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April 28, 2026

A major upgrade to maritime weather in Catchwise

Reading the conditions is half the job — wind, current, temperature, depth, the picture you build before gear ever hits the water.
This release brings a step up in how skippers see and use weather and ocean data, including:

📍 A new way to pull forecasts for any point on the map

💨 An upgraded wind model with higher resolution and gusts

🌊 Hourly current forecasts

🗺️ A broader set of ocean layers, all in one workflow

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Tomas Roaldsnes

Right-click to get weather forecast

The biggest change is how you get a forecast. Right-click any spot and a forecast panel opens for that exact location.

  • Right-click forecasting – Pull a forecast for any point on the map.
  • Short-term and long-term – Step through how conditions are expected to develop over hours and days.
  • Compare grounds side by side – Right-click two locations and see how they differ before you decide where to steam.

A better wind model

The wind layer has been rebuilt from the ground up.

  • Higher resolution – Finer detail across the chart, hour by hour.
  • Better accuracy – Improved forecasting of how wind develops over time.
  • Gusts included – Average wind only tells part of the story. Gusts are now in the same view, so you see what actually decides whether a shift is workable.

Tides and currents

Current forecasts now run hour by hour.

  • Finer time resolution – See how current direction and speed shift through the day, not just a daily summary.
  • Surface and seabed – Switch between surface and seabed currents in the same view.
  • Better tide planning – Useful for grounds where current direction matters as much as speed.

Helping skippers decide where to fish next

Picking a ground is a judgement call built from many signals — temperature breaks, structure, current edges, where the life is concentrating. We've pulled the conditions that actually drive that decision into the same map, so you can read a ground at a glance.

Available layers now include:

  • Wind, with gusts
  • Waves
  • Currents
  • Sea temperature — surface and bottom
  • Depth
  • Plankton
  • Upwelling
  • Ice charts

The point isn't more data for the sake of it. It's that everything you use to assess conditions sits on one map, and the layers work together.

Built on what skippers asked for

Skippers we work with kept telling us the same thing: the data exists, but it's scattered. One service for wind, another for current. Conditions only pay off in context — read alongside vessels, seabed, and catch.

Catchwise helps you decide where to go next. Better data, in one place, faster to act on.