What changed

1. NewLatest2026-08-21w

   Add it to your home screen, and one notification a week

   Fri, Aug 21, 8:40 PM PT

   The app now installs to your phone’s home screen like a real app — no app store, just an icon. And there is exactly one notification: Friday morning, telling you what Saturday actually looks like on your water.

   • ›Add to home screen, with proper instructions for iPhone (Share → Add to Home Screen) since Apple does not allow the automatic prompt
   • ›Works offline for the chart and the places. Live conditions never come from a cache — if you are offline, a red banner says so rather than showing you Tuesday’s flat seas on a rough Saturday
   • ›Weekend outlook notification, opt-in from Profile. Real example from this week’s data: “Saturday looks good, storms around — 4–10 kt SSW, seas under 2 ft, storms 50%.”
   • ›It only sends when there is real forecast data behind a specific sentence. A quiet week is a quiet phone. No streaks, no ‘we miss you’, no marketing — ever.
2. New2026-08-21v

   The week ahead, the inlet board, and 31 more places

   Fri, Aug 21, 7:55 PM PT

   Three big additions. There is now a screen that answers “when should I go?” instead of only “what is it doing right now” — eight days, each one scored on the water with the best window on it. There is a board showing how old the survey is behind every inlet. And the chart went from 65 places to 96.

   • ›The week ahead: eight days for any town on the corridor, each with wind, seas, the best window to go, and a plain sentence about it. Reachable from Weather and from the map header.
   • ›Storms are now judged separately from the water. A 7-knot day with afternoon thunderstorms used to be labelled “rough”, which was wrong — it is a flat-water morning, and the app now says so and tells you when the sky turns.
   • ›Inlets & channels: days since the Army Corps last surveyed each inlet. Masonboro has not been surveyed in 1,453 days. Carolina Beach was surveyed 10 days ago. Nobody else shows you this.
   • ›It also flags the trap that only 3 of 9 inlets have a gauge actually measuring water — stations named ‘Bogue Inlet’ and ‘New River Inlet’ show on a plotter with nothing behind them.
   • ›Every buoy moved in the last twelve months, with dates. Bogue Inlet had 7 markers moved on a single day in May.
   • ›31 more marinas, ramps and boatyards imported from OpenStreetMap. Only the named ones — 205 unnamed ‘Boat ramp’ pins were deliberately left out.
   • ›Saved places now show today’s seas and wind and the last depth anyone reported, so the Profile tab is worth opening.
   • ›Membership moved to annual — $39 a year instead of $7.99 a month. Boating runs April to October and nobody should pay through a winter they are not on the water.
3. New2026-08-21u

   The map screen does a lot more now

   Fri, Aug 21, 7:55 PM PT

   The map no longer hides everything behind buttons. A list of what is near you now sits on screen at rest, and the controls moved into a proper rail down the side instead of floating loose over the water.

   • ›Nearby list showing the closest places with distance and compass bearing, updating as you move the map
   • ›Search and category chips — fuel, dock & dine, ramps, sandbars, anchorages, marinas, hazards
   • ›Show my location, with a boat marker that points the way you are actually heading when the phone reports a course
   • ›Measure tool: tap two points for distance and bearing, including the course back
   • ›A legend explaining what the pin colours and shapes mean
4. Fixed2026-08-21t

   Place pages rebuilt, and a daylight bug that mattered

   Fri, Aug 21, 7:35 PM PT

   Tapping a place now gives you the whole picture instead of a summary: a nautical chart of the spot, live wind and seas with the station that measured them, today's tide curve, what it costs in fuel and time from your boat, and the nearest fuel, ramp, dock and reef with distance and bearing.

   • ›Fixed a real bug: after about 8pm the app was reading tomorrow's sunset, so it told you there were 23 hours of daylight left when it was already dark. It now correctly says the sun is down.
   • ›Every conditions figure says whether a buoy measured it or a forecaster predicted it, and how old it is
   • ›Vote scores and comment counts no longer show a bare zero on places nobody has posted about yet
5. New2026-08-21s

   Gear lists, route map, and this Updates tab

   Fri, Aug 21, 7:05 PM PT

   Six gear lists covering a sandbar day, inshore fishing, bottom fishing the reefs, king mackerel, mahi and bluefish/Spanish. Every item is drawn so you can recognise it on the shelf, with one-tap searches on Amazon, Walmart and Bass Pro. The route planner now draws your passage on a nautical chart, colour-coded by how rough each stretch will be when you actually get there.

