Saillogger Community

We’ve added a new Notifications center to Saillogger, giving your important updates a home inside the app.

Instead of digging through emails or wondering what you missed, you can now catch up quickly with a clean, chronological view of recent activity around your boat and boating community.

Here is what you can see in one place:

• Boat Alerts
  Review recent alerts from your boat, including important monitoring and status updates.

• Trip Updates
  Stay informed about recent trip activity, arrivals, departures, and other voyage-related updates.

• Friend Activity
  Follow updates from friends and boats you care about without digging through email.

• Badges and Achievements
  See recent badges and milestones as they happen.

• Account Updates
  Keep track of important Saillogger account notifications.

• Weekly Summaries
  Find your recent weekly summaries when you want to look back at your boating activity.

The new Notifications center gives you a clearer picture of what has happened since your last visit, making it easier to stay connected each time you return to Saillogger.

Available now for all Saillogger users on the web and in the mobile apps.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,

The Saillogger Team

We’ve significantly enhanced the Saillogger fleet experience, making it easier than ever to create, manage, and grow your own fleet.

Fleets have always been a great way to bring boats together, whether you are cruising with friends, organizing a rally, managing a club, or keeping track of a group of vessels. With this update, fleets are now much more powerful and fully self-managed.

Here is what is new:

• Create and manage your own fleet
  You can now create a fleet directly in Saillogger and manage it yourself, without needing help from the Saillogger team.

• Invite boats to join
  Fleet owners can invite other boats and build their fleet around friends, cruising groups, clubs, rallies, or any boating community.

• Control fleet membership
  Add, review, and manage fleet members as your group grows. You are in control of who belongs to your fleet.

• A better shared boating experience
  Fleets make it easier to follow the boats that matter to you, see where everyone is, and stay connected while underway or at anchor.

• Built for real boating communities
  Whether you are coordinating a few buddy boats, organizing a larger group, or simply want a shared space for your cruising circle, the new fleet experience is designed to be flexible and easy to use.

This is a big step toward making Saillogger more social, more useful, and more connected for boaters everywhere.

Ready to bring your group together?

Create your own fleet

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

We’ve added a new satellite overlay view to Saillogger, and it is now the default map layer across all views.

This new layer combines the visual richness of satellite imagery with the practical context boaters need on the water, including place names and marine geography such as straits, bays, channels, islands, and other useful labels.

Previously, satellite views were great for seeing the coastline, anchorages, marinas, and surrounding terrain, but they could sometimes lack the geographic context that makes a map easier to read. With the new overlay, you get the best of both worlds:

• Satellite imagery for a realistic view of the coast, islands, anchorages, and surrounding land
• Place names so you can quickly orient yourself
• Marine labels for features like bays, straits, channels, and passages
• A better default experience across Saillogger maps, whether you are reviewing your own trips, following friends, or exploring fleet activity

With this change, we are also retiring the NOAA map view. While NOAA provided useful marine context, it was limited to the United States. The new satellite overlay is global, more visually rich, and provides a better experience for boaters wherever they cruise.

We think this makes Saillogger’s maps more useful, more beautiful, and more intuitive, especially in complex cruising grounds where geography matters.

As always, you can still switch map layers when you prefer a different view.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Boating is better with friends, and Saillogger’s Friends feature just became your new favorite crewmate. Here is what is new and as always, you stay in full control of your data:

• Broader AIS Coverage
  Our expanded AIS network makes tracking friends on the globe faster and more accurate than ever! You can even follow boats that are not yet on Saillogger through AIS, although inviting them means both of you get richer data!

• Richer Trip Details
  Saillogger always beats raw AIS. When you follow another Saillogger user, you see their trip notes, photos, and stats, all automatically logged. Your friends decide what you see: if their profile is public you get the full story. If it is password-protected they can share that password with you, and they can switch back to private at any time.

• Smart Arrival and Departure Alerts
  Follow any boat to get instant alerts when it casts off or makes landfall, with more event types coming soon (so you can be the first one to see the fish they just landed!). You are always in control: toggle alerts in Notification Settings.

• Follower Notifications
  When someone follows you (your profile needs to be public) you receive a notification. If their profile is public you can follow them right back with a single tap!

• See Who’s Aboard
  Curious who is watching your adventures? View your followers on the Followers page.

• Privacy Controls
  It is your data and you are the skipper. By default your profile is private. You can

  • keep it private,
  • set a password and share it only with trusted crew, or
  • make it public so everyone can cheer you on.
    Whatever you choose, you can change it at any time.

Need more details? Check the Support Page or reply here.

Follow your boating friends, set your profile the way you like, invite your crew, and start exploring. Your next great voyage is only a follow away!

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,

The Saillogger Team

@upstart are you logging data connections? Make sure it is not checked in as those logs can grow very fast. Saillogger is efficient with its storage and won't need those log files.

That's great to hear, thank you for sharing!

We have something in the works to completely eliminate this dependency. It is a major rewrite though so requires extensive testing, please stay tuned.

Is this on a Raspberry Pi? Unfortunately this is a new dependency they introduced, if so can you do a manual npm install signalk-saillogger in ~/.signalk directory?

Hi @upstart ,

This is all automated. If Saillogger detects an engine is running (through NMEA data), it sets the state to Motoring. If not, but it knows an engine is present on NMEA, it marks it as Sailing.

Just deployed a change that may address this. Can you try again?

This should be addressed now for outgoing mails. If you see this on your browser, it probably is a local setting though. If so, can you share the details of your OS and browser?

Hi Michael, printable logbook picks the cruise mode settings. In your monitoring settings, set the initial tracking position to the start of your desired log and then you can get the printable log from that point.

No Jim thank you, we are looking into this.

Hi @upstart sorry for the delay. We are working on submitting a new version of the app to Google Play. You can use the attached version until then.

https://cdn.saillogger.com/static/app/saillogger.apk

Hi Jim, thanks for the report. Is this reproducible? We couldn't see the error, if you have any repeatable instructions, it would be very helpful. Thank you.

Hi @piotr-pingo yes we will update the plugin.

Hi @digger , please send email to us at [email protected] from the e-mail that you are registered with.

Hi @Andrea, this is normal. Saillogger requires GPS position data to function. Your GPS is likely coming from the instruments, which is probably the reason for what you saw.

Hi @mshulman sorry for the delay in responding. Is there a possibility that there were multiple GPS sources at the time this is happening? If multiple sources report slightly different positions it may trigger a movement. If so, and this is happening frequently you can consider limiting your position reports to a single device. It is explained in FAQs.

Hi @Andrea , we missed this earlier. Is this issue still happening? Normally when this happens, it means you are missing position data. Do you have navigation.position available in Data Browser and does it refresh?