One iOS app, four purpose-built sections — plus live following for friends and family ashore. Switch role in a tap.
Self-service from your own iPhone — sign on, share your session, request help, and head out with confidence.
One-tap sign on at the start of your session, one-tap sign off when you're back ashore. Your club always knows who's afloat.
Re-sign with a single tap using your previous fleet, sail number, crew, and contact details — no re-entering forms every launch.
Your session leader can drop a pin (slipway, clubhouse, beach access) so you know exactly where to meet before going on the water.
Request help with a categorised reason (broken boat, injury, person in water, aground, separated) — your GPS is sent automatically and the safety team gets a priority alert.
Flag Heading Ashore, On a Mothership, or Boat Abandoned so the safety team and beachmaster see what's actually happening, not just "afloat".
Once help is requested, you and the safety team get a private chat thread — exchange position updates and instructions while a rescue is underway.
Generate a unique spectator code and share it with friends and family — they can pin you in their app and follow your live position, speed, and status.
Optionally snap a quick photo when you tally on — a visual aid for the safety team if they ever need to spot you on the water.
The full Watch app: tally on/off, share live GPS at 5-second updates, request assistance, and follow your voyage live — independently of your iPhone using the watch's own GPS and cellular when available.
Going afloat alone? Pick a saved boat, choose your activity, set an expected return time, tap Go Afloat. Followers see you live; sessions auto-close after 12 hours so a forgotten tally-off doesn't linger.
Press volume up + down three times in rapid succession — even with your phone in a pocket or waterproof case — to trigger an assistance request. A confirm overlay prevents accidental triggers.
Practise the emergency workflow without spamming. Demo Mode triggers a real-looking assistance request that your safety team and spectators can engage with — but no public broadcast goes out.
Whenever you're tallied on, your status, time on water, and key alerts appear on your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. Glanceable — no need to unlock.
Realtime (5s updates), Live (30s), Snapshot (manual), or Assistance Only. Pick the right balance of fidelity and battery for the day's session.
Pair a Bluetooth chest strap (Garmin, Polar, Wahoo) and your live BPM and heart rate zone are shared with the safety team and your followers automatically.
External Bluetooth GPS receivers like Garmin GLO and Bad Elf work automatically — pair them in iOS Settings and you get higher-accuracy fixes everywhere in the app.
Live fleet awareness, instant priority alerts, and the tools to respond fast — purpose-built for safety boat crews.
Every signed-on sailor on a single map with live position, speed, and heading. See at a glance who's where and what they're doing.
From your safety boat's GPS, the app calculates live bearing and distance to every sailor — so you always know the heading to steer.
Assistance requests trigger an instant priority alert with the sailor's GPS, the reason category, and their contact number — everything you need to respond.
If a sailor drifts outside the club's defined sailing area, their pin turns red on the safety map — instantly visible without scanning every entry.
Open a private chat thread with the sailor in distress — confirm position, give instructions, and keep them calm while you're en route.
Snap photos straight from your device and attach them to the incident record — ready for debrief, insurance, or investigation.
For journey activities, follow the sailor's GPS breadcrumb trail in real time — perfect for long-distance voyages and remote support.
Sailors who are afloat at another club show up too — you'll never miss the fact that someone is signed on elsewhere when they tally on with you.
One tap to mark you're responding so the sailor sees a "Safety on way" banner. One tap to resolve the case when the situation is closed. Each step is timestamped to the audit log.
Four colour-coded badges at the top of the portal — Assistance Required (red), Abandoned Boats (orange), Geofence Breaches (amber), Being Assisted (blue). Tap any badge to jump straight to those sailors.
Search the afloat register by name, fleet, sail number, crew name or phone number — filtered as you type, so you can find any sailor in seconds.
Tap a sailor on the map to launch Apple Maps with directions to their live GPS. The destination updates as they move — no plotting routes by eye.
Tap any sailor for their phone, emergency contact name & phone, boat details, crew, and photo — call or message them directly from the detail sheet.
For clubs with WhatsApp enabled, send WhatsApp messages directly to sailors from their detail card — useful for sailors who aren't checking the app while on the water.
For informal sessions without a dedicated safety crew, sailors monitor each other — group assistance alerts go to everyone, and the whole group sees the afloat list.
The safety team lead can draw or edit the geofence boundary from the live map. Polygons or circular boundaries — every change is logged for audit.
Register your name and number when you sign on for duty; sign off when you leave. Other safety team members on duty are visible in the portal so handovers are clean.
Eyes on every sailor from the slipway — manage tallies on someone's behalf, post notices, and run a tidy beach.
A dedicated board listing every sailor who has flagged they're returning — so you know who to expect, when, and at which slipway.
Tally any sailor on or off on their behalf — essential for sailors without phones, for guests, or when connectivity is patchy on the water.
