Skippers Log

Skippers Log is your digital logbook for your yacht.

Everything you can do in a good old fashioned paper logbook you can do here:

- Create multiple trips for multiple ships
- Record daily navigational data and weather observations
- Include navigational live data from a wireless NMEA server
- Automatic log entries based on the specifications you make (course change, wind change, ...)
- Plot your trip on Apple map or Navionics map (active Navionics subscription required)
- Print your trip with maps as a PDF
- Create crew lists and print them
- AIS targets shown on map (data from AIS receiver required)
- Synchronize between you devices through iCloud
- Display various data fields from NMEA data as overlay on your map
- Fuel, water, cooking gas and outboard fuel consumption can be recorded
- Take and add pictures to any day in the logbook (Premium version only)
- Automatic geotag your position like e.g. "1.6 nm NW of Cape Finisterre"
- Automatic download GMDSS and DWD weather forecasts (Euriope only, premium only)
- Handling daily checklist (premium only)

The free version of this app is limited to 1 ship, 1 trip and 40 manual log entries. Enough for a one or two week charter trip. No NMEA data are processed in the free app.

In app purchase for the premium version and a 14-day free trial of the premium version.

Please note, that the app will principally run on WiFi only iPads, but it is quite limited on these devices. Even if you use NMEA as your location source, automatic logging and track recording will likely reliably only happen while the app is in the foreground. You can still do manual entries, of course. To unleash the full potential you need a device with a gps receiver.


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更新履歴
- Improved NMEA diagnostic.
- Added a retention value to the systemlog. System log entries before older than this value in days will be deleted. Default is 7 days and it can be changed int the system log viewer.
- Changed the behaviour of the automooring function. Speed is no longer a factor to be considered. Instead the ship has to stay stationary within a defined circle for the specified time. For details see the help page for the automooring setting.
- On 2 engine boats with engine data provided via NMEA, starting or stopping one engine within 60 seconds of the other will no longer create a second entry. The second action will be merged into the first entry.
- There are two new options in the Logbook settings. They determine if starting an engine or setting a sail automatically unmoors you (as it was standard before) or leave you moored and if mooring automatically stops your engine(s) and lowers your sails (as it was standard before) or let the engine(s) running. You can leave these activated unless you want to record engine data while moored.
- The function of the Moor button in the log entry screen as been changed. It is now possible to manually unmoor by pressing the button while moored. After a confirmation dialog you will be unmoored. You must have an engine running or a sail set to unmoor this way.
- There will be now an alert notification if the connection to the NMEA server is lost. You can deactivate this notification in the NMEA Details settings.
- Added indicators to the log entry to show if engines are running (green) or not (red)
- Fixed some typos.
- Weather observations (temperature, clouds, weather, waveheight) will only be copied to a new log entry if the previous entry is not older than 4 hours. This will prevent starting a new day with the weather from the last day.
- Changing the date of a day will no longer create a new day.