Finally! mySailing Trips has completed closed testing phase and is available for open testing on Play Google. This also allows me to prepare release available in official store.
Please join Open Testing and share your feedback.
mySailing – mobile application for sailors
Your friend on deck while sailing and docking
Finally! mySailing Trips has completed closed testing phase and is available for open testing on Play Google. This also allows me to prepare release available in official store.
Please join Open Testing and share your feedback.
mySailing application is entering the closed testing phase of new version which will be available for both platforms. At first it may offer a few less features then original one but finally it is possible to use it on both platforms.
Please join the testing.
Some updates to make it all a little nicer. First of all Event Detail view has now minimap showing where event was captured. Picture below is captured as an example – I don’t sail in towns 🙂
Another look change is refreshed view of trips:
For new season I am planning to some changes in mySailing application. What we can expect:
See you on water!
High time to share information about minor update. Minor in number and there is not really much visible changes but engine responsible for event types has been fully reworked.
What this change means for a sailor? It opens in near future way to creating own event type – including “Lost All Anchors” or “No more beer”. There was also feature request to manage events on the yacht you are owning.
Visible change is in events where you can add text – like Port Visited. Simply it is readable at last.
1.8.1 get right from App Store 🙂
Trip Certificates are now going through AppStore approval and should be ready for download next week. There are some nice changes both in UI (it still needs a hug and some improvements as functions are evolving).
First of all both Trip and Crew member information stores some extra fields like list of visited ports, time sailing, mooring time etc. These fields can be collapsed so look for a header and touch it. On Trip this is in Edit section so swipe trip left to get there.
There are two ways to easy move Trip data to Crew members: Either use Sync on Crew list view or get sync individually on each Crew member card.
After syncing information you can change it of course as someone could join later or in different port.
Another change on Trip is that Captain is picked from Crew List. If you edit Trip and click icon next to Captain name you get to Crew list view with option to create new Crew Member. Small warning: person chosen as Captain does not get automatically role of Captain on Crew view. Yet.
And finally Captain can update Crew members with opinion which is expected by some yachting associations on Trip certificates.
And finally key element of release 1.8! Generate PDF trip summary for Crew member. It can be then sent, printed (for signing by captain) – whatever you want. During first run Templates for documents will be downloaded from the cloud. If for some reasons they are not there open Settings and About view to refetch them. In future there will be separate section for managing the templates. If you want to have your template – for club, association or other – let me know and we will think about it. Today there is a mySailing template in Polish and English.
I hope you will find it interesting.
One of interesting features coming in version 1.8 is possibility to generate certificates after completed sailing. To support this feature both Trip and Crew member information have been extended with fields which collect information about saling time, visited ports or captain’s opinion.
Most of these entries can be simply synchronised with information from the Trip. Also information about Captain is not collected from the Crew list.
Picture above presents example template for confirmation with information expected for Polish sailing certificates. All templates are stored online and must be downloaded by application. This also means if you need particular passage confirmation it can be configured and added any time – just let me know. Filled documented can be shared by any messaging app or simply printed. Choice is yours!
When applying for new sailing certificates often we must collect confirmation of trips and passages. Such confirmation is signed by skipper or shipowner and must be presented to certification organisation like PYA or RYA during exam.
Usually such confirmation presents information about time spent under sails, on engine, tidal waters, conditions etc.
New version allows to collect most of necessary data under the Trip and then share it with all Crew members. Crew member can also received individual opinion from skipper. All data can be then presented using some templates – during testing there is PYA template available.
Check for beta version and new release soon!
mySailing is coming with small update allowing to capture events directly from Instruments view. What does it mean?
Default trip on list of trips is decorated with green frame while all other trips have blue border. Default trip is also visible on main menu on AppleWatch as a shortcut for adding evens and on top of Instruments view. We can also call it Active trip.
If Settings “Location to all events” is enabled location will be added to the event.