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▾ Search for a location by name.

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▸ Search for tide or current values.

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▸ Search for YourCoast features.

Show only the YourCoast points which match all of your Yes or No selections below . Features marked '-' are ignored.

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▸ List of Chart on Every Deck charts.

Transparent rectangles on the map indicate nautical charts which are available for download as PDFs. Click on any rectangle to bring up its download chart and open in browser buttons.

Click a chart name in the list below to see its rectangle on the map, complete with its download buttons.

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Don't see the chart you want? You can print custom charts at FloatingTrails.com .

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▸ GPS file download.

Download all of the Trip Planner put-ins (), destinations (), and restricted areas () as a single .kmz file.

Download KMZ file

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Track Measurements

	Distance in miles kilometers nautical miles	Course magnetic true
Full Path
Segment

Path	Latitude, Longitude in decimal degrees deg° min' sec"	Magnetic Correction
From
To
Start Over   Show Info (I)

Add a point to the track
Add my location

Measuring distance along a track

Follow the instructions below to draw a track on the map. The distance along the track, the coordinates of the endpoints, and the compass direction between the endpoints will appear in the table above as you draw.

Note: If your system does not have a hardware keyboard, some of the instructions below refer to keystrokes like Shift, Delete/Backspace, etc. which are not available to you. In most cases we describe an equivalent gesture which doesn't require a keyboard.

Start drawing by clicking anywhere on the map. If you're using a mouse or trackpad, a rubber-band line will follow the cursor as you draw. The "from" end of the line is indicated by a large dot, and the "to" end is indidated by an arrowhead. Tickmarks along the track are spaced every mile, kilometer, or nautical mile, as selected in the table above.

• Click to add another point.
• To delete the last point while you're drawing, either type Delete/Backspace, or click the symbol, which indicates the point to be deleted.
• To trace a curved path, either click and hold until a translucent red circle appears around the cursor, or hold down the Shift key. Whenever the red circle is visible, points will automatically be added to the path as you move the cursor. To delete points, trace backwards over the symbol.
• To finish the track, either double-click the final point, or type Enter/Return.
• To finish the track without adding the current rubber-band segment, type Escape.

Once you've finished drawing the track, the rubber-band line disappears. You'll see solid white circles at all the bends, and translucent white circles between them.

• To refine the track, drag any of the white circles. Dragging a solid white circle repositions an existing bend or endpoint. Dragging a translucent white circle creates a new bend.
• To extend the track without moving any of the existing bends, drag either endpoint a short distance, release, and continue drawing. You may combine this with click and hold or the Shift key, as described above, to extend the track with a curved path.
• To delete a segment of the track, double-click either the translucent white circle at its center or the solid white circle at its "to" end, or mouse over one of the circles while holding down the Delete/Backspace key.
• To delete the last segment of the track, press the Delete/Backspace key while the cursor is not on the track.
• Click the Start Over button, or double-click anywhere outside of the track, to erase the current track and start a new one.

Track distance and direction, and the coordinates of the track endpoints, are shown in the table above.

Distances can be shown in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles, as specified by the selector under Distance in the table header.

Course measurements can be shown as either magnetic or true, as specified by the selector under Course in the table header. The magnetic correction is calculated for the first point of the track, using the NOAA online calculator. The same value is used for all points.

Coordinates can be shown in either of two formats, as specified by the selector under Latitude, Longitude in the table header:

• decimal degrees
• deg° min' sec": degrees, minutes, and seconds

In addition to the data in the table, a popup on the map also displays the distance along the path, the coordinates of a point on the path, and the length and compass direction of a segment of the path. You can enable or disable this popup using the Show Info checkbox, or by pressing the I key. To show the length and compass direction of a segment other than the last, click the white circle of its endpoint or midpoint.

Working with Coordinates

If you want to know the latitude and longitude of a point on the map, just hover the cursor over it. The coordinates will appear in the From box of the table, and, if you have the Show Info checkbox checked, in the Info popup. Or (e.g. on a touch-screen device), just click the point. It will be drawn on the map as a zero-length track, and its coordinates will appear in the table.

