At a glance
Passage reels. Turn a recorded passage into a short 3D video you can post to Instagram, WhatsApp or anywhere the share sheet reaches.
A link that plays. Every share gets an anchorqueen.com/p/… page with the reel and an Open in 3D button.
Charter fleets that stay. Every fleet you place stays on the chart across marina taps and app launches and refreshes itself every two hours; at street zoom, marinas and harbours fetch their fleets on their own, the long-press ring's Find vessels lays the nearest one, and the pontoon is twice as long, movable and dismissable.
Your own charter deck. Boats you heart or tick for compare berth on an AnchorQueen Ponton of their own, laid parallel to the fleet on screen — and a boat you hearted from the marina you are looking at now lies on both decks instead of disappearing from one of them.
Charter in the Captain's Notebook. A new Charters pill on the Notebook bar opens a charter desk: last-minute boats near you, a search bar that remembers what you looked for, your favourite marinas and tracked boats with their price trend, and your plans — each one a Plan passage away from the chart. The Charter rail cell keeps the compact panel; Plan a trip searches anywhere in the world; Compare puts up to four boats side by side.
Your day, remembered. The full-screen Ship's Journal opens with the day's story — passage, distance, track sketch, the moments worth telling — and a Share this passage button; a calendar button jumps to any date.
Your boat's class does the paperwork. Pick a class and a length on the boat card — three new classes, Trawler, Powerboat and Motorboat, join the list — and the app fills in draft, air draft, cruise speed and fuel burn for a typical boat of that class and size. Type your own on the Captain tab's Vessel card whenever you know better.
Fuel on every route. The route panel's instrument cluster gains a fourth cell: the fuel this route will take at the planned speed, and the fuel still needed while you navigate.
Ask Jules to rent a boat. "Rent a catamaran in Göcek next Saturday" now returns real charter offers as tappable cards under her reply, with a one-tap hand-off to the charter planner.
The exact price for your week. A boat's card now shows Total for your week — the partner's real quote for the dates you picked, not a list price — and says so plainly when it is still showing the list figure instead.
Similar boats. Up to five alternatives under every boat's amenities, and the same alternatives from Jules when the boat you named is taken.
Weeks that are actually free. Booked weeks are greyed out on a boat's week strip, a taken week drops the dates from a Dock-to-Dock Rent chip, and a hearted boat somebody else has taken is marked Booked for your dates.
Popular bases. The Charters desk opens with the partner's busiest bases near you, and — with a type picked — where in the world you will find most of them.
Charter from an anchorage. An anchorage now borrows the nearest partner base that really holds boats: the fleet is drawn on that base's pontoons and Rent opens that base.
Fishing fleets by colour. Pro and Max captains now see the three busiest flag states in the Global Fishing Watch heatmap painted in their own colours, picked from the legend.
Search history cloud sync. Places and destinations you look up on the chart or through Jules now sync seamlessly across your devices.
Ashore, coastal or open sea — on every weather pin. Each avatar in the Meteo strip wears a corner badge saying what kind of place it is watching: a mountain for a pin ashore, a beach umbrella for coastal waters (land within about 2 NM), waves for open sea. Offline, from the bundled coastline.
3D Sea State in Meteo. Watch the forecasted sea come alive in the Meteo tab: a physically driven procedural ocean simulation with Beaufort force presets (B0–B12), an hour scrubber through the forecast, and Deck, Orbit, and Still camera perspectives.
The Director card. The passage panel's reel row becomes a Director card: a shelf of the photos and clips you shot in 3D beside your finished reels, a + Photo · Clip tile that opens the passage in 3D, and one SHARE button that sends whatever you pick. It works before the passage has synced — those files are on your phone.
3D Ocean in Passage Replay. Passage 3D now renders procedural waves under your vessel track (aq-sea), driven by your recorded marine weather or Beaufort presets, plus an immersive low-waterline Deck camera view.
A 45-second preview of your own passage. On the Free plan, Passage 3D now flies a real 45-second film — every camera, the ocean, the sky and the vessel engine open — of the passage you recorded, then freezes on the frame it reached and offers Pro, Max or that region's chart. The button reads 45 s PREVIEW so you know what you are starting.
A lighter History. The Director card left the History overlay for the stay's own page — under the Stays row, where Passage and Routes keep theirs — so the map keeps only the memory card. A past anchorage no longer draws charter boats around itself or grows a Vessels tab.
Google Sign-In reliability. Fixed an issue where tapping Google Sign-In inside summary and prompt sheets could cause the app to close unexpectedly.
Sponsored banner reliability. Resolved an issue where Free-tier sponsored banners failed to load on harbour, anchorage, and mark detail pages.
Base marina & automatic vessel activation. Set a home base marina for each vessel with worldwide marina search or by pinning directly on the chart. Arriving within 600 m of a vessel's base marina automatically activates that boat for Helm and navigation profiles, logs arrival to the Ship's Journal with exact clock time, and keeps berthed fleet vessels visible on the chart with authentic 3D hull models.
