Sailing Log: Anchorages

Your own pilot book: log depth, holding and wind shelter for every anchorage, then let Anchor rank your spots for tonight's wind. Offline, private, no account.

Every anchorage you ever drop the hook in, remembered the way a sailor remembers it: how deep it was, what the bottom was made of, and which wind it hid you from. Anchor is your personal pilot book — a logbook built around the berth, not the mileage.

Crowd-sourced anchorage apps tell you what a stranger thought last summer. Anchor keeps what YOU learned: the depth you swung in, the ground your anchor bit into, the quarter the swell came round when the breeze backed at 3 a.m. Log it once and the next time a front is forecast, the Shelter Finder ranks your saved anchorages by how well they cover that wind — so you make port already knowing where to drop.

WHAT YOU GET • Never forget a good berth: each anchorage keeps depth, bottom type, a four-quarter wind-protection rating and your own helmsman's notes • Pick tonight's anchorage in seconds: choose the direction the wind is blowing from and see your best-sheltered spots ranked first • Sort your pilot book by name, depth, shelter or holding to answer the question you actually have at the chart table • Read the honest holding reference for sand, mud, rock, grass and weed, with the right anchor and scope for each before you commit • Plan a whole cruise as a list of stops, pin a saved anchorage to every stop and reorder the route as the weather changes • Note a position in degrees and minutes on the spot, then see your logbook grow into cruising grounds, average depth and firm-ground stats

PERFECT FOR • Cruising sailors who return to the same coasts season after season and want their own notes, not a forum's • Charter skippers building a personal reference for the Balearics, the Adriatic, Brittany or the islands • Bluewater crews who need a working notebook that behaves exactly the same with no signal at all • Anyone who has ever dragged at night and sworn to write down what the bottom was like

WHY NOT JUST A NOTES APP OR A CHART PLOTTER? A notes app has no idea what "holding" means and cannot rank your spots by wind. A chart plotter shows you where an anchorage is, not whether it held for you in a westerly. Anchor sits between them: structured fields a sailor cares about, opinions that are only ever your own, and a trip planner that turns those spots into a passage.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. Your anchorages and passages are yours alone, and the whole app works fully offline, mid-ocean included.

FULL ACCESS Anchor is a paid app unlocked by subscription. Choose a weekly or a yearly plan; both include unlimited anchorages with full notes, wind-protection ratings for every berth, the multi-stop trip planner with anchorage assignments and the complete offline holding reference. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and are managed in your Apple ID settings.

Log the anchorage you are lying in right now and let your pilot book begin.

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