What's New

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.