let them know first if they are counting on it. Two things often serve better than deleting: - To take the fleet off its public link, turn **Public fleet** off instead. Its members keep the map and the chat. - To drop the wrong boats, remove them one at a time and keep the fleet. Renaming changes the name people see, but not the fleet's link. If a Saillogger promotion code adds boaters to your fleet, the confirmation page says so and the fleet cannot be deleted there. Write to info@saillogger.com and we will take care of it. ### If you are a member rather than the owner Members get a **Settings** screen for the fleet in the same place an owner gets **Manage**, with two things on it: - **Add to favorites**, which pins the fleet into your own navigation so you can reach it in one tap. - **Leave fleet**, which removes you and your boat from that chart. ### Fleet chat Every fleet carries a **Chat** button beside its name: a group conversation available only to current members, including when the fleet chart itself is public. ## Messages Direct messages live at [saillogger.com/app/messages](https://saillogger.com/app/messages), and behind the envelope at the top right of every screen. You can start a conversation with a boater whose boat: - you follow, or - follows you, or - is in one of your fleets. A follow in either direction is enough to allow a conversation, as is sharing a fleet. This means someone who follows a publicly shared boat may be able to write to its owner. Conversations are titled by **boat name**, and your e-mail address is not shown to the other boater. ### What to expect | Limit | Value | | --- | --- | | Messages are kept for | 30 days | | Longest message | 2000 characters | | Photos per message | 3, up to 10 MB each | Messages older than 30 days are removed for everyone, along with their photos. If something matters, keep it somewhere else: a message thread is not an archive. Rate limits apply to sending messages. If you reach one, wait before trying again. Each message you send results in an e-mail to the other person (and a push notification, if they have set one up), so a conversation works even when neither of you is looking at the site. Your own side of that is the **Direct Messages** and **Fleet Messages** rows in your notification settings: see [Alerts and notifications](https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md). Deleting a conversation clears **your** copy. It does not remove the other participant's copy from their inbox. A new message from them brings the conversation back. ### Block a boater {#block-a-boater} To stop someone from messaging you, open your conversation with them and press the block button in its header. Blocking works both ways: neither of you can message the other, search for the other, or start a new conversation, and the existing conversation is hidden for both of you. The other boater is not told they were blocked. You can review and undo your blocks any time: once you have blocked someone, a **blocked** link appears on your Messages page. Unblocking brings the conversation back for both of you, though messages still expire on the normal 30-day schedule. Blocking only affects messages. It does not change who follows your boat (use **Remove follower** on your [followers page](#who-is-following-you) for that), and it does not apply to fleet chats: a fleet chat is a shared room for everyone currently in the fleet, so if you both stay in a fleet you will still see each other there. Leaving the fleet, or asking its owner to remove them, is the way out of a shared room. ## If your friends do not use Saillogger Friends, fleets and messages are for boaters with an account. To let family ashore follow you, send them your link or point them at AIS Fleet: [For family and friends without Saillogger](https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger.md) is written for exactly that, and is safe to forward. [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md) is the full guide to that site, whether they use it or you do. > [!NEXT] > The page to send to whoever wants to follow you: [For family and friends without Saillogger](https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger.md). --- # For family and friends without Saillogger Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger/ Two ways for people ashore to follow your boat, with nothing to install and no Saillogger account. Family and friends often want a simple way to check the boat or receive an arrival update. The two options below work in a phone or desktop browser with nothing to install. | How they differ | Your link | AIS Fleet | | --- | --- | --- | | They need an account | No | Yes, an e-mail address only | | They have to check it | Yes, they open the page | No, they get an e-mail on each departure and arrival | | Good for | One boat, anyone at all | Someone following several boats | | Works if you have set a password | Yes, once you send them the password | Yes: with the password they see everything you share, without it they still follow your AIS position | ## 1. Send them your link The simplest way. You publish a page, they open it. **What you do:** 1. Open **Settings**, then **Sharing**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sharing). 2. Turn on **Sharing**. 3. Make sure **Live tracking & monitoring** is on. Its public address appears on that row, something like `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance`. 4. Copy that address and send it to them. 5. If you have turned on **Require access password**, send them the password too, or they will be stopped at a password screen. [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) covers the rest of those settings, including how to keep the page for a chosen few rather than for everybody. **What they do:** They open the link. That is all. They see your boat's position and your latest news, and they can add the page to their phone's home screen if they want it a tap away. No account, no app, no password unless you set one. > [!TIP] > Send the link in the family group chat rather than one by one, and send it again after any change to your boat name: renaming the boat changes the address and the old link stops working. ### What to put in the message Four short things save most of the follow-up questions: - the address itself, as a link they can tap - the access password, if you set one, and the note that it is not a Saillogger account password - one line about what they will see: where the boat is, and how recently it reported - a reminder to read the **Updated** time because connectivity gaps can leave the last position on screen for hours > [!WARNING] > This page is not an emergency beacon or a safety check-in service. A stale position cannot confirm whether a boat or its crew is safe. Agree on a separate passage plan, check-in schedule and emergency method before departure. The page normally refreshes itself while it is open. The **Updated** time still shows how current the latest position is. ## 2. AIS Fleet [AIS Fleet](https://aisfleet.com) is our companion product for people who follow boats rather than log their own. It suits somebody who wants to follow more than one boat, or who wants to be told rather than to check. **What they do:** 1. Go to [https://aisfleet.com](https://aisfleet.com). 2. Sign in with an e-mail address. There is no password to invent: a sign-in code arrives by e-mail and they type it in. 3. Follow your boat by its **MMSI**, the nine-digit number you give them. 4. Your boat appears on their own map, alongside the other AIS traffic around it. From then on they get an e-mail every time you depart and every time you arrive. Following a few boats is free. [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md) is the guide to that site, written for them rather than for you, and is worth sending along with the link. **Where to find your MMSI:** it is shown on your **Sharing** settings, in the AIS Fleet note under the **Sharing** switch, and under **Settings**, then **Boat**. The switch that decides where the position on their map comes from is a separate thing, under **Settings** > **Integrations**. ### If they have a boat of their own Someone on AIS Fleet who owns a boat can link it to their account. They choose **Have a boat? Claim her** from the account menu, enter the boat's MMSI, confirm the boat we found in the AIS network, and upload one document showing the MMSI is theirs, such as their ship radio licence. A person on our crew checks it and replies by e-mail within 48 hours. The document deletes itself within 72 hours of upload, reviewed or not, and we keep no copies of it. Linking a boat is what opens the rest of AIS Fleet to them: the boats that follow theirs, the fleets their boat belongs to, and messages with other boats under their boat's name. **Your boat stays yours.