Share your passage
A recorded passage can now leave the app as a short vertical film and a link
that plays it in any browser. Nothing is rendered on your phone — the app asks
our servers for the film and notifies you when it lands.
Where to start. The film button on the replay deck, Share as a
reel on a passage's detail page, or the same row in the passage's context
menu in the library. It appears only for recorded passages that have finished
syncing to your captain account.
You choose what is published. Trimming the first and last 300 m of the
track is on by default, the vessel's name, type and length are opt-out, and
the captain's name is opt-in. Photos are never published.
The link comes first. Create reel & link answers immediately with a link
you can paste anywhere; the film follows a few minutes later.
Then share it. Share reel downloads the film and hands it to the iOS
share sheet — Instagram, WhatsApp, Messages, Files and Photos all accept it,
with the link alongside.
My shares in the library's ⋯ menu lists every reel with its status, a
copy-link action and Revoke, which kills the link and deletes the film.
An opening shot. Reels start with a three-second overview of the whole
passage and a card with your boat and captain (photos included when shown),
gliding down into the chase.
Miniature look. A tilt-shift option turns the coast into a toy model
around your boat.
A sunny reel. Films now render as a bright day at sea — blue sky on
the horizon, sunlit water, the coast as the satellite saw it — instead of
the dusky look of the first takes.
Direct your reel. Before recording, drag and pinch the live 3D chart to
set the camera; keep steering while it films. Give the film a title, choose
the hull it sails, and make as many takes as you like — each gets its own
link.
Filmed on your phone. The reel is rendered on the device, in the
preview card, with a live frame counter — a minute or two instead of a wait
for a server, and it works offline once the chart tiles are cached.
Send to Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Clips. One-tap destinations on a
finished reel — Instagram opens on the clip, WhatsApp takes the film
directly.
The preview is your real chart. The card draws your track over the
offline coastline with a sailing dot, not a placeholder.
Picks up where it left off. Reopening a passage's share screen opens on
its existing reel; a dead render no longer blocks the next one.
A reel-shaped share sheet. The share screen opens on a 9:16 preview
card in the film's own layout — your privacy switches update the caption
live, the finished poster replaces it, and ▶ plays the reel in place.
Status you can watch. While a reel renders, the share sheet and My shares
re-check every 20 seconds and say when they last did; Check status and
↻ ask right now, Failed offers Try again, and Watch reel plays
the finished film in the app before you share it.
Film it from the passage panel. A new Share as a reel row sits under
3D Terrain Replay on every recorded passage — for every plan, Free
included. Film this passage starts at once with the usual defaults; the
tune button opens the full options. The film button has left the replay
deck: the whole reel experience now lives with the selected passage, and a
passage that hasn't synced yet says so in the same row.
A stage of its own. Directing and filming now happen on a full-screen
stage: the live 3D chart at 9:16 with drag and pinch working as they
should, Record at the bottom, ✕ at the top. Closing the stage no longer
cancels the film — it keeps rendering in the background (closing while
directing records from the angle you left it at), and the passage row shows
the frame counter until it's ready.
Share, watch, replace or delete right there. A finished reel shows its
poster and link on the passage row with Share reel, ▶, New and
Delete; a failed one says why and offers Try again.
Made for Reels and Shorts. The film's caption — where you sailed
from and to, the passage name, distance, time, top speed and the link —
now sits in the part of the frame Instagram and YouTube leave uncovered,
in one glass panel, instead of under their own buttons.
From and to. The reel names both ends of the passage — the marina if
you left from one, otherwise the town or region — and switches from
From to To as you arrive.
Edits, and a caption ready to paste. Instagram's Edits app joins the
Send to row. Because no app lets us pre-fill the description, the
passage name, stats and link are copied to your clipboard on hand-off —
just paste.
Straight into Photos. A finished reel is saved to your Photos library
on its own, so it's already there when Instagram or Edits opens — one
copy, never two. Switch it off under Settings › Chart if you'd rather not.
Stop when it's enough. While filming, Stop — that's enough ends the
passage there and finishes the reel with its closing seconds.
Your reel, your ending. Pro and Max reels end on your passage; the
AnchorQueen end card stays on Free reels.
Study the angle first. In director mode, drag the scrubber to park the
replay anywhere along the passage and set the camera there; let go and it
plays on.
A steadier hand. Camera drags ease in — a quick flick mid-film becomes a
slow pan in the reel, never a jolt. The intro card sits at the top so the
opening fly-by shows beneath it.
Push in. ×1, ×2 and ×4 buttons on the stage zoom the camera smoothly —
before recording to set the shot, or while filming for a push-in that lands
in the reel.
Miniature, framed right. The miniature look opens on a high, wide
camera that sells the toy-model effect — and you can still drag to bring
more of the coast into the frame.
Other boats. Reels are no longer a lonely sea — yachts, catamarans and
tenders lie at anchor or drift slowly along the coast beside your track,
giving way as you pass. They are objects on the chart: zoom in and they
grow with the terrain. Every passage gets its own fleet, the same one each
time.
