What's New

We have updated our Privacy Policy to provide more clarity regarding our use of AI tools and to better reflect our international operations. We encourage you to review the latest version to stay informed about how we handle your data while you plan your next voyage.

We've polished your experience on MyFirstMate to ensure smoother sailing:

• Updated Menu: You'll now find a new menu item in the logo menu with a description of our AI Harness features.

• Improved Navigation: We've fixed an issue where content scrolling didn't always respect your page position, and resolved a bug that caused certain text to be incorrectly identified as links. Everything should now be ship-shape and easy to navigate.

We have polished your experience on MyFirstMate to make planning your next voyage even more seamless: Dragging or deleting days in the itinerary editor now automatically keeps your schedule in sequence, and your custom cover images will persist reliably after saving.

We've upgraded our documentation experience! You can now view clear, responsive diagrams directly within our guides, ensuring you have the best visual aids for planning your voyage. Additionally, we've added direct links to our new AI-harness FAQ, making it easier than ever to get the most out of your credits while navigating our platform.

We’ve polished the itinerary editor to ensure your voyage planning is more intuitive. You'll notice more accurate distance and duration calculations, and our map now correctly labels regions based on your chosen marinas, making it easier to chart your course with confidence.

We've polished the language around our AI-powered budget tools to make it easier to understand how your free credits work. Navigating your charter planning just got a little smoother.

We’ve polished your map experience to make planning your next voyage even easier:

• Always-Visible Haven Scores: You can now view haven ratings directly beneath the date and time bar, giving you instant insights into your potential stops without extra clicks.
• Real-Time Updates: When haven details are updated, the map now reflects the new scores immediately, ensuring your planning data is always shipshape.
• Improved Mobile Scrolling: We’ve smoothed out the interaction on the map; you can now easily scroll through the point-of-interest pane even when swiping over the date and time bar.

We've refined our mooring calculations to ensure your crew factor scores are more accurate. By better accounting for lines-ashore requirements, we’ve smoothed out the data to give you a clearer picture of what to expect when you drop anchor.

We’ve made significant improvements to our search and AI assistant to help you find your perfect charter faster.

Key Updates:

• Enhanced Search Intelligence: Our assistant is now better at understanding your requests, whether you're searching by specific marina, yacht name, or region. It will now proactively ask for clarification if a name is ambiguous and offer helpful alternatives if your initial search comes up empty.
• Improved Itinerary Flow: Planning your voyage is more intuitive. You can now easily set your starting marina based on your chosen yacht, and the system handles complex requests—like filtering by specific boat types—with greater accuracy.
• Clearer Yacht Details: We’ve updated our yacht tiles to display the operating company clearly, and improved the layout of search results so you can see all the information you need without clipping.
• Refined Hebrew Support: We’ve polished the interface for our Hebrew-speaking guests to ensure navigation and search results are natural and easy to read.

Whether you're narrowing down your dream vessel or plotting your course, these updates ensure a smoother experience from the moment you step aboard our platform.

We’ve upgraded your planning experience with more precise weather data and a more intuitive search interface. Key updates include:

• Advanced Weather Insights: Our 'Haven Score' now accounts for cross-swell conditions, giving you a more accurate picture of sea states. You can also view historical sea state data to better prepare for your voyage.
• Smarter Search & Navigation: We’ve unified our search and AI tools into a single, seamless experience. Finding your next destination, checking wind protection, or navigating the map is now faster and more reliable.
• Expanded Crew Management: You can now invite up to 12 crew members per plan, making it easier to coordinate larger groups for your upcoming charters.
• Improved Reliability: We’ve squashed several bugs in the itinerary editor and search bar to ensure your planning sessions remain smooth and uninterrupted.

Clearer Weather Scores: You can now click on any haven to see a detailed explanation of its weather score, helping you choose the safest and most comfortable anchorages.

We have overhauled our data import systems to ensure that the yacht listings you see on MyFirstMate are more reliable and up-to-date. This update improves the stability of our fleet synchronization, meaning fewer hiccups when searching for your next voyage and more accurate availability data across all our partner marinas.

We've fine-tuned our chat interface to ensure you receive the full picture. You'll now see every part of the messages from your charter assistant, making it easier than ever to coordinate the details of your next voyage.

We've optimized how your yacht itineraries load, resulting in significantly faster page speeds. Additionally, we've improved image handling throughout the platform to ensure your trip photos and location details appear exactly as intended, regardless of your browser settings.

We've made several improvements to your charter experience in this update:

• Refined Weather Insights: We've polished our weather reporting to provide clearer, more accurate daily forecasts.
• Live Boat Tracking: You can now see exactly where your vessel is located in real-time, making it easier to coordinate your arrival and departure.
• Itinerary Precision: We've updated our itinerary editor to ensure your planned stops and routes stay exactly where you place them, providing a more reliable planning experience.

We've patched a bug in our search engine that was occasionally causing certain yachts to disappear from your results. You can now browse our full fleet with confidence, knowing every available vessel is ready to be discovered for your next voyage.

