Complete GoNoGo WX Feature Guide

Daily Boating Briefings

Your personalized boating briefing is delivered to your inbox at the time you choose and remains available in your account.

In Every Briefing

• A personalized GO / CAUTION / NO-GO call
• A clear explanation of what drove the call
• The best windows to be on the water
• An hour-by-hour view of the day
• Wind, gusts, and wind direction
• Wave height, period, and direction

Every part of the briefing is organized to answer the questions that matter before you leave the dock.

View a Sample Briefing →

Personalized to You and Your Boat

Set up your boat and preferences once. Every briefing and trip assessment after that is personalized to you and your boat.

What You Can Set

• Boat type or a custom boat profile
• Your boat's specifications
• Cruise speed for trip timing and ETAs
• Air draft for relevant fixed-bridge clearances
• Crew count and crew considerations
• Wind limits

GoNoGo WX uses the preferences you choose to make every assessment relevant to the way you boat.

GO / CAUTION / NO-GO Assessments

Conditions are measured against the limits you set, and every call includes the reasons behind it.

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GO.

Conditions are within the limits and preferences you selected.

CAUTION.

One or more conditions deserve closer attention before departure or while your plan is underway.

NO-GO.

One or more conditions exceed a limit or trigger a setting you selected.

What Comes With Every Call

• The factor driving the call
• How that factor compares with your limit
• What otherwise looks favorable
• What could change the assessment
• The timing of important changes
• Conditions expected at arrival, not only at departure

The call is personalized and explained. The decision always remains with the captain.

Trip Planning

A local afternoon outing and a longer passage begin with the same questions: where are you going, when will you be there, and what is expected along the way?

What You Can Plan

• A local outing without a separate destination
• An out-and-back day trip
• A point-to-point cruise
• A multi-leg passage
• The return trip on its own timing window
• Trips using saved destinations and locations

Describe the trip in the way you would say it, then review the route, timing, and conditions before departure.

See Cruise Planning in Action →

Leg-by-Leg Cruise Conditions

A cruise is not one unchanging stretch of water. Each leg is evaluated for the hour you are expected to be on it.

On Every Leg

• Conditions expected along that stretch
• Wind relative to the boat's course
• Sea direction relative to the course
• Current expected at the time of passage
• Wind against current where the combination matters
• The roughest stretch and when you are expected to reach it

See what is expected beyond the departure point and throughout the cruise.

Explore Leg-by-Leg Cruise Planning →

Route Awareness

Important route information is connected to the place and time you are expected to encounter it.

Along the Route

• Routing that follows navigable water where supported
• Distance and heading for each leg
• Fixed bridges near the route
• Your air draft shown with published bridge clearance
• Drawbridges and published opening restrictions
• Navigation locks

GoNoGo WX brings route awareness and conditions into the same cruise plan.

Tides and Currents

Tides and currents can change the character and timing of a cruise. GoNoGo WX connects water movement to your departure, arrival, and each leg along the way.

What You Get

• Tide predictions and timing
• Rising and falling tide trends
• Tidal-current predictions
• Current timing within your planned window
• Current expected on each leg
• Slack-water timing where available

Local Hazard Awareness

Local conditions and navigation concerns appear where they are relevant to your location or route.

Hazards and Navigation Concerns May Include

• Shoaling
• Inlets and bar crossings
• Restricted areas
• Security zones
• Commercial traffic
• Seasonal hazards

Hazards are reviewed before being included in the product, and source information is provided where available.

Virtual First Mate

The Virtual First Mate is an interactive planning assistant that answers from your briefing and your plan in plain English.

Ask Questions Such As

• Would leaving later help?
• Is tomorrow a better day?
• Which leg looks roughest?
• Can we be back before dark?
• What is driving today's call?
• Where can we get in if conditions change?

What-If Planning

When you change the departure time or another planning detail, the Virtual First Mate can recalculate the relevant legs, timing, gates, and arrival conditions and show what changed.

The Virtual First Mate works from the same conditions and planning information used by GoNoGo WX. It supports the captain without taking the captain’s place.

Meet the Virtual First Mate →

Float Plans

Create a float plan from the trip you have already built and share the information a person ashore may need.

A Float Plan Can Include

• Who is aboard
• Departure point and destination
• Planned route
• Expected leg timing
• Check-in points
• Expected arrival or return time

Plan Status and Arrival

A float plan can show whether the trip is scheduled, underway, due, overdue, completed, or expired.

When the boat is safely in, one arrival confirmation can notify the shore contacts who received the plan and close it. If the confirmation was sent by mistake, the correction goes to the same recipients.

Email Briefings and Alerts

Receive your daily briefing and important updates by email wherever internet or cellular service is available.

What Can Arrive by Email

• Your daily briefing at the hour you choose
• Updates for saved locations
• Changes in the call for a location you are watching
• Float-plan delivery to shore contacts
• Arrival confirmations
• Check-in reminders

You control your briefing schedule and communication preferences from your account.

Conditions Read Together

No boating condition exists in isolation.

GoNoGo WX evaluates wind, waves, visibility, storms, tides, currents, advisories, local hazards, timing, and route conditions together, then measures the complete picture against the limits you set.

The result is one personalized briefing with a clear call and the reasons behind it.

What Is Evaluated

• Wind, gusts, and direction
• Wave height, period, and direction
• Wind and sea angle relative to course
• Visibility
• Thunderstorms and lightning
• Precipitation

Some conditions are included for awareness without determining the GO / CAUTION / NO-GO call. When information is unavailable or no longer current, GoNoGo WX shows the gap rather than filling it with an unsupported assumption.

Visual Planning Tools

Visual tools turn detailed conditions into clear, quickly understood views of the day and the cruise ahead.

At a Glance

• Personalized glance block
• GO / CAUTION / NO-GO display
• Hourly condition ribbon
• Best departure window
• Seven-day outlook
• Data-availability display

Your Account

Manage the details that personalize GoNoGo WX and control how the service works for you.

What You Control

• Boat profiles
• Saved destinations
• Saved locations
• Briefing delivery time
• Communication preferences
• Subscription management

Guest Access and Sharing

A signed guest link can allow a shore contact or crew member to view a shared briefing without opening a GoNoGo WX account.

Float plans can also be shared with the people who need the route, crew, timing, check-in, and overdue information.

Access Wherever You Have Service

GoNoGo WX works in a web browser across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Access your briefings, cruise plans, float plans, and Virtual First Mate wherever internet or cellular service is available. No separate app installation is required.