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 explains it before you begin editing records.
Browsing your logbook
Your logbook is at saillogger.com/app/logbook, and it is the Logbook tab on a phone.
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.
| 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 for how to add them.
Two actions sit in the heading: Share, covered in Share your journey, 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.
- Open the trip and tap its title.
- Type the name you want.
- 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.
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.
- Open the trip and choose Classic view.
- Click the boat marker at the bad position. A popup opens with the time, boat speed, wind speed and position.
- 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.
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."
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: 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.
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, 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 ยท 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. 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.
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.
| Where | Button | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Stays | Export | A CSV of every stay |
| Moorages | Export GPX | A GPX of every moorage, as waypoints |
| saillogger.com/logs/export/ | opens and downloads | A CSV of every trip |
| 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.
Importing
Imports are done by the Saillogger team rather than from your own settings, and they are often possible.
GPX tracks or PredictWind history can sometimes be brought in by the Saillogger team. 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 [email protected] 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.