What's new in AnchorQueen 2.4.4

One release, one promise: a passage you record on this phone shows up on

your other iPhone, your iPad and on Poseidon Web as a passage — with its

track, under the Passages filter, ready to replay.

Passages cross devices

Until now a recording stayed on the phone that made it. What your other

devices saw, if anything, was a thin outline from an old import: a handful of

straight legs filed as a planned route, with no track behind it. That is

fixed three ways:

Every new recording syncs. Stop a passage and it is mirrored to your

account within a moment, track and all. A recording rescued after a crash

is mirrored the same way.

Old recordings are repaired. On first launch the app finds every

passage whose cloud copy was an outline and republishes it with the track.

Nothing to do; it happens once.

Passages from your other devices land as passages. A passage recorded

on Android or on another iPhone now appears here under Passages, not

under Routes, and plays back like one recorded on this device.

Renaming a passage follows it across devices. Deleting one removes it

everywhere on the next sync — there is no local-only delete for a synced

passage any more.

Your anchorage in 3D

The anchor watch has always been a circle on a chart. Now it is also a place

you can look at. While a watch is armed, a glowing 3D button sits beside

the forecast clock and the anchor lock. Tap it and the anchorage rises out of

real terrain: the anchor with its swing, warning and alarm rings painted on

the seabed, the track your boat has already swung — old fixes faint, the

latest bright — and your boat itself, drawn to its true length the way the

passage replay draws it, lying bow-to-the-anchor.

The scrubber along the bottom runs past → NOW → forecast. Drag it back

to watch the night's swing again, or forward to see where the hourly wind and

current will lie you; NOW is the green tick in the middle and the head snaps

back to it. Ahead of now, the same honeycomb the chart shows becomes a field

of probability towers: the taller and redder the cell, the likelier the

boat lies there at that hour. Play sweeps the whole timeline in about twenty

seconds. The Free · Pro · Max ladder under the slider shows how far each plan

looks ahead, exactly as on the chart.

The weather is on the page, not in another tab: a strip under the title reads

wind and direction, gust, waves with period, current, pressure and air

temperature. On NOW it is the live report with its update time; scrubbed

ahead it is that hour's forecast. Wind, gust, wave and current arrows also

point from the anchor the way each one pushes you. On the right: distance

from the anchor, the bearing it bears from you, the margin left to the alarm ring, the widest swing

so far and depth, with a Safe / Warning / Dragging chip.

It stays live. New fixes, a moved anchor and a fresh forecast all reach the

scene while it is open, and the scrub head keeps the moment you were looking

at. Pan, pinch and rotate like any map, or tap the target button to lock the

cockpit view, where a drag orbits the anchor; the base map picker is the

replay's. There is no preview timer here — it is a safety

surface — and it needs a connection, like the replay.

Past anchorages in 3D

The same 3D view now works backwards. Tap a previous anchorage on the chart

(the grey key markers), open a stay in Capt's Anchorages, or open an

anchorage mark in your Captain's Notebook, and a See this stay in 3D

button takes you back there: the anchor with the rings you had set, the

whole night's swing scrubbed from the moment you weighed anchor back to the

drop, and the weather as it was recorded while you lay there. The head opens

on END; drag it back through the stay, or press play to watch the swing

from the start. Nothing is forecast here and nothing is live — it is a

record.

Stays kept from this version on carry their weather with them: every fresh

marine report is stored beside the swing track while a watch runs, so the

strip reads "Recorded · 00:42" as you scrub. Older stays show the track and

say so honestly. On Poseidon the same button sits on a past anchorage's

detail page.

Your past anchorages, on the rail

The content rail on the left of the chart has a new cell beside Captain's

Marks: Past Anchorages, with the number of stays you have kept. Open it

and every anchorage the watch has weighed is a row — where, when you dropped

and weighed, how long you lay, how far it is from here. Tap a row and the

chart flies there and opens the Previous Anchorage sheet, ready to re-arm on

the same spot. Tap the ▶ and the stay opens in 3D, playing from the drop

to the weigh with the weather that was recorded as it went.

