A sailing coach that gets smarter

Every sail teaches the next one.

Record your sailing on your phone. Marena, your coach, learns from you and the whole fleet, then turns it into the exact drill to do next. On race day, see the wind in 3D over the real water.

What it does

Three steps. That's it.

1

Sail and log

Hit record. GPS tracks every tack, gybe and leg. Add a wind sensor, heart-rate band, or just a quick note.

Phone GPSWind sensorHeart rateNotes
2

The app learns

Your numbers join everyone's, anonymously. It learns what speed to expect, how much a tack really costs, and what each place is like.

Fleet speedTack lossVenue windBest forecast
3

Marena coaches

Pick what to work on. Marena reads your data and builds the drill in the app: the course, the timer, the plan. Then it checks if it worked.

VMGTacticsSpeedFitnessBoat handling
New: race-day wind

Wind you can't see on a forecast.

A forecast gives you one number for a few kilometres of water. On the racecourse the breeze squeezes, bends and dies around every headland, bridge and pier. Marena now works that out, and shows you what is coming.

3D wind

Your racecourse, solved in 3D.

A fluid simulation on a graphics processor works out how the forecast breeze actually flows over the real terrain, bridges and buildings.

  • About 50 m detail across a whole racing area, down to a few metres under the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Tap anywhere to read wind speed, direction, rising or sinking air and current at any height
  • Scrub through the day with the time slider, and watch the streaks move
  • Simulate this area for anywhere else you sail, at home or abroad
Open 3D wind →
21 kt · from 252°at 10 m · current 1.4 kt ebb
Weather now · +15 · +30 min race areagust in 25 minthen a lull

Storms, fronts, sea breeze

Storm cells on radar and when their gust front reaches your race area: the gust, the shift and the lull after. Fronts coming or leaving. The sea breeze's odds, onset and peak. Refreshed every 5 minutes.

See the weather →
Pressure & shifts shore+15% pressurelull −20% lift 8°header 5°

Where the pressure is

The water coloured by more or less breeze than the open course, and by the shifts the land puts in. Every zone gets a sentence. Plus whether today's shifts swing back and forth or keep going one way.

See the zones →
Race replay wind VMG 82% of target

Replay the wind you sailed in

Upload a GPX or Vakaros track after the race. See the wind along every leg, and your VMG against your boat's targets.

Open Race Replay →
Race venues

Run every hour at race venues

These venues get a fresh 3D field every hour of the racing day, checked against buoys, piers, airports and sailors' own wind readings.

Golden GateCentral BaySt. Francis YCRichmond YCSanta CruzAvalon, CatalinaMarina del ReySan PedroAlamitos BayLake TahoePalmaHyèresTakapunaLos Alcázares
Open the Forecaster →

Want the whole story? How the micro-wind engine works →

The loop

You. Data. Marena. Round again.

The more you sail, the better the coaching. The more everyone sails, the better it gets for everyone.

sessionswind · notesforecasts your history + the fleet + each venue drillsplansanswers YOUthe sailor DATAlearns from everyone MARENAyour coach Sail it. Measure it. Improve it. 1 2 3
1

You sail and log

Every session, wind reading, forecast and note goes in. Nothing to type if you just hit record.

2

Data finds the pattern

Your history, the fleet's combined numbers, and what each beach or lake is like. Anonymous and combined, never personal.

3

Marena hands back the next step

A drill built in the app, with how it will be measured. Next session, the loop checks whether it worked.

What it learns

Three things nobody tells you alone.

Expectedspeed model each sailor gets "what you should be doing here"

How fast you should be

Your speed against what the fleet's data says is possible in that wind and angle. A fair yardstick, not a guess.

hours of the day★ closest here measured on the water

Which forecast to trust

Every forecast is compared with the wind sailors actually measured at that spot. The most accurate model becomes the default there.

Crissy Fieldbeach · San Francisco typical wind by hour of day (example)

What each place is like

Pins drop automatically and are named after the nearest beach, marina, lake or bay. Typical wind by hour builds up as people sail there.

Meet Marena

Ask for an outcome. Get a plan.

"I want to be faster from the windward mark onto the reach." Marena reads your own sessions, the fleet, and the venue, then answers with a drill she can build in the app for you.

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She bobs, changes colour with her mood, and blows the odd bubble.

Marena
Faster from the windward mark onto the reach?
Your last three roundings lost about 9 m each. Here's one drill that targets it:
Windward to reach roundingWide in, tight out, set up early. Measured by solo-race leg times.
Build this in the appJust explain
Do it six times, then sail again. I'll check whether the loss shrank.
On the water

Built for real sailing.

Record sessionsGPS, legs, tacks and gybes sorted for you
VMG and anglesYour best angle in each breeze
Start lineCountdown, line bias, over-the-line alerts
Race templatesBuild a course, then run it solo
WorkoutsInterval timer, heart rate, effort versus wind
ForecastsWind, tide and current for race day, several models
3D wind and currentThe breeze over real terrain and bridges, at any height
Race-day weatherStorm gust fronts, fronts, sea breeze, shifts
Race replayUpload a GPX or Vakaros track, see your wind
Race venuesFresh 3D wind every hour, at home and abroad
Group chatCrew and coach in one place, with distress alerts
Chalk talk and debriefPre-race plan and post-race review for teams
Works with any phone's GPSCalypso wind sensorVakaros tracksHeart-rate monitorGoPro controlInstalls like an app

Bluetooth gear (wind sensor, heart-rate monitor, GoPro) needs Android with Chrome. iPhone runs everything else, including GPS recording, forecasts, venues and Marena.

Your data

Combined. Never personal.

3+

sailors behind anything shown about a venue or the fleet. Fewer than that stays hidden.

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names in shared takeaways. Notes are summarised, not quoted, and checked before they are shared.

You

decide on training use. Helping to train future models is a switch that starts off.

Sail. Learn. Repeat.

Free to try. Opens in your browser and installs like an app.

Open the app