Route reels. A planned route films too: FILM THIS ROUTE sits under
the 3D TERRAIN FLYOVER row of any saved route, and Share as a reel
on the route's detail page and in its library menus. The film flies your
boat along the planned legs at the cruise speed, and the caption reads from
and to, the distance, the planned time, the cruise speed and the departure
date. Nothing is trimmed — a plan's ends are the plan.
Anchorage reels. Any stay films as a reel — FILM THIS ANCHORAGE
under the memory card in History, on a stay's page in Capt's Anchorages and
under a mark's ▶ Fly the stay; long-press the armed watch's 3D
button for Share as a reel on the watch as it stands. The film sweeps
the whole timeline (past → NOW → forecast, or drop to weigh) under a slow
orbit, with the rings, the swing, the towers and the weather arrows; the
caption reads where you lay, how long, your widest swing, the depth and the
alarm radius.
Seamark reels. On a mark's card, the Fly-by tab gains a Reel button
beside ⤢ Full screen: one slow circle of the mark with the camera easing
closer, no boat, the mark's name, type and position on the caption.
One reel, four subjects. The same stage, looks, length by plan, share
targets, Photos and link page serve every kind — the anchorqueen.com/p/…
page words itself for a route, a stay or a mark, Open in 3D plays the
right film, and My shares marks each reel with its kind. The free
allowance of three reels a day is shared across all four.
Free reels run up to 20 seconds; Pro and Max go up to 60.
Atelier vessels
Sailboat, motor yacht and catamaran chart images now use detailed Atelier artwork in navigation, anchor watch, simulation and replay. Charter gulets have their own two-masted image. In the boat editor and My Boat settings, drag the 3D vessel to orbit and pinch to zoom. AIS artwork is unchanged; trimaran and dinghy retain their existing models.
Charter category glows are brighter: coral for gulets, turquoise for catamarans, blue for sailing boats, gold for motor yachts and purple for other boats. The soft pulse remains static when Reduce Motion is enabled.
Chart vessel lighting is corrected so white decks remain bright and details stay visible.
Charter vessels also preserve the bright Atelier artwork, without the old hull recolouring; category glows and booking badges remain.
Gulet chart images now come from the detailed Atelier master with daylight lighting. Sailboat symbols are 25% larger in charter fleets, replay, simulation, live navigation and anchor watch; saved boat dimensions remain unchanged.
Charter fleets on the chart
Charter fleets are now a lasting part of the chart rather than a card's
side-effect.
Many pontoons, not one. Tapping a second marina adds its fleet beside the
first; nothing is replaced. Every placed fleet is pinned for three days and
is back after you quit and reopen the app. Up to eight at once.
Two-hour refresh. A fleet on the chart is re-asked for every two hours,
in place — same pontoon, same page, same filter. If the partner cannot
answer, the boats you already see stay.
Marinas and harbours fetch on their own. At zoom 12 or closer the bases
in view fetch their fleets in the background, nearest the centre first, a few
at a time and never more than forty per session. An empty marina is remembered
for two hours so the chart does not keep asking. Free tier only, and never
while the watch is armed or you are under way.
Find vessels. Long-press the chart and pick Find vessels from the
command ring: the nearest marina or harbour within 25 km fetches its fleet
and lays its pontoon at that spot.
A longer, movable, dismissable pontoon. Twelve berths per page instead
of six. Tap the deck for Open fleet, Move pontoon (drag the whole
deck — the chart holds still — and the app remembers where you left it) and
Dismiss pontoon.
Each pontoon keeps its own category and week chips.
Deals on the deck, brand on the corner. A boat on offer wears a small
"% off" chip beside its hull instead of the old "B" button, and the
pontoon carries one BOATAROUND tag on its top corner rather than a
roundel at every corner.
Your own deck. Hearted and compared boats berth on a second parallel
deck, the AnchorQueen Ponton, with each boat's own marina written under
its name when it differs from the deck's. A boat lies on both decks when it
belongs to both — hearting a boat from the marina on screen no longer takes
it off one of them — dragging your deck moves it instead of re-grouping it by
home marina, and a shortlist where nothing knows its base waits for a marina
rather than being drawn at sea.
Charter in the Captain's Notebook
Charter is now a citizen of the Captain's Notebook — a fourth pill on the
Notebook bar (Marks · Logbook · Charters) and a cell on the
port rail.
The Charters desk. Opens on last-minute boats near your boat for
the coming Saturday-to-Saturday week, widening a neighbourhood to its
city when the partner has nothing under that name. A search card —
destination, dates, type, Search — sits on top, with your recent
searches as chips; the newest one still ahead is restored and re-run on
your next visit.
Boats. Partner-flagged deals first, discount on the photo, then
every other boat for the week; Search BOATAROUND ▸ for the same place
and week; when nothing is found, the next step is one tap away.
Tracked. Your favourite marinas with Rent here, your hearted
boats with a 30-day price trend under each, and your placed fleets.
Plans. Saved plans with a countdown, Open plan, and Plan
passage — the chart opens with a route to the plan's base.
