Boating planning software
How it works
Conditions are scattered across a dozen products, and none of them knows what you are taking out or what you are willing to take. This reads them together and answers the question you actually have: is this a day for your boat, and what would change the answer.
- Step one
You set the boat and its limits, once
Length, type, how fast you cruise, and the wind and sea you are willing to be out in. Everything after this is scored against those numbers rather than against a generic small craft. It takes about a minute, and you can change it any time your comfort does.
- Step two
Every morning you get one briefing
What is developing on your water today, the call, and the one thing driving it. The top of it tells you the call in a minute at the dock. Everything under it is there for the days you want the detail: the roughest stretch and when it arrives, what holds and what falls apart, and what would have to change to turn the day around.
- Step three
When you have a run in mind, you say what you are doing
A couple of hours around the harbor, out and back for lunch, or a passage to somewhere. You are never asked to decide whether what you are doing counts as a cruise. You get back the latest you can leave and still be in before dark, where you can duck in if it turns, and the stretch that will be worst and the hour you would be on it.
- Step four
Somebody ashore gets what they need
A float plan with the route, the timing, who is aboard and when to worry, in a form a person on land can act on. If you are late, they are told. When you tie up, you close it.
What it will not do
It does not make the decision. The call is a read on the day, and the captain is the one who has to live with the choice, so the numbers and the reasoning are always on the page beside it.
It does not guess to look useful. Past the point where the models stop, it says so and shows nothing rather than drawing a confident line through empty water. If it cannot find a route that stays off the land, it refuses the route instead of handing you a track through a marsh.
It is not a replacement for the official forecast, your own eyes, or your judgment. It is the thing that reads all of it at once so you do not have to.
See the whole thing on a real day.
The sample plan is built by the same engine, on today’s conditions, while you are reading it.
10 days, no card.