A good passage starts long before the anchor comes up: the route, the weather window, the emergency contacts, the float plan somebody ashore actually has a copy of.
WatchKeeper turns that ritual into a working plan. Set departure and arrival with real coordinates, import a GPX route or let it compute the great-circle distance, check weather and tides for where the boat actually is, and write your skipper’s notes where the crew will see them. Then share the plan: email it to your emergency contacts as a proper float plan, link it to the people who worry.
Once you are underway, the plan comes alive. The AI shore brief goes out twice a day with position, weather, ETA, and emergency details, written from your live log. And when you arrive, arrival notices go to shore automatically: made it, safe, love you, stop watching the tracker.
- Passage plan: route, distance, GPX import, departure and arrival
- Weather and tides: for the boat’s position, not the marina’s
- Float plan sharing: email the plan to your emergency contacts
- AI shore briefs: twice-daily updates to the people ashore
- Skipper’s notes: on the plan and the passage page, where they belong
- Arrival notices: automatic all-safe emails when you make port
The wedge is the shore brief. The people you left at home get position, weather, and ETA twice a day without you touching a satphone. That is the feature this whole product was built around.
Underway at sunset, chartplotter lit. The plan, working.
WatchKeeper is a passage log and shore-crew briefing tool for sailors who take the ocean seriously. One tool for the logbook, the AI shore briefs, the safety locker, the crew records, and the boat itself, built and dogfooded on a real ocean crossing aboard SV Cloud Nine.
Guides for everything live at support.watchkeeper.me, and every boat gets a free public Ship’s Blog the family can follow.