If you have coordinates of a point and you want to see where it is on the map, enter them in the Add a point to the track box. The point will be drawn on the map as a zero-length track. You may enter coordinates in any of the three formats described above, regardless of which format you have chosen in the selector. At any time, you may use the Add a point to the track box to manually enter a coordinate instead of clicking a point, or you may click the Add my location button to add a point for your current physical location.

Note: To use the Add my location button, you must set privacy preferences in both your OS and your browser to allow bask.org to access your location. You will be prompted to do so if necessary.

If you switch to another tab (e.g. Tides or Weather) the track will temporarily disappear from the map, but it will come back again when you switch back to the Measure tab.

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• How to Use the Help Tab

  . . .
  • Click on any ▸ item to reveal its contents.
  • Click on any ▾ item to collapse it to a single line.
  • Click the ▾ topic list button to collapse all of the ▾ items, leaving you with a list of top-level Help topics.
  • Click the ▸ reveal all button to reveal the contents of all ▸ items.
  • Whenever Auto-Help is enabled, the relevant sections of this Help text will be revealed and highlighted in yellow every time you interact with Trip Planner controls (e.g. click a button or marker). Non-relevant sections will be collapsed to ▸ . . .
  • Click on any ▸ . . . to expand it into its ▸ items.
  • Click and hold on green text (e.g. Map button) to outline the named item so you can see where it is.
  • If the green text is underlined (e.g. Map) you can also click on it to go to a description elsewhere in the Help tab. The description title will be highlighted in green. Use your browser's Back button to return.
  • If you're having trouble finding a topic, click the ▸ reveal all button, then use your browser's Find in page function (Cmd/Ctrl-F) to search for the topic.

• Trip Planner Overview

  . . . The Trip Planner has two main sections: the Map and the Info Panel. In a desktop or tablet browser, the Map is on the left and the Info Panel is on the right. In a mobile phone browser, only the Info Panel is visible at first. The Help text that you are reading now is in the Info Panel.

  Clicking the Map button near the upper-right corner of the Info Panel switches to Map View, in which only the map is visible. From Map View, clicking the blue button in the upper-right corner brings back the Info Panel.

• Map

  . . .

  This is a Google map, with pushpin icons at kayak put-ins, tide stations, and other points of interest. Click a pushpin to display associated weather, tide, and current information in the Info Panel (see below). A red star will appear under the pushpin to indicate that it has been selected.

  There are several controls on the map:

  • Zoom controls (upper-left corner of the map). . .:
    • Zoom. . .: Click the
      +
      or
      —
      button to zoom in or out. You may also zoom using the mouse scrollwheel or the = and - keyboard shortcuts while focused on the map.
    • Magnify. . .: Click the or button to change the magnification level.

      Digital maps have the annoying property that when you zoom in to get a better look at a feature (e.g. a street name), that feature often moves or even disappears from the map. Click the magnify buttons to simply make the map larger or smaller without changing its contents. If you're using a keyboard and mouse, you may also magnify by holding down the Shift key while using the scrollwheel or the zoom keyboard shortcuts (= and -). The range of magnification is 1:2 to 4:1, in seven steps.

      To restore the map to its unmagnified state, do any of these: click the button, zoom the map, or (after a Shift-scroll magnify) release the Shift key.

      While the map is magnified, markers are not clickable, and all of the other map controls are hidden.

  • Street View (below the Zoom controls). . .:
    Drag the little man onto the map to show Street View at the dropped location (if available).
  • Map type selector (below Street View control). . .:
    • Map: with or without Terrain shading.

    • Satellite: Satellite image, with or without Labels for roads and place names.

    • Nautical: NOAA ENC Nautical Chart, from the NOAA Chart Display Service. NOAA updates these charts every week, so what you see here is up-to-date. You can select from two styles: classic, with colors and symbols similar to traditional paper charts, and ECDIS, the modern international standard (IHO S-52).

      If you want to know what the symbols mean, download this PDF (10MB, 133 pages): NOAA U.S. Chart No. 1.

      You can print your own paper charts using NOAA's Custom Chart tool.

    • USGS Topo: USGS topographic map of the US and its territories, from The National Map. The maximum level of detail is less than that of the other maps, so you won't be able to zoom in as far.

      If you want to know what the symbols mean, download this PDF (2MB, 4 pages, possibly out of date for digital topos): USGS Topographic Map Symbols.

