Know before you go.Make the call with confidence.
Wind, swell, current, tide, the advisory you half remember reading. They live in a dozen tabs, each with its own model and its own forecast hour. TidePilot researches your route across 30+ sources and briefs you before you leave the dock, so you cast off knowing your window, your conditions per leg, and what changed.
- Safer
- More data, more often. An advisor on standby to think through the call with you.
- Calmer
- Find the window where your crew is genuinely comfortable, not just within legal limits.
- Faster
- Stop gathering partial data. The full brief, the moment you need it.
Watches 30+ weather models + live marine observations · Windy · NOAA · CHS · NDBC · WaveWatch III · GFS · ECMWF · MSC
The morning-of question
Every trip starts the same way: did I check everything?
Reconciling a half-dozen forecasts by hand, at the dock, is how a window gets missed. Each source has its own model and its own forecast hour, and none of them is tuned to your route, your boat, or what your crew will tolerate.
TidePilot does that research once, per leg, time-shifted to when you would actually be there, and tells you what changed since you last looked. You stop gathering and start deciding.
What a brief delivers
One read, built for your boat.
- Departure window
- The hours that work for your boat and your crew tolerance, not a generic regional forecast.
- Leg-by-leg conditions
- Wind, seas, current, and tide along your actual route, leg by leg, at the hour you would be there.
- Fuel reserve
- Range and reserve for your boat against the conditions on the day, so the tank is never a question.
- A clear call
- FavorableCautionNo-goA plain recommendation you can act on. You decide; TidePilot makes sure you decided with everything in front of you.
What a brief actually looks like
Everything you’d assemble by hand.
On one page.
Elliott Bay to Port Townsend, Saturday morning. Drag the day or hour to see the read change.
- WIND
- 12kt SW
- Leg 3
- GUST
- 16kt
- Leg 3
- SEAS
- 1.5ft
- Leg 3
- SWELL
- 0.5ft @ 6s
- Leg 1
- CURRENT
- 1.2kt S
- Leg 3
- VIS
- 9nmlowest
- Leg 3
- BURN
- 11.9gal · 3h 59m
- TANK
- 200gal
- RESERVE
- 94%
Burn 3.0 gph @ 9kt cruise · Σ 11.9gal / 200gal
- ZONEPZZ133 · Admiralty Inlet
- ACTIVENone
- WATCHSmall craft Mon > 1500
Hard override: forced no-go on any active gale or storm warning in route.
Departure
SAT 0700 · MAY 9
Choose a day and time to compare. Save it when you're ready.
↔ drag day or hour to see how the read changes
Trip Watch, included
We keep reading the forecast after you have planned.
Save a trip and TidePilot keeps watching your window. When the forecast shifts in a way that matters, we flag it before departure, so a change you would have missed becomes a heads-up instead of a surprise at the fuel dock.
On the water, not just before it
Know where the fleet is.New
Invite the boats you cruise with. Every captain who joins appears on your chart, with a heads-up when they reach the anchorage.
Consent-first, off by default. You choose who sees you.
A live vessel map for the Salish Sea, and search for any boat by name. Built in, no second app.
Awareness, not navigation. Your chartplotter has the helm.
Why now
AIS gave you traffic.Chartplotters gave you position.TidePilot gives you the read.
Who this is for
Three kinds of captains.
One trip planner.
Weekend hops that need to be comfortable, not just survivable.
Find the window where boat heel is bearable, the cabin stays dry, and your partner wants to come on the next trip.
Personal limits per crew member · Tide and current per leg · Cabin-friendly seas threshold
Trawlers and cruisers running multi-leg trips.
Per-leg forecasts at each leg's actual ETA, with fuel reserve calculated against your boat's burn rate and tank.
Boat profile · Reserve % per route · 30+ models · Vendor-flavored GPX
Charter operators and delivery skippers running unfamiliar coasts.
A repeatable, defensible brief you can hand to a client, a charter guest, or the next captain on the boat.
Shareable brief · Verbatim disclaimer · Captain-to-captain handoff
What today's marine tools miss
Five things no other consumer tool reasons across.
Per-leg reasoning across 30+ models is the structural difference. Everything else follows.
Pricing · founding window
500 founding seats.
Half price. Forever.
Your rate is grandfathered. When the standard rate moves to $20/mo at GA, yours stays at $10. Save $120 every year you sail with us.
What you get at $10/mo
- Unlimited trip briefs, tuned to your boat, route, and crew tolerance
- Per-leg conditions across 30+ weather models and live marine observations
- Flotilla and Traffic: your buddy boats and the Salish Sea fleet on the same chart
- Vendor-flavored GPX export to your chartplotter
Trip Watch included
TidePilot keeps reading conditions on your saved trips and updates you before departure when the forecast shifts. A premium feature, free for your first 3 months.
- No credit card to start
- Cancel in two clicks
- Your rate never moves
- $10 is cost-plus, not price discovery
Unlimited briefs. No overage, no meter.
Questions captains ask
Quick answers.
Does TidePilot replace my chartplotter?
I don't sail in the Pacific Northwest. Does this still work?
Which weather models do you actually use?
Can I see other boats?
What's included at $10 a month?
Why only $10?
What happens when general availability hits?
Is my trip data private?
Can I cancel anytime?
Operating boundary · verbatim, every time
TidePilot is a planning advisor, not a navigation system. Always confirm conditions with current observations and use a marine chartplotter for navigation underway.