We've made significant updates to ensure your yacht-charter search is more reliable and intuitive.

• Improved Search Accuracy: We’ve refined how we sync our fleet data, ensuring that yacht listings are more consistent and duplicates are kept off your radar.
• Better Mobile Experience: We’ve optimized our landing pages to ensure they look great and function perfectly, even when using on-screen keyboards or mobile browsers.

We have updated our mobile map interface. You will now find that menus and panels behave more predictably, giving you a clearer view of the charts and havens regardless of your device's orientation.

We've fine-tuned the search experience to make finding your next vessel even easier. You'll notice a cleaner interface when navigating between sections and more intuitive date filtering, ensuring you spend less time clicking and more time planning your voyage.

We have upgraded our Haven Score to version 6, introducing a new cross-swell factor to provide a more accurate assessment of conditions when planning your route. Additionally, your weather briefings now include a dedicated swell clause to help you better anticipate sea states, and our map interface is now more responsive, ensuring your route scores update instantly whenever you adjust your preferences or departure dates.

We’ve added a seamark legend, accessible from the Points menu.

Some minor bug fixes.

We've updated our map interface to make your voyage planning smoother than ever. You can now easily access the new 'Add nearby' feature to quickly plot points of interest, and we've refined our coordinate display to ensure your navigation remains precise. Additionally, our pathfinding tool now remembers your preferred routes, helping you get back to your favorite anchorages faster.

We've been hard at work refining your voyage planning experience! This update brings a more intuitive itinerary builder, including smarter day-start defaults and a streamlined layout for your daily stops. We've also polished the map interface to ensure your route markers and action buttons are perfectly aligned and easier to navigate. Finally, we've tidied up our menus and site branding to keep your focus exactly where it belongs: on the water.

We've polished your planning experience with several updates to the map interface and pathfinder. You can now enjoy more intuitive manual navigation point placement, smarter route suggestions, and a more reliable itinerary editor. Whether you're plotting a course between havens or dropping anchor at a new spot, your route planning is now faster, more stable, and better at remembering your preferences as you navigate between pages.

We've refined your chart-plotting experience to make planning your next voyage more intuitive.

• Click-to-Add Navigation: You can now drop navigation points directly onto your route with ease, including support for lat/lng coordinates and day breaks.
• Improved Itinerary Management: We've resolved issues with editing states, ensuring your progress is saved even when navigating between tabs. Itineraries now load reliably from your 'My' and 'Shared-with-crew' lists.
• Drag-and-Drop Precision: Adjusting your schedule is smoother than ever, with better drop targets at the end of each day and improved calendar positioning to keep your planning flow uninterrupted.

We've made several improvements to your charting experience to ensure your voyage planning is as clear as possible:

• Clearer Weather Insights: You'll now receive a helpful note when there are no Beaufort zone warnings for your selected area and time.
• Improved Map Controls: Clearing your point filters now correctly resets your search results, and haven scores will automatically refresh if your connection drops and returns.
• Seamless Access: We've polished the Google sign-in process and ensured the language menu stays perfectly positioned on mobile devices, so you can focus on your next destination without distraction.

We've polished the experience for our visitors! This update ensures that destination details and points of interest now display correctly in your preferred language. We've also tidied up the way curated pages load to ensure you get the right information every time you plan your next voyage.

We've polished your navigation experience to make planning your next voyage even more intuitive. Here’s what’s new:

• Weather Control: You can now easily toggle weather overlays on and off using the new Show/Hide pills.
• Faster Photo Viewing: Our gallery now opens instantly to the photo you selected, loading the rest in the background so you can start browsing without delay.
• Improved Search: We've added a handy clear button to the search bar and ensured your search text stays put when rotating your device.
• Better Itinerary Management: Deleting days or editing your route is now more reliable, with smarter re-anchoring to keep your plans shipshape.
• Enhanced Navigation: You can now open locations in a new tab using Cmd/Ctrl+click, and we’ve cleaned up map labels for a clutter-free view.
• Mobile Refinements: The map interface is now better optimized for portrait mode, ensuring a smoother experience on your phone or tablet.

We've polished your experience on MyFirstMate to ensure your journey from login to casting off is seamless. This update includes:

• Enhanced Navigation: We've fixed several issues to ensure you land exactly where you intend after signing in, keeping your session preferences intact.
• Clearer Controls: Every button and menu item now features helpful tooltips to guide you as you plan your voyage.
• Refined Map Experience: We’ve tidied up the map interface, ensuring weather overlays and distance readouts display perfectly without cluttering your view.
• Better Boat Details: Finding your way back to your yacht's specific information is now more reliable, ensuring your booking details are always just a click away.

We've fine-tuned our navigation tools to ensure your planning experience is as seamless as possible. This update includes refinements to our map interface and backend optimizations that help you plot your course with greater reliability and speed.