The Charter cell. A new cell on the Notebook's port rail opens a panel
with your hearted boats (tap → the boat's card, even offline), your
placed fleets (tap → the chart flies there and the fleet's sheet opens)
and your saved plans.
Plan a trip. The charter planner searches anywhere in the world from
the partner's own destination list: Saturday-to-Saturday weeks with an
optional ±3 days flex, guests, cabins, category, No licence needed,
a nightly budget and the sort menu. Save plan keeps the search in the
Notebook and re-runs it fresh whenever you reopen it.
Compare. Tick up to four boats from any charter list and lay them out
side by side — price, week total, length, cabins, sleeps, built, engines,
rating, licence, base, distance — with the best value in each row
highlighted and a Rent ▸ per column. On the Charters desk the ticked
boats sit on a compare shelf above the pages — a carousel with photo,
name and price, ✕ to drop one, and Compare N boats ▸ — so what you
have picked is in view on every page. The set now survives a relaunch
and syncs across your devices when signed in; the boat card carries the
⊞ beside the ♥ in its header (it glows when a boat lands in the set); and
on Pro / Max, adding a boat to compare switches on its price tracking.
Plan this boat. Every boat card carries Add to compare and Plan
this boat, which prefills the planner with the boat's base and the week
you were looking at.
Charters in the chart pill's menu. The menu behind the chart pill has
a fourth entry, Charters — Rent, track prices, plan trips, which opens
the Notebook straight on the desk from any map tab; the pill shows a
sailboat while you are there. It appears only while charter is on.
Your Notebook tells you when to look
A badge on the chart pill counts what is waiting in the Capt's
Notebook: log entries the instruments or an import wrote since you last
opened the Logbook, and charter updates — a price drop on a boat you
follow, or a saved trip that has just come inside its last week. The menu
spells it out (2 new log entries, 1 charter update) and takes you to
the page that needs you; the Notebook's own Logbook and Charters
pills carry the same counts. Opening the page clears its count. Your own
entries never badge.
Price-drop notifications land on the desk. Tapping one opens the
Notebook on the Charters desk's Tracked page, whether the app was
running or not.
Charter inside Jules
Jules can now search our charter partner's fleet for you. Ask her to rent,
charter or hire a boat — a place, a week, a boat type, how many of you, a
nightly budget — and she answers with up to eight boats and their nightly
prices.
Charter offers row. Each boat Jules found appears as a card under her
reply; tap it for the full boat card and the Rent button, which opens
the partner's page in your browser. Nothing is booked inside the app.
Open charter planner. One tap carries the same place, dates and filters
into the Captain's Notebook charter planner.
Honest by design. Coordinates are the charter base, never a live
position; when the partner has nothing, Jules says so instead of guessing.
Jules also reads the new Renting a boat manual topic when you ask how
charter works in the app.
The exact price for your week
Search pages carry list prices. Once you have picked a week, a boat's card asks
the partner what that week actually costs and shows the answer as Total for
your week, with the old figure struck through when the week is discounted and
a footnote when the charter carries extras you cannot decline. Until that
answer arrives — and whenever the partner will not price the week — the card
says List price for a week instead, so a figure is never called a total
unless the checkout will honour it.
Similar boats
Under a boat's amenities, up to five alternatives from the partner — same sort
of yacht, same week — each one a tap from opening in place. Ask Jules about a
boat that is taken for your dates and she offers the same alternatives instead
of a dead end. No alternatives, no row.
Weeks that are actually free
A boat's week strip no longer offers a week somebody else has already taken,
and the hand-over Saturday counts for neither charter — a charter ending on the
Saturday yours begins is not a clash. A Dock-to-Dock Rent chip whose week
is taken still opens the base, without the dates. A hearted boat in the
Notebook that has been taken for the week in your search card is marked
Booked for your dates.
When the partner cannot be reached, nothing changes: no week is greyed out, no
badge appears. Silence is never read as booked, and never as free.
Charter prices paused. If the charter partner cannot be reached, the
boats you were looking at stay on screen with one honest line — *Live
prices paused · last updated 2 hours ago* — instead of an empty list or an
error. Rent and Search on Boataround ▸ keep working throughout, so
you can always finish on the partner's site; the prices and free weeks
refresh by themselves once the partner is back. A week strip on the marina
card now also drops a week the partner has confirmed as taken for the
fleet's lead boat, and a Rent chip on a route's A/B dock refines its own
dates a moment after it appears when that base has not been opened before.
Popular bases
The Charters desk now opens on Popular bases near you — the partner's
busiest bases within reach, nearest first, with how many boats each holds — and
on Where you will find (type) when a type is picked. The list is
refreshed once a day, so it opens instantly. The Dock-to-Dock promotional card
prefers a base that actually has inventory.
Charter from an anchorage
Nobody hands a boat over in a bay. An anchorage's charter section now points at
the nearest partner base that really holds boats, the fleet is drawn on that
base's pontoons rather than in the middle of the anchorage, and Rent
opens the partner's page for that base.
