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.
Membership is free. Choose Premium only when you need a complete Premium trip.
Full planning, saved boating information, Drafts, and Basic sending are included. Eligible new members receive their first Premium trip.
Free Membership
$0
Full planning and Basic sending.
- Route Builder and generated routes
- Saved boats, people, contacts, and waypoints
- Multiple Drafts
- Basic float-plan sending
- First Premium trip for eligible new members
Buy One Trip
$4.99
No subscription
One complete Premium trip.
- Premium PDF/email delivery
- Active Cruise
- Premium monitoring
- Private Trip/Follow access
- Exact-plan operational access
Premium Monthly
$9.99 / month
Cancel anytime
General Premium for frequent trips.
- Premium Save & Send
- Active Cruise
- Premium monitoring
- Private Trip/Follow access
BEST VALUE
Premium Annual
$89 / year
Save about 25% vs monthly
General Premium all year.
- Premium Save & Send
- Active Cruise
- Premium monitoring
- Private Trip/Follow access
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.