ChartNav
ChartNav · Who it's for

Built for whoever's on watch.

One chart — live AIS traffic, NOAA charts, SST and seafloor relief, honest weather, and an AI Captain's Briefing that scores your departure windows. The map behind this text is live right now.

255,000 vessels · 1,480 harbors · live positions — no account needed

vessels live now
1,480port pages
30 daysAIS replay
Liveradar + lightning
See it work — these are live, right now

Not screenshots. The actual feeds.

Recorded traffic from last night playing back, a buddy link failing safe, real radar, real sea-surface temperature. Tap any map to explore it.

AIS replay — last night over Stellwagen Bank, animated

Scrub any window in the last 30 days, anywhere. Every dot is a real vessel from the recorded archive.

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The buddy system — watch it fail safe

Share live position with people you choose. Freshness is always shown, never guessed — and when a buddy goes quiet, you know in seconds. This demo loops the exact behavior.

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The AI Captain's Briefing — computed live

An advisor that reads the wind, seas, tide gates, and daylight and scores your departure windows. These are Gloucester Harbor's real windows, right now — the full per-leg route briefing lives in the app.

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Real radar on the chart

The Boston WSR-88D's last eight sweeps, looping — decoded from the source, not a blurry tile layer.

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Busiest harbors, right now

Ranked live by vessels in port. Every one of the 1,480 harbors has a page like this — arrivals and departures as they happen.

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vessels on the chart now
31M
positions recorded daily
1,480
live harbor pages
30 days
of replay, on tap
Seven readings of the same water

Find yours

The same live chart, read differently by everyone who keeps a watch. Each page below demos its features live — nothing staged.

No. 03 — LIVE DEMOS

Fishing & Charter

The tide window, SST breaks, seafloor structure, weather you can defend — and where the fleet worked last night, replayed.

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No. 01

Cruisers

Anchor alarm with a drift radius, drop-and-drag routes with GPX export, tides and currents for the passage and the anchorage.

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No. 02

Sailors

Four-model wind read honestly with the ensemble spread visible, real radar, lightning, and the sky over the racecourse.

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No. 04

Fleets

Every hull on one chart — live positions worldwide, fleet highlighting, 30-day replay, and port arrival/departure history.

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No. 05

Divers

Slack windows from NOAA current predictions, buoy sea state, condition-survey depths, and marks for every site you keep.

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No. 06

Ship Spotters

Every broadcasting vessel with photo, flag, and particulars — plus a live page for each harbor they call at.

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No. 07

Paddlers

Wind, tide, fog, and daylight for small craft that feel all four — with launch-point marks and distance measuring.

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Register I

Index of Ports

1,480 named harbors and anchorages, each with a live page — vessels in port now, arrivals and departures as they happen.

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Register II

Register of Vessels

A quarter-million vessels with live position, photo, flag, dimensions, and destination — searchable by name, MMSI, IMO, or callsign.

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What's aboard

NOAA vector charts

ENC + Inland ENC, self-rendered. Soundings in fathoms, feet, or meters.

LIVE TILES

SST & ocean color

Satellite temperature and chlorophyll overlays on the chart.

SATELLITE

3D seafloor relief

NOAA BlueTopo bathymetry — banks and holes read like terrain.

BLUETOPO

Condition surveys

USACE surveyed channel depths, with the source PDF.

USACE eHYDRO

Four-model wind

GFS, HRRR, NBM, ECMWF side by side with ensemble confidence.

DIRECT INGEST

Radar & lightning

NEXRAD Level-2 + NIDS, storm cells, live strikes with alerts.

150+ SITES

Tides & currents

CO-OPS predictions + RTOFS 1/12° surface currents.

NOAA

AIS replay

Scrub any window from the last 30 days over your grounds.

TIME MACHINE

AI Captain's Briefing

Tide gates, currents, wind, and daylight read for every route leg.

ADVISOR

Safety kit

Anchor alarm, MOB, buddy live-sharing with contact-lost alerts.

FAILS SAFE

Marine warnings

Gale, storm, SCA on their real zones; fog before the bank.

NWS ZONES

Routes & GPX

Drop-and-drag planning, safety ribbon, GPX 1.1 to any plotter.

EXPORT
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.

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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.

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