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Hi @jaredko , we can not reproduce it. Is it happening for all timelapses? Is is it with the new or old UI or both? I am wondering if it has something to do with graphics acceleration on the computer, but multiple laptops eliminate that possibility.

Can you send a link that is broken for you?

Glad to hear that @upstart , thank you for the feedback!

Also note that you can print a logbook from the Journal (https://saillogger.com/app/journal), but nothing beats a customized output delivered taiiored to your specifics!

Thank you for the suggestion @seeu , we have noted it. There is some work pending for the track, and we will see how this aligns to that.

Get a notification when a friend's boat leaves and when she arrives, and give your family ashore an easy way to follow yours. The AIS Fleet app is now on the App Store, free for iPhone and iPad.

Here is what it does:

• Know when a boat you follow leaves and arrives
  Follow a boat, turn on notifications in the app, and her departures and arrivals reach you. They come without a sound and wait in Notification Center.

• Let family ashore follow your boat
  Keep your logbook with Saillogger? Once an AIS receiver has heard your boat, family and friends can follow her in the app by her MMSI, with no boat or Saillogger account of their own. Your Saillogger sharing settings decide whether they also read your journal and see the passage you are on. With the AIS Fleet switch on under Settings > Integrations in Saillogger, your boat keeps moving on their map whenever you have internet aboard, even where no AIS receiver can hear her.

• See the traffic around your anchorage
  Aboard, the app connects to your AIS receiver over the boat's Wi-Fi and, while the app is on screen, draws the boats it hears within seconds. What it hears also joins the AIS Fleet network, extending coverage where no shore station reaches, and you can pause that sharing.

• Earn Plus or Pro with your photos
  In one calendar month, use AIS Fleet to photograph three boats you have not photographed with it before. Once the photos are published, you hold Plus for the following month. Ten boats earn Pro. How it counts

The app needs iOS 17 or later and uses the same account as aisfleet.com, so your follows, lists, fleets and messages are waiting when you sign in. Watching the map is free, following up to five boats is free, and the free plan does not expire. Plus and Pro are available in the app. On Android or a computer, use aisfleet.com in the browser.

Joined the open beta earlier this month? Thank you for trying it. Please install AIS Fleet from the App Store now, because the TestFlight build stops opening when it expires. New since the beta: push notifications, lists, and photos that earn Plus or Pro.

Download AIS Fleet from the App Store

If you like the app, a rating on the App Store helps others find it. Have questions or ideas? Reply here and tell us how you are using it.

Fair winds and following seas!
The Saillogger Team

Thank you for the specific report, it found a real problem. ChatGPT keeps the list of tools from when the Saillogger app was added, and it caps the size of that list; the two new reads pushed ours just over the cap, so ChatGPT kept your old list even after you reconnected. This a ChatGPT specific limitation, other agents don't exhibit that but there were options on our end so that is fixed on our side now.

To pick up the new tools, open ChatGPT’s Settings > Apps > Saillogger and press Refresh, then start a new conversation. Reconnecting alone does not update the list. You should then see “Trip readings, fix by fix” (get_trip_samples) and “Sailing readings across trips” (list_sailing_samples). For trips 52048 and 52059, each row carries time, latitude, longitude, SOG, COG, apparent wind speed and angle and whether an engine was running; engine RPM comes along if you ask for it by name.

This appears to be a stale toolset issue. The connector was updated on September 20 with two new reads: “Trip readings, fix by fix” (get_trip_samples), every fix of one trip, and “Sailing readings across trips” (list_sailing_samples), the engine-off fixes across a period, for exactly this kind of work. Each row carries time, latitude, longitude, SOG, COG, apparent wind speed and angle, and whether an engine was running. Engine RPM and any other reading the boat reports (depth, pressure, your own sensors) can be requested by name.

Your assistant’s summary matches the older tool set, so its list of tools is probably from before the update. Disconnecting and reconnecting the Saillogger connector, then starting a new chat, refreshes it. You can also ask directly: “Use get_trip_samples for the trip on September 20 and give me the rows as CSV.”

It is actually there since this morning! Tell your AI agent to use Saillogger MCP at https://saillogger.com/mcp and it should have everything ready to go.

In my previous tracks, every time I touched the track, apparent wind speed, apparent wind direction, boat speed and compass bow appeared.

Ah yes, the clicks on the route is on the to-do list

As soon as you announced the AI ​​integration, I immediately made the connection: I thought that if the AI ​​could read a table of data for each leg—containing metrics like AWS, AWA, and STW—it could easily generate a polar diagram for me. What do you think?

This is a good idea, and it’s live now. A connected assistant can read every position fix of a trip, or of a whole season, with speed and course over ground, apparent wind speed and angle, and whether the engine was running. So you can ask it for a polar diagram, or for your boat speed in a given wind band, and it has the numbers to work from.

