What it is
A track is a breadcrumb recording of where your boat has actually been. SeaVectors records your path and captures its distance, duration, and point count, with color‑coding and on‑map replay.
Want to record your next passage and keep a useful track for review and future planning?
The 30-day free trial includes the complete experience, so you can evaluate SeaVectors with your own routes and equipment before deciding whether to subscribe.
- Download SeaVectors on the App Store
- Get SeaVectors on Google Play
- Not ready to install? Open the lightweight web chart for a quick preview.
Why it matters on the water
Tracks are your logbook and your safe‑water memory. A recorded track through a tricky entrance is a proven path you can follow back out. Over time your tracks become a personal chart of the routes and spots that worked.
How to record a track
- Start track recording (from the map controls or the My Data hub).
- SeaVectors lays down your path as you move, tallying distance, duration, and points live.
- Stop recording when you're done; the track is saved to My Data.
- Open a saved track to see its stats, its color, and to replay it on the chart.
What a track captures
- The path — your actual course over ground, drawn on the chart.
- Distance — total distance traveled.
- Duration — how long the recording ran.
- Points — number of recorded fixes (density of the breadcrumb).
- Color — color‑coding so multiple tracks stay distinguishable.
- Overview image — a thumbnail of the track's shape for quick recognition in the list.
How to use tracks
- Follow one back — replay a saved track to retrace a known‑safe path (e.g. back out of a shoal‑strewn anchorage).
- Review a trip — check distance/duration after a passage.
- Keep a log — your tracks accumulate as a personal record in My Data.
- Manage (rename, recolor, delete, replay) from the My Data hub (module 14).
Tips
- Start recording as you leave and stop when you're secured, so the whole passage is captured.
- In an unfamiliar gunkhole, record the way in so you have a proven line back out.
- Sign in (module 01) so tracks sync and survive a device change.
- Long trips make many points — that's normal; the stats summarize them.
Troubleshooting
- Track has gaps → GPS dropouts (poor sky view, backgrounded app under aggressive power saving). Keep location permission and, for long recordings, keep the app active/foregrounded as needed.
- No track saved → Recording may not have been started, or was discarded; start it explicitly and confirm the "recording" state.
- Track not on another device → You're not signed in / it hasn't synced; sign in on both devices.