What's new aboard BoatMatey

BoatMatey AI

Ask about your own boat by text, voice or photo. BoatMatey AI answers from your boat details, your service history and the manuals you upload, so the answer is about your engine, not engines in general.

• Diagnose a problem step by step, one question at a time.
• Take a photo of a part, a label or a warning light and ask what it is.
• Log the job or set the reminder straight from the answer.
• BoatMatey asks your permission before anything is shared with the AI service.

BoatMatey AI comes with the Premium AI plan, with a 7-day free trial where eligible. Already on Premium? You can add it from Settings.

Ask BoatMatey AI

Tides and marine weather for 3,630 harbours

Pick any of 3,630 harbours around the world, or use your location, and see the next high and low water, the day's tide curve and the week's tides. In most harbours heights are given above chart datum, as on your chart.

The forecast is written for sailors, hour by hour for seven days: wind in Beaufort force and in words, gusts, sea state, swell, visibility, air and sea temperature, pressure and the tidal stream. For each place BoatMatey uses the best regional weather model available there.

• Works with no signal: the last places you looked at are kept on your phone.
• Water for your boat: the hours when there is enough depth to get in and out.
• A haul-out planner that finds low tides in daylight, plus sunrise and sunset.
• Your passage log now records the conditions at the time.

Tides and weather are an indication only. Always check official sources before you go to sea.

Open Tides

Can I go out?

Set the wind and wave limits you are happy with for each boat, and Can I go out? shows the hours this week that fit them. Limits can be in Beaufort, knots, km/h or mph, and there are suggested starting limits for motor boats, sailing boats and RIBs.

Try Can I go out?

Berth warnings before strong weather

Tell BoatMatey where the boat is kept and it will warn you by email or phone notification when strong wind is forecast there, or the biggest tides of the year if you are on a mooring, a wall or a drying berth.

• You choose the strength: force 7, gale force 8 (the default) or force 9.
• One message per blow, not a stream of them.
• Wind and tide warnings can each be turned off.

Set up berth warnings

BoatMatey in six languages

BoatMatey now speaks French, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch as well as English. It follows your phone's language, or you can choose one in Settings. Emails, the User Guide, the Terms and the Privacy Policy follow your choice too.

The MAYDAY, PAN-PAN and SECURITE scripts are in all six languages, with a quick switch to International English, and BoatMatey can read the script aloud in that language.

Live now on the web and Android. On iPhone the languages arrive with the next App Store update, expected within the week.

Choose your language

Bills of sale, and handing the boat on

Keep every bill of sale for your boat with the signed copy attached, building its ownership history.

Export Boat Report now gives you one zip with the PDF report and all your attached documents. Selling? The export includes a boat file the new owner can import into BoatMatey, so the service history and documents go with the boat.

Open Bills of Sale