Longer notes on logbooks, anchoring, navigation, and boat admin.
- A 3-day wind and wave forecast, on the chart
Jul 6, 2026 · Sailing Log now shows a 3-day ECMWF forecast on the nautical chart: wind, gusts, waves, temperature, and rain, with a time slider and a tap for the exact forecast anywhere.
- Share cards: turn a sail into a post-ready image or video
Feb 10, 2026 · Strava-style trip cards from your photos or videos, with route, stats, and crew overlaid. Square, postcard, or 9:16 story for Instagram and TikTok.
- Engine hours on a sailboat: the Motor/Sail slider
Jan 20, 2026 · Sailboats motor more than they admit. Log honest engine hours per trip with a slider, or minutes, and keep maintenance schedules true.
- Passage planning by drawing on the chart
Nov 11, 2025 · Tap waypoints on a nautical chart, get distance and ETA instantly, and keep the plan as a future logbook entry your crew can see.
- Rode length, scope, and what to tell your anchor alarm
Sep 30, 2025 · Scope ratios decide how well you sleep. How to pick rode length for conditions, and how to translate it into an anchor-alarm radius.
- How a phone anchor alarm actually works
Sep 16, 2025 · Watch circles, GPS jitter, and debouncing: the engineering inside Sailing Log's anchor alarm, and why it's biased to wake you.
- Recording sailing tracks with your iPhone's GPS
Aug 5, 2025 · How phone GPS works on the water, what accuracy to expect, and how Sailing Log turns fixes into clean tracks, distances, and speeds.
- Why keep a sailing logbook at all?
Jul 8, 2025 · Logbooks aren't nostalgia. They're maintenance history, legal record, sailing memory, and the cheapest insurance a skipper can buy.