We've tightened up the rigging on our boat description editor. This update ensures that your yacht listings display exactly as intended, providing a more consistent and polished experience when you're browsing or managing your charter details.

We’ve streamlined your booking experience to get you on the water faster. Key updates include:

• Yacht-First Workflow: The yacht selection now leads the discovery process, making it easier to find your ideal vessel right from the start.
• Smarter Search: Our search tools are now more intuitive, automatically narrowing down marinas and boat matches based on your preferences.
• Refined Interface: We’ve polished the display of company names and ensured that clearing your search filters is now a seamless, one-click experience.
• Visual Fixes: We’ve tidied up our yacht galleries to ensure you only see the best imagery, keeping your planning process clean and focused.

We’ve optimized our pathfinder engine to provide faster, more efficient route calculations. Whether you're plotting a course along a complex coastline or navigating between nearby waypoints, you'll experience snappier responses and more reliable navigation data for your next charter.

We've polished your experience on MyFirstMate with several updates to make planning your next voyage even easier:

• Enhanced Map & POI Discovery: We've added 8 new points of interest types and improved map deep-linking for more precise navigation. The map now seamlessly syncs with your device's dark mode settings.
• Streamlined Itinerary Planning: You can now access itinerary details instantly with a new dedicated button on your itinerary tiles. We've also refined the layout of weather information for better readability at a glance.
• Improved Accessibility & Interface: From better form navigation to centered preference dialogs and improved contrast for buttons, we've made the platform more intuitive and accessible for everyone.
• Expanded Haven Support: Managed docks and pontoons are now fully integrated into search and preferences, ensuring you have more options when charting your course.
• Transparency: We've added a new attributions page in the footer to acknowledge the data sources that power your charts.

We’ve made several improvements to help you chart your course more easily:

• Flexible Itinerary Planning: You can now add stops to multi-day itineraries with greater precision using our updated day-picker, ensuring your schedule stays perfectly on course.
• Improved Accessibility: We’ve polished the interface for the 'Add-to-itinerary' tool, making it easier for everyone to navigate and manage their voyage plans.
• Expanded Photo Support: You can now upload your favorite photos in HEIC/HEIF formats directly to the location editor, so you can share your best snapshots without needing to convert them first.

We have significantly upgraded our weather mapping tools to help you chart a safer, more comfortable course. You can now toggle dynamic gustline overlays and view hourly weather scores directly on the map. We’ve also polished the weather control panel for a smoother experience, including improved mobile responsiveness, clearer last-updated timestamps, and more intuitive slider controls to ensure your planning remains seamless whether you're at the helm or scouting your next destination.

We've upgraded our haven details to make your voyage planning smoother than ever. Enjoy new day/night shading for better visibility, refined panning controls for a more fluid experience, and improved haven graph details to help you find the perfect anchorage with ease.

We're a little obsessed with how the map feels. Over the past few days we've been quietly tuning it behind the scenes — trimming the data each view carries and smoothing how it syncs — so the chart loads faster and stays responsive as you explore. Less waiting at anchor, more time planning your passage.

• Editing a spot on the map now refreshes only what changed, not the whole chart.
• The map holds its place — only the location you touched updates, the rest stays put.
• Faster point loading, so busy cruising grounds draw in quicker.

This one is a love letter to the little details. We went hunting for the rough edges on the map — the kind you might never report but would quietly feel — and smoothed them out before they could bother you.

• Waypoints now fly a gently waving flag, and unverified anchorages stand out clearly, even in satellite view.
• Removing a spot that belongs to an active plan is safer — keep it as a draft and jump straight to the days that use it.
• Weather briefings now appear instantly as you compare candidate routes — we prepare them ahead of time.
• Searching for a boat now floats the best matches to the top.

No new buttons this time — just a fortnight of behind-the-scenes work to make everything you already use a little quicker and a little sturdier. The unglamorous kind of release we're oddly fond of.

• Squashed a batch of bugs — the ones you reported, and a few you never had to.
• Trimmed load times across the map and the itinerary.
• Shored up the parts that used to wobble on a weak signal out at sea.

Keeping your plans and your account safe is a promise we take seriously, so we spent this week on security and privacy hardening — the kind of work you'll never see, but can quietly count on.

• Tightened how we guard your account and the plans you share.
• Hardened the parts of the app that talk to the outside world.
• Routine bug fixes and clean-ups along the way.

A plan is only any good if you can actually sail it. We taught the planner to keep each day realistic — checking that the distances are feasible and reining in overly ambitious legs — so the routes it suggests are ones you'll genuinely enjoy.

• Like your favourite itineraries and keep them to hand, favourites first.
• The share menu is now open to visitors, with a one-tap Add to plan.
• No more surprise location prompt the first time you open the map.

Every launch has its creaks. You sailed with us through that first week and told us exactly where it pinched — and we got straight to work.

• Fixed the rough edges you flagged in those opening days.
• Steadied sign-in and the map on slower connections.
• Lots of small polish, so the whole experience feels a little calmer underfoot.