Help & User Guide
Everything you need to know to plan a UK coastal passage with this app — accounts, the chart planner, waypoints, weather, tides, buoyage, GPX import and export, data sources and safety guidance.
- Getting started — a 60-second overview of the planning workflow.
- Install as an App — add Passage Planner to your phone or tablet home screen.
- Account & sign-in — registration, login, password changes, and account deletion.
- Route planner — dropping waypoints on the chart and reordering them.
- Waypoints — renaming, notes for hazards and VHF channels, and the right-click context menu.
- Weather — wind, gust and wave forecast from Open-Meteo Marine pinned to your departure time.
- Tides — automatic ADMIRALTY tide state and link-out to ADMIRALTY EasyTide.
- Buoyage reference — IALA Region A lateral, cardinal, isolated danger and safe water marks.
- GPX import & export — Navionics, OpenCPN, Garmin chart plotter compatibility.
- Vessels and unit preferences — speed, fuel, distance and depth units.
- Printable passage plan — chart-table-friendly A4 document with waypoint table.
- Data sources and safety — what the app uses, and why it isn't a substitute for official charts.