

NOAA Buoy and Tide Data App for iPhone $1.99 A fun way get the family involved and to preserve the memories of your trip. You can use this for any type of trip log not just nautical. This app saves you lots of time and makes it easy to create your logs. All logs are dated and have the time stamped to them. The logs can also be named so you can easily find a trip log. The top of the screen displays the GPS accuracy so you can wait for the best signal before starting a new log. The email also has a link that goes to Google maps and shows your location. You can press a button that will take you to Google maps and it will show your location.

You can take a picture or pick from your albums. There is a live map that shows logged and current location. It also allows you to send the data with picture using email. Just press the weather button in the upper left corner after you create the log.

It also fills in all the weather, course and speed for you using the GPS and internet. ShipsLog allows you to quickly create logs with pictures and text. The practice of keeping a log book goes back hundreds of years to early explorers that kept logs and charts of new lands and waters. ShipLog App for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad $. Atlantic Yacht and Ship picked a few of our favorites to share with you. There are applications from the simple like the Ship Compass to the helpful Anchor Alert. There seems to be no end to the uses of iPhones and iPads on yachts these days.
