How to
How to plan a Sailing Trail
A Sailing Trail is a reusable sailing route: stops, distances, what to expect. Here is how to go from an idea to a route you can sail, share or load into your chartplotter.
1. Describe your trip
On Plan, write what you have in mind in plain words: where, how long, who is aboard, how ambitious. First Mait, our planning assistant, drafts a route with stops, distances and notes. You can generate a couple of trails without an account; signing in raises the daily limit.
Prefer to start from scratch? Choose Build a trail manually and add stops yourself on the map.
2. Edit it on the map
The draft opens in the trail workbench. Drag stops, reorder or delete them from the list, add new ones by clicking the map, and fix names and nights. Stops whose position hasn't been checked are marked in amber, so you know which ones to verify. Roundtrip? Use Close the loop to return to the start. You can also import a GPX track.
Routes are drawn through water, but they are a planning aid: always check them against official charts before you sail.
3. Save, publish, share
Saving needs a free account. A saved trail is a private draft. When it has at least two stops and you are happy with it, publish it: it gets a short, memorable link such as sailed.at/sleepy-lagoon that anyone can open.
4. Take it with you
Export a trail as GPX, KML or CSV to load into your navigation app or a spreadsheet, or as a full-data file you can re-import to sailed.at. sailed.at is where you plan; it is not a navigation instrument.
5. Find routes other sailors made
Explore lists community sailing trails by region, length and difficulty, on a list or a map. Rate a trail you have sailed. The Safety at sea guides and the Galley cookbook are open to everyone.
Planning a trip with a crew?
Voyages (crew briefings, shared packing lists, cabins, a shared kitty) are in a private beta. Want in? Email humans [at] sailed.at.