Charter price history
A charter boat's dossier now carries a Price history block: a small chart
of the nightly price over the last 30 days with its lowest, highest and latest
figures and whether it is falling, rising or steady. Turn on Track price and
the app follows that boat for you — when its price falls at least ten percent
under its recent norm you get one notification, and never more than one a
week for the same boat. Prices are collected a few times a day from the
partner's own listing, so a boat you have just started tracking shows its
history after the first day or two. Tracking is tied to your captain account
so the alert follows you to a new phone — signed out, the switch snaps back
and offers Sign in to track prices. (Server side pending deploy.)
Fishing fleets by colour
The Global Fishing Watch heatmap in Merconi → Fishing used to be one orange
wash whatever the legend promised. Now the three busiest flag states in
your time window each get their own colour on the chart for Pro and
Max captains. Tap the swatch beside a flag in the legend to pick a new
colour; the chart re-tints in place. Flags further down the list are still
counted in the breakdown but share the chart's base tint, and the Free tier
keeps the single orange layer. Behind the scenes every request to Global
Fishing Watch is now paced, so the heatmap no longer disappears in patches
when the service throttles a busy viewport.
Search history cloud sync
Locations, harbours, anchorages, seamarks and places you search for on the chart or ask Jules to find now sync automatically across your devices under your captain account.
Unified across devices. Look up a destination on your iPhone while planning ashore; open AnchorQueen on your helm iPad or Android tablet, and it appears in your Recent searches.
Cross-platform parity. Synchronised via cloud sync across iOS and Android (AnchorQueen Poseidon), merging the latest searches and respecting removals and cleared history.
Your day, remembered
Maximize the ship's log and the full-screen Ship's Journal now opens with
the day's story: the passage you sailed, the distance you made good, a sketch
of your track, and the moments worth telling — leaving the harbour, dropping
the anchor, the remark you wrote at lunch, alongside again. Nothing is invented:
a day with no passage and no story lines has no card at all.
Share this passage ▸ hands the day straight to Passage Share, with a
picker when you recorded more than one passage. Private by default, as
always — review locations before you share.
Jump to date. A calendar button on the Journal's masthead opens a month
picker, so a day months back is one tap away instead of a long drag.
The Notebook bar is three pills again — Marks · Logbook · Charters. The
short-lived Journal pill has gone; everything it showed is on the
Journal desk, on your real record.
Your boat's class does the paperwork
The boat card has always asked for a class and a length. From this release
those two answers fill in everything else the app plans with — and three
classes that were missing have joined the list.
Trawler, Powerboat and Motorboat are now their own classes beside
Sailboat, Motor Yacht, Catamaran, Gulet, Trimaran and Dinghy. "Motor Yacht"
was carrying every engine-driven hull from a 6 m runabout to a 20 m
flybridge, and the one figure that separates them — fuel — differs by an
order of magnitude between a displacement trawler at 7 kn and a sport
cruiser on the plane at 25 kn.
Class defaults for your length. Draft, beam, air draft, cruise speed
and fuel burn are filled in from published owner and trade data for a
typical boat of your class and size the moment the card is saved. The
Vessel card on the Captain tab says so — *Class defaults for a 12 m
Trawler* — until you type a figure of your own, after which the profile is
yours and switching boat cards never overwrites it. Use class defaults
hands them back.
Air draft, cruise speed and fuel burn have a home. The Captain tab's
Edit vessel specs sheet gains a Performance section with the three
as plain fields in your own units (metres or feet; knots, km/h or mph;
litres or gallons per hour). Before this release the Vessel card could
read Not set with nowhere to set it.
Switching boats switches the numbers. Make another card active and,
unless you typed your own, the three performance figures follow that
boat's class and length.
The chart draws the class. A trawler is drawn with the reference
trawler hull; a powerboat with a new navy express-cruiser hull — open
cockpit, sunpads, radar arch; a motorboat with a new centre-console hull,
T-top and one outboard on the transom — in the boat editor's 3D preview,
on the chart and in the 3D fly-over alike.
Every boat keeps its own numbers
The Captain tab's vessel surfaces are rebuilt in the route panel's
instrument style, and the specs now belong to each boat rather than to the
app.
The Vessel card is an instrument panel. Picture or class artwork,
name, class chip and length up top; DRAFT · AIR DRAFT · BEAM · AVG
SPEED · FUEL BURN · SAFETY MARGIN in thin numerals below, each marked
yours, class or measured so a default is never mistaken for a
measurement. A figure the app cannot estimate is an amber dash with the
consequence spelled out underneath.
Tap a figure to change it. Every cell opens the new spec editor
already focused on that figure, with the class estimate ghosted beside
your field — tap the ghost to hand that one figure back; USE CLASS
DEFAULTS hands all of them back.
Per-vessel specs. A catamaran and a sloop in the same fleet each keep
their own draft, air draft, beam, speed and fuel, saved on the boat card
and synced with it. Making another boat active switches every figure the
chart, the route planner and the FUEL cell use.
Settings ▸ Nav edits the same boat. The Vessel Profile steppers under
Settings ▸ Nav now name the active boat and write your changes to its own
specs, so a draft typed there and a draft typed on the Captain tab are one
figure. The instrument HUD follows a vessel switch at once, and own-ship
symbols are drawn at the boat's real length (a feet-for-metres slip used to
draw them about three times too long).