Post notices that appear on every active session screen — weather changes, course updates, safety briefings — and clear automatically at midnight.
Filter by fleet, by status, by event — see who's afloat, who's heading in, who's safely back, and who needs your attention.
Junior sailors are flagged on the board so you can give youth sessions extra eyes, especially when conditions change.
Every action is timestamped and exportable, so the beachmaster's day on duty is fully documented for review or compliance.
A live badge shows how many safety team members are currently on duty — so you know whether safety cover is in place before the fleet goes afloat.
The same live map as safety crew — afloat sailors with profile photos, assistance markers, abandoned boats, geofence boundary, meeting point. Switch between Standard, Satellite, and Nautical chart views.
Snap a photo from the camera or pick one from your library on any sailor's detail sheet — useful for identifying boats on the water during an incident.
Real-time totals for afloat, ashore today, assistance, heading ashore, on mothership, abandoned, and being assisted — plus a fleet-by-fleet breakdown card.
Register your name and mobile when you come on duty, and sign off cleanly when you hand over. Other beachmasters on duty are listed so cover is always visible.
Configure your club, run events, manage who can do what — all from one tab in the same app the rest of the club uses.
Create events with their own visitor codes, active dates, fleets, and pre-registration windows. Run multi-day regattas alongside normal club sailing.
Enable pre-registration so sailors sign up before the day, and attach a WhatsApp group link so members can join straight from the event page.
Pick from the global fleet registry — Lasers, RS Aeros, ILCAs, SUPs, sea kayaks and more — or submit a new class for review if yours isn't listed.
Generate a permanent club PIN for members and one-off visitor codes for events. Sailors paste either into a single field — the app figures out which is which.
Drop a pin on a full-screen map for the slipway, clubhouse, or wherever the group should meet. Members see it on the session home screen.
Draw your sailing area as a polygon or set a circular boundary. Every change is timestamped to a tamper-proof audit log.
Restrict when sailors can sign on (e.g. "no tally-on before 09:30") so the club isn't responsible for early-bird launches outside duty hours.
Upload your club logo and accent colour. Members and crew see your club's identity throughout the app, not generic Tally Tracker chrome.
Every tally, status change, geofence edit, and admin action is timestamped — for safety debriefs, insurance, RYA audits, and committee review.
Push briefings, weather warnings, course changes, and event timings to every active sailor's portal. Notices clear at midnight so yesterday's messages don't linger.
Control how your club appears in the public search — name, location pin, contact details, the activity types you offer, and whether you accept new visitors.
Sailors confirm your club's liability statement before tally-on. You set the wording once and it's recorded with each sign-on for compliance.
New clubs can sign up from the app — fill in name, activity types, location, and contact details. Approval by the Tally Tracker team gets you live with full access codes.
Lay courses, run countdowns, and let GPS detection do the line-spotting. Sold as the Race Officer Portal annual add-on on top of the TallyTracker subscription.
Place marks on the map by tapping. Set start and finish lines as two-point segments. Use templates for windward/leeward, triangle and trapezoid, and let gate marks auto-pair as you place them.
GPS breadcrumbs detect line crossings between actual line endpoints (not just proximity) and mark roundings within tolerance — results updated live on the leaderboard.
Real-time positions, lap progress, and speeds — visible to the race officer, organisers, and (optionally) sailors and spectators.
Group races into a series with cumulative scoring across the season — perfect for club racing programmes and multi-day regattas.
Single- and multi-boat playback at variable speed — invaluable for protests, debriefs, and coaching reviews after the day's racing.
A dedicated access code separate from sailor and safety codes — share it with race officers so they get the full Racing Module without elevated club permissions.
Spectators don't need a club account — just the app and a code, or a pinned sailor to follow.
The sailor generates a unique spectator code and shares it. Friends and family enter it in the app and start following — no account, no fuss.
Pin multiple sailors across multiple clubs into one home screen — see at a glance who's afloat, where, and how long they've been out.
When a sailor has enabled live location, you see their current position, speed in knots, and direction of travel — perfect for parents and partners.
Open a full-screen analysis with a speed-over-time chart and a colour-coded route map (blue = slow, green = medium, red = fast). Peak speed, average, total distance, and breadcrumb count at a glance.
Already following a sailor? Share that access with anyone else with a time-limited link — partner, grandparents, or the kids — without the sailor needing to share their code again.
Toggle Live Updates to get push notifications when the sailor tallies on, tallies off, changes status, or requests assistance — quiet by default, loud when it matters.
A timestamped timeline of the sailor's session — every event from sign-on to sign-off — so you can see the full story of their time on the water.
Sailors choose what spectators see — toggle heart rate, speed & route, battery level, GPS accuracy, and live map position individually. The safety team always sees everything.