      You can print your own paper topos using the USGS topoBuilder tool.

  • Traffic button (below Map type selector). . .:
    Click this to show or hide the current traffic conditions of major highways.
  • Google Maps link (lower-left corner of the map). . .: Click the multicolored "Google" to bring up the the same view in Google Maps, either in the Maps app (on a smartphone or tablet) or in your web browser. This feature is provided by Google, so it may change in future versions.
  • Pushpins. . .: The map has pushpin icons at tide and current stations, kayak put-ins, and other points of interest.

    The color of the icon tells you which type of location it is - see the Map key, below. For tide and current stations, Subordinate stations (see subordinate in Map key) are indicated by paler-colored pushpins.

    Click any pushpin and it will be selected. The selected location is indicated by a red star under the pushpin, and a descriptive popup will appear above it. The information displayed in the tabs of the Info Panel (see below) is specific to the selected location. The URL in your browser's location bar is automatically updated to specify the selected station, so you may bookmark a station or email a link to it.

    Vector representation of the speed and direction of tidal currents is available on the map at current stations - see ebb&flow under Map key.

    If OFS current visualization is enabled, clicking a current station () shows a comparison of OFS vs. XTide current predictions in the OFS Info Popup and in the Tides tab graph. See currents under Map key.

  • Info Popup. . .: When you click on a pushpin icon, a small popup appears above it, showing the name of the location. Click the × in the upper-right corner of the popup to dismiss it.
  • Map legend (lower-right corner of the map). . .:
    A few controls provided by Google:
    • Keyboard shortcuts: list the available keyboard shortcuts for navigating the map (if your system has a hardware keyboard).
    • Google copyright notice.
    • Scale: click to switch between kilometers and miles.
    • Link to Google Maps terms of service.
    • Report a map error: click to send a bug report to Google. Please use this only for problems with the map itself. For errors in the pushpins, please use the Contact Us link at the top of the page.
  • Map key (below the map). . .: Click an icon in the map key below the map to hide all icons of that type; click it again to show them.

    Doubleclick a map key icon to show only icons of that type on the map. A thin black outline will appear around the selected map key icon. Click it again to restore the previous map view.
    Note: doubleclicking doesn't work for subordinate or charts.

    • tide. . .: Tide height prediction stations. Tide predictions for the selected station are shown in the Tides tab.
    • current. . .: Tidal current prediction stations. Current predictions for the selected station are shown in the Tides tab.
    • subordinate. . .: NOAA tide and current prediction stations come in two types: Harmonic and Subordinate. Harmonic stations have detailed mathematical models to accurately predict tides or currents throughout the day. Subordinate stations make predictions by applying fixed corrections to the predictions of a nearby Harmonic (a.k.a. Reference) station. The pushpins for Subordinate stations are partially transparent, to distinguish them from Harmonic stations. Subordinate predictions are accurate only at the tidal extremes: high and low tide, max ebb and max flood. See Types of Stations in the NOAA Tide Predictions Users Guide for more details. The Reference station and correction parameters for a Subordinate station appear at the bottom of the Details Tab listing.
    • ebb&flow. . .: Tidal current visualization.
      Arrows on the map show the speed and direction of currents at current stations (), at the time shown under the tide graph. Drag the vertical red time cursor on the graph to see the currents change throughout the day. For Harmonic stations (black arrows), speed and direction predictions come from the NOAA CO-OPS server. For subordinate stations (gray arrows with double-line arrowheads), speed predictions come from XTide, but direction predictions are not available, so the arrow always points in the mean ebb or flood direction for the station. For a small number of Harmonic stations (e.g Oakland Harbor Entrance, Southampton Shoal Channel, Benicia Bridge), CO-OPS provides actual measurements of speed and direction; these are shown with blue arrows when they are in service (they often are not). You can change the scale of the arrows using the selector under the tide graph. All arrows have white tick marks at knot intervals. When the scale is medium or large, there are also yellow half-knot ticks.
    • currents. . .: Tidal current animation.
      Shows the speed and direction of predicted currents in the SF Bay, the Delta up to Rio Vista, and the Bay entrance from Point Reyes to Pedro Point, as predicted by NOAA Operational Forecast System (OFS).