The Captain page is shorter. The AI Crew gender picker is gone and
Safety Profile now sits below your vessels.
A garage, not a list. My Vessels shows the active boat as a
full-width card with three quick figures, and the rest of the fleet as a
strip of cards you swipe through. SET ACTIVE on a card switches
boats; the ⋯ menu offers Edit card, Edit specs and
Delete. The hidden drag-to-activate drop zone and swipe-to-delete
are gone.
Fuel on every route
The route panel's instrument cluster is four cells now: cruise speed ·
ETA · distance · fuel. FUEL is what this route will take at the planned
speed — the route's hours times your vessel's fuel burn, in your own volume
unit — and, once you tap Navigate, the fuel still needed to reach the
destination. Slow a displacement hull below its cruise speed and the figure
drops steeply; a planing hull's scales almost linearly. A dash means the
vessel has no fuel figure yet. The numerals came down a size to keep four
cells whole, and the hero label reads CRUISE.
The whole forecast behind every weather pin
Tapping a weather badge on the chart used to open a short list — a
header, the hourly strip and a few buttons — in a half-height sheet that
hid more than it showed. A pin's report is now the same Marine Weather
dashboard the Meteo tab gives your vessel, built from the pin's saved
report: current conditions, the 12h–7d range picker, the Sea State
simulation (scrub an hour and the forecast strip follows), the hourly
forecast, wind, precipitation, sea state, visibility and pressure, any
alerts, the full meteogram, and the Refresh / Logbook / Show on Chart /
Remove actions at the foot. The sheet opens full height, in the Meteo
tab's dark dress, wherever you reach it — a chart badge, a seamark's
Weather button or the Meteo avatar strip. Only the tide curve stays with
your vessel's station.
Where the weather pin stands
A forecast reads differently on the quay, two cables off the beach and
twenty miles out — and the weather strip gave no hint which one a pin
was. Every avatar now carries a small badge in its top-right corner:
Mountain (brown) — ashore. The pin is on land: a marina, a town, a
hilltop. The report is that place's microclimate.
Beach umbrella (teal) — coastal waters. Afloat, with land within about
2 NM: sea-breeze territory, waves limited by the fetch to the shore.
Waves (blue) — open sea. No land within reach; the synoptic wind and
swell, unshielded.
The answer comes from the same bundled coastline that SafeAnchor uses to
know whether you are ashore, so it needs no network and appears a moment
after the pin does. Inland lakes count as coastal.
Sea State & 3D Ocean
Watch how weather translates into real water motion. AnchorQueen now renders
physically driven 3D waves in the Meteo forecast and throughout 3D Passage Replay.
3D Sea State card in Meteo. Below the wind and wave forecast charts, a new
Sea State card simulates procedural Gerstner ocean waves in real time. It reads
the hourly forecast — wave height ($H_s$), swell direction, period, and wind chop —
to produce an accurate visual feel of upcoming sea conditions.
Beaufort scale presets. Tap any preset chip (Real · 3 · 5 · 7 · 9 · 11)
to quickly visualize how standard Beaufort forces look on the water, from calm ripples
to severe gale rollers with cresting white foam and sea spray.
Forecast hour scrubber. Slide across the hourly timeline to watch conditions
shift across the day. The card calculates the sun's elevation and azimuth to
render realistic dawn, midday, golden hour, and moonlit night illumination.
Multiple camera angles. Cycle the camera between Orbit (smooth rotational
panorama), Deck (low-angle view looking out across the crests), and Still
(stationary perspective).
Poster-first & battery-friendly. The card opens with a crisp static poster
frame to conserve battery and GPU resources. Tap to wake the live simulation;
animation automatically halts when switching tabs, backgrounding, or when
device thermals rise.
3D Ocean in Passage Replay (aq-sea). When reliving a passage in 3D, the ocean
now rolls beneath your boat with procedural waves depth-tested against the terrain.
Toggle between Real conditions (from recorded weather telemetry), Beaufort
presets, or Off.
Deck view. Tap Deck on the Passage 3D camera controls to drop down to a
bow-level camera cutting through the waves along your heading.
Clips know when to stop. A Director clip now runs up to 15 seconds on
Free, a minute on Pro and five minutes on Max. When a take reaches your
plan's limit it stops cleanly — the clip is finished and saved to your
library and to Photos, exactly like one you stopped yourself — and the app
shows you the shot you just made beside what the next plan would let you
keep filming. The Director card's last line always quotes your own limits:
clip length, reel length and reels a day.
Today's reels, counted where you film them. The Director card's limits
line now ends with 2 of 3 today — the server's own count, so a reel filmed
on another device shows up here too, and it resets at UTC midnight. Max reads
unlimited today. On Free, once the three are filmed FILM REEL reads
TOMORROW, and tapping it explains what twenty a day would change rather
than failing on the way to the server.
The end card says its piece once. The first time you share a Free reel
that closes on the AnchorQueen card, the app says so — with Share anyway
right there to send it unchanged. It asks once per reel, never twice.
