§Ship's Log
New tools, better ones and fixes, newest first. Big updates also show in the app the next time you open it, so you never miss what changed while you were at sea.
Each port in the Ports tool now has a Tips tab: short tips from crews who called there, with an AI summary on top once a port has three or more.
The new Ports tool shows where the pilot boards, the local time, water density, load line zone, max draft per terminal, reporting and inspections for about 3,000 ports.
In Security, tap Read the guide: the whole piracy map guide, with the latest incidents, opens over the chart beside your Security panel. Close it and you are back where you were.
Open a tool from More and it takes More's place on the bar, lit, so you always see where you are. Choose your own bar in Settings, under Defaults.
Every DSC coast station now shows the last time it answered a ship's test call (Last ACK), so you know who is listening before you call.
GIS and list exports now carry the route's written summary and the names of the areas it crosses.
If a NAVAREA source sends an empty page or an older copy, you keep the warnings you already had.
The map engine has a security fix, and the chart still opens as fast as before.
Click a DSC coast station to see which band it answers on, hour by hour, and the best time to make a test call. Copy its frequency and MMSI in one tap.
Type "japan" or "phili" in a port field and every port in that country is listed under the usual matches, biggest first.
Ask Boss for a port that isn't in the list: it matches the name more carefully, asks before it guesses, and can pin the place it found on the chart.
24 older port records that sat in the wrong place are now at their real positions.
Try it in NaviBossBoss now answers on the website's pages too, not only in the planner. Free accounts get 30 questions a day.
The planner on your Windows PC, with no internet needed on board. It comes with the 6-month plan (2 PCs) and the 1-year plan (4 PCs).
Ports far from the sea lanes now sit where they really are, and the planner says how far short of the port the sea route ends.
Warnings a long way from your route no longer show as on your route.
Try it in NaviBossThe chart starts with less work and fewer freezes, and the app keeps its own files on your device, so the next visit opens sooner.
Text and badges in the day theme have stronger contrast.
Press Edit waypoints on a voyage to move, add or delete points. The distance and ETA follow every change.
Positions in a warning's text are links to that spot on the chart, and a warning you click on the chart lights up in the list.
Try it in NaviBossThe Warnings tool lists every warning in an area, newest first, with one area open at a time.
Try it in NaviBossMake a report of the NAVAREA warnings on your route, or of the whole voyage, as a PDF or a Word file. One report a month is free.
One button writes your route for your ECDIS or chartplotter, with the entry and exit points of ECAs and high-risk areas already added.
Export the NAVAREA warnings and zones on your route as user charts your ECDIS can load, in 13 formats including Furuno, JRC, Transas and Sperry.
Free accounts can export one route and three user charts a month.
Try it in NaviBossAsk Boss in plain words from the chat button. It can plan a route in the planner, open a tool, show the NAVAREA warnings for a place and export your route.
Save a voyage to your account and open it again on any phone or computer you sign in on.
Try it in NaviBossSwitch Departure or Arrival to Coordinates, then type a position or pick it on the chart.
Try it in NaviBossOn a phone every tool gets its own screen, with a bar at the bottom to move between them.
Recent piracy and maritime security incidents on one map anyone can open, kept up to date.
Open the mapEvery tool's layers in one grid, with an On chart switch for each tool.
Warnings, Security, Environment, Weather, ADPs and DSC each have their own pane, one tap away down the left side.
See recent maritime security incidents near your route in the Security tool.
Make a free account with your email or your Google account. Your trial stays with the account.
Pull the route line to add a waypoint: the new route and its distance show while you drag, with no out-and-back spike.
The Share button copies a short link that is easy to paste into a message.
Live navigational warnings from all 21 NAVAREAs on the chart, with the ones near your route listed first. You choose how near counts: 50 nm unless you change it.
Planned routes keep to the correct lane of IMO traffic separation schemes, and the Ships' Routeing measures are drawn on the chart.
Pilot boarding positions, NAVTEX stations with their ranges, and DSC coast stations coloured by how often they answer a test call.
A Feedback tab on the edge of the chart lets you post an idea or vote for someone else's.
The 21 GMDSS navigational warning areas, drawn on the chart.
Port search lists the terminals and berths inside a port, and the port card shows them.
Try it in NaviBossSee which ADMIRALTY publications cover an area, and the world's time zones with each country's flag.
Try it in NaviBossFuruno, JRC, Kongsberg, Transas, Raytheon and more, each written the way that unit expects.
Post ideas, vote for other people's, and see what is planned next.
Open the boardSubscribe by card from inside the app, and export routes as RTZ, GPX, Furuno route lists, ASCII and CSV.
Privacy and terms pages written from what the code does, and a cookie banner that holds back every tracker until you say yes.
Pay in pesos by GCash or bank transfer. Payments are checked by hand, usually within 24 hours.
Export any route as GPX for handheld and consumer chartplotters, and show major navigational lights on the chart.
Sign-in emails carry a short link that fits on one line. Write to [email protected] and a person answers.
Routing, overlays, chokepoints, playback and share links keep working on the free plan after your trial.
A sheet you drag up and down puts the planner on a phone screen.
The product has its name and its own address. Saved voyages, settings and your trial carried over.
Enter your ship's draft and size in Settings: the planner warns where charted depth looks shallow, and rough-weather warnings follow your vessel's size.
Choose units, coordinate format and defaults in Settings, and a reload keeps the voyages you were working on.
Weather at ETA: the forecast at each waypoint for the time your vessel is actually there, with rough-weather warnings for your vessel's size.
See the month's ocean currents on the chart, and switch on Optimize for currents to plan the fastest track through them.
Show the world's time zones and the load line zones on the chart.
Emission control areas, MARPOL special areas, particularly sensitive sea areas and piracy high-risk areas on the chart, each with its legal reference.
Watch a ship sail your route against the clock, with the night stretches shaded, on a globe or a flat chart.
Send a link and the other person sees your voyage as you planned it.
Try it in NaviBossEach plan becomes a card, so you can compare routes with different passages avoided.
Try it in NaviBoss