Features and Usage

Logbook Management

Easily record logbook entries, including automatic capture of time, date, geolocation, speed, engine hours, sails configuration and heading. When online, the app also integrates real-time weather data from openweathermap.org for your location.

Crew Data Management

Managing crew information can be a challenging and time-consuming aspect of planning a sailing trip. Our app simplifies this by including a feature that allows you to integrate a crew list directly within the application. Additionally, crew members have the option to input their details through a secure web form, which safely encrypts and transfers their information to the app. Rest assured, this data is also strictly used for the purpose of importing it into the app and is not utilized in any other manner.

Hands-Free Operation

For safety and convenience, add entries via audio recording while you’re active on deck, allowing for time-efficient and convenient, almost hands-free operation. These recordings are accessible for playback directly from the logbook, so you can refine the logbook entry with information from your recording later.

Map Integration

Track your journey with map visuals on the Logbook Map page. Interactive pins allow for retrospective entry edits and additional detail modifications.

Weather and Navigation Data

Get current weather and a list of nearby seamarks for aid in navigation, all accessible within the app. For the seamarks in your vicinity, distance and bearings are calculated to aid in visual verification of your position.

Exports and Report generation

The application offers multiple export functionalities. You can generate crew lists as PDF and Excel and create reports that serve as proof of your crew members‘ nautical experience, even integrating signatures into the flow. Moreover, the app allows you to export the logbook in various formats such as Excel, CSV, PDF, as well as in GPX track format for route tracking in other geographical applications. Check out the export and reporting functionalities and how they streamline the Sailing Trip Management process from start to finish.

Technical Information and Credits

The app runs on Version 1.12 (2024) and is built using a suite of robust technologies, including Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials. Credits to data providers like openseamaps and NOAA for lights and magnetic variation data respectively as well as to contributors to the technologies used (NPOI, MigraDoc, Microsoft.Spatial, Xamarin Community Toolkit, sqlite-net-pcl, SkiaSharp, Xamarin Signature Pad, Plugin.AudioRecorder, Refractored.MvvmHelpers), some of which are licensed under the MIT License. Weather Data is provided by openweathermap.org.

Contact and Support

If you encounter issues with the software, want to report bugs, provide feedback or submit suggestions for upcoming features, please feel free to contact sailingtripmanager@gmail.com

 

Terms of Service for Sailing Trip Manager App

1. Acceptance of Terms

This document constitutes an agreement between you (the ‚User‘) and the Sailing Trip Manager App (‚we‘, ‚us‘, ‚our‘) regarding your use of the mobile application for managing sailing trips (the ‚Service‘). By using the Service, you agree to be bound by these terms.

2. Description of Service

Our Service provides functionalities for managing crew data, boat data, logbooks, navigational lights, and weather related to sailing trips. The Service is designed for planning, documenting, and confirming activities around a sailing trip.

3. User Responsibilities

You acknowledge that: Traditional logbook keeping may be required by local laws and regulations. Data stored in the app, especially when it involves personal information of others, must be handled responsibly. You are responsible for navigational decisions and we are not liable for errors or consequences arising from the use of the app. All data is stored encrypted on your mobile device and not on any external servers. When exporting data from the app, you are responsible for the secure and intended transmission and storage of that data.

4. Data Usage and Privacy

The app may use your device’s location and, if selected, sound recordings, solely for the purpose of aiding logbook entry documentation. You are responsible for ensuring that any collection and use of data through the app complies with applicable privacy laws. The data is only used locally for the purpose of creating the desired documentation of the sailing trip. Crew Data management is handled by an encrypted web service, its use is optional. We do not collect or analyze any data within the app or the Web service. In the demo, we use fictional, generic names. These names and addresses are selected with the intent to be as non-specific as possible, ensuring that any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real addresses, is purely coincidental.

In order to support our app and provide a free service to our users, we have integrated AdMob, a Google-provided advertising service, into our app. AdMob may collect and use information about your device and your use of the app to display personalized advertisements. This information can include your device’s IP address, device identifiers, and information about the ads you view and interact with. We take your privacy seriously and have implemented a consent management framework to ensure that you have full control over the collection and use of your data by AdMob. Upon first use of our app, you will be prompted to provide consent for the collection and use of this data for advertising purposes. Please note that if you do not consent to the collection of data by AdMob, you may still see ads. Our use of AdMob is designed to respect your privacy and comply with applicable laws, including the GDPR for users in the European Union. For more information about how Google uses data when you use our app, and how you can control the information sent to Google, please visit Google’s Privacy and Terms site.

5. Limitation of Liability

The Service is provided on an ‚as is‘ and ‚as available‘ basis without any warranties, express or implied. We are not liable for any damages, including but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service.

6. Prohibited Uses

Service is intended solely for the purposes related to managing sailing trips. Any misuse or use for unintended purposes is prohibited.

7. Modification of Terms

We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Your continued use of the Service following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.

8. Governing Law

This agreement shall be governed by the laws of Austria.

Contact Information and Impressum

For any questions about these terms, please contact us at sailingtripmanager@gmail.com