** An MMSI that already belongs to an active Saillogger boat is refused when someone tries to claim it, so nobody can pick up your boat on AIS Fleet by entering your number. Our crew can still link one by hand where it is genuinely the same boat, a partner or crew member on your vessel for instance, and that takes a deliberate override rather than an ordinary claim. If that ever happens we e-mail you, and from then on that person receives the boat's messages and follower notices on AIS Fleet; everything on Saillogger, your logbook, your sharing settings and your followers, stays yours. ## What both ways need from you - **Sharing** turned on. - **Live tracking & monitoring** turned on. Your link needs both, full stop. On AIS Fleet the two switches decide how much a follower sees: with them on, followers get your journal, your logged track and rich update e-mails; with them off, your boat can still be followed as plain AIS traffic, the way any vessel on the water can, and followers get simpler departure and arrival e-mails built from the AIS signal alone, with nothing of yours shown. Turn them on, then test the link before sending it. AIS Fleet also needs the boat's MMSI to be known to the AIS network. If someone sees **not in our network**, confirm the MMSI, then try again after the boat has broadcast within range of an AIS receiver. One more switch matters for AIS Fleet: **AIS Fleet**, under **Settings** > **Integrations**. It decides where your position on their map comes from: your own boat, or only what AIS receivers hear. It works whether or not you have set an access password. If your boat is stale on their map while your own live page is current, that switch is the first thing to check. [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) explains it in full. ## What they will see They see the pages you switched on under **Sharing**, and nothing else of yours. (On AIS Fleet your boat's AIS position is also visible, as it is on any AIS app: that signal is public by nature, and the **AIS Fleet** switch under **Settings** > **Integrations** decides whether your own reports feed it.) For most boats that means: - **Live tracking & monitoring**: where you are now, and the instrument readings you have chosen to show - your **journal**, which is published with live tracking rather than by a switch of its own - **Stats**, **Logbook list** and **Individual log pages**, if you left those switches on They do not see your settings, your account, your subscription, or anything you have not published. If your boat has been offline for a while, the page shows the last known position and when it was recorded. That timestamp is essential: an old position is not evidence of the boat's current location or the crew's safety. ## AIS Fleet followers show up on your Followers page An AIS Fleet follower is a follower like any other: - they appear on your followers list at [saillogger.com/app/followers](https://saillogger.com/app/followers), with an **AIS Fleet** badge on the row - you get an e-mail when a new one starts following you, exactly as you do for a Saillogger follower - the same switches control what they see: the **Friends** row in your notification settings for the e-mails, and, on the privacy side, **Live tracking & monitoring** and your access password for your journal, track and other details If your boat is password protected, an AIS Fleet follower is offered the password screen when they follow you. With the password they see everything your link shows; without it they can still follow, but all they get is your AIS position and plain AIS-based departure and arrival e-mails, the same public signal any AIS app shows. So the password remains the lever that decides who sees your details, whichever route they came in by. See [Alerts and notifications](https://saillogger.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications.md) for the e-mail switches and [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md) for the privacy ones. ## If the people following you do use Saillogger Boaters with their own Saillogger account can use **Friends** instead. It places your boat on their map and provides the same departure and arrival e-mails. That is covered in [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md). ## Stopping it later You can change or stop sharing at four levels: 1. **Turn off Live Tracking & Monitoring** on your [Sharing settings](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). Your link stops working, and AIS Fleet followers lose your journal, your logged track and the rich update e-mails. Your boat remains visible as plain AIS traffic, the way any vessel is, and followers still get the simpler AIS-based departure and arrival e-mails; that side is governed by **AIS Fleet** under **Settings** > **Integrations** and by your own AIS transceiver. 2. **Turn on an access password**, or change the one you have. Everyone who had the old one is locked out of your pages and details until you send them the new one. AIS Fleet followers without the current password keep only your AIS position. 3. **Turn off AIS Fleet under Settings > Integrations.** Saillogger stops sending your position, and your boat appears as AIS receivers hear it instead. Neither the access password nor the Live Tracking switch turns this row off. The master **Sharing** switch does also turn it on and off, so check it in Integrations after changing the master. It is not a way to disappear either: your own AIS broadcasts are outside Saillogger and carry on. 4. **Turn off the master Sharing switch.** Every Saillogger page goes private at once, and the switch also turns **AIS Fleet** and **Windy** off under Integrations. Your own AIS broadcasts remain public and continue outside Saillogger. These settings changes do not delete your logbook, journal or statistics; they change whether the selected pages are available to visitors and whether Saillogger publishes to the outside services you selected. ## If it does not work - **"The link asks for a password."** That is your access password, not their Saillogger password (they do not have one). Send it to them. - **"The link says nothing is here."** Check that **Sharing** and **Live tracking & monitoring** are both still on, and that you have not renamed the boat since you sent the link. A rename changes the address. - **"The map is empty, or the position is old."** The page only shows what your boat has reported. If your device is off or offline, the page shows the last known position rather than nothing. Check your own [dashboard](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md) first: if it is stale for you, it is stale for them. - **"AIS Fleet cannot find my boat."** Your MMSI has not been heard by an AIS receiver yet, or the number was mistyped. Nine digits, no spaces. - **They stopped getting e-mails.** On AIS Fleet, they control their own e-mails from their account there. From your side, the **Friends** row in your notification settings controls the mail you get, not the mail they get. Anything else, write to [info@saillogger.com](mailto:info@saillogger.com) or ask on the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com). > [!NEXT] > The page to forward to whoever wants to follow you, written for them: [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md). --- # Subscription and seasonal pause Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause/ What Saillogger costs, when the trial starts and ends, how the seasonal pause works and what it locks, how to cancel, and how referrals earn free months. Saillogger is free for 45 days and then USD 7.99 a month. This page covers the whole of the money side: the trial, the bill, pausing for the winter, cancelling, and the free months you earn by referring other boaters. Everything here is on the website. **Settings** > **Subscription** is [saillogger.com/app/settings/subscription](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/subscription). ## The free trial You get 45 days free, and you do not need a credit card to start. The 45 days start **when your boat first sends data**, not when you sign up. Create your account in February, fit the device at launch in June, and the trial starts in June. Until the first data arrives, **Settings** > **Subscription** tells you the trial has not started yet. ## What it costs USD 7.99 a month, or the approximate equivalent in your local currency. Billing is monthly. There is no annual plan, so there is nothing to commit to for a year and nothing to work out pro rata. ## Before your trial ends Saillogger e-mails you before the trial ends. What the message says depends on whether you have added a card: - **With a card on file**, it confirms that the card will be charged when the trial ends, and there is nothing for you to do. - **With no card on file**, it asks you to add one, because otherwise the account is paused when the trial ends. If you would rather not continue, you do not have to do anything at all. It is worth reading **If a payment fails, or the trial ends without a card** below first, though: once the account is paused you have 30 days to get your data out. ## Your subscription settings Open **Settings** > **Subscription**. **Plan** shows: | Row | What it means | | --- | --- | | **Plan** | The plan you are on. | | **Price** | What you pay, and how often. | | **Status** | What state the subscription is in right now. | | **Current period** | When the current billing period began and when it ends, which is when you are next charged. | Two things sit below it: - **Manage billing**, under **Billing**. **Open portal** takes you to Stripe's billing portal in a new tab. Stripe handles Saillogger's payments, and the portal is where you change your card, download invoices and cancel. - **Seasonal pause**, under **Danger zone**. It stops billing and service for the off-season. Read the section below before you press **Pause**. > [!NOTE] > These settings are on the website only. They are deliberately not shown in the iOS and Android apps, so if you are looking for them on your phone, open [saillogger.com/app/settings/subscription](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/subscription) in the phone's browser instead. ## If a payment fails, or the trial ends without a card The account is **paused**, which is different from the seasonal pause further down this page. During this payment-related pause, you temporarily keep access to what you have already logged: - Logging and monitoring stop. No new trips are recorded. - Your public pages go dark, so anyone following your links sees nothing. - You can still sign in, read your logbook and export your data for 30 days. Saillogger e-mails you when this happens. Adding a working payment method restarts the service. > [!WARNING] > After 30 days in that state the account is cancelled and closed, and its data is scheduled for deletion. Treat the 30-day access period as the export deadline if you are not continuing. [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md) lists the available exports and their limits. ## Seasonal pause The seasonal pause is for boaters who leave the boat for months at a time and would rather not pay for a service that has nothing to log. It goes further than the payment pause above: your subscription costs you nothing for as long as it lasts, and in exchange Saillogger closes for the season, to you as well as to your boat. The sections below cover what that means in practice, so you can set it