Two things to know about the data. Speed through water isn’t recorded by default, so any true-wind or polar calculation is ground-referenced (current included); if your setup sends STW as a custom monitoring value, the assistant can read that too. And each fix carries the highest speed and wind speed of the minute before it, so the result will read a little optimistic. A rough polar, but a real one, from your own logbook!

If you try it, I’d like to hear how it goes.

Hi @Andrea they are there, here is a screenshot from one of our trips. Do you mean something else?

We just wanted to let the community know and extend a big thanks to Ray and Holly of SV Sabado for publishing a comprehensive review of Saillogger on their blog. Titled "The Logbook That Writes Itself", Ray and Holly even reminded us some of the features we developed but almost forgotten!

Check it out!

Your AI assistant can now answer questions about your boat, your passages and your whole season, in plain language, straight from your own Saillogger data and notes!

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or another assistant that can add a connector: it works with every Saillogger account, and it's read-only.

Ask in your own words. A few to get you started:

• Your boat, from aboard or ashore: "What are the batteries reading?" "Is the anchor watch on, and how far is she from the anchor?" If your boat reports it, from tanks and engines to wind and depth, you can ask about it.
• Your passages: "How far did we go last weekend, and how long was the engine on?"
• Your season: "How many nights did we spend at anchor this year, and how many countries did we visit?" "Which anchorage did we return to most often, and what did I note there?"
• Maintenance records: "When did we last change the impeller?"
• Friends and fleets: "Which of the boats we follow is closest, and where is she heading?" "Where are the other boats in our fleet?"
• Around you: "Which boats are near us, and how big are they?" This one uses the AIS receiver on your own boat, if she has one. You can also look up other vessels and their recent tracks.

One question can draw on your trips, your stops and the notes you wrote along the way. Ask your assistant to look over your boat's readings, too: it may spot one that looks odd, or two that look swapped.

Connect in three steps

1. In your assistant, add a connector with this address: https://saillogger.com/mcp. Claude calls this a custom connector; other assistants use other names, and their help pages show where to add one.
2. The assistant opens a Saillogger page. Sign in if you're asked to.
3. Check the account you're signed in as, the name of the app and where access goes, then press Allow access. If anything isn't what you expect, press Cancel instead.

Then ask your first question.

Read-only, and in your hands

• Can read, can't change: A connected assistant cannot change anything in Saillogger, and it cannot read your messages, photos or payment details.
• Only while connected: Saillogger sends nothing to an assistant on its own. The assistant reads what it needs to answer you, while it's connected. Whether it keeps your conversations, or uses them to improve its service, depends on its own settings and privacy policy.
• Disconnect at any time: Every connected assistant is listed under Settings > Account > Connected apps, and Disconnect ends its access at once.
• Seasonal pause: While your subscription is on a seasonal pause, a connected assistant cannot read your data. Your data is kept in full, and the assistant can read it again once you resume.

Try it: Use Saillogger with an AI assistant

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

You can now ask Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant about boats and ships in plain language, and it answers from your AIS Fleet account. AIS Fleet is the vessel-tracking service from the team behind Saillogger. Connecting an assistant is part of its Plus and Pro plans, and the connection is read-only.

Here are a few things you can ask.

Your boat and the boats you follow

• "Which boats on my Harbour list moved today?"
• "Show me the recent track of Wanderer."
• "What are the latest entries in Wanderer's journal?"
• "Where is my boat, and when was she last heard?" (if you claimed your MMSI)

Cargo ships, ferries and other traffic

• "Which ten cargo ships are nearest to Rotterdam, and what destinations are they reporting?"
• "Which ferries and other passenger vessels are within 10 nautical miles of Dover?"
• "What destination and ETA is the nearest cargo ship to Gibraltar reporting?"

Questions about your own boat work once she is claimed on your AIS Fleet account (Claim your boat). Otherwise, name a boat or a place. Journal questions work for boats that log with Saillogger and share their journal with you.

Connect in three steps

If you are on Basic, you can move to Plus or Pro from Plan in the account menu. Plans and billing compares the plans.

1. In your assistant, add a connector with this address: https://aisfleet.com/mcp. In Claude and ChatGPT this is usually under "Connectors" or "Apps" in the settings.
2. The assistant opens an AIS Fleet page. Sign in if you are asked to, and accept the current Terms or finish entering your name if AIS Fleet asks.
3. Read the page: it names the account, where the access goes and whether AIS Fleet could confirm the app's name. Choose Allow access, or Cancel if anything looks wrong.

If the page says AIS Fleet could not confirm which app is asking, nothing has been shared. Start again from your assistant, and if it happens a second time, let us know here.

