Frequently asked questions

sailingwego is where crews plan, manage, and coordinate sailing trips. Plan a voyage leg by leg on a shared map, invite your crew, check the weather and tides, and keep the float plan, tracking links, documents, and shared expenses in one place. As you sail, each leg becomes a voyage log, with photos, route, and the miles everyone aboard earns.

Open My trips and choose New trip. Give it a title and dates, then add route legs, each with a departure, an arrival, an estimated distance, and a date. Turn on leg chaining to build a day-by-day route where each leg starts where the last one ended. Your legs plot onto a shared map with a day scrubber, and you can invite crew and assign them to legs.

A trip is the plan and the container: the planned route, the crew, the weather, the float plan, and the story. A log is a single voyage you actually sailed, with its distance in nautical miles. You plan a trip out of legs before you leave, then log each leg as you sail it: the logged voyages roll up into the trip and count toward everyone’s miles.

There are no passwords. Enter your email and we send you a one-time magic link. Click it and you are signed in. The link is single-use and expires shortly after it is sent, so request a fresh one if it has been a while.

Trips are public by default, so anyone (including signed-out visitors) can see the plan: the itinerary, the planned route legs, the map, and the day-by-day scrubber. Some parts stay with the crew only, no matter the trip’s privacy: the float plan, the document locker, shared expenses, and the plan discussion. Set a trip to Friends-only or Private to limit who can see it at all.

Invite crew to the trip and assign them to the legs they are sailing. Everyone on the crew shares one plan-discussion thread to sort out provisioning, watches, and weather windows. The crew also share a float plan to leave with someone ashore, a document locker for charts and clearances, and a ledger that splits the trip’s costs fairly.

Every trip has a crew-only expense ledger. Log who paid for what, then split each expense however it actually shook out: equally, by exact amounts, by shares or percentages, with per-person adjustments, or by itemizing a receipt line by line. sailingwego keeps a running balance for everyone and, when it is time to square up, works out the fewest payments that settle the whole crew. Each suggested payment can open a Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle link pre-filled with the amount, and anyone can export the full ledger to CSV.

Yes. Record each cost in whatever currency you actually spent, and balances stay per-currency by default so nothing is silently converted. If you would rather see one number, the trip captain can set a base currency: sailingwego then captures a live exchange rate as each expense is added (editable if you prefer your own) and nets everything into a single base-currency balance and settle-up plan.

Each log records the distance of the voyage in nautical miles. That distance counts toward the total on your profile, and, because crew co-own a log, toward the total of everyone who was aboard. Your profile keeps a running cached total of the miles you have logged.

When you tag someone as crew on a log, that voyage appears on their profile too and they earn its nautical miles, not just the person who wrote it. Tag only people who were genuinely aboard. Anyone tagged can remove themselves from a log at any time.

Every log has a privacy setting: Public (anyone, including signed-out visitors and search engines), Friends-only (people you are friends with), or Private (just you and your crew). You can also set your overall profile visibility. Change a log’s privacy any time from its edit page.

Open your account settings, scroll to the Danger zone, and choose Delete account (you’ll type your username to confirm). Your account is frozen right away and permanently deleted after a 30-day grace period — sign back in within 30 days to cancel. When it’s deleted, your profile, boats, photos, comments, likes, follows, and friendships are removed. Trips and logs you created that still have other crew are handed to a crewmate (your captaincy is kept on record); ones with no other crew are deleted. Logs you were only crew on stay with the people who were aboard.