About us
Built by boaters, for boaters.
Aweigh comes out of two lifetimes on the water and one small software practice in New Rochelle, New York.
We have been ocean racing and round the buoys as competitive sailors. Chartering and kayaking have taken us to new islands and harbors. We have dropped a ski or two, fallen off paddleboards and flipped kayaks. We have worked in chandleries and on motors. And once in a while we have gotten lucky and proudly shown off our catch.
All of that is the reason Aweigh asks what you are taking out before it tells you anything. Fifteen knots was never one answer in our house either.
Who makes it
Two of us.
Roland Rogers
Lifelong boater · builds Aweigh
Roland runs Kirkor IT Solutions in New Rochelle and has spent his working life building web applications, mostly for nonprofits and foundations. Aweigh is the one he built for the dock.
Catherine Rogers
Lifelong boater and racer
Catherine has raced for as long as she has sailed, which is the reason Aweigh understands that a flat calm is its own kind of No-Go and not everyone is trying to avoid weather.
The data
Where every number comes from.
A forecast is not a measurement. It comes out of computer models, and models disagree with each other about the same afternoon. We do not average them together, because averaging invents a forecast nobody made, and we do not show you the argument, because a disagreement you cannot act on is just noise.
Tides are the exception. Those are astronomical calculations built on decades of measurement, and they are as close to certain as anything on the page.
In short
- Wind, gusts, temperature, visibility, daylight
Open-Meteo, chosen after checking it against 185 hours of buoy observations at two locations - Chance of rain
National Weather Service, which read higher at four test harbors, and higher is the safer error before you leave the dock - Tides
NOAA CO-OPS, with WorldTides outside the US network - Warnings and advisories
National Weather Service marine zone products - Location lookup
Nominatim, on OpenStreetMap data
Timestamps show when the data left the weather service, not when you loaded the page. A stale forecast is flagged in red.
Plain about it
What Aweigh is not.
Aweigh is a planning aid. It compares a forecast against limits you set, and it tells you what it found. That is the whole job.
It is not an official forecast service and it is not a navigation safety system. It does not know how your boat is loaded, who is aboard, how much water is in the bilge, or what the harbor actually looks like this morning. Check NOAA and the Coast Guard before you get underway, and read any advisory Aweigh puts in front of you rather than trusting the stamp on its own.
If a rating ever looks wrong to you, tell us. That is the single most useful thing you can send.
The name
Aweigh™
An anchor is aweigh the moment it breaks free of the bottom and the boat is under way. It is the instant the decision has already been made. That seemed like the right name for something whose only job is helping you make it.
Aweigh™ is a trademark of Kirkor Consulting + Design, LLC, New Rochelle, NY, which does business as Kirkor IT Solutions.