Built on the Limits You Set
Set up your boat once, and GoNoGo WX Boating measures every briefing and every trip against it. Two captains on the same water on the same morning can get different briefings, because their boats and their limits differ.
- Boat type and specifications
- Cruise speed, for trip timing
- Air draft, for fixed bridges
- Crew aboard
- Wind and sea limits
- Visibility and rain
- Thunderstorm look-ahead
- Wave period and water temperature
- The hour your briefing arrives
Then GoNoGo WX Boating Gathers and Analyzes the Latest Conditions
- Wind and gusts
- Waves
- Fog
- Tides
- Currents
- Marine warnings
- Storm timing
- Water temperature
GoNoGo WX Boating gathers every condition it can find for your water, from wind, waves and currents to fog, storms and marine warnings, then analyzes them together and synthesizes them into one briefing, made for you, on your boat, against the limits you set.
What it reads includes 830 government buoys and coastal stations (262 of them buoys afloat) and 2,785 tidal current stations. Every route is drawn on a network built from more than 5.5 million nautical miles (5,553,027) of real recreational boat tracks, from public AIS records.
Hour by Hour
A calm morning can turn into a rough afternoon. GoNoGo WX Boating scores every hour against your limits, so your briefing shows your best window to be out, when the day turns, and what is building later.
GO, CAUTION or NO-GO
Each limit has two lines you set: a GO line and a NO-GO line.
- GO
- Every reading is inside your GO lines and nothing else you set is flagged.
- CAUTION
- A reading is past a GO line but not a NO-GO line, or something else deserves attention, such as a Small Craft Advisory or thunderstorms that are only possible, or forecast later in the day.
- NO-GO
- A reading is past a NO-GO line you set; a thunderstorm is forecast for the hour or within about 2 hours of it, is forecast as severe, or is under a watch or warning; a Gale, Storm, Hurricane Force Wind, Hurricane, Tropical Storm or Special Marine Warning covers that hour; or conditions past your GO lines add up, such as a Small Craft Advisory with wind or seas past your GO line. A Small Craft Advisory makes every hour it covers at least CAUTION, whatever your lines.
Every briefing names the key factors behind it, and how each compares with your line.
When Forecasts Disagree
When forecasts disagree on the wind or the seas, GoNoGo WX Boating scores your day on the rougher one, and your briefing tells you plainly about any reading it could not get.
Local Knowledge
On water where local knowledge matters, your briefing adds:
- Route-specific concerns
- Local hazards
- Tidal gates
- Inlet conditions
Going Somewhere?
Planning a trip? GoNoGo WX Boating checks every leg against your limits for the hour you will be on it, from a local afternoon run to a longer passage, and turns it into a float plan for someone ashore in one tap.
See Why, Every Time
Every briefing shows you its key factors and the readings behind them, so you always know why your day is GO, CAUTION or NO-GO.
Build Your First Briefing.
Tell us about your boat, set your limits, and pick when your briefing arrives.