My grandfather Pete had one rule that came before every other rule on the water: safety first, always. He was meticulous about it. Before a trip ever left the dock, he'd already worked through the tide, the wind, the time of day, how long the run out would take, how long it would take to get back — all of it, every time, no shortcuts. And if the conditions didn't line up, he didn't push it. He'd cancel the trip. No second-guessing, no "it'll probably be fine." Safety decided the day, not the other way around.
That kind of discipline is easy to admire and hard to actually do every single time. Real trip planning means checking the tide charts, cross-referencing the wind forecast, working out sunrise and sunset, figuring out how a low tide might strand you in a channel on the way out or the way back, and doing the math on when you actually need to leave the house to make it all work — before you've even left the driveway. It's a lot to hold in your head, especially on a weekday morning before work.
This website does that work the way Pete would have done it: automatically, thoroughly, and without cutting corners. It pulls real NOAA tide predictions and live wind, temperature, and rain forecasts, checks them against the same kind of rules he lived by — no fishing before sunrise or after dark, no cutting it close to a low tide in the channel — and tells you plainly which windows are genuinely good, which are workable, and which you should skip entirely. When a trip doesn't meet the bar, it says so, the same way Pete would have just called the whole thing off.
It's not about fishing more. It's about fishing smart, and knowing — before you ever untie the lines — that the conditions actually support a safe trip out and a safe trip back.
Built in his memory, and in keeping with his rule.
Used it for a trip? Found something confusing, wrong, or missing? A line or two helps a lot — this goes straight to me, not a mailbox nobody checks.