      Click on the map for the OFS Info Popup, showing a detailed readout of the current near the clicked point (the exact location is indicated by a small red square). You have your choice of either a particle animation (the default) or static arrows, selected by radio buttons in the popup.

      The data comes from the NOAA Operational Forecast System, which makes predictions for a mesh of triangular elements, approximately 100 meters apart in the densest area. Note that, due to the size of the mesh elements, smaller eddies will not be visible in this simulation.

      show the simulation mesh

      Predicted currents are available for every hour, approximately one week in the past through two days in the future. Specify the prediction time using the date and time controls in the Tides tab.

      If you click on a current prediction station (), or drag the popup pointer onto a current prediction station, the popup will also show the XTide predicted current for that point (indicated by a red triangle below the bar graph), as well as the XTide mean ebb and flood directions (indictated by green and blue triangles on the periphery of the circle), so you can compare the two predictions. The OFS predicted currents are also plotted on the graph in the Tides tab, as small yellow squares (), with small black arrows indicating the direction of current flow (up is north).

      Note: XTide is the source of the data shown in the graph and table in the Tides tab. XTide does not predict the direction of currents, so the OFS Info Popup shows only the mean (average) ebb and flood directions, taken from the XTide parameters file.

    • winds. . .: Marine wind aninmation.
      Shows the speed and direction of predicted winds in the SF Bay, the Delta up to Rio Vista, and the Bay entrance from Point Reyes to Pedro Point.

      Click on the map for the OFS Info Popup, showing a detailed readout of the wind near the clicked point (the exact location is indicated by a small red square). You have your choice of either a particle animation (the default) or static arrows, selected by radio buttons in the popup.

      The data comes from the NOAA Operational Forecast System, which makes predictions for a mesh of triangular elements, approximately 100 meters apart in the densest area.

      show the simulation mesh

      Predicted winds are available for every hour, approximately one week in the past through two days in the future. Specify the prediction time using the date and time controls in the Tides tab.

    • put-in. . .: Kayak access points. A description of the selected point is shown in the Details tab.
    • destination. . .: Interesting places to go in your kayak, not necessarily accessible by road. A description of the selected destination is shown in the Details tab.
    • yourcoast. . .: Access points listed on the California Coastal Commission YourCoast website. You can search for YourCoast sites with specific combinations of features using the YourCoast search in the Search tab.
    • restricted areas. . .: The red shaded areas on the map indicate places where paddling is restricted for all or part of the year. After selecting an area, see the Details tab for details.

      We show restrictions only along the California coast from Mendocino to Monterey counties, and we make no claim that we've found all of the restrictions in this area.

      Disclaimer: The areas shown on the map are approximate, and the areas and their descriptions may be incomplete or out of date. There may be other restrictions which are not shown on the map. Refer to official sources for accurate information about closures.

    • bay area water trail. . .: Access points on the Bay Area Water Trail.
    • charts. . .: Areas for which downloadable nautical charts are available, as part of the BASK Chart on Every Deck project. To download a chart, click on its rectangle on the map, then click the download chart or open in browser button in the popup. A complete list of charts is available in the Chart on Every Deck section of the Search tab.

  Note: some of these controls are provided by Google and may change in future versions.

• Info Panel

  . . .

  This panel has some buttons at the top for switching between several tabs. Below the buttons, the selected tab contains various information and controls.

  • Tides tab. . .: A graph of tides or currents at the selected station, above a text table of the same data. On current graphs, positive (blue) values are flood currents, negative (green) values are ebb currents.

    Note: the arrows and graph points described below are not shown on multi-day graphs.

    Small white arrows on the blue and green areas of the current graph show the mean (average) direction of flood and ebb currents.

    Alternative prediction comparison: If ebb&flow is enabled while a current graph is displayed, the current speed and direction are plotted on the graph at hourly intervals as small pink circles (), with small red arrows indicating the direction of current flow (up is north). Note that for subordinate stations there are no direction predictions, so arrows are not shown. If the current station is one of the few which collects observation data, hourly observations are also plotted on the graph as a blue curve, with small blue triangles () and blue arrows at hourly intervals.

