Orca gives you two ways of viewing your past trips:
Historical Line – shows you up to the last 48 hours of navigation in the map.
Logbook – A complete log of your past trips, including data from your boat network. Logbook is viewed via Main Menu > Logbook
Historical Line is designed as an in-the-moment navigation aid, while Logbook is designed as a long-term log of your trips at sea.
What is Historical Line?
Historical Line shows you exactly where your boat has been. It runs on your Orca Core and leverages the Core’s high-accuracy GPS and advanced motion detection to create a precise track of your boat’s movement.
Historical Line will show your past track as a grey line on the map. If you stop, it will create a circle to indicate the stop.
You control your Historical Line via Control Center > Historical Line. Historical line gives you the option to select between 3, 6, 24, and 48 hours of track. You can also reset it to show the line "from now".
Historical Line synchronizes between all your devices via the Core or via the Orca Cloud.
What is Logbook?
Logbook collects data about your boat and devices connected to your Core via your NMEA network.
The data is uploaded to the Orca cloud when your phone, tablet, Orca Core, or Orca Display has an internet connection – where the data gets processed to give you detailed insights into your boating trips.
When does Logbook record a trip?
Your Core will collect trip information automatically. The Core will begin when it has moved approximately 50 meters. The Core will continue to record until it becomes stationary. A trip must be more than 0.6 Nautical Miles before it will be shown in the logbook.
How do I view Logbook?
Orca Core owners can access the Logbook via the Main Menu. From here, you get an overview of your most recent trip.
To view older trips, tap one of the arrows in the time selector at the bottom of the screen. You can also tap on the date at the center of the time selector to view all your past trips and select the one you want to view.
Logbook will show you detailed data about your navigation, sailing performance, wind, and tides depending on which sensors are available on your boat. To view more details about a topic, tap on it.
The details will show a graph of the topic along with average and max values – letting you understand the development of a particular metric throughout your trip.
How do I download my trips?
Orca Core owners can export their recorded trips in GPX format. To download trips, open Main Menu > Logbook and select the day of the trip you want to export. Click on the three dots and select Export GPX. The Orca App will generate a GPX file that you can save or share with other apps.
I am missing trips in the Logbook, what do I do?
There are several reasons why your trip may not appear in your Logbook.
For your Orca Core to record Logbook data, it must either have a GPS fix from its own receiver or access to the Internet via WiFi or Ethernet in addition to a GPS fix via NMEA 2000. You can validate that your Core has a GPS fix or internet access via Main Menu > My Boat.
Past trips must be Synced from the Orca Core to the Orca Cloud to appear in your Orca App and Orca Display. To transfer the trips, use a device with a cellular internet connection, open Main Menu > Logbook, and press Start Sync.
To view Logbook data older than 7 days, you need a Smart Navigation subscription. Read more about the differences between subscriptions in this article.