Capt's Notebook

The Capt's Notebook tab is the same nautical chart as

SeaTracker, but framed around the marks you have saved.

What changes from SeaTracker

The chart keeps whatever base map you have chosen — switching tabs

never changes your chart style, so the map is instantly ready with no

reload. (Earlier versions swapped to a dedicated Notebook style on entry;

that automatic switch has been retired.)

A Pin Carousel floats across the top of the chart: a row of pill

chips, one per captain's mark you have saved. A count badge at the

leading edge shows your total pins; a region filter appears next to it

once your pins span more than one cruising area.

Tap a pin to fly the chart to that location. Each pill shows the live

distance from the chart centre, and the row re-sorts nearest-first as

you pan — so whatever is near where you are looking floats to the front.

(The reorder is normal; the carousel is not broken.)

Beyond 12 visible pins, a +N pill at the end opens the full Captain's

Marks legend so nothing is hidden.

When you switch away, everything is exactly as you left it — same base

map, same zoom, same position.

All the chart power is still there — Route and

Voyage sub-modes, every legend layer, the

MOB button, tile caching, and track recording.

Adding marks

There are two ways to start a mark:

Long-press the chart. From any chart mode, long-press the position you

want to save. The captain's mark appears immediately in the Pin Carousel.

Start from a photo. In Capt's Notebook mode, tap the Add Photo button —

the round photo-plus button on the right-hand control rail, just under

Jules. The New Photo Mark sheet opens. Pick up to four pictures from your

library; they become a new mark in one step. The mark is placed automatically

where the first photo was taken (from the photo's location data) — or, if

no picked photo carries a location, at your current position, and only if

that is unknown too, at the centre of the chart. The sheet always shows

which of the three it used. Give it a name, sign it if you like, then tap

Add to Notebook. The chart flies to the new mark and opens it so you can

add more.

A mark that has a photo shows on the chart as a round photo pin — a small

circular crop of its cover photo — with its title and date printed just

beneath it, so you can recognise a place at a glance without opening it.

Photos

Open any mark and scroll to Photos to attach pictures from your library.

Each photo is resized and saved on the spot. (You can also start a brand-new

mark straight from photos with Add Photo — see [Adding marks](#adding).)

View — tap any photo to open it full-screen. Pinch or double-tap to

zoom; swipe left/right to move between the mark's photos.

Cover — the first photo becomes the mark's cover, shown as a large header

image at the very top of the mark. Pull the mark sheet down and the cover

stretches. Long-press any photo and choose Set as Cover to change it

(marked with a ★).

Reorder — drag a thumbnail to change the order.

Caption — long-press a photo and choose Caption to add a short note.

Location — if a photo carries GPS data from the camera, a 📍 badge

appears on its thumbnail. In the full-screen view its place name and

coordinates are shown, with a Show on map button that jumps the chart to

where the photo was taken.

Move the pin to a photo — when you add a geotagged photo to an

existing mark and the photo was taken a little away from the mark (between

about 50 m and 50 km), a yellow banner offers to Move the pin to the

photo's location. Tap Move to relocate the mark, or ✕ to keep it where it

is. Photos shot right on top of the mark, or implausibly far from it, do not

trigger the offer.

Voice memos

Open any mark and scroll to Voice Memos to record spoken notes — handy when

your hands are busy at the helm and typing isn't.

Record — tap Record (the red microphone). The recorder opens; tap the

red button to start, and again to stop. Each memo can run up to 45 s — a

running 0:00 / 0:45 counter shows how much is left, and recording stops on

its own at the cap. Tap Done to keep it or Cancel to discard.

Play — tap a memo's play button to listen; tap again to pause. Playback is

audible even with the ringer switch set to silent, so you can review a note

on a quiet deck without unmuting the phone.

Delete — swipe a memo row left and tap Delete.

Memos are saved on the mark right away and stay put across app restarts, the

same as photos.

Sign your marks

A captain's mark can carry your signature — the digital equivalent of

signing a line in the ship's log. Open a mark, scroll to Captain's Signature,

and tap Sign this mark. The mark is stamped with:

your name (from your captain profile),

your vessel, when one is selected,

the time you signed, and

the position of the mark.

Once signed, the mark shows a seal with those details. You can Re-sign (which

updates the time) or Remove the signature at any time. When you create a mark

from photos with Add Photo, the Sign as Captain switch lets you sign it on

the spot.

Signing needs you to be signed in — the signature uses your captain profile. If

you are signed out, the Sign In button takes you to the

Captain tab.

Manage and delete pins

Tap the count badge at the leading edge of the Pin Carousel to open the

Pin Manager — a list of every mark you have saved, newest first.

Go to a pin — tap a row. The sheet closes and the chart flies to that

mark. Each row shows its name, place, distance from the chart centre, and the

date you saved it.

Delete one — swipe a row left and tap Delete, then confirm.

Delete several — tap Edit (top-right), tick the marks you want to

remove, then tap Delete in the bar at the bottom and confirm. Use Clear

to drop the selection. Deleting a pin can't be undone.