up the way you want before you leave the boat. ### What it needs A payment method on file. If you have none, pressing **Pause** shows a page headed **No Payment Method on File** with an **Add Payment Method** button, and nothing is paused. The card is not charged while you are paused: it is there so the subscription can restart when you come back. ### What it does - It voids the pending invoice, so you are not charged for the months you are paused. - Logging and monitoring stop. Nothing your boat sends is turned into logs. - Saillogger e-mails you to confirm the pause has started. ### While the pause is on One thing is worth knowing before you press the button: the pause closes Saillogger for you as well as for your boat. > [!NOTE] > While you are paused, your logbook, statistics, moorages, stays, timelapse, settings and exports are unavailable. Those pages show a **Seasonal Pause** screen with a **Resume Subscription** button. Your logbook, statistics and photos are kept in full while you are paused, and they are all there again when you resume. You cannot open them until then, so take your exports before you press the button. > [!TIP] > If you like to look back over your season during the winter, take your exports **before** you pause: the logbook CSV, the stays CSV, the moorages GPX and the track GPX. Each takes about a minute, and they are covered in [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md). The export pages pause along with everything else. ### Pausing 1. Open **Settings** > **Subscription**. 2. Press **Pause**, on the **Seasonal pause** row. 3. Read the confirmation, which spells out that logging, monitoring and access to most Saillogger pages will stop, and confirm. ### Resuming Sign in and press **Resume Subscription** on the screen you land on. Confirm, and monthly billing restarts along with logging and monitoring. > [!IMPORTANT] > If your subscription was already due for renewal, resuming charges you immediately. The resume screen says so. ### Staying paused for a long time You can stay paused for up to 12 months without paying anything. If the pause lasts longer, Saillogger writes to you before taking action on the account. If you expect to remain paused near the 12-month limit, contact support before it expires to discuss the account and records you want to retain. ## Cancelling Cancelling is done through Stripe, not through a Saillogger button: 1. Open **Settings** > **Subscription**. 2. Press **Open portal**. Stripe's billing portal opens in a new tab. 3. Cancel the subscription there. The cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, so you keep the service you have already paid for. There are no refunds for the remaining days of a cycle. If you are cancelling because you are away from the boat for a season rather than leaving Saillogger, the seasonal pause above is the better fit. ## Referrals Every account has a referral code. Open **Referrals** at the foot of the navigation, at the end of **More** on a phone, or in your account menu at the top right. It is also **Settings** > **Referrals**: same page either way. - **Your code** is the code itself, with **Copy code**, **Copy sign-up link** and **Reset code** beneath it. - **Copy sign-up link** is the same code as a link, in the form `https://saillogger.com/accounts/create/?referral=CODE`. Sending the link is less error-prone than dictating the code, because it fills the field in for the other boater. - **Free months** shows how many you have earned, and how many are not yet applied to a bill. - **Your referrals** lists the boats that signed up with your code and when they signed up, each with where it has got to: **Signed up**, **Boat activated** or **Free month earned**. What the code is worth: - The boater you refer gets 25% off their first paid month. - You get one free month once they make their first payment, applied automatically as credit against your upcoming bills. - There is no limit on how many boaters you can refer. > [!IMPORTANT] > The code has to be entered while the other boater creates their account. It cannot be added afterwards. If the signup form itself failed while they were entering it, ask them to write to info@saillogger.com and we will look at it. **Reset code** issues a new code and stops the old one working for new signups. People who already used the old code are not affected, and neither are free months you have already earned. Use it when the old code was shared more widely than you intended. ## In the mobile apps Subscription and referral amounts are shown on the website rather than in the iOS and Android apps. The apps include **Referrals** with your code, share link and referral list, but billing details and the subscription settings remain on the website. Use the website for anything to do with billing, cancelling or the seasonal pause. > [!NEXT] > Read [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md) for passwords, exports and what other people can see about you. --- # Your account, data and privacy Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy/ What is private by default, how to change your password, how to get your data out, what other people can see, and how to close the account for good. Where your boat has been is sensitive information. A new Saillogger account has public sharing off, so other boaters and visitors cannot open your boat pages unless you decide to publish them. This page covers the account itself: your password, your data, what other people can see, and how to leave. ## Nothing is public until you turn it on Public sharing is off by default. Your logs, positions, moorages, stays and live pages are not available to other boaters or public visitors until you open **Settings** > **Sharing** and turn **Sharing** on. Turning **Sharing** on initially enables every shareable page: live tracking and monitoring, timelapse, stats, the logbook list and individual log pages. Review those switches immediately and turn off anything you do not intend to publish. The journal follows **Live tracking & monitoring** rather than having its own switch. You can also add an access password for people you choose. If you never turn Sharing on, your boat pages remain unavailable to public visitors. The whole subject, including the access password and how to verify it, is in [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ## Changing your password 1. Open **Settings** > **Account**. 2. On the **Password** row, under **Sign-in**, press **Change password**. 3. Fill in **Current password**, **New password** and **Confirm new password**. 4. Press **Update password**. The panel says your password has been updated. You stay signed in on this device, and nothing else about your account changes. If it answers in red, check whether the current password matched, the two new entries matched, and the new password meets the displayed requirements. The minimum length is 8 characters, and common, all-numeric or highly similar passwords may be rejected. > [!NOTE] > The access password on your public pages is a different thing entirely. It controls what visitors can open; it does not protect your account, and it is not your login password. Never make the two the same. ## If you have forgotten your password Use **Forgot your password?** on the sign-in form, or go straight to [saillogger.com/accounts/password_reset/](https://saillogger.com/accounts/password_reset/). You get an e-mail with a link that lets you set a new one. **If it does not work:** - Confirm that the address matches the one registered to the account. - Check the spam or junk folder for the password-reset message. - If your account was closed or cancelled, the reset can fail without explaining why. Write to info@saillogger.com from the registered address. ## Changing your e-mail address Your e-mail address is your username, and there is nowhere in Saillogger to change it. If you need it changed, for example because you have left an old provider behind, write to info@saillogger.com from the address currently on the account and ask. ## If you think someone else has your password Do these in order: 1. Change the password using the steps above. Your current session stays signed in while other sessions must authenticate with the new password. 2. If your public pages use an access password, change that too, under **Settings** > **Sharing**. It is separate and does not rotate with your login. 3. Check **Settings** > **Sharing** for anything switched on that you did not switch on. 4. Write to info@saillogger.com if anything looks wrong. Saillogger staff can look at the account with you. ## Your Collector ID is a credential **Settings** > **Boat** shows a **Collector ID**, under **Identity**. That is what your device sends with, to say the data is your boat's. > [!WARNING] > Treat the **Collector ID** like a password because it connects a device to your boat. Do not paste it into a public forum thread, and check for it before posting a screenshot of your settings. If you think yours has been exposed, write to info@saillogger.com. ## Getting your data out You can download copies of your trips, stays, moorages and tracks while your account is accessible. | What | Format | Where | | --- | --- | --- | | Your logbook | CSV | [saillogger.com/logs/export/](https://saillogger.com/logs/export/) | | Your stays | CSV | **Export** on [saillogger.com/app/stays](https://saillogger.com/app/stays) | | Your moorages | GPX | **Export GPX** on [saillogger.com/app/moorages](https://saillogger.com/app/moorages) | | Your tracks | GPX | [saillogger.com/timelapse/export/](https://saillogger.com/timelapse/export/) | The CSV files open in any spreadsheet. The GPX files open in chartplotter software and most navigation apps. The track export asks you which range of logs you want before it builds the file; the other three download straight away. These are specific trip, stay, moorage and track exports, not a complete account archive. Photos and other journal media are not included. Keep the originals or save important photos separately from the journal before deleting or pausing the account. What is in each one: - **The logbook CSV** has a row per trip: its name, the boat, the moorage you left from and the one you arrived at, start and end times, distance, average speed and your notes. If your boat reported sensor data on a trip, the row also carries the minimum, maximum and average of each reading. - **The stays CSV** has a row per stay: the moorage, the type you gave it, when you arrived, when you left, how long you were there and your notes. - **The moorages GPX** is a waypoint per moorage, named, ready to load into a chartplotter. - **The tracks GPX** is the recorded track across the logs you selected. > [!IMPORTANT] > A seasonally paused account cannot reach any of these. The pause locks every page, exports included. If you are about to pause for the winter, export first. See [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). ## What other people can see about you Short version: your public pages, and your boat's name. - **Your public pages**, but only the ones you have switched on, and only if you have turned **Sharing** on at all. If you set an access password, only people who have it can open them. - **Your boat's name.