I have always liked the fact that sailing leaves traces. A boat, a route, the people on board, the role you had, the miles you sailed and the places you reached — every trip becomes part of your own sailing story.
The problem is that the story is surprisingly easy to lose.
After a few years, voyages are spread across paper logbooks, charter documents, old emails, photographs and personal notes. You still remember the trip, but the details become harder to reconstruct. Which yacht was it? How many nautical miles did we sail? Who was in the crew? Was I skipper? Where exactly did we go?
I wanted one continuous sailing history.
That was the starting point for SeaMiles. I wanted a place where every voyage could be recorded once and then remain part of a permanent sailing history.
A trip in SeaMiles is more than a line in a logbook. It connects the yacht, route, distance, crew and onboard roles. Crew members can later connect their own SeaMiles accounts without changing the historical record of the voyage.
Skipper is skipper.
One principle became increasingly important while building SeaMiles: the facts of a voyage should stay facts. A trip has a skipper. That skipper can have a SeaMiles account — or not. If the person is connected to an account, SeaMiles can use that relationship for a personal sailing record or skipper certificate. If not, the voyage remains just as valid.
The same idea applies to crew. Historical names and roles should not suddenly change because somebody edits their account years later. SeaMiles keeps the historical trip record stable while still allowing people to connect their own identity to it.
Built for the long term.
My goal is not simply to build another trip tracker. SeaMiles should become the place where a sailor's experience accumulates over years: voyages, nautical miles, boats, cruising areas, crew roles and skipper experience.
It should work for the weekend sailor who wants to remember every voyage, for charter crews sailing together year after year, and for skippers who want a structured record of their experience.
There is still a lot I want to add. But the basic idea will remain the same:
That is why I built SeaMiles.