Vane routes you through the weather before the start, then takes the GPS track off your phone afterwards and tells you which leg cost you four minutes — measured against the wind that was actually there, not a guess you typed in.
Forecasts are free, worldwide, forever.
Vane closes the circle, and the last step is the one nobody else sells.
Eight global models, weighted by how each has actually performed at your venue, with a consensus and a plain briefing.
A time-dependent router through the whole wind field, with ocean currents, your polar, and a route per model side by side when they disagree.
Local wind at about a kilometre where it matters, with coast and terrain effects — measured against real weather stations, not just modelled.
Drop in the GPX from your watch or phone. Vane splits the race at the marks and shows where the time went, leg by leg.
Tacking upwind always adds about thirty per cent. Comparing your track to a straight line would call every beat a disaster, so Vane re-sails each leg optimally through the same wind and compares against that.
The track from a phone in a dry bag is enough. Vane can even learn your boat's polar from how it has actually sailed, rather than the one the designer published.
Where weather stations exist, local wind is anchored to what they observed and downscaled over the terrain. Verified at Sydney against seven stations: 3.66 kn RMSE on the water against 4.08 raw.
Library polars are approximations and Vane says so. Where a venue has not been validated, it tells you that too, instead of quietly presenting a guess as a number.
Prices in Australian dollars, GST included — what you are quoted is what you pay. One free debrief a month, so you can see what it tells you before deciding it is worth anything.
The first fifty accounts get Pro free for sixty days — no card, nothing to cancel. It simply ends on its date, and we will email you before it does.