A quick introduction about the usage of SailAway

SailAway for the iPhone is an easy to use tool to simplify the creation of your logbook.
While you can have only one active logbook at the same time, it is possible to manage as many logbook together with your cruises as you want.

The entire application contains the following modules, while each module has a detailed documentation chapter. At that point, we name them all to give you
a good overview.

• Cockpit: This is the main area which you use later to add information’s to your logbook and see the map.
• Logbook: When a logbook is active (This is not the case after the first startup), the logbook entries are listed here.
• Cruises: You can manage as many cruises you want on your iPhone, while each one has its own logbook.
• Map: Here you find the list of maps, which are installed on your iPhone and under available, those which are ready download from our server.
• Info: You find here the possibility to register yourself for the SailAway newsletter.

When you open SailAway the first time, the application will load a world map to your iPhone, which gives you later on the possibility to show your current
position on the map and which is also the reference map for the downloads. (More in chapter maps)

After the app has finished downloading the map, you should go at first to the tab Cruises, where you can create a new cruise.
In the current version, the cruise has only a name and a short text (description) and of course the logbook itself. More
functions like boat and crew will follow in the next releases. After the cruise is created, the app ask’s you, if you want to open a logbook for that cruise.
Press Yes at that point. (Picture 1) Now the application has a an active cruise and a associated active logbook (See tab Logbook) in which you can create the entries.
You’re ready at that point to use your logbook. To fill information’s into your logbooks we select now the cockpit tab. This is the applications center of usage where you find most of the functions to work with your active logbook. If the buttons are disabled you might have forgot to activate a logbook at first.

The cockpit view has 3 main areas:

• Toolbar
• Gauge Area
• Gauge Slider

Each of them has his specific functionality in SailAway.
In the toolbar you find 4 icons:

• Pencil Icon: This button capture the current gauge values and writes them to the logbook.
• Sail Icon: This button sets all the gauges to the specific values and write a maneuver entry to the logbook. Press (as an example) Start day trip now (Picture 2). This  means, that all sails are down at that time and the motor is started. So its an easy possibility to create multiple standard entries with one click.
• Eye Icon: To use this button, GPS must be activated (see next icon). If its highlighted, it centers the map at your current location, otherwise the location is showed in the map, but you might have to scroll to see the location.
• Satellite Icon: This enables/disables the GPS function. So if you not use the GPS, switch off, to save the battery lifetime. Caution: If you switch off this icon, the logbook has of course also no valid GPS coordinate when an entry is written.

To make a more detailed entry to the logbook you use the Gauge Slider. This is the control with the icons below the map (at first startup). It is important to know, that there are not only those 3 icons which you see at first, but a few more, because you can scroll them to left and right. To show how it works, press now the second icon (that one with the sun and cloud). You see that the map is now away and you see what we call a gauge panel in the gauge area. In this example, this is the one responsible to define the Wind force and Swell. (Picture 3) Change any value here and then press the pencil icon from the toolbar. This writes the changes now to the logbook. Of course you can not only change one value, but as many values you want in the different gauge panels and write them to the logbook at once.

Now we go to the next tab in the TabBar, The Logbook. This one was empty before, but should now contain two entries. One for the Shortcut Start day trip and one for the later Wind/Swell change. (Picture 4) In addition to the cockpit functions we have here in this view also the possibility to add a text and a photo entry to the logbook and of course you can see the detail of each entry by clicking on the item itself. (Picture 5)

In the Toolbar of this view, you find therefore 4 icons:

• Pencil Icon: Add a text entry (memo, short info, details etc.) to the logbook.
• Camera Icon: Take a photo and add it to the logbook.
• Book icon: Create and email a pdf document which contains your logbook.
• Edit: Press to allow deletion of an entry (As you might now from other iApps).

This is what you first have to know to use SailAway in a short time. In the other chapters you find more detailed information’s about the details of all modules.

Keep also in mind, that this is only the first release of SailAway. We bring a lot of features in the next releases, to use the logbook entries for different scenarios and will start in Version 1.2 with the publish feature, which allows you to publish your logbook to the web.

Thanks for using SailAway and happy sailing!