User Manual

Your Profile is home. It carries your photo and bio, your recent activity, and four doors: Logbook, Training, Achievements and, under “Share your experience”, your Résumé and Reports. The navy On board band counts your boats, crew, Groups and followers, and each one opens its own screen.

Along the bottom are the five tabs: Profile, Feed, the big Quick Log button, Explore and Groups. You can choose which one Saltlog opens on, in Settings.

Quick Logis the big middle button. Start it as you leave, and your phone records the route, the distance and the time, filling in the weather and where you set off from. Stop it when you’re back, add photos and a note, and it’s saved. If your boat has its own navigation system connected, Quick Log uses that alongside the phone.

Manual Logis for a trip you didn’t track: type the dates, the boat, the distance and who was aboard.

Bulk uploadtakes a spreadsheet of old logs. Download the template, which already knows your boats, fill it in, and upload it. Anything Saltlog can’t place lands in Exceptions for you to fix in your own time. It’s under Settings → Your logbook data.

Voyages tie several trips into one passage: a week to the Scillies is one voyage with five legs. Your Logbook shows it as a single card holding its legs.

Every trip you’ve logged, newest first, grouped by month with that month’s trips, miles and hours. Each entry is one slim card: the photo or boat, the date, where you went, and chips for miles, hours, wind force, your role, and whether it was a night passage or over 60 nm.

Above the list are your totals and the charts: days on the water by year, months, wind, and hours by boat. Swipe the calendar or the monthly chart to move through time, and tap any bar or day to filter the trips below to exactly that.

Search and filters reach your whole history, not just what’s on screen. Tap an entry to open the trip, where you can edit, share or delete it.

Training holds three things: your goal (just for fun, beginner, intermediate, advanced, commercial or instructor), the organisations you train with, and your qualifications.

Add a qualification by organisation and type. Each one is Interested, Completed, or Proven once you’ve uploaded a certificate and it’s been checked. Saltlog deliberately says nothing about how much sea time a course needs: those rules differ between bodies and change, so we leave them to the people who set them.

Badges you earn from real logged trips: first trip, miles and hours passed, night passages, passages over 60 nm, voyages, and more. The page shows what you’ve just earned, what’s next within reach, and the full cabinet, with the ones you haven’t earned yet waiting in grey.

Reportsis your logbook, printed. Pick a date range and you get a passage log (a line per trip), a season summary, the boats you’ve sailed with your time aboard each, and your experience totals by role, day and night, conditions and passages. On the website you can save any of them as a PDF.

Your Résuméis a sailing CV built from the same data: headline numbers, qualifications, time in command, where you’ve sailed, conditions, standout passages, boats and seasons. Tailorchooses who it’s for, which sections show, whether exact harbours appear, and whether it covers all time or the last five years.

Send shares your Résumé two ways: as a PDF, ready to drop into WhatsApp or email, or as a link to that exact copy. A PDF is theirs to keep once sent; a link you can withdraw later, and it stops working.

Add a boat with her name, type, make and model, and a photo. One is your primary boat. Boats you’ve sailed but don’t own show separately, under “Also sailed on”.

A boat can have a launch location, so logging from there fills in where you set off, and can connect to onboard GPS. Removing a boat archives her rather than deleting her, so old trips keep an honest record.

Each boat has a What she costs page for berthing, fuel, servicing, insurance and the rest. Because your logbook already knows her days, hours and miles, it works out what she really costs per day out and per nautical mile, and charts it year by year. Kit you buy for her is shown separately and kept out of the cost per mile.

Add a cost by typing it in, by uploading a spreadsheet of past invoices from the template, or by letting Deckhand read a photo or PDF of an invoice for you. Everything you bring in waits in Capturesuntil you’ve checked it: accept, edit or reject each line before it counts. Give a cost a reminder date and it shows under what’s coming up.

Everyone you’ve logged a trip with. Add someone by name, or find them if they’re on Saltlog, and the trip appears in their logbook too. Add an email and you can invite them; they can see the trip and start their own logbook.

Crew you add stay yours: archiving one keeps your past trips accurate.

Following someone brings their trips into your Feed. Following and Followers shows who you follow, who follows you, and who’s waiting to be followed back. Your profile also has a QR code and a short link, so someone can add you as crew or follow you on the pontoon.

You can message any Saltlogger you can see. People you’ve sailed with and people you both follow arrive in your inbox; anyone else waits in Requests until you accept. You can send a trip into a conversation as a card.

Groups are clubs, marinas and training schools. Join one to see its posts, events and fleet, and to use its chat rooms. Running one gives you a page to keep up to date, posts and events to publish, a fleet your members can log trips against, and enquiries from visitors.

Starting a Group is quick: paste your website and Deckhand reads it, then builds the page for you, logo and photos included. You check every line before anything is saved.

A map of Groups, Saltloggers, trips and places. Search a tab to find a club, a person by name or town, or a passage. Routes draws GPS-tracked passages as plain lines, with nothing on the map naming anyone.

If a trip, comment, message or person breaks our community guidelines, report it from its menu and we’ll look at it. The same menu lets you block someone: they can’t message you, you stop seeing each other anywhere on Saltlog, and any follow between you is undone. Trips you really sailed together stay as they are. Unblock them any time from Settings → Blocked people.

The cog at the top of the screen opens Settings. It holds:

• About me — your name, contact details and emergency contact. Links and QR holds your short link and QR code, and you can see your profile as other people see it.
• Who can see you — Saltlog is open by default, which is how people find crew and clubs. Private hides your profile and trips from everyone. There are separate switches for the People map, the Routes map, crew adding trips to your logbook, and whether a shared trip includes your route.
• Quick Log nudges— whether Saltlog reminds you that you’re still logging once you stop moving, and how.
• Units and formats — lengths in metres or feet, and how dates and times are written.
• Which tab Saltlog opens on, and whether Deckhand, our demo sailor, appears.
• Blocked people, the community guidelines, and Your logbook data, where Bulk upload and your reports live.

Sign in with a password or with Face ID or Touch ID. You can change your email or password under Settings → Security. Logging is free, Quick Log included; Saltlog Plus adds Deckhand AI, your boat’s own GPS, more photos and clips, and every chart. See or change your plan under Settings → Your plan, and cancel it in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions.

You can delete your account yourself, from Settings → Delete account: press and hold to delete, then press and hold again to confirm. It permanently removes your trips, boats, crew, photos and comments. Where another skipper logged you as crew on their own trip, that trip stays theirs and keeps an honest record of who was aboard.

Use Send feedback from Settings and tell us what happened. It goes straight to Steve, who reads every one. A screenshot helps.