Sereno Routing guide

How to plan a passage with Sereno Routing, on the web, the Android app and the iPhone app.

Sereno Routing plans a sailing passage on the latest weather forecasts. You give it a start, a finish and a departure time. It sails your boat's polar through the forecast, around land, reef and shallow water, and gives you the route, the conditions along it and a PDF to keep.

Two ways to use it

Settings has a choice between two ways of working, and you can switch at any time:

• Routing only: the map, your routes and their reports. New accounts start here. It works like any other routing program, and the Quick start is all you need.
• Routing and planning: everything above, plus the planner, which screens several departure days on the weather ensembles, watches the trip and then the day you pick, and builds a passage brief. See Planning a passage.

Contents

1. 1Quick start: just route it

   Sign in, place a start and finish, run it, read it, get the PDF. One page.

2. 2Setup

   Your membership, signing in, the Android and iPhone apps, and the settings that describe your boat.

   • Your membership
   • Signing in on the web
   • iPhone and iPad
   • The Android app
   • Routing only, or Routing and planning
   • Settings: Boat
   • The motor and sailing angles
   • Settings: Polar
3. 3Routing in depth

   Everything the New route form can do, and what to do when a route doesn't come out cleanly.

   • Choosing and comparing models
   • Departure time
   • The route's options
   • Waypoints
   • Avoid areas
   • Edit, move and run again
   • The start and finish check
   • Automatic fixes
   • Partial routes
   • Flagged routes
   • Wind and wave limits
   • Past the forecast
   • Ocean current
   • Depth warnings
   • Storm and disturbance notes
4. 4Reading a route

   The map, the slider and layers, storms and upper air disturbances, the boat and point boxes, the Data tabs and comfort.

   • The routes list
   • The route on the map
   • Weather layers
   • Storms and upper air disturbances
   • The boat box
   • Weather at a point
   • The Data tabs
   • Comfort ratings
5. 5Reports

   The route PDF, CSV and GPX, and the passage brief.

6. 6Planning a passage

   Optional. Trips, departure days and their verdicts, watching a trip and then a day, and the brief.

   • Turning on planning
   • Making a trip
   • The day cards and verdicts
   • Long passages: forecast, then climatology
   • One day: route it, watch it, brief it
   • Watch departures from a route
   • Storms and disturbances on a day
   • Watching
   • Stage 1: watching the trip
   • Stage 2: watching the chosen day
   • Passage watch notifications on the Android app
7. 7Understanding the results

   Models and runs, ensembles, polars, comfort, current, depth data, storms and upper air disturbances, and what the messages mean.

   • Weather models and runs
   • Ensembles and spread
   • Polars
   • Comfort
   • Current
   • Depth, reef and land data
   • Storms and upper air disturbances
   • What the messages mean
   • The Saillogger card

The whole guide is also a PDF to print or keep on a tablet.

Sereno is built and tested aboard S/V Sabado. Questions go to Ray, who gave you your token.