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Watch planner in testing

Ongoing work on Watch Planner – on one side grouping crew in Watch, on the other side preparing Watch schedule. Introduced 4/4 and 3/3 setup. At first you can use predefined schedules, editors will come later.

New features comes in English, Polish, Spanish and Catalan.

As usual testers needed

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Buscamos testers para mySailing Trips en español

¡Tripulaciones al habla! En mySailing Trips estamos afinando la nueva localización al español y necesitamos navegantes con ganas de probar la app y contarnos qué tal funciona a bordo.

¿Qué puedes hacer con mySailing Trips?

  • Registrar el cuaderno de bitácora con eventos detallados: maniobras, cambios de guardia, condiciones meteorológicas y más.
  • Generar rutas y exportaciones GPX para compartir tu travesía con la tripulación o con quienes te esperan en tierra.
  • Organizar a tu equipo en grupos de guardia, asignar oficiales y mantener todo el plan de cubierta en orden.
  • Consultar procedimientos de radio (Mayday, Pan-Pan, Securité) listos para usar, con textos que rellenan tus datos automáticamente.

¿Te animas a testear?

Estamos buscando feedback sobre la experiencia en español: textos, terminología náutica, mensajes dentro de la app y cualquier detalle que pueda mejorar. Cuéntanos cómo la usas, qué te resulta útil y qué podríamos pulir.

Cómo participar

  1. Descarga mySailing Trips desde tu tienda habitual o usa el enlace a TestFlight / Google Play Beta.
  2. Configura la app en español (ajustes → idioma).
  3. Utilízala en tu próxima salida y, al regresar, comparte tus impresiones: capturas, omentarios
    o sugerencias. Tu experiencia real en cubierta nos ayuda a que la app hable el mismo idioma que la tripulación.
    ¡Gracias por embarcarte con nosotros!
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Weekly Logbook — Shipowner Roster Secured

What’s New:

  • Shipowner directory with full contact fields.
  • One-tap import from your address book to speed up data entry.
  • Crew toolbar refinements for smoother watch changes.

Why it matters: Keeping owner data alongside crew, vessel, and log entries closes one more loop in the voyage record. That means fewer loose notes and a tighter logbook when you hand over command or file reports.

Polish Note for Sailors: 🇵🇱 Armatorzy: Nowy rejestr i import danych to solidny krok milowy przed premierą Karty Rejsu — planujemy, by łączyła armatora, jacht i trasę w spójnej dokumentacji każdego rejsu.🇵🇱

Call to Action: Update the app, try importing your favorite owners, and let us know how the roster handles under way. As always, fair winds and following seas!

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mySailing Trips 1.2.1 went live

In case you missed it – 1.2.1 is live

Version 1.2.1 is out and still warm. Go and get mySailing Trips with some nice updates for Android and iPhone:

  • Edit location of the event by tapping lock on the map and tapping new pin.
  • Add Crew Members from your phone Contacts
  • New Help tab with International Code of Signals.
  • Faster ICS search + filters; digit flags show “n Word”.
  • Trip share defaults to Circle template with Start/End ports.
  • Improved analytics and translations.
  • Local map caching enable
  • Automatically zooming map with events for better presentation
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Crew from Contacts — Faster Crew Management (Beta 1.2.1)

Managing crew should be simple. In beta 1.2.1 (121), mySailing Trips lets you add crew directly from your phone’s Contacts. It’s fast, private, and optional.

How It Works:

  • Open a trip → Crew.
  • Tap + → Add from Contacts.
  • Pick a contact; the name is prefilled in the form; choose a role, save.

Permissions

  • iOS/Android ask for Contacts permission the first time you use this feature.
  • You can deny or change this anytime in system Settings.

Privacy

  • We only use the name you pick to fill the crew form. No contacts are uploaded or stored outside your device unless you choose to sync/backup (no feature yet).
  • You can edit or remove crew entries at any time.

Tips:

  • Use “Add manually” for skippers not in your Contacts.
  • Roles can be set or changed later (Captain, Crew, etc.).

Troubleshooting:

  • I don’t see Contacts”: Ensure Contacts permission is granted in Settings.
  • “Wrong name format”: Pick another entry for the same person or edit after prefill.

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mySailing Trips 1.2 — Background Tracking

Version 1.2 focuses on background location tracking and several usability/UI improvements for smoother everyday use.

Highlights:

  • Favorite trip: Your favorite trip is pinned to the top of the list.
  • Background tracking: Optional background location tracking for the favorite trip.
  • Application may ask for additional permissions to allow background tracking.
  • Fixes/cleanup: Correct delete confirmations and internal data structure improvements.

How To Update:

  • Android: Update from Google Play (Production).
  • iOS: Update from the App Store.
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Cruise Certificates

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!

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Passage Confirmations incoming

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.

Trip view with information about sailing time used for passage confirmation generation.

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.

Crew member view with information about trip synced from the Trip

Check for beta version and new release soon!

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1.7.3 – Instrument Events

mySailing is coming with small update allowing to capture events directly from Instruments view. What does it mean?

  • First mark one of your trips as default one by swiping it right on view with trips list. And choose orange lightbulb:
Selecting default trip on iPhone by swiping right trip on list of trips
Selecting default trip on AppleWatch by swiping right trip on list of trips

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.

  • Now go to Instruments view:
Instruments view on iPhone showing Default view
Instruments view on Apple Watch
  • On iPhone touch Pin button next to SOG or COG and value will be added to Trip surrounded by green border.
  • On Apple Watch simply tap the view with SOG or COG.

If Settings “Location to all events” is enabled location will be added to the event.