Pro and Max look different the moment you buy. Director stills and clips
carry the page's full title block on Free, a small corner mark on Pro and
nothing at all on Max — applied to the film already on screen, without
reopening it. Your next reel drops the end card straight away, and the
Director card wears a PRO or MAX chip for a day.
Base marina & vessel cockpit
Every vessel in your fleet can now be anchored to its true home base marina.
First-class marina cockpit. Dedicated base marina card in the vessel editor with quick actions to assign your current location, drop a pin anywhere on the chart, or search worldwide marinas by name.
Intelligent proximity auto-activation. Arriving within 600 m of a vessel's base marina automatically arms and switches to that vessel in the Helm and navigation profiles, logging arrival time to your Ship's Journal.
Co-berth multi-vessel resolution. If multiple vessels share the same base marina, your active vessel is preserved without jitter; otherwise the most recently sailed boat takes the helm with a one-tap switcher for sibling vessels.
Berthed vessels on the chart. Your moored vessels remain visible at their base marinas with authentic Atelier 3D top-down hull art, scaled to length overall, until actively sailing. The boat you are aboard is drawn once, at your live position — never twice.
Where it works. The switch happens while the app is open wherever you are. Doing it with the screen off needs Always location permission, which AnchorQueen only asks for when you arm the anchor watch; without it the beacons stand down rather than sitting idle.
Fixes
The Meteo tab no longer opens on a half-empty screen. Before your first weather pin exists — or after you remove My Position — the strip of pin avatars used to stretch to half the tab, pushing Marine Weather down to the bottom of the screen and then snapping back up the moment a pin appeared. The strip now keeps its normal height whether it holds pins or only the hint.
English that reads American. {#american-english} With your iPhone set to a United States region, the app now writes harbor, color, center, license, favorites, draft and meters instead of the British spellings — across every screen, not just a few. Other English-speaking regions are unchanged. Place names keep their own spelling: English Harbour in Antigua is still English Harbour.
Your units, everywhere. {#units-everywhere} A fresh install now opens in the units your iPhone's region uses — feet, °F, inHg and US gallons in the United States — instead of metric with a switch to find. And the places that had quietly stayed metric whatever you chose now follow Settings → Units: the anchor-alarm takeover screen and its Extend notification button, the Meteo dashboard and meteogram (including the exported image), the tides dashboard, the Helm depth, tide and fuel charts, the voyage depth chart, printed logbooks and passage plans, chart soundings and dive-site depths, GPS accuracy readouts, and the man-overboard distance. Coordinates picked in Settings now drive the chart HUD too, and positions west of Greenwich read W, not a negative E. Clocks follow your 12-hour / 24-hour setting, and charter dates read in your region's order.
A word before you pocket the phone. A second after Navigate, the Helm panel's coach line reads "Recording continues with the screen off — lock the phone whenever you like." for five seconds, then goes back to the steering readout (tap to dismiss early). When the panel is folded, or guidance started from the rail or the route library, the same note appears in the GPS panel's status line.
Hours more battery with the screen off. Recording a passage or following a route in the background now runs the GPS at the precision the job needs instead of full navigation power, turns the compass off (your heading comes from the GPS course while under way), and no longer runs a second GPS stream for the anchor watch unless an anchor is actually down. Idle on the water the app keeps a light watch so a departure still starts a recording; idle ashore it goes to sleep. Low Power Mode and a battery under 20 % coarsen the background stream further.
History starts at sea. The At Sea chip in SafeAnchor → History and the Past Anchorages panel is now on by default, so stays recorded on land — a drill at home, a test fix on a street — no longer sit between your real anchorages. Tap the chip off to see them; Clear filters puts it back on.
The green boat pages the pontoon instead of adding to it. Tapping + N more at the head of a charter pontoon used to leave extra boats behind — the marina had been drawn as two overlapping pontoons (one from the marina card, one from the vessels list), and paging one exposed the other. A marina is now one pontoon whichever way you reach it, the row always holds eight boats, and a tap on the green boat next to a moored hull pages the row rather than opening that boat.
Charter photos show the whole boat. On the marina card's Vessels carousel and the boat card, a photo used to be stretched to fill the wide frame, which cut off the masts and the hull — worse on iPad. The photo is now shown whole over a soft blurred backdrop.
Week carousel keeps the earlier weeks reachable after you pick a later week. The boat card's week carousel used to re-anchor on the week you tapped, which scrolled the earlier last-minute weeks out of reach. It now stays where it is; only a custom date outside the four visible weeks moves it.
3D fly-over of a planned route stays in the water. The fly-over used to smooth a planned route the way it steadies a recorded GPS track, which pulled every turn inside the headland it was rounding — the vessel and its line crossed land that the chart route clearly avoided. Planned routes now fly exactly along the legs you see on the chart; recorded passages keep their steadied motion.
Edits you make keep, wherever you made them. Renaming a planned route, filing it in a folder, setting a departure, or editing a Captain's Mark or a route plan while the same item was open elsewhere could quietly restore the older version — and cloud sync then spread it to your other devices. Every editor now writes only what you actually changed, onto the current version of the record.
