Sailmate1.7 - App Store

Sailmate is a free and easy to use app for sailors and boaters. It provides charts worldwide showing thousands of harbours and marinas and their characteristics, along with numerous buoys, beacons and lights. A directory conveniently sort harbours per countries and regions.

In addition to Sailmate own charts, thousands of nautical charts from various authorities could be downloaded and viewed offline, in the USA, Alaska and Hawai (NOAA), France (Shom), Finland, Norway.

A comprehensive weather menu gives instant access to weather data, including wind 5-day predictions, actual and forecast weather at thousand of locations, satellite charts.

A moving map provides route planning, ETA, heading to waypoint and more. You could create an unlimited number of personal waypoints. Sailmate records performed trips and allow to review later boat paths or share them with friends. You could take pictures during trips, and view them at their location on the map.

This social app allows sailors and boaters to exchange together, rate marinas and suppliers, view events, share good anchorage locations...

An helpful annex is provided to quickly identify any signal from the international signal code and any country flag.

Version History - fixes issues at map launch on some iOS versions and/or after Jan 1st, 2021.
- minor improvements in map and harbour list. 1.7 01/25/2021 - new harbours added in Finland, France, Italy and United Kingdom.
- fixes various small issues. 1.6 08/21/2019 - add detailed information on all harbours and marinas in Italy and South of Great-Britain
- improved retrieval of weather from nearest weather stations
- undo button allowing to easily roll back any planned route change performed on the map screen
- a camera icon allows to take pictures while boating without exiting the app, pictures may be saved to the cloud and associated with the trip
- improvements in cloud syncing and sharing between devices for planned trips, personal waypoints, pictures and past trips
- added in the supplier directory all sailing schools, sailing clubs and yacht clubs in France
- fixed display issues on iPhone X
- fixed various other issues. 1.5 06/12/2019 This new release fixes minor issues and provides nautical charts from authorities in additional countries. 1.4 07/18/2018 This new version brings the following improvements:
- free of charge download and display of nautical NOAA charts in the USA, Alaska, Hawai, with print screen capability.
- free of charge download and display of French SHOM nautical charts. Printing SHOM charts requires a paying subscription to SHOM chart set.
- automatically propose to download most relevant charts for your trip, making chart selection easier in the chart catalog.
- hundreds of harbours added in France and UK, most of them with documents (such maps, rates, touristic information...)
- display thumbnails of planned routes on trip list
- fixed various issues 1.3 06/13/2018 Sailmate new features includes:
- direct access to harbour documents for numerous harbours in France, Monaco, UK, including harbour fees and regulations, touristic informations, safety data, pictures.
- display of known harbour characteristics, including VHF channel(s) to use, in the Data tab
- show light colors on map and display light characteristics
- support of Bad Elf external GPS as position source
- embeds a new release of harbour database, with hundreds of small European harbours added, improvement in harbour naming and regional sorting.
- display international signal flags and country flags
- various improvements and bugfixes 1.2 05/04/2018 This version adds the following features:
- numerous buoys, beacons and lights worldwide are displayed on the map with their characteristics.
- an harbor directory lists conveniently harbours sorted by countries and regions
- hundreds of additional harbours and marinas have been added 1.1 04/17/2018 1.0 04/12/2018