Read-only by design

An assistant reads only what you already see when you sign in:

• your plan and how much of it you are using
• your own boat, the boats you follow, your lists and your fleets
• public AIS information about other vessels: names, positions, recent tracks and photos
• Saillogger logs that boats share with you: the journal and the passage in progress
• your notices and your own AIS receivers

It cannot change anything, and it cannot read your messages, your followers or the sign-in details of your receivers. Every position comes with the time AIS Fleet last heard the vessel, and how far back a track goes follows your plan. Your plan's limits and the usual short-term limits apply, the same as when you use AIS Fleet yourself.

You stay in control

Every connected assistant is listed under Account > Connected apps, and Disconnect ends its access at once. Disconnecting does not remove anything the assistant has already read. If your account moves to Basic, the connection stays in place, but the assistant cannot read anything until you are back on Plus or Pro, and there is nothing to reconnect. You can disconnect at any time, on Basic too.

Open the guide to get started: Connect an AI assistant

Have questions or ideas? Reply here and tell us how you are using it.

Fair winds and following seas!

The Saillogger Team

Thanks @jimholthaus , good catch and good fix! We just published a v5.3.2 of the plugin that fixes this.

Thanks for the report.

Hi Steve, unfortunately, Windy station IDs are scoped to API keys and are immutable. The Signal K plugin uses your API key, while Saillogger uses a separate API key, which makes migration impossible.

Thank you. Looks like there is no navigation.headingTrue coming from the boat. Maybe you have navigation.headingMagnetic?

Regardless, this is an easy fix, you should be able to calculate headingTrue from headingMagnetic using the derived-data plugin. Here is an example:

Curious about the boats around you even when you are not aboard? Want to follow your friends' boats as they make their way around the world? Or just looking for an easy way to let your own followers keep up with your adventures on the water?

We announced AIS Fleet a while back, and today we are pleased to follow it with the beta of the AIS Fleet mobile app. It brings all of AIS Fleet to your pocket with intuitive controls, one place for vessel watching. And when you spot a beautiful boat out there, just snap a photo and add it to her gallery!

The app is feature rich: everything the web version does, and then some. Aboard your own boat it can also connect to your local AIS receiver over the cabin Wi-Fi and show you the boats around you, which is the easiest way we know to see what is happening at dock or at anchor.

You do not need a boat of your own, or a Saillogger account, to use it.

Join the open beta on TestFlight

Have questions or ideas? Reply here and tell us how you are using it.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Hi @upstart , this is most likely related to heading information being available. In order to normalize the wind direction, we need heading. It normally comes form the autopilot.

Could you turn on your instruments (including the auto-pilot), make sure you have heading in Signal K data browser and let us know? We can take a look.

Anchored somewhere the nearest weather station is a long way off? Your masthead already knows what is blowing out there, and your boat can now put that on the map for everyone else.

Saillogger's Windy.com integration has been rebuilt after Windy retired the API it ran on, and it takes far less instrumentation to qualify than it used to.

Here is what is new:

• A wind sensor is enough
  The old rules asked for true wind direction and an outside temperature before the switch would even turn on. Now a single usable reading qualifies: wind, outside temperature, humidity or barometric pressure. Whatever your boat measures is published and the rest is simply left off, so a boat with nothing but an anemometer makes a perfectly good station.

• Wind over the ground, worked out for you
  Nothing to configure and no extra sensor to buy. Saillogger combines your masthead's apparent wind with the boat's heading, course and speed to produce the wind a weather map actually wants. If a reading cannot be converted without guessing, the wind value is left out rather than invented, and your temperature, humidity and pressure still publish.

• Sustained wind and gusts, not one lucky sample
  Each update summarizes the last 15 minutes: the average goes out as sustained wind, the peak as the gust. A lull at the moment of publishing no longer hides what actually blew through.

• One switch, and the station sets itself up
  Turn on Windy under Settings > Integrations. Saillogger registers the station for you, and its windy.com address appears on that row shortly afterwards. Windy takes up to 15 minutes to activate a new station and discards anything sent while it does, so your first reading lands on the update after that.

• Your station follows the boat
  It re-registers where you are once you have properly moved, and it goes quiet instead of presenting hours-old weather as current when your boat is offline. Nobody navigating by that map gets a stale reading with your boat's name on it.

A Windy station is public by design: your boat name and position appear on the windy.com map, which is the whole point of filling a gap where there is no other station for miles. That is separate from your Saillogger sharing settings, so treat it as a public position. It stays off until you turn it on, the switch is disabled until your boat has sent a weather reading Windy can use, and the master Sharing switch turns it on and off too, so check Integrations after you move that.

If your boat was publishing to Windy before this, it may come back at a new station address. Reply here if you spot a second pin carrying your boat's name and we will clear the old one.

Available now on the web and in the mobile apps.

Turn on your Windy station

Full steps: How Windy publishing works

Lying somewhere the forecast never quite gets right? Turn it on and reply here with your station link.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Ok, we will look into this. Engine sensors we have and tested otherwise do not normally send data when the engine is off but it may indeed be the case.

All good, hope the issue is resolved!