    If OFS current visualization is enabled, the current speed and direction are plotted on the graph at hourly intervals as small yellow squares () with black arrows. If the OFS Info Popup is positioned at a current station, all of the points are plotted at once; otherwise points are added to the graph dynamically as you change the time cursor.

    A note about ebb and flood: The data provided by NOAA for the , , and plotted points specifies the speed and direction of current flow, but does not explicitly distinguish between ebb and flood. The Trip Planner has to guess whether a point should be plotted as a positive (flood) or negative (ebb) value, based on how closely its direction matches the mean ebb and flood directions for the selected current station. We sometimes guess wrong, when the current direction does not closely match the ebb or flood direction. Refer to the small arrow attached to the plotted point to see the actual predicted direction.

    Station comparison: You may plot the current or tide predictions for a second station on the same graph for comparison purposes. Click the + in the graph title bar, then click a tide or current pushpin on the map. A second title bar will show the selected station, and its predictions will be plotted as a black curve on the graph, at the same scale as the first station (if plotting both tides and currents, px/kt and px/ft are the same). A blue star appears under the second station's pushpin. If the second station is a current station for which predictions are available at multiple depths, a depth selector is included in the station name. Click the ⮃ button in the second title bar to swap the two stations. Click the + again to plot a different station. Click the × in the second title bar to remove the second station from the graph.
    Note: the tide/current table and other info below the graph is always for the first station, so if you want to see these details for the second station, swap them.

    Celestial and calendar events: To the left of each day's tide table entries, there are rise and set times for the sun and moon, and a picture of the moon showing its phase for that day. Below that, here are clickable descriptions of that day's events from the BASK calendar (you must be logged in as a BASK member to see this), followed the NOAA Marine forecast for that day.

    Time selection: The vertical red cursor line on the graph marks the time of day. A corresponding entry in the tables indicated by a small horizontal red bar at the left of the entry. Click on a table entry or another part of the graph to move the cursor, or just drag the cursor on the graph to change the time. You may also move the cursor with the [ and ] keys, or, when your mouse is over the tide graph, the scrollwheel (hold down the Shift key to move it faster).

    Date selection: Use the clickable text (< Day > | << Week >> ...) below the graph to get a prediction for another day, or to select how many days of predictions are displayed.

    The selected time and date appear below the date selection text. In ebb&flow mode (see Map key above), the speed and direction of the current at the selected station are also shown.

    Below the time and date there is a link to the marine weather forecast for this area, followed by any warning messages for the station or the weather. Below that there are links to the NOAA tide or current predictions, the Windy.com wind forecast, the FloatingTrails.com annotated map, and the Surfline surf report map, all for the place and time shown here, as well as the NOAA OFS 48-hour current and wind prediction maps for the Bay Area.

    When a current station () is selected, the mean ebb and flood directions for the station appear above the current tables, in degrees true. Note that these are averages for all time, not specific to the selected date and time.

    Click the × in the upper-right corner of the graph to collapse the graph and hide the weather link and warning messages. Click the + to bring them back.

    Note: The tide and current predictions are done by XTide version 2.15.3. All of the tide and current prediction stations are based on NOAA data downloaded from the XTide website (harmonics-dwf-20240104-free.tcd). Look in the Details tab to see where we got the prediction data for the selected station.

    Note: Many of the current prediction stations are below the surface of the ocean, probably because they were intended for use by vessels with deeper draft than a kayak. This is noted in the title of the station, e.g. (depth 15 ft), and in a warning message above the graph. Currents at the surface may differ from these at-depth predictions in speed, direction, and timing. For a discussion of current vs. depth, see this BASK Currents posting.