This is the place to clear out old marks — there is no delete control on the

carousel pills themselves.

The ship's logbook

The Notebook now has two faces, switched with the small bar at the top of the

chart: Marks (the pin collection described above) and Logbook — a real

ship's log built the way professional logbooks work, following the

international SOLAS V/28 record-keeping rules.

Keeping a log, start to finish

If you only read one part of this page, read this. A typical passage, in

order:

Before you leave — open Capt's Notebook, tap Logbook in the

bar at the top of the chart, then tap the pre-departure check chip.

Work down the list (crew, provisions, draught, fuel, water, steering, nav

gear, comms, bilge, weather briefing), add the numbers you know, and save.

That is your §3.1 pre-voyage record, filed in one go.

Cast off and start recording — start a voyage the way you normally

would (the record button in the chart tools). The log writes your

departure line the moment recording begins, and from then on fills

itself: hourly position fixes, big course changes, engine and sail

changes, anchor set and aweigh.

Under way, write what matters — tap ＋ Entry for anything the app

cannot know: a ship passed close, a sail change you want the reason for,

a fault, a decision to divert. Pick the kind, type the line. Your

position, the conditions and your signature are already attached — drop

any of them with a tap if you would rather not record it.

When something happens — incidents, equipment failures, a distress

call heard, man overboard. Use the Events group in the composer.

These are the entries an inspector or an insurer reads first, so give

them the detail you would want a year from now.

At anchor — the anchor line writes itself when you set and weigh, and

any anchor alarm is recorded. Once a day the app also files the

conditions you are lying in, so a quiet night is still a page in the log.

Around noon — your daily voyage report arrives as a notification and

files itself into the log.

Made a mistake? Swipe the entry and choose Amend to write a

correction, or Strike out to rule it through with a reason. Nothing

is ever deleted — that is the point.

Arriving — stop the recording and the arrival line is written for

you. Add a port remark for anything worth noting about the berth or the

clearance-in.

Afterwards — the ⋯ menu on the log window (or Settings → Data →

Ship's Logbook) exports the page-numbered PDF to keep, print, share, or

hand over.

> Two things worth knowing before you rely on it. Nothing you write can

> be deleted, only corrected — so write freely, and fix mistakes with an

> amendment rather than hesitating. And the log is yours: it is stored on

> the boat's device first and synced to your captain account, not published

anywhere.

What you see

The log opens as a floating window over the chart — not a panel welded to

the bottom of the screen. Put it where it suits the passage you are looking

at, make it the size you want, and close it when you are done:

Drag it by its header to move it anywhere on the chart. It stays where

you leave it — there are no preset positions or heights to fight, and the

window is remembered between sessions. It can never be dragged fully

off-screen or up under the top bar.

Drag any corner grip to resize it — all four corners work, and each

one keeps the opposite corner pinned, so a window parked against the right

edge of the chart can be widened leftwards without moving it first. A short

window shows the day's summary and the ＋ Entry button; make it taller

and the full entry list appears. Portrait and landscape remember their own

size.

Tap ✕ to close the log and return to Marks. The Logbook pill that

opened it is also the way back.

Drag the slider to travel day by day through your log — it snaps to

days with a gentle tick. Each day's bar height shows how much happened. A

drag straight up or down across the slider moves the whole window instead,

so you never have to hunt for the header.

Tap a day (or a tick mark) to jump straight to it.

The list below shows that day's entries: time (ship's local time, with

UTC beneath), what happened, and position/weather chips when they were

captured. Entries with a position also appear on the chart; tap one to fly

there.

The ⋯ menu in the window's header imports a GPX track into the log and

exports the log as PDF, CSV, or GPX — see

[Import and export](#logbook-export).

Entries write themselves — and you can add your own

While a voyage recording is running, the log fills automatically: departure

and arrival, hourly position fixes, big course changes, sail/engine changes,

anchor set and aweigh, anchor alarms, and MOB events. Auto entries carry a

small AUTO badge; entries brought in from a GPX track carry IMPORT,

so an inspector can always tell an instrument reading from a human

observation — and both from a record made by another device.

Tap ＋ Entry to write your own line: pick what kind of entry it is

(grouped as Pre-voyage · Underway · Events · In port), write your note, and

keep or remove the position, weather, and signature chips that are pre-filled

for you.

Before setting out, use the pre-departure check — crew aboard, fuel,

water, steering, nav gear and the rest — which lands in the log as a single

checklist entry, the way a proper pre-sailing record should.

The daily weather record

Once a day, wherever you are, the log records the conditions you are lying

in — at anchor, alongside, or under way. The record is written the first time

that day the app has both a position and a weather report, so a night at

anchor is never a blank page in the log. It carries an AUTO badge like

the other automatic entries.

The app checks the log itself, not a stopwatch, before writing: if

today's page already has a weather record, nothing is added. That means

restarting the app, crossing into a new time zone, or having the entry

already arrive from your other device all leave you with exactly one record

for the day — and the day counted is the ship's day, at your own local

time. If you strike a weather record out, the day is owed a new one and the

app writes a fresh one.

