Practical Boat Owner

Tried & tested

SailTies sailing log app

SailTies started as an easy way to create a simple and streamlined personal log of your activity afloat via an app. Since a soft launch a couple of seasons ago it has developed into a more sophisticated product that includes similar functions to those that have made Strava an eminently popular app for cyclists.

A push of a button at each end of a voyage is all that’s needed to record your track, total distance sailed and time at sea. At the same time, the software will collate photos you take while en route, pinning them to your track. Collaboration with other crew is easy, including adding photos and comments.

The software keeps cumulative running totals of total distance and time at sea, while everything is available for easy

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Practical Boat Owner

Practical Boat Owner3 min read
Book Reviews
BY MARK CHISNELL, RHYME AND REASON BOOKS, £2.49 (EBOOK), £9.99 (PAPERBACK). What can yacht racing and sailing teach us about ourselves and the way we react and think? Mark Chisnell’s fascinating book uses racing and sailing triumphs and tragedies – s
Practical Boat Owner8 min read
Love At First Sight
Ever since I was eight or nine years old I’ve always wanted a Jeanneau Sun 2000. I don’t know what it was about this pretty trailer-sailer that made me dream of owning one; maybe it was her sleek lines or the example which appeared unloved, sat at Fa
Practical Boat Owner3 min read
Safety Mods To Karima
Marsali Taylor sails an Offshore 8M, Karima S. She’s a dinghy instructor and author of The Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring liveaboard sleuth, Cass Lynch. That first, wonderful run under motor to the end of the voe took till past mid-February to a

Related Books & Audiobooks