  • Weather tab. . .: The NOAA marine forecast for the selected icon is displayed. Some links at the top bring you to the NOAA point forecast for a nearby location, the Surfline surf report, and the Windy.com wind forecast.
  • Details tab. . .: A brief description of the selected location. For put-in and destination locations, the description may include facilities listings, photos of the site, and links to external web pages. For tide and current stations, you'll see the TCD data on which predictions are based.
  • Directions tab. . .: Get driving directions from the specified location to the selected map marker, or vice-versa. Directions will be displayed in a separate Google Maps window. The From input defaults to "Home", which will work if you've registered your home address with Google. Click the My location button to fill the From input with your current physical location.
    Note: To use the My location button, you must set privacy preferences in both your OS and your browser to allow bask.org to access your location. You will be prompted to do so if necessary.
  • Search tab. . .: There are a few different kinds of search:
    • Search for a location by name. . .: Type something into the text box. The list of all locations matching your text will be displayed as you type, and your typed input will be auto-completed whenever possible. Case is ignored for the match. If you type two or more words, you'll see all locations containing those words in the order typed, e.g. san bay matches San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, San Diego Bay, etc. If you really want to match two adjacent words, separate them with a + instead of a space, e.g. San+Diego.

      You may use one or more asterisks (*) as wildcard characters. An asterisk within a word matches anything except spaces, For example, san* matches San, Sandy, Santa, etc. There is an implied asterisk at the end of the last word that you type - if you don't want this, type a space after the last word. To show all the sites, just type an asterisk by itself.

      Check the Exclude hidden markers checkbox to leave out any locations whose markers have been hidden by the controls in the Map Key (below the map).

      Check the Only current stations with CO-OPS observation data checkbox to find only current stations which report observation data (there are only a few).

      Check the Only points within the current map area checkbox in the Search Results listing to show only locations which are within the bounds of the map window.

      Hover your mouse over any of the search results (sorry, mobile users) to see where it is on the map. Click any of the results to select that location. The Tides, Weather, and Details tabs will now show data for the selected location. Click the Zoom/pan to fit all on the map button to zoom and/or pan the map so that all of the results are visible.

    • Search for tide or current values. . .: In conjunction with the Tides tab, you can search for tidal extremes (max ebb, low tide, etc.) within a specified time period, at the tide or current station selected on the map. A period of one, three, six, or twelve months starts on the date selected in the Tides tab. You can restrict the search to certain days of the week, hours of the day, and a given tidal range. Optionally, you can look for sequences of high and low tide, or max ebb and flood within the specified hours. All matching days are displayed in a table. Click on a date in the table to see that day's tides displayed in the Tides tab.
    • Search for YourCoast features. . .: Looking for a dog-friendly sandy beach with no fee? You can find it with this function. Select Yes for the features that you want, No for the features that you don't want. Only the matching YourCoast locations will be shown on the map.

      Check the Only points within the current map area checkbox in the Search Results listing to show only locations which are within bounds of the map window.

    • List of Chart on Every Deck charts. . .: This is a complete list of all the downloadable chart PDFs offered by the Chart on Every Deck project. If you click a name in the list, its outline will be visible on the map, and a download button will appear.
    • GPS file download. . .: Click the button to download a .kmz file containing all of the Trip Planner put-ins, destinations, and restricted areas. Look in your Downloads folder for trip_planner_points.kmz . This file may be loaded into any KMZ-compatible GPS device or app. To test it, you can import it in Google Earth.
  • Measure tab. . .: Measure distances along a track, and get coordinates of points on the map. See instructions in the Measure tab.
  • Help tab. . .: You're looking at it now!
  • Map view. . .: This isn't a tab. The Map button switches you to full-window Map View in which only the map and its controls are visible. In Map View, there's a button in the upper-right corner, labelled with the name of the last tab you visited, which will bring you back to that tab of the Info Panel. Below that, there's a Help button which brings you to the Help tab in the Info Panel.

• Header and Footer

  . . .

  The header section at the top of the page contains links to the main BASK website, including a login/logout link.
  Note: if you're logged in as a BASK member, entries from the BASK events calendar are shown in the Tides tab, to the left of the day's tide/current table entry.

  Below the header links, there is a short description of the currently-selected map pushpin.

  The footer section at the bottom of the page contains disclaimer and copyright text, and the Trip Planner version number. Both can be hidden to increase the screen area of the Map and Info Panel.

• Need More Screen Space?

  . . . If you're working on small screen, there are a few ways that you can make the most of the available area:
  • Use Map View. . .: Click the Map button at the top right of the Info Panel to show only the Map and its controls. When viewing only the map, the blue button in the upper-right corner brings back the Info Panel. The keyboard shortcut for both of these is m.
  • Minimize the tide graph. . .: In the Tides tab, click the × in the top right corner of the graph to hide the graph. Click the + to bring it back. The keyboard shortcut for both of these is g.
  • Hide the page header and footer. . .: Click the × in the upper-right corner of the footer bar (at the bottom of the page, under the Map key), to hide both the footer bar and the header bar at the top of the page. Click the + to bring them back. The keyboard shortcut for both of these is h.
    Note: The header and footer are automatically hidden in Map View.

