1
Plan
Build your route with stops, timing, and trip details.
Before you leave the dock,
leave someone a real plan.
Create a free float plan with your route, passengers, boat details, emergency contacts, and return time — then download it, print it, or send it to someone you trust.
✓No credit card required
✓Simple step-by-step setup
✓Shareable trip page
✓Built for real boating trips
FPW helps organize and share your trip plan — it is not an emergency dispatch service.
A safer trip plan in three simple steps.
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Share
Send a private trip status page to your shore contact.
3
Update
Check in while underway and keep your plan up to date.
See FloatPlanWizard in action
Build the route, monitor the trip, and share a private trip page with family or friends.
A PDF is a start. FPW keeps the plan alive.
A blank float plan is better than nothing. FPW helps turn that plan into a route-based trip workflow your shore contact can actually use.
Blank Float Plan
- ×Static document
- ×Easy to forget or leave incomplete
- ×Usually shared once
- ×Hard to update underway
- ×Depends on someone remembering the details
FloatPlanWizard
- ✓Route-based trip plan
- ✓Guided instructions for the details that matter
- ✓Shareable trip page for family and friends
- ✓Active Cruise keeps timing and status current
- ✓Organizes route, vessel, passengers and contacts
- ✓Electronic arrival and departure monitoring
- ✓Trip updates sent to shore contact
Built for the way real boaters actually use the water.
Whether it is a short local run, a fishing trip, a weekend cruise, or a longer route, FPW helps turn the trip into a plan someone ashore can understand.
Local Day Trips
Quick runs still need a clear return time, passenger list, and shore contact.
Fishing Trips
Share where you are headed, when you expect to return, and who is aboard before you head offshore or into open water.
Weekend Cruising
Organize stops, timing, contacts, and overnight plans in one place.
Great Loop & Longer Routes
Use route planning and shared trip updates for more complex cruising days.
Private by default. Shared only when you choose.
FPW helps you organize and share your float plan. It does not replace calling the Coast Guard, 911, local authorities, or emergency services.
Shore contacts do not need an account
They can view the private trip page you share with them.
You choose who gets the trip page
Share the plan directly with the people you trust.
Your plan is not public
The trip page is meant for the contacts you choose.
FPW is not an emergency response service
Use official emergency channels when immediate help is needed.
Start with a free float plan. Upgrade when you want live trip tools.
Create a simple float plan first. Add route planning, Active Cruise, shared trip updates, and monitoring tools when you need more than a printable plan.
Free
$0
For simple day trips and printable float plans.
- Basic float plan
- Basic monitoring
- NOAA/NWS Marine Weather
- Same-day trip use
Premium Monthly
$9.99 / month
Cancel anytime
For boaters who want route planning, Active Cruise, check-ins, and shared trip updates.
- Custom Route Generator
- Active Cruise
- Shareable Trip page
- Mobile check-ins
- GPS check-in support
- Premium monitoring
- NOAA/NWS Marine Weather
- NOAA Nautical Charts
- Premium route tools
BEST VALUE
Premium Annual
$89 / year
Save about 25% vs monthly
For regular boaters who want FPW available all season.
- Custom Route Generator
- Active Cruise
- Shareable Trip page
- Mobile check-ins
- GPS check-in support
- Premium Monitoring
- NOAA/NWS Marine Weather
- NOAA Nautical Charts
- Premium route tools
3-Day Pass
$4.99
No subscription
For a short trip, weekend cruise, or one-time planned outing.
- Custom Route Generator
- Active Cruise
- Shareable Trip page
- Mobile check-ins
- GPS check-in support
- Premium Monitoring
- NOAA/NWS Marine Weather
- NOAA Nautical Charts
- Premium route tools
- Valid for 3 consecutive days
Questions boaters ask before using FPW.
FPW is built to help you create and share a better float plan. It does not replace emergency services, but it can give your shore contact clearer information if something changes.
No. A shore contact can view the shared trip information you choose to send without creating an FPW account.
No. FPW helps you organize and share your boating plan. In an emergency, contact the Coast Guard, 911, local authorities, or emergency services directly.
Yes. FPW should support a printable or downloadable float plan so you can keep a copy, email it, or hand it to someone before you leave.
Yes. FPW should be useful for short local trips, fishing runs, weekend cruising, and longer routes.
With FPW trip tools, you can update timing and status so the shared plan is not stuck with old information.
FPW is designed for modern desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers. Always test your device before relying on it for a trip.
Your next trip deserves more than a text message.
Create a real float plan, share it with someone you trust, and leave the dock with a clearer plan.
Create My Free Float Plan
No credit card required. Takes just a few minutes.