Skippers Log
iOS Universel / Navigation
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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Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
- There is now a bathymetry module that records the depth data provided via NMEA and displays it on the map, comparable to the Sonar Live Chart view in the Navionics/Garmin app. See Settings/Bathymetry and the help there. Your own measurements can be exported and imported.
- Positions of AIS targets are now dead-reckoned between signal transmissions using the last course vector and speed, and shown as a hollow symbol on the map. This can be turned off in the map settings.
- The app can now also be installed and run on an Apple Silicon Mac. Please note that certain functions are not available on the Mac because the hardware is not present there (GPS, barometer). Position data can therefore only be obtained via NMEA.
- Fixed an error, among others when printing the PDF log, when no internet connection was available for generating the map.