The marker those anchorages wear on the chart has changed too. It used to be

a key. It is now the SafeAnchor badge — the anchor and sonar arcs of the

original SafeAnchor.net app, set on an aged sepia disc like a mark on an old

chart — because a past anchorage is not a place you hold a key to; it is a

night SafeAnchor kept for you. Zoomed out it fades to a small sepia dot.

Your anchorages on a timeline

SafeAnchor has a third pill: Anchor Watch — History — Radar. History is

the same chart with your past anchorages on it and a timeline down the

right-hand edge — newest at the top, oldest at the bottom, a year mark where

the year changes, and a dot on every month you anchored in, bigger the more

nights you spent. Drag the badge down the timeline and the chart flies from

stay to stay, ringing each one's swing as you pass; a light tick marks every

stay under your thumb. The card above the pills tells you where you were,

when you dropped and weighed, how deep and on how much scope, and lets you

step older or newer, open the stay in 3D, or open the full record. Tap ▶ on

the timeline and it tours your anchorages from the first to the last on its

own.

The calendar button opens years, months and days — each year with its

count, each month with its bar, each day with its dot. Tap a year or a month

and the chart, the timeline and the Past Anchorages panel all narrow to it;

tap a day and you are there. The Past Anchorages panel has a search field

now — a place, a boat, a year (2019), a month (aug) — an On chart

chip that keeps only the stays inside the current view, and a year heading

between seasons that narrows to that year with a tap.

The Anchorage lens has left the Merconi tab, which is back to Diving and

Discover. It was a personal history filed under exploration; it lives with

the anchor watch now.

Your passages on the same timeline

The Voyage chart has the same rail for your recorded passages. Tap

Passage Timeline on the Voyage command rail and it stands on the left

edge of the chart — years, months, a sailboat for the knob. Drag it and each

passage under your thumb is selected: its track draws on the chart, the chart

frames it, and the passage deck at the bottom offers Replay and the full

Bridge Deck as always. The calendar narrows to a year or a month; the

Passages list follows, with the window shown as a chip you can clear. ▶ tours

your passages from the first to the last.

Saved routes are listed once

A route you planned on the chart appeared twice in the Saved Routes list —

two identical rows, same distance, same waypoints, same date. There was only

ever one route; the list was counting it under two names. It shows once now,

including routes you saved before this update. Nothing was deleted and

nothing needs re-saving.

The Côte d'Azur is back on the chart

If you cruise between Toulon and Menton, Monaco, Corsica or the Ligurian

coast, the land and the depth shading used to disappear once you zoomed in

past the overview. The two Mediterranean chart packs met at the wrong seam:

the Western pack stopped at Toulon and the Central pack, despite what its

card said, only carried Italy east of Genoa. Both packs have been rebuilt.

Western Mediterranean now runs east to the Italian border and takes in

Monaco, Corsica and the Riviera di Ponente; Central Mediterranean now

holds everything its card promises, including the northern Adriatic and the

Ionian. Open the Store and let the packs update; the download is larger

than before because there is more coast in them.

The rebuilt packs also carry more of the chart: submarine cables and

pipelines, overhead clearances, marine farms, dumping grounds, and — new for

these waters — the restricted, protected and military areas, so the

no-anchoring zones over the Posidonia meadows show as zones on the chart.

Harbours and marinas are drawn from three sources merged at build time, and

each one now carries what the port offers (fuel, water, power, repairs,

port of entry) inside the pack, ready for offline use.

Housekeeping you will not notice

A passage recorded on Android used to show twice on Poseidon Web after an

iPhone had synced it. It shows once now, and the duplicate is cleaned up

automatically.

Where to look

Chart → Route tab → Passages filter: the timesheet lists every

passage on your account, newest first.

A passage synced from another device replays from its stored track. The

weather strip in replay belongs to the device that recorded it, so it may

be empty on the others.