   • ›Gear lists reachable from Explore
   • ›Legally required items flagged separately — bottom fishing needs a descending device, dehooking tool and non-stainless circle hooks
   • ›Route map shows where the roughest part of the run falls
   • ›This tab, so you can both see what changed
6. New2026-08-21r

   Route planner draws the passage

   Fri, Aug 21, 6:47 PM PT

   The route now appears on a chart with your start and destination pinned, each leg coloured by conditions, and a warning marker on the roughest stretch.

7. Fixed2026-08-21q

   Wind and wave overlay now draws on the map

   Fri, Aug 21, 6:11 PM PT

   The forecast field over the map was loading its data but painting nothing. The cause was in the mapping library — it schedules drawing on an animation frame, and if that frame never arrives the drawing is silently dropped forever. The overlay now draws itself directly, so it works even on a slow phone or a backgrounded tab.

8. New2026-08-21p

   Route planner

   Fri, Aug 21, 5:59 PM PT

   Where's your boat, where do you want to go, where do you want to tie up — and what the weather does along the way. Each leg of the run gets the forecast for the time you'll actually be there, because a long run doesn't happen in one set of conditions.

   • ›Live position with optional continuous tracking
   • ›Pick a docking spot near your destination
   • ›Drag the departure time forward 48 hours and watch the whole run recompute
   • ›The verdict comes from the worst leg, not the average
9. New data2026-08-21m

   Artificial reefs

   Fri, Aug 21, 5:43 PM PT

   29 North Carolina artificial reefs from the state's own Marine Fisheries data — 25 ocean reefs in Onslow Bay plus 4 estuarine, including the New River. Reef number, depth, material and year, with a toggle in Map layers.

10. New data2026-08-21l

    Dock-and-dine restaurants, and Explore rebuilt

    Fri, Aug 21, 5:31 PM PT

    Restaurants across Swansboro, Wilmington and Jacksonville, each tagged with how you actually reach it: a dock at the restaurant, a marina next door, a public dock you walk from, or waterfront with no confirmed docking. Explore cards now lead with a real nautical chart of the destination.

    • ›The Ice House in Swansboro has closed — it's been replaced with Boro Low Country Kitchen at that dock
    • ›The Landing at New River is flagged as requiring base access
    • ›Nothing is promised as dock-and-dine unless it genuinely is
11. New2026-08-21j

    Real nautical charts on the map

    Fri, Aug 21, 5:15 PM PT

    The map now has an actual NOAA chart option — depth soundings, contours, channel edges, buoys and lights. Plus a live conditions strip across the top so you can see whether it's worth going before you touch anything.

12. New2026-08-21h

    48-hour weather timeline you can drag

    Fri, Aug 21, 5:03 PM PT

    Drag across the next two days and watch the seas, wind and verdict change hour by hour. It also finds and highlights the best window to go.

13. New2026-08-21f

    Weather tab

    Fri, Aug 21, 4:34 PM PT

    Marine forecasts in knots and feet — not the land forecast. Observed conditions from real buoys, tide curves, and a plain-English call on whether to go.

14. New data2026-08-21e

    The Intracoastal Waterway channel

    Fri, Aug 21, 4:30 PM PT

    The federal channel centreline and mile markers, from Army Corps survey data. Covers mile 204 to 308 — Beaufort down to Southport.

15. Foundation2026-08-21d

    Real accounts, and all the fake data deleted

    Fri, Aug 21, 4:25 PM PT

    Sign up, log in, pick a username, reset your password. Post comments, vote spots up or down, drop your own pins on the map. Every piece of made-up sample data was removed at the same time — no invented reports, no fake reviews, no imaginary members.

    • ›Depth reports get corrected for the tide automatically
    • ›Where nothing has been posted yet, the app says so instead of inventing activity
16. Foundation2026-08-21b

    Tide-corrected depth reports

    Fri, Aug 21, 3:31 PM PT

    The feature the whole app is built around. Post what your sounder read, and we look up what the tide was doing at that exact moment and correct it. The same 4.1 ft reading means very different things at high water and low — now everyone sees the number that actually compares.

This tab is temporary — it is here so you can both track progress while the app is being built out. The build stamp above matches the one at the bottom of Profile, so you can always tell whether what you are looking at is the latest.