how to use steigr

• Marinas

  Every marina in the Netherlands as a dot; the lighter blue dots fly the Blue Flag. Tap a marina for its address and website, and open its page for the facilities.

• Buoys & beacons

  The fixed and floating navigation marks, from the inland waterways to the North Sea. Zoom in and tap a mark for its name, shape, colour, topmark and light.

• Sea chart

  The OpenSeaMap overlay with seamarks, lights, leading lines and harbour details. Useful next to the buoy layer in a harbour approach, and just across the border.

• Bridges & locks

  Orange bridges open, grey ones are fixed, green squares are locks. Tap one for the clearance height and width, the VHF channel, the telephone number and today's operating times.

• Tides

  The tide gauges with the water level of this moment. Tap a gauge for the tide curve, six hours back and a day ahead, with the next high and low water.

• Wind

  Arrows that point the way the wind blows, with the speed in knots. Tap an arrow for the gusts, the Beaufort force and the forecast for the next twelve hours.

• My position

  The arrow button puts your boat on the map and keeps it in the middle. You see your speed over ground in knots, your course and your position in degrees and minutes. Drag the map to look around, and tap the button to return to the boat.

• Large map and full screen

  The expand button lets the map fill the screen below the top bar, so the other pages stay within reach. The full-screen button also hides the browser, where the device allows it. The screen stays awake for as long as the map is large.

• Night mode

  A dark, red-tinted map that keeps your eyes used to the dark.

• Weather at a marina

  Every marina page shows the wind, the gusts and a short forecast for that spot, from Open-Meteo. Look before you cast off, or before you choose the harbour for tonight.

• Share a view

  The address in the browser follows the map: place, zoom level and layers. Copy it to send someone exactly what you are looking at, or bookmark your home waters.

• A trip on the map

  Pick one of your trips and the main map zooms to it: the route, the stops and the next stop marked. Under way, this is the view to sail by, with your own position on top. Needs an account.

• Favourites

  Tap the heart on a marina to save it. Your favourites page lists them, and the news page follows them.

• Private notes

  Write down on a marina page what you want to remember next time: the berth, the harbour master's hours, where the bakery is. Only you can read them.

• Reviews and photos

  Read what other skippers found, give a rating yourself and add a photo. A review is public under the name you choose; your email address never is.

• My boat

  Enter the length, beam, draught and air draught of your boat. A marina that says it is too small for it warns you on its page, and on a Pro route every bridge and shallow stretch is checked against it.

• News from your marinas

  Harbour news, notices from Rijkswaterstaat and the municipalities, changed details and new reviews of the marinas you saved, in one feed. A dot on your initial in the header tells you there is something new.

• Plan a trip

  Add marinas as stops, in the order you sail them. Each leg shows its distance as a straight line; drag a leg to bend it around a shoal or through the right channel. The map layers stay available while you plan.

• Share by link or mail

  Switch sharing on and anyone with the link sees the stops and the route, also without an account. Send the link by email from the trip itself. Switching sharing off ends the link.

• Logbook

  At the end of a day on the water Steigr offers to add it to the logbook: route, distance and boat are filled in, you add the rest. The season overview with statistics, the map of the year and a printable logbook comes with Pro.

• Routing over the waterwaysPro

  Legs follow the fairways and channels instead of a straight line, with the distance you will actually sail. Bridges, locks, depth and tide along the route are checked against your boat, and what does not fit is marked on the map and per leg.

• GPX exportPro

  Download a trip as a GPX file and load it into your chartplotter or navigation app.

• CrewPro

  Invite your crew by link or by email, and choose who may change the trip and who may only look at it. Crew need a free account; only the owner of the trip needs Pro.

See Free and Pro side by side

Planning at home

Make a trip of the marinas you want to visit and look at the legs. Switch on bridges & locks along the way and compare the fixed bridges with your air draught; with Pro the route does this for every bridge, lock and shallow on the way.

