SailTimer™: iPhone vs Android

Now for all types of boats. Beautiful weather animations with different types of marine weather:
• Crowdsourced wind maps for the most accuracy and highest resolution.
• Marine weather forecasts from Weathernews Inc. (WNI) with maps of precipitation, visibility, air & sea temperature, wind, waves/swell & ocean currents.
• AI models of ocean currents and marine weather from Amphitrite.

There are lots of weather services and apps, but they all use the same satellite weather forecast. Low resolution, low accuracy, and only updated 4 times per day. Weather satellites are 500 to 22,000 miles up in space. Crowdsourcing is changing marine weather. Why rely on satellite imaging, when you can use actual measurements from other boaters? In coastal areas, we archive these to map wind flow for more accuracy.

Crowdsourced weather maps like these have never been possible before. A wind sensor measures local wind around your boat, but now you can also know the wind and sea state up ahead or around the next point.


FEATURES FOR ALL TYPES OF BOATS:
• View your route with free aerial photos and land maps worldwide. If you have the Navionics Boating app, you can import worldwide Navionics charts here with a yearly subscription.

• The weather map animations each have a low-cost monthly subscription with a free 7-day trial.

• Create and rename waypoints by tapping or importing a list. Save, import or email your GPS track.

• All maps and charts in the app can be used offline.

• The white crosshair icon in the top left is the “Follow-Me” button. If tapped, it turns blue and keeps your location in the center of the screen as you move. Unselect when not moving to look around the map.

• Your device will not go to sleep when the app is open, to allow you to continue to monitor your progress on the chart. You can also continue to track your movement with the app running in the background or when the device is asleep (unless you hard-quit).

(Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.)


FOR SAILBOATS:
Whether cruising or racing, it is important to be able to determine the best heading on all points of sail. GPS chartplotters do not calculate tacking distances. But if they do not know the distance you will travel, how can they calculate your correct ETA? This is the only product that calculates your optimal tacks using your tacking distance and polar plots. Details at www.SailTimerApp.com. SailTimer gives you a quick and easy display of your optimal tacks and TTD® (Tacking Time to Destination).

• Use our wireless Wind Instrument or wired Ultrasonic (www.SailTimer.co) to see wind direction, angle & speed. Enter a waypoint and your optimal tacks will update automatically as the wind changes.

• Bring in wind data from any other wind sensor on wifi from NMEA 2000 or 0183, using our low-cost Air Link™ (https://wi-rb.co

Now for all types of boats. Beautiful weather animations with different types of marine weather:
• Crowdsourced wind maps for the most accuracy and highest resolution.
• Marine weather forecasts from Weathernews Inc. (WNI) with maps of precipitation, visibility, air & sea temperature, wind, waves/swell & ocean currents.
• AI models of ocean currents and marine weather from Amphitrite.

There are lots of weather services and apps, but they all use the same satellite weather forecast. Low resolution, low accuracy, and only updated 4 times per day. Weather satellites are 500 to 22,000 miles up in space. Crowdsourcing is changing marine weather. Why rely on satellite imaging, when you can use actual measurements from other boaters? In coastal areas, we archive these to map wind flow for more accuracy.

Crowdsourced weather maps like these have never been possible before. A wind sensor measures local wind around your boat, but now you can also know the wind and sea state up ahead or around the next point.


FEATURES FOR ALL TYPES OF BOATS:
• View your route with free aerial photos and land maps worldwide. If you have the Navionics Boating app, you can import worldwide Navionics charts here with a yearly subscription.

• The weather map animations each have a low-cost monthly subscription with a free 7-day trial.

• Create and rename waypoints by tapping or importing a list. Save, import or email your GPS track.

• All maps and charts in the app can be used offline.

• The white crosshair icon in the top left is the “Follow-Me” button. If tapped, it turns blue and keeps your location in the center of the screen as you move. Unselect when not moving to look around the map.

• Your device will not go to sleep when the app is open, to allow you to continue to monitor your progress on the chart. You can also continue to track your movement with the app running in the background or when the device is asleep (unless you hard-quit).

(Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.)


FOR SAILBOATS:
Whether cruising or racing, it is important to be able to determine the best heading on all points of sail. GPS chartplotters do not calculate tacking distances. But if they do not know the distance you will travel, how can they calculate your correct ETA? This is the only product that calculates your optimal tacks using your tacking distance and polar plots. Details at www.SailTimerApp.com. SailTimer gives you a quick and easy display of your optimal tacks and TTD® (Tacking Time to Destination).

• Use our wireless Wind Instrument or wired Ultrasonic (www.SailTimer.co) to see wind direction, angle & speed. Enter a waypoint and your optimal tacks will update automatically as the wind changes.

• Bring in wind data from any other wind sensor on wifi from NMEA 2000 or 0183, using our low-cost Air Link™ (https://wi-rb.co

Now for all types of boats. Beautiful weather animations with different types of marine weather:
• Crowdsourced wind maps for the most accuracy and highest resolution.
• Marine weather forecasts from Weathernews Inc. (WNI) with maps of precipitation, visibility, air & sea temperature, wind, waves/swell & ocean currents.
• AI models of ocean currents and marine weather from Amphitrite.

There are lots of weather services and apps, but they all use the same GRIB satellite weather forecasts. Low resolution, low accuracy, and only updated 4 times per day. Weather satellites are 500 to 22,000 miles up in space. Crowdsourcing is changing marine weather. Why rely on satellite imaging, when you can use actual measurements from other boaters? In coastal areas, we archive these to map wind flow for more accuracy.

Crowdsourced weather maps like these have never been possible before. A wind sensor measures local wind around your boat, but now you can also know the wind and sea state up ahead or around the next point.



FEATURES FOR ALL TYPES OF BOATS:
● View your route with free aerial photos and land maps worldwide. Import worldwide Navionics charts here with a yearly subscription. All maps and charts can be used offline.

● Hourly weather tables for crowdsourced wind and WeatherNews Inc. (WNI) weather maps. Tap on a certain hour to move the whole weather animation to that time.

● The weather animations have a low-cost monthly subscription with a free 7-day trial.

● Create waypoints by tapping or importing a list.

● Crosshair icon in the top left is the “Follow-Me” button. If tapped, it turns blue and keeps your location in the center of the screen. Unselect to look around the map.

● GPS track can be displayed under options. Save a screenshot to view or share your trip later.


FOR SAILBOATS:
Whether cruising or racing, it is important to be able to determine the best heading on all points of sail. GPS chartplotters and mapping apps do not account for sailboat tacking distances. But if they do not know the distance you will travel, how can they calculate your correct ETA? This is the only product that calculates your optimal tacks using your tacking distance and polar plots. Details at www.SailTimerApp.com. SailTimer gives you a quick and easy display of your optimal tacks and TTD® (Tacking Time to Destination).

● If you have the wireless SailTimer Wind Instrument™ (www.SailTimerWind.com) connected to your phone/tablet, your optimal tacks will update automatically in this app as the wind changes. Or you can manually enter wind direction and wind speed to see your optimal tacks for the route you are planning.

● Just select a route to see the optimal tacks to each waypoint.

● When you pass a waypoint, press the > on the right side of the screen to go to the next waypoint. (Press < on the left side to see optimal tacks to the previous waypoint).

● The optimal tacks are the same headings whether you do the port or starboard tack first. See the FAQ

• Weather routes: You can now display your waypoints/route with a weather map animation overlaid on Navionics charts.
• Wind maps: tap a location on the animation to see the GRIB satellite forecast (white), and/or crowdsourced wind measurements (purple). It is fun -- look for the green dotted line and target.