Owner tools

Everything you need before you leave the dock.

Tap a tool and go. Use whichever ones you need, whenever you need them. Nothing to sign into.

Weather

Weather & Wind

Wind, gusts, swell and rain on one map, centred on San Diego. Scrub the timeline forward to see what the afternoon does, not just what it is doing now. Live forecast, on our page, with a short guide on how to read it.

Open Weather & Wind
Tides & currents

Tides & Currents

Live tide and current data for local stations, with an under-keel clearance calculator so you know your real depth. Save your regular spots. Share the day's tides with anyone coming aboard.

Open Tides & Currents
Route planning
Coming soon

Pilotage Planner

Answer one question at a time and it writes your passage plan in plain English. No waypoint spreadsheets to decode. Already have a track? Import it and the plan builds around it.

In testing — available shortly
Pre-departure

Pre-Departure Checklist

Safety gear, systems, weather, and a float plan you can send to someone ashore. Anything you find gets logged, so it does not quietly become next month's problem.

Open the Checklist
Records
Coming soon

The Logbook

Maintenance history, trips and upgrades in one place. Checklist findings feed straight in, so you build an honest picture of the boat instead of a shoebox of receipts.

In testing — available shortly

Prior planning and thought takes the stress out of the day and makes the adventure better.

It is not about being cautious. It is about walking down the dock already knowing what the water is doing, where you are going, and that the boat is ready. That is where confidence comes from. Not from hoping it goes well, but from knowing you have done the work.

Do that often enough and it stops feeling like preparation. It just becomes how you run your boat.

Getting the most out of them

  1. Start the night before. Tides and route while you are relaxed and can still change your mind. Decisions made under pressure at the dock are worse decisions.
  2. Let the water decide the plan. Depth and current dictate what is sensible. Build the route around them rather than forcing the route and hoping.
  3. Run the checklist every time, including easy days. The value is in the repetition. A checklist you only reach for when you are nervous is not a system.
  4. Log the small things too. Small findings are early warnings. The logbook is where a pattern shows up before it becomes a failure.
  5. Read last trip's notes before the next one. Two minutes. Cheapest preparation available to you.

Latest from training

Real owner situations and how we worked through them. Worth a read before your next trip.

The weather call
Go or No-Go
Deciding from home whether it is a boating day. Wind in colours, the trip-home timeline check, and the three swell numbers that decide comfort.
Read this case
Docking and departure
Wind at Your Slip
The forecast at home, then your own eyes at the boat. Surface streaks, wind deflecting off nearby boats, and reading the current in your slip.
Read this case
Alone aboard
When the Engine Quits
Your engine dies and there is nobody else aboard. Stop the boat first. How one owner drilled it live until a shutdown stopped being frightening.
Read this case
Close quarters
Anchor Ready to Drop
Your anchor is your brakes when the engines quit. Why it should free-fall in seconds, how to test yours, and the windlass fault we caught doing it.
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A note from Luke

G'day captains, here's some handy tools to enhance your preparation, planning and execution to achieve a successful day on the bay with your families.

The philosophy stays the same. Prior planning and thought leads to lowering the risk of something going wrong. The tools here are to assist in the plans, keep you on track, prompt awareness, and continue the learning.

Would love your feedback.

Cheers all,
Luke

Tell me what is missing

This page grows as I build more tools out of real problems on real boats. If something is clunky, or there is a tool you wish existed, I want to hear it.

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Written by Luke Ludemann. 15+ years across superyacht, ferry, commercial fishing, and ownership, currently training owners across a fleet of 42 vessels in San Diego. Nothing here is theoretical.