** This is how you appear to the people you share with: to fleet-mates, to friends and to anyone following your boat. Saillogger identifies you by boat name, never by your e-mail address or username. - **Someone who follows your Saillogger profile is shown the boat's name.** Profile following requires the owner's sharing permission or current access password. Separately, a vessel broadcasting AIS may appear through public AIS data even when its Saillogger pages are private. Your e-mail address is never shown to other boaters. ## Deleting your account 1. Open **Settings** > **Account**. 2. Scroll to **Danger zone** and press **Delete account**. 3. A panel asks you to type your account e-mail address to confirm, then **Delete my account**. Deleting the account closes it, cancels the subscription, and takes down every shared page, so links you have given to family or friends stop working. > [!WARNING] > This cannot be undone. Your logs, tracks, moorages, stays, photos and statistics go with the account. Take the exports above first, and separately save any important photos or journal material because the CSV and GPX files do not include them. If you want a break rather than an ending, look at the seasonal pause in [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md) instead. A pause keeps your logbook, statistics and photos in full; it puts them out of reach until you resume rather than deleting them. ## The formal documents Two things say what Saillogger commits to, and they are the authority rather than this guide: - The [Terms of Service](https://saillogger.com/tos/) - The [Privacy Policy](https://saillogger.com/privacy/) If something in them is unclear, ask on the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) or write to info@saillogger.com. > [!NEXT] > If something is not working rather than not clear, go to [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). --- # Troubleshooting Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting/ Common setup and logging symptoms, with safe checks, corrective steps and the details to send when you need help. Something is not right and you want it working again. This page is organised by symptom. Find the heading that matches what you see, then work through its steps in order. Start with two safe checks: - **Update the Saillogger plugin.** Updates include fixes for several symptoms on this page. Install the current version from the Signal K app store, then check **Plugin version** under **Settings** > **Boat**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/boat](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/boat). - **Restart the Signal K server.** A restart can clear a temporary plugin or connection issue without changing its configuration. --- ## My trips are not being logged, even though monitoring works **What it looks like.** Your dashboard shows live readings and your boat's position, but new logs do not appear in your logbook. **Why it happens.** A dashboard can show some instrument readings while the position data needed for trip logging is missing or out of date. Check the position and its timestamp separately. Work through these in order: 1. **Wait about an hour after you arrive**, with the device powered on and connected to the Internet the whole time. A finished trip does not appear the moment you tie up. If the device was off, no log will appear until it is back online. 2. **Restart the Signal K server.** This is a safe check before changing source settings. 3. **Clear the GPS source in the plugin unless support asked you to set it.** A wrong source prevents position data from being used. Save, then restart Signal K. 4. **Read your boat's health panel.** Open **Settings** > **Boat** and read the **Status** card: the verdict, and how long ago data last arrived. [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) explains each status. 5. **Check your Collector ID** character by character against the **Collector ID** row in **Settings** > **Boat**, including any leading or trailing spaces. 6. **Confirm that `navigation.position` is current** in the Signal K Data Browser. If its timestamp is not changing, check the GPS, antenna, boat network and instrument power. If those checks do not resolve it, contact us with the details listed under [When to ask for help](#when-to-ask-for-help). We will help decide which device-side information is useful before you change advanced settings. --- ## My last trip or arrival has not appeared **What it looks like.** You arrived yesterday. Everything else works, but the passage you just made is not in your logbook, or your boat still shows as underway. **Why it happens.** Reporting may have stopped soon after arrival. Saillogger needs current positions from the stopped boat to finish the trip promptly. When reporting resumes from the same place, Saillogger can confirm the arrival. A trip may remain open through a connectivity gap when the latest positions still show the boat moving, which avoids splitting a passage solely because its connection dropped. What to do: 1. **Power the monitoring device back on** at the same place and leave it, the Internet connection and the GPS source running. 2. **Allow about an hour** for the trip to finish. 3. If nothing has appeared after that, check the **Status** card in **Settings** > **Boat** to confirm the device really is reporting again. > [!IMPORTANT] > A trip that is waiting to close normally appears after the device reconnects. Data that has not uploaded still depends on the device and its storage, so reconnect before resetting or replacing it. For prompt finalisation, leave the monitoring device and instruments on for about an hour after you tie up or set the anchor. On most boats the chartplotter or AIS transceiver supplies the GPS position, so reporting stops when those instruments are switched off. --- ## Zigzag tracks, my boat shown miles away, or 0-mile and duplicate trips at the dock **What it looks like.** Tracks zigzag, the boat appears far from its reported location, or short false trips appear while you are tied up. **Why it happens.** An unreliable GPS source, or more than one GPS source on the network. When two sources report slightly different positions, the interleaved reports can look like movement, which is enough to start a trip while you are docked. A single wildly wrong fix is enough to bend a track. ### Fix the cause 1. **Check the antenna first.** It needs an unobstructed view of the sky, and the GPS timestamp should update consistently. Confirm that before changing source configuration. 2. **Find out how many GPS sources you have.** In the Signal K Data Browser, look at `navigation.position` and see how many devices are reporting it. 3. **Prefer the reliable source in Signal K.** Under **Server** > **Data Connections**, use source priorities for `navigation.position`, then restart Signal K. 4. **If the priorities do not resolve it, contact support** before setting the plugin's advanced **GPS source** field. We can help identify the correct source without interrupting trip logging. ### Correct the affected logbook entries - **A few incorrect positions:** open the trip, choose **Classic view**, select the affected position (the little boat icons on the map) and use the delete button in its popup. - **A trip that cannot be recovered:** export anything useful, then open the trip's **Classic view** and use the red **Delete log** button at the bottom of the panel. This permanently deletes the trip and the stays attached to it. > [!IMPORTANT] > If incorrect positions affect most of a track, there may not be enough reliable data to repair it. Export anything useful before deleting the trip. If only a few positions are wrong, remove those positions and keep the rest. --- ## A reading is missing, zero or wrong on the dashboard **What it looks like.** A gauge you expect is not there at all, or it is showing zero, or it shows a value you know is wrong. **Why it happens.** Saillogger shows readings from the selected boat-network sources while they are current. A missing or old reading can therefore leave a gauge blank rather than showing the last value as if it were current. Work through these in order: 1. **Check the value in the Signal K Data Browser, including its timestamp.** A displayed value may be an older reading. If the timestamp is not updating, check the sensor, its power and the boat network first. 2. **Check the source you have chosen.** Open **Settings** > **Sensors**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors). Under **Sensor sources**, each reading has its own list: **Depth**, **Wind speed**, **Wind direction**, **Inside temperature**, **Outside temperature**, **Water temperature**, **Battery voltage**, **Battery charge** and the rest. Pick the Signal K path you confirmed in step 1. 3. **If the path is not in the dropdown, restart Signal K and check again after the boat has reconnected.** A newly reported source may take a little while to appear. 4. **If the sensor reports only occasionally, the gauge may go blank between readings.