Practical marine technology collective

Technology for sailors who
still trust their eyes.

OpenSeas Tech Collective builds connected tools for sailors, cruisers, liveaboards, and boat owners — turning marine data into decisions you can actually use.

4 Core projects
Signal K & NMEA native
Beta Now open
What we build

Real tools for real boats.

Three threads run through everything we make — connected data, marine intelligence, and open tools that play nicely with the gear sailors already own.

Connected Boat Data

Live dashboards and historical trends drawn from Signal K, NMEA 2000, and the sensors already onboard. Your boat, wherever you happen to be.

Marine Intelligence

Ownership, value, condition, and decision tools for the boats you have — or the ones you're thinking about. Grounded answers, not generic listings.

Shared Open-Water Tools

Public weather, tides, and crowd-shared marine data — because awareness gets sharper when sailors contribute the same information they rely on.

Projects

Under the OSTC flag.

A growing collective of marine tech projects. All built for sailors who want more signal, less noise.

In development

KeelWise

Smarter decisions about the boat you own — or the next one.

KeelWise is a marine intelligence and boat-decision platform focused on helping sailors make smarter choices around boats, ownership, value, condition, and future planning. Designed for practical decisions, not another listing scroll.

  • Boat intelligence grounded in real-world data
  • Ownership tools for maintenance, value, and condition tracking
  • Premium features for deeper analysis when the decision warrants it
  • Built for sailors weighing real tradeoffs, not tire-kickers
Pilot phase

OpenTide

Distributed tide intelligence.

OpenTide is a distributed tide and sea-level observation network built from real boats, docks, and coastal sensors. It collects real-world observations to improve local tide awareness in anchorages, harbors, and shallow-water cruising areas — especially where traditional stations are sparse or outdated.

Where it earns its keep

  • Anchoring depth awareness
  • Dinghy landing timing
  • Crossing shallow cuts
  • Understanding local tidal variation
  • Planning departures and arrivals
  • Situational awareness in poorly covered areas

Open by design

OpenTide provides a public API for both contributing and consuming tide and sea-level data. Stations can submit observations using the signalk-opentide plugin or by pushing directly to the OpenTide API. Developers, researchers, and marine applications can access the same data to build tools, visualizations, and local insights — without relying on closed or proprietary systems.

In development

HarbourNow

Services, right in your anchorage.

HarbourNow connects boaters with local service providers in real time. Pin your anchorage, post a request, and providers nearby — fuel boats, water-taxis, mechanics, pump-out operators, chandlers — see it instantly, bid with their price and ETA, and route to you on arrival.

What you can call for

  • Fuel and water delivery
  • Pump-out service
  • Groceries and provisioning runs
  • Mechanics, riggers, and on-water repairs
  • Laundry and trash haul
  • Water-taxi to the dock

How it works

Boaters drop a pin on their anchor and request a service. Local providers see open requests on a live map with distance and ETA, then bid with a price and arrival time. The boater accepts a bid, and the provider's pin tracks toward the pickup with auto-arrival when they're alongside. Providers run a visualised queue across multiple stops — built for tender ops, not generic ride-hailing.

Why OSTC exists

Marine tech has been stuck for a long time.

Most marine software is expensive, clunky, proprietary, or all three. It gets shipped with a chartplotter from 2014 and rarely gets better. The data is trapped onboard. The apps don't talk to each other. The user interface assumes you're wearing dress shoes at a boat show.

OSTC exists to build cleaner, more useful systems for the people who actually live with this stuff — sailors who cross oceans, owners who maintain their own boats, liveaboards who need to know the bilge is dry while they're at the grocery store. The goal isn't to replace seamanship. It's to support better decisions with data that's finally been given room to breathe.

  • Open by default. Built on open marine standards like Signal K and NMEA 2000 — not walled gardens.
  • Useful, not clever. Every feature has to earn its place on a boat. If it doesn't help, it's not in.
  • Built by sailors. We use the tools we ship, on our own boats, in real conditions.
Roadmap

Where we're heading.

An honest look at what's next. Dates are targets, not promises — boats and weather teach humility.

  1. Now

    SeaLink beta growth

    Scaling the SeaLink beta toward 100 active boats. Hardening the data pipeline, tightening dashboards, and learning from every shakedown.

  2. Next

    OpenTide Pilot

    Begin collecting real-world tide and sea-level observations from SeaLink-connected boats and coastal sensors — building useful shared tide intelligence for remote anchorages and under-charted areas.

  3. Building

    HarbourNow pilot

    Bringing HarbourNow out of prototype into pilot anchorages — boaters requesting services from local providers, bids and ETAs in real time, jobs routing to arrival on the water.

  4. Soon

    KeelWise launch

    Bringing KeelWise out of development with ownership tools, boat intelligence, and a premium tier for sailors making real decisions about real boats.

  5. Horizon

    A shared marine data ecosystem

    Tools that connect — for sailors buying, managing, monitoring, or understanding boats. One collective, many instruments, better seamanship.

Follow the build.

Join the next wave of practical marine tech. Beta access, early features, and the occasional honest log from sea.