ChartNav
For fishing & charter captains

The bite, the weather, the window.

Live NOAA vector charts with SST, seafloor relief, four wind models, radar, currents, and every AIS vessel on the water. The map behind this text is live — so is every demo below.

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30 daysAIS replay
4 modelswind forecast
Liveradar + lightning
Read the water

Find the temperature break and the structure under it

Fish hold on edges — temperature edges, bottom edges, current edges. ChartNav puts all three on the same chart.

Sea-surface temperature

Satellite SST rendered on the chart. Work the break, not the blank blue middle. Chlorophyll ocean-color stacks on top for the productivity edge.

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LIVE · satellite-derived · Gulf of Maine shown

3D seafloor relief

NOAA BlueTopo bathymetry with hillshade — banks, ledges, and holes read like terrain. This is Stellwagen Bank, live tiles.

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LIVE · NOAA BlueTopo bathymetry + hillshade

Vector nautical charts

Real NOAA ENC — soundings, buoys, lights, wrecks, depth tints you can re-threshold live. Soundings in fathoms, feet, or meters. Inland ENC covers the rivers.

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LIVE · NOAA ENC vector tiles · Gloucester Harbor shown

Condition surveys

USACE hydrographic surveys drawn on the chart — the surveyed depths of channels and harbors, with the source PDF one tap away.

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LIVE · USACE eHydro · Boston approaches shown

The tide window — today's real curve

NOAA CO-OPS predictions for Gloucester Harbor, drawn as they stand right now. The amber line is this moment; fish the turn, not the clock.

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LIVE · NOAA CO-OPS 6-minute predictions · station auto-locks to your GPS in the app
Read the sky

Weather you can defend at the dock

Four primary models side by side, real radar, live lightning, and the GOES view from orbit. When the models disagree, you see that too.

Four wind models, one chart

GFS, HRRR, NBM, and ECMWF ingested from the source and compared at your spot — this meteogram is Stellwagen Bank, right now.

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LIVE · direct model ingest + GEFS confidence in the app

NEXRAD radar

Real WSR-88D scans — not a smoothed tile layer. This loop is the Boston radar's last eight sweeps, on the chart.

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LIVE · KBOX reflectivity · Level-2 + NIDS in the app

Live lightning

Blitzortung strikes, 60-minute rolling window, with radius alerts so a building cell never surprises you offshore.

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LIVE · alerts at your radius, 5–100 nm

GOES satellite

GeoColor, true color, and night IR straight from GOES-19, refreshed every five minutes. This is the latest frame.

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LIVE · SSEC RealEarth · fog detection layer in the app
Read the fleet

See where they worked last night

Live AIS from a worldwide receiver network — including our own antenna — and a 30-day time machine over your grounds.

AIS replay — this is recorded traffic from last night, playing back

Scrub any window in the last 30 days. Watch who set up on the ledge at 0300, how long they held, and when they ran for the barn. Below: six real hours over Stellwagen, animated.

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LIVE DATA · position_reports archive · every vessel, not just the ones you follow

RTOFS currents

NOAA's 1/12° ocean model as a live vector field — set, drift, and the rips where bait stacks up. Particle flow animates it in the app.

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LIVE · RTOFS 6-hourly cycles · CO-OPS station predictions too

Routes + the AI advisor

Drop-and-drag routes with a depth-safe ribbon, GPX 1.1 export to your plotter — and a Captain's Briefing that reads the tide gates, currents, wind, and daylight for every leg before you go.

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LIVE · route safety check + per-leg briefing in the app
And the rest of the watch

Anchor alarm

Drift radius for the night on the hook. It yells before the rocks do.

Man overboard

Long-press the chart: MOB, anchor, or mark — position fixed at the press.

Buddy system

Share live position with chosen friends. Contact-lost alerts fail safe.

Marine warnings

Gale, storm, SCA drawn on their real zones. Fog advisories before the bank.

Tide windows

CO-OPS curve for the station nearest your ledge. Fish the turn, not the clock.

Port & vessel pages

1,480 harbors with live arrivals. A page for every vessel you share water with.

One backend, four helms

Web in any browser · iPhone & iPad native app · Apple TV boat-dashboard mode for the salon · Apple Watch on your wrist. Marks, routes, tracks, and alarms stay in sync.

PWA today · native apps in TestFlight
CAUTION ChartNav is a planning and situational-awareness tool, not a navigation system. AIS shows only vessels that broadcast. Forecasts are model output and can be wrong. Carry official charts and publications, and keep a proper watch.

Questions from working captains

How fresh is the SST and current data?

SST follows the satellite product cycle; RTOFS currents update on 6-hourly model cycles; radar, lightning, and AIS are live. Every layer shows its timestamp.

Can I see where boats fished last night?

Yes — Replay history plays back recorded AIS for any window in the last 30 days, like the demo above. Scrub it over your grounds.

Will it replace the plotter at the helm?

No, and it isn't meant to. Plan here, export GPX 1.1 to your Garmin/Simrad/Raymarine, and run official charts at the helm.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes — it's a progressive web app, and native iPhone/iPad, Apple TV, and Watch apps share the same account and sync.

Every demo on this page was live.

The full chart has all of it, together, right now.

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