** Check whether the sensor can report more frequently, or choose another available source. 5. **If every monitoring value vanished at once**, confirm that the correct **MMSI** is configured in Signal K's vessel settings, then restart Signal K. > [!NOTE] > Sensor sources moved to saillogger.com with plugin **3.0.0**, and the plugin's own data-path fields, the battery one included, are gone from current versions. Any instruction that tells you to set a data path in the Signal K plugin is out of date. Three source choices that fix specific complaints: - **Batteries reading zero.** In the Data Browser, choose context `self` and search `batteries`. You should see paths like `electrical.batteries.1234.voltage` and `electrical.batteries.1234.capacity.stateOfCharge`. Choose those same paths in **Battery voltage** and **Battery charge**, under **Sensor sources**. Older instructions tell you to type just the instance, `1234`, into a plugin field: that field no longer exists. - **Depth reads shallower than your instruments.** Point the depth source at `environment.depth.belowSurface` rather than `environment.depth.belowTransducer`, so the transducer offset is included. Confirm the path exists in the Data Browser first, then restart Signal K. - **Outside temperature is wrong.** Signal K's convention is `environment.outside.temperature` and `environment.inside.temperature`. A cabin sensor such as a Ruuvi tag usually appears under a name of its own, for example `environment.venus.24.temperature`, and you point the source at that. --- ## Engine hours are in seconds, or RPM reads in Hz **What it looks like.** An engine gauge shows 0.30 instead of an RPM figure, or engine hours show as a huge number of seconds. **Why it happens.** Signal K stores these in its own units: revolutions arrive in Hz, runtime arrives in seconds. If the field has no type set, the raw value is displayed. 1. Open **Settings** > **Sensors**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors). 2. Find the monitoring section holding that field, under **Additional monitoring**. 3. Set what it **Measures** to **RPM** for an engine revolutions reading, or **Duration** for a runtime reading in seconds, which is then shown in hours. 4. Confirm that the section's entry under **Fields** carries the intended source. Two related points: - **Change monitoring configuration before departure or after arrival**, rather than in the middle of a trip. - **Plugin 5.x handles trip engine hours separately from a custom live gauge.** Engine hours per trip, twin engines included, and the sailing-versus-motoring split are logged from standard NMEA engine data. The split also needs your boat type set to **Monohull sailboat** or **Sailing catamaran** in **Settings** > **Boat**. --- ## Wind direction is missing, or the arrow looks backwards **What it looks like.** The wind panel has no direction arrow, or the arrow points the opposite way from what you expect. **The arrow convention.** The arrow points the way the wind is blowing **toward**, so an arrow pointing south means a northerly. Weather barbs commonly point toward where the wind comes from, so the two displays can look opposite even when both use the same reading. **Missing entirely.** Wind direction comes from `environment.wind.directionTrue` in Signal K, which most NMEA 2000 networks do not carry. The Signal K **derived-data** plugin calculates it: 1. Check the Data Browser first: your instruments may already publish `environment.wind.directionTrue`. 2. If not, install the derived-data plugin and enable **True Wind Angle, Direction and Speed** in its configuration. On a Victron GX, while on the boat network, that page is at [http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/plugins/derived-data](http://venus.local:3000/admin/#/serverConfiguration/plugins/derived-data). 3. Give it the four inputs it needs: `navigation.headingTrue`, `navigation.speedThroughWater`, `environment.wind.speedApparent` and `environment.wind.angleApparent`. 4. `navigation.headingTrue` normally comes from the heading sensor or autopilot. Derived-data can also calculate it from `navigation.headingMagnetic` plus `navigation.magneticVariation`. 5. Then set **Wind direction** under **Sensor sources**, in **Settings** > **Sensors**, to the resulting path. A `navigation.speedThroughWater` reading of zero at anchor is expected and does not prevent the calculation. --- ## Windy shows wind speed but no direction **What it looks like.** Your Windy station reports wind strength and temperature, but the direction stays empty, even though the dashboard shows both. **Why it happens.** To publish a direction, Saillogger turns your masthead's apparent wind into wind over the ground, and that needs your boat's heading. Most NMEA 2000 networks publish only a magnetic heading, `navigation.headingMagnetic`, from the compass or the autopilot. 1. Update the Saillogger plugin to 5.3.0 or later, then restart Signal K. From that version the plugin sends the magnetic heading too, and Saillogger applies the magnetic variation at your position itself. 2. In the Data Browser, with the instruments on, confirm that `navigation.headingTrue` or `navigation.headingMagnetic` is present and updating. 3. On an older plugin, `navigation.headingTrue` is required. The derived-data plugin can calculate it from `navigation.headingMagnetic` plus `navigation.magneticVariation`, as in the section above. Direction appears on Windy with the next update after a heading arrives. --- ## The plugin will not install, will not start, or stopped after an upgrade Start with the safe recovery path: 1. **Install the latest Saillogger plugin** from the Signal K app store. 2. **Let the install finish without restarting the device.** Slower hardware can take longer than expected. 3. **Restart Signal K**, then restart the monitoring device if the plugin still does not start. 4. **Check available storage** using the device maker's instructions if other plugins are also failing to install or update. 5. **Copy the exact error message** and note the Signal K, device firmware and Saillogger plugin versions. If the app store cannot install or remove plugins after those steps, stop there and contact us. Do not remove stored device data or the full Signal K configuration using an old forum recipe; that can remove unuploaded records or unrelated boat settings. We will help choose the least disruptive next step for the reported device and version. --- ## My boat shows as offline, or "No GPS positions" **What it looks like.** The **Status** card in **Settings** > **Boat** reads **Offline**, or reads **No GPS positions** in red. **Why it matters.** A current GPS position is required for both monitoring and trip logging. Internet access by itself cannot provide the route or current boat location. The two statuses mean different things: - **Offline** means Saillogger has not heard from the device recently, usually because the device or its Internet connection is off. This is normal every time you shut the boat down. - **No GPS positions** means the device is reaching the Internet but sending no position. The next checks should therefore focus on the GPS, its power and its connection to the monitoring device. Check, in this order: 1. **The boat electronics and the GPS are powered on.** On most boats the position comes from the chartplotter or the AIS transceiver, so it disappears when you switch the instruments off. 2. **The monitoring device is on the boat network**, or has a GPS receiver of its own. 3. **The monitoring device is on the Internet.** 4. **The GPS antenna has an unobstructed view of the sky** and a valid fix. 5. **Read the Status card again** in **Settings** > **Boat** after each check to see whether it has changed. [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md) lists every status and what each one means. If your GPS regularly disappears with the instruments, a dedicated USB GPS puck on the monitoring device keeps a position available. Give the NMEA sources higher priority than the puck so it is only ever a fallback. --- ## My journal is blank, or my chart shows no track **What it looks like.** The journal at [saillogger.com/app/journal](https://saillogger.com/app/journal) shows its heading and nothing else, or your dashboard draws no track at all. **Why it happens.** Both are built from your logs starting at a chosen point, and that point is not set. Saillogger normally sets it after your first logged trip, so this usually affects new accounts and accounts where it was cleared. 1. Open **Settings** > **Dashboard**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/dashboard](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/dashboard). 2. Set **Show my cruise from** to the trip you want the journal and the chart to start from. Choose your oldest trip to show your entire history. 3. Reopen the journal. Your notes, stay notes and photos are there, newest first. To clear the setting again, choose **Latest position only**, the first entry in that list. --- ## The app opens on a blank screen **What it looks like.** You open Saillogger on your phone or tablet and get a dark screen with nothing on it. **What to do.** Give it a moment: the screen is Saillogger's own, waiting for the rest of itself to arrive over a weak connection. If it is taking longer than it should, it says so and offers **Try again**, which reloads the page you were on. A second button beside it, **Use the classic site**, opens Saillogger's older pages, which is worth trying if **Try again** does not clear it. Your boat, your logs and your data are unchanged either way, and every link you have shared keeps working. If it happens more than once, write to info@saillogger.com and say which device you are using and its Android or iOS version. That tells us where to look. --- ## Monitoring is not working, though trips are logged **What it looks like.** Trips appear in your logbook and **Settings** > **Boat** shows recent contact, but your dashboard does not work, or shows a position or a time that is plainly wrong. **Why it happens.