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. One library capsule at the

leading edge shows your total pins and opens the carousel's menu —

Manage pins, Show all marks, and, once your pins span more than one

cruising area, a Region list to narrow the row to a single area.

Each pin chip is a single line: a colour dot matching the mark's own

colour on the chart, its name, and the live distance from the chart

centre. Tap one to fly the chart there. The chip nearest the chart centre

carries a cyan ring — that is the mark you are looking at.

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.) The row fades out at its right edge whenever there is more to

scroll to.

Pick a region and a filter chip appears beside the library capsule with

that region's name and count. Tap the chip to clear the filter and get the

whole row back.

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 library capsule at the leading edge of the Pin Carousel and choose

Manage pins 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.

Anchorage marks in 3D

A mark of the Anchorage type is a stay you want to remember. Its editor

carries Anchorage in 3D: the stay recorded within 60 m of the mark opens

over 3D terrain — the anchor, the rings you had set, the swing scrubbed

from the lift back to the drop, and the weather recorded while you lay there

(see SafeAnchor → Past anchorages in 3D).

A mark with no recorded stay behind it opens on the anchor with default

rings. The button needs the 3D feature switched on and a connection, like

the 3D Terrain Flyover beside it. On the Free plan the Flyover button

gives you one full fly-over per app session, then opens the Pro sheet — the

Pro card lower in the editor shows a clip of the fly-over and carries the

same Try it once, free button.

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. While a voyage is under way or the anchor

watch is armed, once a day the app also files the conditions you are

lying in, so a quiet night is still a page in the log — but a day spent

ashore writes nothing.

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.

Tap Maximize in the header to open the Ship's Journal as a full-screen

reading desk. It keeps the ship's day you were already reading; close it and

the floating window is still on that day.

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.

In full screen, the 24-hour wake shows where the day's ledger marks fall,

followed by Jules' report, the official entry lines, and every recorded

passage connected to that ship's day. Tap Replay beside a passage to

return to the chart with it loaded and paused. If more than one passage was

recorded that day, choose the one you want; overnight passages appear on

both days they cross.

Use the compact All / Auto / Captain / Exceptions rail for a quick

review, or open Filter Journal to combine text search with author,

category, event type and voyage filters. These controls only change what is

visible; corrected and struck lines remain in the append-only ledger.

Turn on inspection review, tap any official line and use the related-

evidence panel to check its frozen position, weather, alarm or confirmed

route-change evidence. Replay from entry starts a matched recorded

passage at the nearest real fix. If there is no immutable photo attachment

link, the Journal says no photo evidence is linked rather than guessing from

the photo library or Captain's Marks.

Inspection review also adds local bookmarks to individual ledger lines.

They are a reading aid on this device, never a logbook amendment and never

part of PDF/CSV exports. The Journal's Export menu shares only the ship's

day currently open, while the floating log's ⋯ menu still exports the full

record.

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.

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.

Reports follow the ship, not the phone. A report is written only when

the log shows the ship was actually in operation — real distance covered, an

entry in your own hand, or an open voyage (a quiet day at anchor mid-cruise

still gets its position report). Days ashore stay silent. In Settings →

Data → Ship's Logbook you can change this: During voyages (the

default), Every day if you want a noon report regardless, or Off for

none at all — and the Report notification switch files the report into

the log silently, without announcing itself.

The report matches the day. A day that made way gets the full noon

report — distance run, course and speed made good, engine hours, how the

wind built or eased, anchor work, notable events. A day swinging at anchor

gets a short conditions note instead: a quiet day is allowed to read quiet,

not padded into a story.

Every report stays readable — the Ship's Journal. In the Jules tab's

＋ menu → Ship's Journal the Journal opens full screen, straight from the

log on this device — no connection needed, and no limit on how far back you

can read. Pick a ship's day to see the full narrative and frozen figures beside

that day's official entries and recorded passages. A passage with at least two

recorded fixes has Replay, which returns you to the chart with playback

loaded and paused.

For an inspection or debrief, narrow the official lines by author, category,

event type, voyage or search text, then tap a line to inspect its linked

position, weather, alarm and route-change evidence. A fixed line inside a

matched recording offers Replay from entry at the nearest recorded fix.

Local bookmarks help you return to notable lines without changing or exporting

the official record, and the Journal's export menu shares the selected ship's

day as PDF or CSV.

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.

Photo evidence

When you write an entry you can attach up to four photos as evidence —

the damage, the fouled anchor, the customs stamp, the sea state you are

describing in the line. Tap Choose photos in the entry sheet; the

thumbnails appear there before you save, and the ✕ on a thumbnail drops it

from the draft.

What happens on Save is what makes these different from the photos on a

notebook mark:

The original file is copied into the Journal, untouched — not

re-compressed, not resized.

The entry records that photo's SHA-256 fingerprint. From then on the

Journal will only show the picture if the stored bytes still match the

fingerprint the line recorded.

Like every other line in the log, this is permanent. There is no

delete, no replace, and no "swap the photo" — remove it before you save or

it stays. A correction is filed the same way any other correction is: a

new line ([Corrections](#logbook-corrections)).

Attached photos appear under Related evidence when you tap the line in

the Ship's Journal. Tap a thumbnail to see it full size.

Photos stay on the device that took them. They are never uploaded, so

they are not on your other phone or tablet even though the entry itself

syncs. A line whose photo isn't on the device you are holding shows the

thumbnail with a warning badge instead of the picture.

The inspection packet

⋯ → Export Inspection Packet (.zip) seals one ship's day into a single

file for a surveyor, an insurer, a port state inspector or a charter

dispute.

Inside the ZIP: the day's PDF, the same day as CSV, every photo the day's

entries reference, and a manifest.json listing each ledger line with its

own fingerprint. A signature.json signs that manifest with a key held in

this device's keychain, so anyone can check afterwards that not one

character of the log and not one pixel of a photo changed after the packet

was made.

Two things worth understanding before you hand one over:

It proves the packet hasn't been altered since this device made it. It

is not a notarisation, not a qualified electronic signature, and it does

not prove who you are.

The packet has to be exported from the device that holds the photos.

If the day's evidence isn't on the phone in your hand, the export stops

and says so rather than quietly producing a packet with photos missing.

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 library capsule and choose Manage pins to open the

[Pin Manager](#manage) and delete from there.

The region filter has disappeared — that is by design. It only takes up a

slot in the row while a region is actually selected; otherwise it lives in

the library capsule's menu under Region.

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.