Turn it off in Settings → Data → Ship's Logbook → Daily weather

observation. It is on by default.

Filing a report into the log

Any report you are reading can go into the log as your own entry, written up

for you — you never retype what is already on the screen. Look for Add to

Logbook:

A weather pin's report — in the pin's actions, below "Refresh Report".

The entry is filed at the pin, not at the boat: a forecast for an

anchorage forty miles up the coast is a note about there, and the log

says so. The conditions saved on the pin are frozen into the entry, so it

still reads correctly a year later.

The meteogram (⋯ menu, top right) — files the conditions the meteogram

is showing, for your position or for the pinned location you are viewing.

A Jules briefing — the book button on any briefing card in Recent

Briefings.

The daily voyage report is the exception: it has no filing button because

it files itself (see [The daily voyage report](#daily-report) below).

Filed entries are marked as yours, not as automatic, because you chose to

put them on record. Each one is stamped with your position, the conditions,

and your captain's signature, exactly like a hand-written entry — and, being

log entries, they can be amended or struck out but never deleted.

Corrections, the logbook way

A ship's log is never erased — and neither is this one:

Amend (swipe an entry) writes a new corrected entry; the original

stays visible, struck through, marked "superseded".

Void strikes an entry out with an optional reason. It remains readable

forever.

There is deliberately no delete. Entries are kept at least 12 months.

The daily voyage report

Around local noon, Jules writes your daily voyage report from the log —

position, distance run, course and speed made good, conditions, anything

notable — and it arrives as a notification even when the app is closed.

Tap it to read and share the report. Offline at sea you still get the

figures from the on-board log; Jules' narrative catches up when you're back

online.

The report becomes part of the log by itself. You do not have to file it:

the next time the app syncs, the day's report is written into your logbook as

its own entry, so it shows up in the timeline, marks that day as reported,

and — the part that matters — appears in your PDF export. A daily report

that only lived in a notification would be missing from the record you hand

to anyone.

Each day gets exactly one report entry, whichever device sees it first. The

day counted is the ship's day at the position the report was cut, so a

report made in one time zone still lands on the right page after you have

sailed into the next one.

Import and export

The ⋯ menu in the log window's header does both, right where you keep the

log:

Import GPX Track… brings a passage recorded elsewhere — another

chartplotter, a watch, a tracking app — into the log as position-fix

entries on the days it was actually sailed, filed under its own closed

voyage so the passage reads as one piece with proper line numbers. The

track is thinned to your underway-fix cadence (so a point-per-second

recording doesn't flood the pages), speed and course are worked out for

each leg, and points already in the log are skipped, so importing the same

file twice adds nothing. Times are shown in the ship's time for where

the track was sailed (the traditional 15°-band nautical zones), not

where you happen to be standing during the import. Each import starts

with a line naming the track and the file it came from, and every

imported entry carries the IMPORT badge. A GPX with no timestamps

can't become history — import that one as a route instead (Chart → Route).

Export Logbook (PDF / CSV / GPX) produces the page-numbered PDF

(voided lines printed struck-through, exactly as recorded), CSV for a

spreadsheet, or a GPX track of every position the log holds — one

track segment per voyage, ready for any chartplotter (and re-importable

into another AnchorQueen, where the duplicate check makes it land

cleanly). Each opens the share sheet — save to Files, print, AirDrop, or

send it straight through WhatsApp, Mail, or any messaging app on your

phone.

The same export lives in Settings → Data → Ship's Logbook, which also

sets how often automatic position fixes are logged (30 min / 1 h / 2 h) and

whether the daily weather observation is kept.

A season of entries takes a moment to typeset, so the Export button turns

into a progress ring that names what it is doing — Reading the log,

Rendering pages, Writing file — and fills as the pages are laid out.

The app stays responsive throughout: the rendering happens in the

background, so you can keep scrolling the log while it runs. When it

finishes, the share sheet opens with the finished file.

Your log syncs to your captain account when signed in, so it survives a lost

phone and follows you to a new one.

Using your notebook on passage

The Notebook is the right tab when you are:

Reviewing places you noted on an earlier passage.

Planning the next leg between your own marks.

Sharing a private chart with a co-captain.

If something goes wrong

A new mark does not appear — your mark might be off-screen; check the

Pin Carousel.

The Pin Carousel keeps reordering as you pan — that is expected. Pills are

always sorted nearest-first to the chart centre, so the order changes as you

move the map.

You can't find how to delete a pin — there is no delete on the carousel

pills. Tap the count badge to open the [Pin Manager](#manage) and delete

from there.

The base map never changes when you switch tabs — if the style looks

wrong, pick a different one in Chart Layers → Maps;

your choice applies everywhere.

Marks and any photos you attach are saved on the spot and stay put across

app restarts — drop a pin, add a photo, and it will still be there next

time you open the app.