** One possible cause is a clock or timezone mismatch between the monitoring device and chartplotter, which can make current readings appear out of date. 1. Check that your chartplotter and your monitoring device have accurate clocks. 2. Check that both are set to the same timezone, daylight saving included. 3. Restart both after changing anything. If it still shows a future time after both clocks are correct, write to info@saillogger.com with a screenshot and the time shown. We can inspect the account with you. --- ## When to ask for help If the safe checks above do not resolve the problem, we are glad to help. The [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) is useful for general setup questions and experience with the same hardware. For account-specific details, write to info@saillogger.com instead of posting them publicly. When you contact us, include whichever of these details are available: - **What you see** and **what you expected** instead. - **When it started**, and what changed around then (a plugin update, new hardware, a firmware upgrade). - **Your plugin version and monitoring device**, from the **Plugin version** and **Monitoring device** rows under **Identity** in **Settings** > **Boat**. - **A link to the trip** if it is about a specific passage, copied from its page, for example `https://saillogger.com/app/logbook/`. - **The relevant Signal K log**, if you already have one. Send logs privately because they can contain boat and device details. > [!WARNING] > Do not post your e-mail address or Collector ID in a public forum thread. The Collector ID connects a device to your boat, so keep it private and send it only through a support channel if requested. > [!NEXT] > Short answers to the questions boaters ask most are on [Frequently asked questions](https://saillogger.com/docs/faq.md). --- # Frequently asked questions Source: https://saillogger.com/docs/faq/ Short answers to the questions boaters ask most, each pointing at the page with the full instructions. Short answers, grouped by what you are trying to do. Each one links to the page that covers it in full. For a symptom-specific problem, go straight to [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md), which starts with safe checks. ## About Saillogger ### What is Saillogger? {#what-is-saillogger} An automated logbook and monitoring service for your boat. A device aboard uploads position and sensor data, and Saillogger works out when you left, where you went and when you arrived, then writes the log entry itself. It also records your moorages and stays, builds statistics and timelapses, and lets you watch the boat while you are away. See [What Saillogger is](https://saillogger.com/docs/what-is-saillogger.md). ### Do I have to start and stop each trip? No. Saillogger detects departure and arrival automatically, so there is nothing to start or stop. A finished trip normally appears about an hour after you arrive. See [How trips are logged](https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md). ### What do I need aboard? {#how-to-use} One of three things: a PredictWind tracking link, a Victron GX device wired to your NMEA 2000 network, or the Saillogger plugin on any Signal K server. You also need an Internet connection, though not a constant one. See [Connect your boat](https://saillogger.com/docs/connect-your-boat.md). ### Can I use two data sources at once? Use one connection method at a time. A PredictWind tracker and a Victron GX sending the same voyage can create duplicate entries. When moving from one to the other, stop the old connection before starting the new one. ### Can I have two boats on one account? Each account is built around a single boat, so a second boat needs its own account and subscription. If you own two, create the second account and ask info@saillogger.com to link them. That puts a **Switch boat** group in your account menu, so you can move between them without signing out. See [Create your account](https://saillogger.com/docs/create-your-account.md). ### Can I look at it before I sign up? Yes. There is a read-only demo account at [saillogger.com/demo/](https://saillogger.com/demo/) with real logs, statistics and a fully populated dashboard. The credentials are filled in for you, and nothing you click can change the account, so look around as long as you like. ## Getting set up ### Does my boat need to be connected to the Internet? {#internet-required} Not constantly, for trip logging. The device aboard keeps data waiting to upload and sends it when it next gets online. Reconnect periodically because data that has not uploaded still depends on the device and its storage. Live monitoring is different: to watch the boat now, the boat must be online now. ### Is GPS required? Yes, for both trip logging and monitoring. An Internet connection on its own gives Saillogger nothing to draw a track from and nowhere to place your boat. On most boats the position comes from the chartplotter or AIS transceiver, so it may become unavailable when those instruments are switched off. ### How do I know it is actually working? Open **Settings** > **Boat** at [saillogger.com/app/settings/boat](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/boat) and read the **Status** card: the verdict, and how long ago your boat was last heard from. That page is the health panel for your connection, and the old boats page address now redirects to it. See [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md). ### Where do I choose which sensor feeds each reading? On saillogger.com, under **Settings** > **Sensors**: [saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors](https://saillogger.com/app/settings/sensors). Each reading has its own dropdown of the Signal K paths your boat publishes. Older instructions say to do this in the Signal K plugin, which changed with plugin **3.0.0**. See [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). ### When should I set a GPS source in the plugin? {#gps-source} Almost never, so leave **GPS source** empty. It is an advanced option for a boat where several position sources disagree, and a wrong choice stops trip logging until it is corrected. Check the antenna and set source priorities in Signal K first, and if that does not settle it, get in touch before changing the field. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### My battery readings are on the network but Saillogger shows zero. {#battery-zero} Check them in the Signal K Data Browser first: context `self`, search `batteries`, and you should see paths like `electrical.batteries.1234.voltage`. Then choose that same path in **Battery voltage**, under **Sensor sources** in **Settings** > **Sensors**, and the matching `capacity.stateOfCharge` path in **Battery charge**. Older instructions describe a battery field in the Signal K plugin, which current versions no longer have. Full steps are in [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### How much data does it use? {#data-usage} Monitoring a boat with the usual sensors and a couple of tanks comes to roughly 8 MB a day, around 250 MB in a month. It arrives as a steady trickle rather than in bursts, and the amount does not rise when you are sailing hard. AIS reporting is separate, and adds about 2 MB a day, some 50 MB a month, with ten or so boats around you. It grows with the traffic, so a busy marina costs more than an ocean passage, and **Display AIS targets** under **Settings** > **Dashboard** switches it off, at the price of losing other boats from your chart. On Starlink or a cellular plan, that is a small share of the allowance. ### Can I import my old tracks from another service? Imports are done by the Saillogger team rather than from your own settings. Write to info@saillogger.com with the file and the dates it covers, and do it early: an import is most likely to be possible before newer trips are logged. See [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). ### Can I use Saillogger as a live tracker with Starlink? {#starlink-tracker} Yes, and it is a common pairing. Turn on **Sharing** and **Live tracking & monitoring** in **Settings** > **Sharing** and send people the link. Starlink needs no extra setup for this: Saillogger treats it as an ordinary Internet connection, and your position comes from the boat's own GPS. Saillogger is not an emergency beacon or a replacement for a passage safety plan. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ## Using it day to day ### My last trip has not appeared. Where is it? {#last-trip-missing} Reporting may have stopped soon after arrival. Turn the monitoring device on again at the same place, confirm the **Status** card in **Settings** > **Boat** shows a recent time, and allow about an hour for the trip to finish. Reconnect before resetting or replacing the device because data still waiting aboard depends on its storage. