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 ?
- New: polar diagram. While under way SkippersLog continuously records wind and speed data and builds a performance polar for your boat — speed through the water by wind angle and wind speed, separated by sail configuration. Available under Settings/Polar diagram; see the help there.
- Bathymetry: fixed jagged (sawtooth) depth contours on closely parallel tracks. The lateral corridor widening no longer fabricates conflicting depths where real soundings from another pass already exist.
- Fixed an app hang at launch on some devices/connections where the map service initialisation could block the app before it became responsive.
- General stability improvements for iCloud sync.
- Significantly improved device GPS position tracking, especially at low boat speed: occasional wrong fixes (e.g. Wi-Fi/cell-based positioning instead of GPS) are now detected and rejected, a position occasionally frozen by iOS is automatically detected and recovered, and the speed reading stays stable at slow speeds instead of intermittently dropping to 0.
- Fixed a possible crash in the NMEA log view (Settings/NMEA) that could occur with a long-running, large log.
Previosuly fixed in 1.9.1:
- Fixed a crash when adding or deleting a sail while an input field was being edited.
- Fixed a crash when displaying the map with an invalid position or zoom level.