The selected passage draws at once, not after a zoom. Selecting a passage could show its name on the chart while the speed-coloured track itself stayed invisible until you zoomed a full level. Only some map tiles were affected, which is why a part of the line sometimes showed at the screen edge. The track is now drawn from fresh tiles every time its geometry changes, so it appears the moment it is selected — and the live recording no longer risks a blink each time a fix lands.
A charter boat opens on the dates you searched. Opening a boat from the Charters desk used to show a different week than the one its deal was listed for — and a Saturday you had picked earlier could linger past its own check-in, so the boat was priced for a week nobody could board any more. The boat card now opens on the week the deal was quoted for, and a saved week is forgotten the moment its check-in day has passed.
Fly-by zoom buttons do what they say. The 1× / 2× / 4× buttons under a seamark's Fly-by and a past anchorage's 3D view used to highlight but leave the camera where it was. They now ease the camera in and out, and the zoom you picked stays put while the orbit resumes.
The Sea State card shows the sea after dark. {#sea-state-night} Night and twilight hours used to render as a black sea under a black sky — the card's automatic exposure never adapted on iPhone, so anything darker than daylight was lost. The card now keeps the water legible through the night: moonlight glitters on the waves, foam and crests stay visible, a cloud deck reads as dark grey instead of vanishing, and a full moon behind cloud no longer lights the sea as if the sky were clear. Dawn and dusk match the window — the light comes up with civil twilight (about half an hour before sunrise) rather than at the moment the sun clears the horizon — and the Now hour puts the sun where it is this minute, not at the top of the hour.
Night on the Sea State card now looks like night. {#sea-state-night-grade} Making the card legible after dark had overshot: a midnight sea came out about as bright as an overcast afternoon, with a hard white band sitting across the horizon. The card is now graded to the light that is actually out there — a dark sea with the moon's glitter path and breaking foam as the brightest things in frame, a dim cloud deck above it, and a horizon that fades into the sky instead of cutting against it. A moonlit night is brighter than an overcast one, as it should be, and a moon that has already set no longer lights the water.
The weather chips follow your clock. {#sea-state-chip-time} Tapping Rain, Thunderstorm, Fog or Tornado always drew the scene in broad daylight, whatever the hour — tap one at midnight and you got a midday squall. Each chip now shows that weather at your own time of day and position, so a rain chip after dark is a rainy night. Sunny and Moon are the two that cannot follow the clock without contradicting themselves, so they settle on local midday and local midnight instead. Storm clouds also build to their real height now — a thunderstorm towers where it used to sit under a low, flat ceiling.
You choose where the 3D replay comes from. {#passage-3d-page-source} The 3D page is published two ways — included with the app, and on anchorqueen.com — and either can be the newer one. Until now the choice was made for you and could not be seen or changed, which meant a replay could quietly be older than the app around it. Settings ▸ 3D Page Source now offers In App and Online, and ships set to In App: the page that came with this version, always available and needing no connection. Choose Online to take the newest published page as soon as it appears. If the online page cannot be reached, AnchorQueen falls back to the included one on its own.
Frame a route on the chart from the Route Panel. {#route-fly-to} The passage bar has always carried a crosshair that brings the whole track into view; the Route Panel had no equivalent, so finding a selected route meant panning for it. The same control now sits in the Route Panel header, left of maximise and ✕, and frames the whole route clear of the panel. It appears once a route has at least two waypoints.
Dragging a waypoint while editing a route now sticks. {#route-edit-drag} Moving a point on a saved route drew the guide lines to the new position and then, the moment you let go, snapped straight back to where it started — every time, on every route. The release was cancelling its own re-plan before it could run, so nothing was ever saved. Let go now and the two legs either side are re-planned around the new point, the route redraws through it, and it is one step on undo. If no water route exists between the neighbours the point springs back and says so, rather than leaving a straight line through land.
Editing a route leaves the chart where you put it. {#route-edit-camera} Tapping Edit Route used to fly the camera to the departure point — on a long passage that took the very waypoint you were about to drag off the screen. Editing no longer moves the chart at all. The Route Panel's ⊹ Show route on chart button frames the whole route when you actually want that.
The Command Rail steps aside while you edit. {#route-edit-rail} The command panel stayed open down the side of the chart through an edit session, covering the water you were reaching into. It now folds to its badge when editing starts and comes back when editing ends — tap the badge any time for ✓, ✕ and undo.
A renamed passage stays renamed. Renaming a recorded passage while it was open on the chart could snap back to the old name — and cloud sync then carried that old name to your other devices. The name you give a passage is now the one that is kept and shared.
Sign-in problems now explain themselves, in your language. When signing in, signing out or resetting a password went wrong, the message was written in English whatever your iPhone's language was — and a keychain failure answered with a developer note about the Simulator and code signing. Every one of those messages is now translated into all thirteen languages, and a keychain failure says what to actually do: restart AnchorQueen, and restart the device if it keeps happening.
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