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### Can I combine two trips into one? A stop of about an hour is what ends a trip, so an out-and-back is kept as the two legs you sailed rather than joined into one. See [How trips are logged](https://saillogger.com/docs/automatic-trip-logging.md). ### Can I add a trip by hand? Every log is built from a recorded track, so there is nothing to fill in by hand. If another service recorded the track, write to info@saillogger.com with the file and dates and we can often bring it in. See [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). ### Can I fix a bad trackpoint, or delete a whole trip? {#delete-trackpoints} Yes to both. Open the trip, choose **Classic view**, click the offending position and use the delete button in its popup. To remove the whole thing, use the red **Delete log** button on that same page, which also deletes the stays attached to it. Deleting positions suits a track with a few bad points; if most of the track is wrong, export anything you want to keep first. See [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). ### Can Saillogger log engine hours, RPM and sailing versus motoring? {#engine-logging} Yes. If your engine reports hours over NMEA 2000 they are logged per trip automatically, twin engines included. The sailing and motoring split needs your boat type set to **Monohull sailboat** or **Sailing catamaran** in **Settings** > **Boat**. For live RPM or runtime gauges, add a monitoring section and set its **Measures** to **RPM** or **Duration**: see [Make Saillogger yours](https://saillogger.com/docs/customise-saillogger.md). ### How do I put text on a timelapse? {#timelapse-text} Notes attached to positions appear in the timelapse as your boat passes them. Add them under way from the **Journal** chip on your dashboard, or afterwards by opening a trip's **Classic view** and clicking a position. See [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). ### Can I export my logs? {#export-logs} Yes. Logs and stays export as CSV, and tracks and moorages as GPX. These are data exports rather than a complete account archive: photos and journal media are not included, so keep their originals. A Seasonal Pause switches exports off along with everything else, so download before you start one. See [Your logbook](https://saillogger.com/docs/your-logbook.md). ### My journal is blank. How do I fix it? {#journal-blank} Set **Show my cruise from** under **Settings** > **Dashboard** to the trip you want your journal and your live track to start from, then reopen the journal. Saillogger usually sets this after your first logged trip, so a blank journal mostly affects new accounts or ones where it was cleared. See [Notes, photos and your journal](https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes.md). ### Why does the map show only a few boats? {#map-few-boats} Check the layers panel: the **AIS Fleet** layer is off by default, a layer that is switched off contributes nothing, and in busy areas the map may show a limited set of the largest vessels, so zooming in brings out the smaller ones. **Local AIS traffic** is only what your own receiver can hear, which in a quiet spot can be nothing at all. Your boat, your friends and your fleets are always drawn. See [Live monitoring](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md). ### A boat reads as under way, but her speed is zero. Which one is right? {#under-way-at-zero-speed} Both, and they answer different questions. The speed is the last figure AIS heard from her, which can be a moment when she was lying still, out of range or between reports. The status is what her recent reporting adds up to, and it keeps her under way through a passage rather than ending one on a single quiet fix. The place in that status follows the same rule: it names where she is lying once she is confirmed there, and where she left from while she is still on passage, so it never puts her at a place she has already left. See [Find a vessel](https://aisfleet.com/docs/find-a-vessel.md) and [Live monitoring](https://saillogger.com/docs/live-monitoring.md). ## Sharing and privacy ### Who can see my data? Public sharing is off for a new account, so other boaters and visitors cannot open your boat pages. Turning **Sharing** on initially enables all shareable page types, so it is worth going through the individual switches straight after, and adding an access password when the link is meant for chosen people. See [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md). ### How do I share with family and friends only? {#share-privately} Turn on **Sharing** in **Settings** > **Sharing**, switch off any pages you do not want to publish, then turn on **Require access password** and save a unique passphrase. Reload the settings and test the link in a private browser window before sending it. Changing the password locks everyone out until you send them the new one. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ### Can I customise my public link? {#custom-public-links} Yes. With sharing on, **Public boat name** builds your address from a prefix (**SV**, **MV** and so on) and your boat name, giving you something like `https://saillogger.com/svrenaissance`. Changing the prefix or the boat name changes every public link, so links you have already sent or embedded stop working. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ### Can I put my live tracker on my own website? {#embed-tracker} Yes, with a plain iframe pointing at your public monitoring link. The embedded page follows the same sharing switches and access password as the ordinary link, so test it in a private browser window before publishing. It keeps Saillogger's own styling, so the map layer and the track colour look the same to every visitor. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ### How do I follow another boat? {#friends} From [saillogger.com/app/friends](https://saillogger.com/app/friends), press **Follow** and search her by name, MMSI, call sign or IMO number. You can also use the follow button in a boat's card on a public map. You can follow Saillogger boaters who chose to share and vessels broadcasting public AIS positions, subject to AIS coverage and local rules. You get an e-mail when a followed boat departs or arrives. See [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md). ### I started a fleet by mistake. How do I get rid of it? {#delete-a-fleet} On Saillogger, open the fleet, press **Manage** beside its name, and use **Delete fleet** at the bottom. On AIS Fleet, open the fleet from **Fleets** on the map, choose **Fleet settings**, and use **Delete fleet** at the foot of the page. Either way a page lists what the deletion takes with it before you confirm, and deleting frees one of the fleets your plan runs. If boats have already been added, they lose the fleet map and the fleet chat straight away and are not told, so tell them first. It cannot be undone. If you only want the fleet off its public link, turn **Public fleet** off instead and its members keep everything. See [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md). ### My family do not use Saillogger. How can they follow us? {#ais-fleet} Two ways, both in a browser with nothing to install: send them your public monitoring link, or point them at AIS Fleet at [aisfleet.com](https://aisfleet.com), where they sign in with an e-mail code and follow your boat by MMSI, which has to be known to the AIS network. Your link needs **Sharing** and **Live tracking & monitoring** turned on, and those same two switches decide how much an AIS Fleet follower sees: your journal and logged track with them on, only your AIS position with them off. [For family and friends without Saillogger](https://saillogger.com/docs/follow-without-saillogger.md) is the page to forward, and [the AIS Fleet guide](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md) is written for them rather than for you. ### What is AIS Fleet, and can I use it myself? {#what-is-ais-fleet} A vessel-watching service from the same team, at [aisfleet.com](https://aisfleet.com): a live AIS map, and word every time a vessel you follow leaves or arrives. Anyone can use it, boat or no boat, and following five vessels is free. You need no account there to be followed, and following other boats is already included in your Saillogger subscription through Friends. It has a guide of its own: [What AIS Fleet is](https://aisfleet.com/docs/what-is-ais-fleet.md). ### Is there an AIS Fleet app? {#ais-fleet-app} Yes, for iPhone, in open beta, and everything on aisfleet.com works in a phone browser regardless. [AIS Fleet on your phone](https://aisfleet.com/docs/the-app.md) covers getting it and what it adds. ### Can someone else claim my boat on AIS Fleet? {#ais-fleet-claim} Not by themselves. An MMSI that already belongs to an active Saillogger boat is refused when someone tries to claim it, and every claim is checked by a person against a document. Our crew can still link one by hand where it is genuinely the same boat, a partner or crew member for instance, and we e-mail you when that happens; nothing on Saillogger changes hands. [Claim your boat](https://aisfleet.com/docs/claim-your-boat.md#if-your-boat-already-logs-with-saillogger) ### Someone added my boat to a fleet on AIS Fleet. How do I leave? {#leave-a-fleet} Every fleet e-mail ends with a one-tap link that takes your boat out, and the fleet's page has **Leave fleet**. Tick **Also block** as you leave and that organizer cannot add her again. [Fleets](https://aisfleet.com/docs/fleets.md#leaving) ### Following, a list or a fleet on AIS Fleet: what is the difference? {#lists-vs-fleets} A list is one member's own collection of boats, sorted and optionally shared; a fleet is a group your boat is added to, with a chat, where every owner is told and can leave. [Following, a list and a fleet](https://aisfleet.com/docs/faq.md#lists-vs-fleets) ### What does subscribing to someone's list do? {#subscribe-to-a-list} Its boats appear on that member's map and, once they turn the notices on, tell them when the boats move. It does not make them a follower of each boat: you are not told, and they see only AIS. [Subscribe to a list](https://aisfleet.com/docs/lists.md#subscribe-to-a-list) ### I subscribed to a list of ten boats but only some show on my map. Why? {#list-boats-beyond-plan} Lists you subscribe to share your AIS Fleet follow limit, so the rest wait under **Beyond your plan**: listed, not drawn, not announced. [What your plan counts](https://aisfleet.com/docs/lists.md#what-your-plan-counts) ### Where do the boats I photographed come from? {#photographed-list} From your own uploads: a vessel joins the **Boats you photographed** list when you send a photo of her and leaves when you delete your last one. It never counts against your plan. [Favorites, and the boats you photographed](https://aisfleet.com/docs/lists.md#favorites-and-the-boats-you-photographed) ### How do I delete my AIS Fleet account? {#delete-ais-fleet-account} On aisfleet.com, **Account** in the account menu, then **Danger zone**. It closes at once and becomes unrecoverable after thirty days. Cancel an App Store subscription yourself first, and note that photographs you contributed stay published. It is a separate account from your Saillogger one; closing that is under [Your account and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md#deleting-your-account). [Closing your AIS Fleet account](https://aisfleet.com/docs/your-account-and-privacy.md#closing-your-account) ### Can I feed my own AIS