Afloat Plan Home vs SailboatData Usage & Stats
Afloat Plan Home for anyone who boats, kayaks, canoes, jet skis, or paddles
Purpose: To submit a plan while recreating on the water. Let others know you arrived home safely. Have someone search for you if you don’t come back.
Submit via text message all the details of your planned water sports activity. Choose 5 contacts to receive a description of your boat, kayak, jet ski, paddleboard, or canoe.
Setting up the app is easy, and you only do it once.
• Enter your name, address, phone number, and contact information.
• Complete the description of your watercraft—hull numbers, registration, size, and colors.
• List your emergency contacts so they are contacted if you are late and do not end your trip.
File a float plan in just a few easy steps. Type in your starting location, what your destination is, and what the arrival or return time are. When you push submit, it sends a description of your watercraft, with your starting location and a Google map link, to your contacts.
During the course of your activity, your location will be captured every 10 minutes and stored in the cloud. The app continues to acquire your GPS location via satellite and track your trip even when you are out of LTE range. When you are out of range, trip location data is archived locally on your smartphone or tablet. As soon as you reenter LTE range, your offline trip locations are synchronized with the cloud.
In the event you don’t end your trip at the scheduled time, the app will send a notification for you to end your trip. After 15 minutes, it will remind you again to end your trip. If after 30 minutes you have not ended the trip, the app will send your trip map to your contacts with route information and your last known location.
If you have a Sirius Signal model C-1002 SOS eVDSD, you can test and turn on your signal remotely. The app also shows the light’s battery status.
The app also includes an offline interactive looped audio first aid treatment guide for common on-water emergencies.
- Apple App Store
- Free
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The world’s most recognized database for production sailboat specifications.
This is the must-have app for those looking to purchase a sailboat as well as for DIYers, sailmakers, yacht brokers, marinas, riggers, and all other marine professionals.
Unlike our website, the app allows access to our database without the need for an internet connection.
After downloading, you can experience the full app functionality for the first 2 hours. After that, continue on with the free basic version or subscribe to keep full access. This costs as little as a good coffee (for a yearly subscription, our cheapest option) and supports us adding more useful features and extend the database.
The current features include:
• Scrollable list containing all over 9,000 sailboat models.
• Scrollable lists with all designers, builders, and associations.
• The scrollable lists have an alphabetic index for quick access.
• Each list has a name search bar which updates the list as you type.
• Ability to select sailboats, designers, builders, and associations as your favorite.
• Toggle button to quickly switch between showing all or only your favorites.
• Ability to add your personal remarks for each sailboat model.
• Favorites and remarks are shared between all your devices using Apple iCloud.
• Refined search by LOA, LWL, Hull type, Keel type, Displacement, Beam, Draft, Rig type, Years Built and all our Ratios.
• Ability to sort the refined search results on any of the search parameters.
• Settings to personalize displayed units and other features.
As you scroll through the sailboat list and look at sailboat and designer details, the corresponding images are downloaded via internet. Once an image has been downloaded it is stored on your device; the maximum storage used is about 500MB.
- Apple App Store
- Free
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Afloat Plan Home VS. 
SailboatDataDecember 26, 2024