• Keyboard Shortcuts

  . . . If your system has a keyboard, the following shortcut keys can be used.
  • Plus and Minus, i.e. = and -: zoom in or out. These shortcuts are built in to the Google map.
  • Shift-plus and Shift-minus, i.e. + and _: change the map magnification level (see magnify in Map key). You may also magnify by holding down the Shift key while using the scrollwheel.
  • Shift-zero, i.e. ): reset the map magnification level.
  • Arrow keys, i.e. ↑, ↓, ←, →: pan the map view by a small amount. These shortcuts are built in to the Google map.
  • [ and ]: move the time cursor (vertical red line) on the tide graph by six minutes.
  • Shift-[ and Shift-], i.e. { and }: move the time cursor (vertical red line) on the tide graph to the previous or next hour.
  • g: hide/show the tide graph.
  • h: hide/show the page header and disclaimer text.
  • i: hide/show the info popup above the selected station on the map.

  The following keystrokes are equivalent to clicking the indicated Map Key icon:

  • t: hide/show the tide stations.
  • c: hide/show the current stations.
  • s: hide/show the subordinate tide and current stations.
  • e: hide/show the ebb&flow arrows.
  • o: hide/show the OFS current simulation.
  • w: hide/show the OFS wind simulation.
  • p: hide/show the put-ins.
  • d: hide/show the destinations.
  • y: hide/show the yourCoast access points.
  • r: hide/show the restricted areas.
  • b: hide/show the bay Area Water Trail access points.
  • C: hide/show the Chart-on-Every-Deck chart outlines.

  The following keystrokes are equivalent to clicking the indicated Tab button:

  • T: Enter the Tides tab.
  • W: Enter the Weather tab.
  • D: Enter the Details tab.
  • I: Enter the DIrections tab.
  • S: Enter the Search tab.
  • M: Enter the Measure tab.
  • H or ?: Enter the Help tab.
  • m: Enter/exit map View.

  The Measure tab (see instructions in the tab itself) also responds to a few keystrokes:

  • Delete or Backspace: delete a point from the track.
  • Shift: automatically add points to the track without clicking as you draw (hold the Shift key down).
  • Enter or Return: finish the track.
  • Escape: finish the track without adding the final segment.

  The Map has its own set of keyboard shortcuts, provided by Google, that work when your focus is on the map. Click the Keyboard shortcuts link at the bottom of the map to read about them.

• Share / Save / Print

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  • Bookmarking / Linking. . . The URL in your browser's address bar is dynamically updated to include the selected pushpin marker, the current zoom level, and the selected map type. You may bookmark the URL to return to it later, or copy it into an email or text message and send it to someone else. The URL will open the Trip Planner with the saved marker at the center of the map, zoomed to the saved zoom level, using the saved map type. If the marker is a put-in, destination, or restricted area, the page will open with the Details tab shown; otherwise the Tides tab will be shown.
  • Printing. . . We have not provided a function to format the map for printing. To save a copy of the map, either take a screenshot, or use your browser's print function. If this doesn't meet your needs, we suggest using the FloatingTrails link below the graph in the Tides tab. This will open the same region of the map in FloatingTrails.com, which has good facilities for formatting and printing charts.
  • GPS. . . The Search tab has a download link for a KMZ file containing all of the Trip Planner put-ins, destinations, and restricted areas, for use in your GPS device or app.

• Contribute Launch Site Info

  . . . BASK members are welcome to contribute their knowledge of local launch sites to the Trip Planner project. If you would like us to add a launch site to the map, or if you see an error that should be corrected, please log in and contact us. This contact info also appears at the bottom of each launch site description in the Details tab, and (if you haven't hidden it) in the contact link at the top of the page.

• Video Tutorials

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  • A quick video introduction (Jan 2024)
  • A longer video tutorial (Apr 2018) - login required

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