A berth for tonight

Tap Near me, filter on what you need, such as a fuel station, showers or a pump-out station, and pick a marina within reach. With your boat on your account, a marina that is too short or too shallow for it says so before you call.

Waiting for a bridge

See under way whether the next bridge is served at this hour, and call it on the right VHF channel without reaching for the almanac.

Tidal waters

On the Wadden Sea and in Zeeland: check when high water falls at the nearest gauge, and how the measured level compares with the prediction, before you cross a shallow or enter a harbour that dries out.

Go or stay

Look at the weather on the page of the marina you are in, and at the wind and the gusts along your route for the coming twelve hours. Compare open water with the sheltered side.

Arriving in the dark

Night mode, the large map and your own position together: the lights and buoys of the approach with your boat among them, on a screen that does not blind you.

Sailing with others

Share the trip with the other boats, or invite your crew so they plan along. Under way, send the link of the view in front of you; they open the same map, with the same layers.

After the season

The logbook kept the days; the season overview adds them up: distance, nights aboard, marinas visited, where you sailed. Print it or save it as PDF.

Language

When you change the language, a cookie remembers your choice.

Theme and map settings

Light or dark, the map layers you switched on, night mode, and whether you have seen the cookie notice and the tour. These stay in your browser and are not sent to us.

Your position

Used in your browser to follow your boat and to sort marinas by distance. We do not store it. With Near me the position becomes part of the address of the page, so a link you share then shows where you searched from.

Your account

An account is optional. With one we store your email address, the name you choose, and what you save: favourites, trips, notes, your logbook, your boat and its photo, the crew of your trips, and whether you are on the Pro waitlist. Only you can see your notes, your boat and your logbook; a trip is seen by the crew you invite. Logging in sets cookies that keep you logged in. The data is kept at Supabase, in the EU. You delete your account, and everything with it, on the Account page.

Reviews

A review is public, with the name you choose and never with your email address. Photos are saved again in your browser before upload, without location and camera details. Only the admins see a report on a review. If you delete your account, you choose whether your reviews go too or stay up anonymously.

Shared trips

When you share a trip, anyone with the link sees its name, date, stops and your notes on them, but not who you are. Switching sharing off ends the link. If you send the link by email, Steigr sends one email to that address with the link and your name, through our mail service Resend. We do not keep the address.

Crew on a trip

Crew you invite see the trip, its stops, notes and route, and your name as its owner; you see their names. An invitation by email goes once to that address with the link and your name, through our mail service Resend. The address is kept with the invitation, which expires after 7 days.

News from your marinas

The news page shows items of the last 90 days for the marinas you saved. When you last looked at it is kept with your account, so the header can show how many items are new.

Suggesting a correction

When you suggest a correction for a marina, we receive your message and your email address. We use the address to confirm your report and to ask a question about it if needed, and for nothing else.

Forms protected by Cloudflare

Logging in, creating an account, asking for a new password, reviews, reports, the correction form and the verification for harbour masters are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, against forms sent by scripts. For that, Cloudflare sees your IP address and some details of your browser; it sets no tracking cookies and does not use them for advertising.

Marina contact details

The address, phone number and email address on a marina page are the marina's public contact details. Is your private email address or phone number on a marina page? Email hello@steigr.app and we will remove it.

Google Analytics

Only when you choose Allow statistics: Google Analytics counts page visits and places cookies for that. We send the page you open, not the search, the map view or your position. Advertising features are switched off. You change your choice with Cookies and privacy at the bottom of every page.

Visit counts with Umami

Umami counts page visits without cookies and without storing your IP address, so it needs no permission. It sees the page you open, the site you came from and your country, not the search, the map view or your position.

Google Maps

The map comes from Google. Google receives your IP address and may place its own cookies, under the privacy policy of Google.

Other sources

Your browser fetches the wind, the buoys and the sea chart from external services. These services see your IP address and the part of the map you are looking at. The weather on a marina page is fetched by Steigr's own server from Open-Meteo, which then does not see your address.

What we do not do

No advertising networks, no profiles, and no Google Analytics without your permission.