receiver into AIS Fleet? {#share-ais-receiver} Yes, and it is free on every plan. What it hears joins the map for everyone, and the receiver stays private to you. [Share your AIS receiver](https://aisfleet.com/docs/share-your-ais-receiver.md) ### Can I stop one particular person following me? Yes. Open your [followers page](https://saillogger.com/app/followers) and use **Remove follower** on their row: your boat leaves their map and list, their departure and arrival e-mails about you stop, and they are not told. On a publicly viewable boat they can follow again, so for a lasting cut-off pair the removal with your sharing switches: set or change the access password in **Sharing settings** and give the new one only to the people you want. None of that hides the boat itself: your AIS position stays public, as it is on any AIS site, and **AIS Fleet**, under **Settings** > **Integrations**, is the switch that stops Saillogger sending your own fixes there. If this is about harassment or your safety, write to info@saillogger.com and we will help. See [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md#who-is-following-you). ### How do I stop hearing from another boater? {#block-a-boater} Blocking, following and fleets are separate, so use the pieces you need. **Block them** from the header of your conversation on the [Messages page](https://saillogger.com/app/messages): neither of you can message the other, and the conversation is hidden for both of you until you unblock them from the **blocked** list on that page. **Remove them** on your [followers page](https://saillogger.com/app/followers) so your boat leaves their following list, and change your access password if your boat has one. **Unfollow their boat** to stop departure and arrival notices about it. Fleet chats are shared rooms that blocking does not cover, so leave the fleet or ask its owner to remove them. If this is about harassment or your safety, write to info@saillogger.com and we will help. See [Friends, fleets and messages](https://saillogger.com/docs/friends-and-fleets.md#block-a-boater). ### How do I turn my boat into a Windy.com weather station? {#windy-weather-station} Enable **Windy** in **Settings** > **Integrations**; Sharing does not need to be on. The master **Sharing** switch also turns Windy on and off, so check Windy again after changing Sharing. The switch stays disabled until your boat has sent at least one weather value that Windy can use, such as wind, outside temperature, humidity or pressure. Wind needs no special setup: Saillogger combines masthead apparent wind with heading, course and speed, or uses an explicitly ground-referenced source. A magnetic heading is enough; Saillogger corrects it for the variation at your position (plugin 5.3.0 or later). It does not relabel water-referenced true wind as weather wind without the current data that conversion needs. It leaves out a wind value rather than guessing, while other valid weather continues to publish. Each update publishes the average usable wind and its peak (gust) from the latest 15-minute window. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md). ### How can I update my NoForeignLand position? {#noforeignland} Yes. On [NoForeignLand](https://www.noforeignland.com), open **Boat settings** > **Boat tracking** > **API Key** and copy the key, then paste it into **Boat API Key**, under **NoForeignland** in **Settings** > **Integrations**. The **NoForeignland** switch above it comes on, your position starts updating automatically, and your first one can take up to an hour to appear. Switching it off pauses publishing and keeps your key. See [Share your journey](https://saillogger.com/docs/share-your-boat.md#noforeignland). ## Money ### What does Saillogger cost? {#pricing} Free for 45 days, then USD 7.99 a month or the local equivalent. You do not need to enter payment details for the trial, and the 45 days start when your boat first sends data, not when you sign up. See [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). ### Is there an annual plan? There is no annual plan at present; subscriptions are billed monthly. Referral credits can reduce future bills when a boater signs up with your code and makes their first payment. ### How does the referral programme work? {#referral-program} Your code is under **Referrals**, at the foot of the navigation and at the end of **More** on a phone (also **Settings** > **Referrals**). A boater who enters it while creating their account gets 25% off their first paid month, and when they pay you get one free month, banked if you do not need it straight away. A code cannot be added after the account exists. If the signup form itself failed while the code was being entered, write to info@saillogger.com and we will look at it. ### We only boat for part of the year. Can we pause? {#seasonal-pause} Yes, with **Seasonal pause** under **Settings** > **Subscription**. The pause stops logging and monitoring as well as your own access, including exports, until you resume. Export anything you want to read during the winter before starting it. See [Subscription and seasonal pause](https://saillogger.com/docs/subscription-and-seasonal-pause.md). ### What happens to my data if I stop paying? Your logbook is not deleted the moment a subscription ends, and an account can often be brought back by writing to info@saillogger.com. Export what you want to keep as CSV and GPX before you cancel, remembering that a seasonal pause switches exports off. Deleting the account yourself, from **Settings** > **Account**, closes it, cancels the subscription and takes down every shared page, so treat that as final and write to us straight away if it was a mistake. See [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md). ## Something is wrong ### My trips are not being logged, but monitoring works. {#trips-not-logged} They are fed by different data, so a working dashboard does not prove logging works. Wait about an hour after arriving, restart Signal K, empty the **GPS source** field in the plugin, then check the plugin status line and **Settings** > **Boat**. Full steps in [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### My track zigzags, or my boat is shown miles away. {#zigzag-tracks} The usual cause is an unreliable GPS fix or several position sources disagreeing. Check the antenna and position timestamp, then use Signal K source priorities to prefer the reliable source. If that does not resolve it, contact support before changing the plugin's advanced GPS source. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### I get 0-mile or duplicate trips at the dock. {#zero-mile-trips} Position jitter at the dock can look like movement, and the fix is the same as for a zigzag track: a reliable antenna and Signal K source priorities. You can delete a false trip, but that also deletes the stays attached to it; for a real trip with a few bad positions, delete those positions instead. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### A reading is missing, zero or wrong on my dashboard. {#missing-monitoring-values} Saillogger shows only what your boat network reports, and only while it is fresh: a stale value is dropped rather than displayed. Check the value and its timestamp in the Signal K Data Browser, then the matching row under **Sensor sources**, in **Settings** > **Sensors**. A path that has only just appeared takes a while to become selectable, and restarting Signal K brings it forward. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### The wind arrow points the wrong way. {#wind-direction} It points where the wind is blowing toward, so an arrow pointing south means a northerly. A weather barb commonly points toward where the wind comes from, so the displays can look opposite while using the same reading. If there is no arrow, check whether your network publishes `environment.wind.directionTrue`: see [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### My boat shows as offline. {#boat-offline-gps} Either the device is not reaching Saillogger at all, or it is reaching Saillogger with no position. Check that the boat electronics and GPS are powered, that the device is on the boat network and online, and that the antenna has a clear view of the sky. See [Check that it is working](https://saillogger.com/docs/check-your-connection.md). ### Trips are logged but monitoring does not work. {#monitoring-not-working} Usually the monitoring device and the chartplotter disagree about the time. Make sure both clocks and timezones are right, daylight saving included, and restart both after changing anything. If your dashboard still shows a future or stale update time after that, send us a screenshot and the time it shows. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### The plugin will not install, or stopped working after an upgrade. Update the Saillogger plugin first, let the installation finish, and restart Signal K. If it still fails, copy the exact error and your device, firmware, Signal K and plugin versions, then contact us before removing stored device data or configuration. See [Troubleshooting](https://saillogger.com/docs/troubleshooting.md). ### I cannot reset my password. If your account was cancelled, the reset can fail silently. Write to info@saillogger.com from your registered address and ask for it to be re-enabled. See [Your account, data and privacy](https://saillogger.com/docs/account-and-privacy.md). ### My question is not here. {#contact} The [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) is a good place for general questions and for experience with similar hardware. For anything account-specific, e-mail info@saillogger.com, keeping your e-mail address and Collector ID out of public threads. We are glad to help, and it saves a round trip if you include what you see, what you expected, when it started, and your plugin version and monitoring device from **Settings** > **Boat**. > [!NEXT] > That is the whole guide. If your question is still not answered, the [community forum](https://community.saillogger.com) is where boaters and the Saillogger team work through problems together, and info@saillogger.com reaches a person.