Tomorrow at six, or wait a day? Ava checks every hour of your passage against your boat and your limits, then tells you plainly.
Free while in testing. Every warning and the anchor watch, always free.
Five forecasts open, a tide table, the pilot book, a notebook full of arithmetic, and still a guess at the end. Ava reads it all, hour by hour, for your boat. You read one answer and its reasons.
Gusts reach 19 kt, inside your 25 kt limit.
Swell 1.4 m on the beam. Models agree.
Out through the pass on the ebb, in by 11:20.
back in your year, to spend on the water instead of on a screen. Plus a Daily Brief every morning at anchor, already done for you.
Your own numbers, set above. It assumes about two minutes to read Ava's answer and its reasons.
Everyone's comfortable is different. Set what you and your crew are happy with, and Ava checks every hour of the passage against it, across three forecast models, never a single run. Try it: move your limits.
A week of departure times, scored for your boat. Pick what matters on this trip and Ava finds the best time to leave, with how sure the forecast is, in plain words.
Your morning check, wherever you are anchored. One screen, already read for you.
An alarm if you drag or lose GPS, even with the screen off and the phone in your bunk. Ava tracks your swing, and warns you when a boat nearby starts dragging toward you.
Ava is not another island of data. It listens to your boat, knows your boat, learns from your passages, and keeps the whole anchorage looking out for each other.
Wind, depth and speed, live over the boat's Wi-Fi.
Charge and state of your batteries, live from your battery monitor.
Over 500 cruising boats, every figure sourced and the draft never guessed. Then Ava learns your real speeds from your own passages.
Plans, the Daily Brief and the anchor watch, all drawing on the same picture of your boat.
Shared swing circles in the anchorage. When one boat drags, the boats around it hear.
Entries on a timer, your track, engine and sailing time. Share it as a spreadsheet, GPX or KML.
Passes, anchorages and local rules that update without a new app version, and improve every time a sailor says what they found.
Weather-checked offshore plans, the Daily Brief and the anchor watch work everywhere. Beyond the forecast, a long-range outlook from past seasons, clearly labelled. And on the classic cruising grounds, Ava goes deeper.
The way in and out of the lagoon, and when the pass is safe to take.
Which way each one is open, and where to move when the wind shifts.
Clearing in, protected areas, emergency numbers and who to call.
Ava never pretends to know more than the forecast does. Every Go, Go with caution or Do not go says what it rests on and how sure it is. When the data is thin, it tells you, instead of guessing.
Ava is a planning aid. It is not a chart and does not replace official forecasts, pilot books, local knowledge or the person on the bow. Keep your charts, your judgement and a proper watch.
Models agree within 10% on wave height.
Boat speeds are estimated for a catamaran of this length, not yet measured on yours. Log a passage and Ava learns.
Anchorage position from a published source, not yet checked on the water. After you sail, Ava asks whether it was right.
Past day five the forecast thins out, so Ava switches to what past seasons looked like, and says so.
Built to be read in a rolling cockpit, in bright sun or in the dark at 3 a.m.
Ava is Tahitian for the pass through the reef: where the lagoon ends and the ocean begins.
Ava was built at anchor and tested on passage, aboard a cruising catamaran in French Polynesia, by a sailing family who wanted one honest answer before every hop. Its French Polynesian places come from our own passages.
The Wayfinders are the sailors testing Ava before launch. You get every feature free while we test, a direct line to the people who build it, and the Wayfinders badge in the app.
Every feature is open to the Wayfinders while Ava is in testing.
Every warning and the anchor watch will always be free, for everyone.
"Comment on this" on any place, tile or plan reaches us with the details we need. A person reads every one.
Ava is free while it is in testing: every feature is open. Every warning and the anchor watch will always stay free.
Cruising monohulls and catamarans, under sail, under engine, or motorsailing, which Ava treats as a mode of its own. Pick your model from over 500 cruising boats, or set your own figures, and Ava learns your boat's real speeds from your passages.
Plans, the Daily Brief and the anchor watch you already have keep working. New forecasts need a connection.
Anywhere for offshore plans, the Daily Brief and the anchor watch. In-depth regions, with reef maps, passes, anchorages and local rules: French Polynesia, Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Niue, Northland in New Zealand, the Lesser Antilles from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad, and the Balearic Islands.
Three global weather models, plus marine and tide models, read hour by hour. Cyclone warnings come from the regional warning centres named in the Daily Brief. Ava shows where the models agree and where they do not.
No. Ava is a planning aid, not a chart. Keep your charts, your own judgement and a proper watch.
Android phones and tablets now, in testing with the Wayfinders. iPhone is on its way. Ava is coming to Google Play and the App Store.