The modern boating app, today.
The world’s most experienced captain, next.
Pathr Navigation is live on iOS today. The modern boating app for owners who actually use their boats. Auto-routing tuned to the vessel, real-time weather and AIS traffic, and anchor charts that show what’s on the bottom. All offline.
And next, Pathr Co-Captain: an AI working partner trained on your boat, your routes, and the conditions on the water.
I’ve been sailing since I was a kid. I’ve also spent my career as a flight test engineer on safety-critical autonomous systems. We built Pathr because the boating app I wanted didn’t exist. I test it on my own Catalina 38 every weekend I can.
Why Pathr exists
Most boat owners aren't professional captains. They juggle weather sites, paper notes, outdated chartplotters, and four or five phone apps to plan a single weekend, hoping the pieces add up to the kind of situational awareness a seasoned skipper builds over decades.
Pathr closes that gap. Modern data, real-time AIS, a proper anchor layer, and a real app, all on the device you already carry. Built by people who actually sail.
Connect the dots
Routing, traffic awareness, weather overlays, and harbor intelligence, all in one modern app.
A captain in your pocket
Pathr Co-Captain is the AI co-pilot built into Pathr. It briefs your trips, watches the things you can't, and learns your boat.
No forced upgrades
Professional-grade navigation without forcing anyone to replace gear they already trust.
What makes Pathr different
A modern boating app, built around an intelligent co-pilot instead of a 1990s chartplotter.
App-first navigation, not hardware-locked
Plan and navigate from your phone or tablet, the way modern pilots do, without getting trapped in a closed ecosystem.
An AI co-captain, in development
Pathr Co-Captain, an AI co-pilot built into the app that briefs your trips, watches your blind side underway, and learns your boat.
Built for real boaters
From single-handers to couples cruising offshore. Designed for how boats are actually sailed, not how manuals describe them.
A social layer for the water
Share routes, discover harbors, learn from others. Navigation becomes a connected experience instead of a solo chore.
Built to make navigation safer, smarter, simpler
Plain, confident tools that reduce workload underway, without forcing new hardware.
Aviation-level planning, made simple
Route planning that feels modern, clear, and fast. Built to reduce workload, not add it.
Real-time weather intelligence
Wind, wave, and current overlays designed for confident decisions underway.
Offline-ready for real cruising
Download charts and essential data before you depart. Signal isn't a plan.
Meet your co-captain.
Pathr Co-Captain is an AI co-pilot built into the Pathr Navigation app. It rides with you on the dock, underway, and back at the slip, and gives you the kind of grounded, no-nonsense advice you'd want from a sharp first mate who knows your boat as well as you do.
Co-pilot, not autopilot. You're still the captain.
"Wind looks 10–14 from the WNW most of Saturday. Your Beneteau has handled this profile fine on the last three runs — avg 4h 20m. One thing to watch: fog offshore through about 10 AM. I'd push departure to 09:30. Want me to update the plan?"
Briefs you before you cast off.
Reads the forecast against your boat, your route, and your skill. Departure window, what to pack, what could change.
Watches the things you can't.
AIS traffic closing from your blind side. Wind backing 20° over the next hour. A shoaling tide near your planned turn.
Looks after the boat between trips.
Tracks engine hours, fuel burn, oil intervals, batteries. Surfaces what's due before it becomes a problem on the water.
HelmLink. Pathr, meet the helm.
HelmLink is our next step toward connecting Pathr directly with the boat. This future hardware bridge is designed to integrate with existing autopilot systems, turning Pathr from a smarter planning tool into a more connected onboard navigation experience.
Built by boaters who got tired of "good enough"
A uniquely capable team, purpose-built to execute. We're not a big marine electronics company. We're boat owners building the tool we wish existed.
- Flight test engineer on safety-critical autonomous systems
- National Test Pilot School graduate
- Sailing since childhood; competed nationally in junior sailing
- Tests Pathr on his own Catalina 38
- Founding engineer at an automation startup acquired by a $1B+ technology company
- Full-stack geospatial engineer
- IoT systems architect
- Built remote-control hardware and cloud systems at commercial scale
- Pre-Series startup experience
- Award-winning innovative product developer, concept to commercialization
- Rapid & frugal prototyping expert
"Let Pathr handle the routing. Let your co-captain watch the details. You focus on boating."
The latest from the team.
Release notes, field reports, and product updates. Same feed the app uses, on the web.
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