Know before you go.Make the call with confidence.
The night before. The morning of. You’re piecing together information from Windy, NOAA, tide tables, marine buoys. Partial data that’s never quite tuned to your route, your boat, or what your crew will tolerate.
Draw the route or type it in plain English. TidePilot weighs live marine conditions against 30+ models, your boat’s profile, and your personal limits, then builds your brief and advises whether conditions are favorable. We update you before departure if the read changes.
- 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.
Best read stays comfortable: 12kt SW max wind, 1.5ft seas, 1.2kt S current across the route.
- ALT
- Sun 0700
- ALT
- Mon 0900
Watches 30+ weather models + live marine observations · Windy · NOAA · CHS · NDBC · WaveWatch III · GFS · ECMWF · MSC
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
The way it works today
Six apps, eight tabs, and a notepad.
Planning a multi-leg trip today means re-checking every condition source for every leg. Windy. NOAA. CO-OPS. NDBC. CHS. The tide tables. Cross-reference, write it down, repeat.
- ☐Check Windy
- ☐Check NOAA NDFD
- ☐Check NDBC buoy obs
- ☐Check NOAA CO-OPS tides
- ☐Check tide tables
- ☐Cross-reference
- ☐Update float plan
forecasts grow stale · re-do everything
× every leg.
Every time the forecast updates. Two hours later, the read on Leg 3 is different. You start over.
TidePilot does this once. Per leg. Time-shifted to each leg’s ETA.
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.
Why now
AIS gave you traffic.Chartplotters gave you position.TidePilot gives you the read.
From the question to the dock
One conversation, four panels, watched until departure.
- Step 01•
Conversation, or draw it.
Tell the advisor your destination and rough window in plain language. Or trace the route on the map. Your saved boat profile and limits fill in the rest.
> port townsend sat morning if it looks clean TidePilot · advisor Elliott Bay → Port Townsend, your 42ft trawler at 9kt. Checking Sat 0500–1100.
- Step 02•
Reasons across 30+ weather models.
The same data that powers Windy, plus NOAA's full suite, CHS, MSC Canada, GFS, ECMWF, and live buoy observations. Region-aware, fetched per leg at its arrival time.
- Windy (10+ models)
- NOAA NDFD
- WaveWatch III
- GFS · ECMWF
- NOAA CO-OPS
- CHS tides
- MSC Canada
- NDBC buoys
- NWS advisories
- Open-Meteo backup
- Step 03•
Get the read.
Advisor-voice summary up top. Per-leg conditions on the chart, the reasons that drove the rec, best window with up to two alternatives, fuel reserve.
Workable window. Watch the afternoon wind off Pt Wilson.
RECFavorableWINDOWSat 0700 · 2 altsDIST36nmRESERVE94%- Wind freshens to 14kt past Pt Wilson by 1400
- Ebb peaks 1300 · with you on the return
- Step 04•
We watch until you leave.
TidePilot keeps refreshing the trip every cycle. A daily status note. A push the moment a marine condition crosses a material threshold. No morning-of scramble re-checking six apps.
Watch activeRefreshing until Sat 0500Fri 0600 · daily status
Sat departure still favorable. Wind eased 2kt overnight; ebb timing unchanged.
Fri 1430 · material change
Sat mid-route wind now 18kt, above your 15kt cap. Best alternative: Sat 1100, still favorable.
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?
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?
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.
Inspecting departure
SAT 0700 · MAY 9
↔ drag day or hour to see how the read changes
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
- 10 trip briefs every month, tuned to your boat, route, and crew tolerance
- Per-leg conditions across 30+ weather models and live marine observations
- 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
After ten briefs in a month, additional briefs are $2 each.
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.