USCG Notices — what the Coast Guard posted near you. Local Notices to Mariners are published weekly, per district, as PDFs. Boater Briefer now pulls the ones within 10 nm of your position and leads with a plain-language summary: shoaling, safety zones, missing and moved buoys, regattas and fireworks — each with distance and bearing from where you are. • The full list, curated. Tap through for every notice, ranked with the most serious first, filtered by category if you want. • The Coast Guard's own words. Every notice opens to its original text, unedited. • Honest about what it knows. Notices whose position is only approximate say so, rather than dropping a pin that looks precise. Offline with nothing cached reads as "unavailable", never as "nothing here". Advisory information only — not a substitute for monitoring VHF Channel 16. Also: faster, steadier briefing audio, and support for Android 16.

Meet Ask the Captain — your onboard reference for the rules and gear that keep you safe. • Ask the Captain: answers on navigation rules, safety equipment, the Coast Pilot, and fishing regulations — straight from official publications, with sources cited. • Listen: play any answer aloud, with lock screen and CarPlay controls. • Briefing audio works from the lock screen and CarPlay again. • Polish and stability improvements.

Meet Ask the Captain — your onboard reference for the rules and gear that keep you safe. • Ask the Captain: answers on navigation rules, safety equipment, the Coast Pilot, and fishing regulations — straight from official publications, with sources cited. • Listen: play any answer aloud, with lock screen and CarPlay controls. • Briefing audio works from the lock screen and CarPlay again. • Polish and stability improvements.

• Ask Captain is now available and is a conversational assistant answered exclusively by ELA. Users get streamed, source-grounded answers to seamanship, navigation-rules, safety-equipment, and local-knowledge questions. • The Learn area is much improved! Check out the articles with podcast style audio and videos from our content partners! Also in this release: • Redesigned briefing player — audio wears the day's safety color across the briefing card, mini-player, and Now Playing, with lock-screen artwork • Every Learn section now opens with imagery from our content partners • Live progress and seeking while audio is still streaming • Better support for the largest text sizes, plus sharing and playback fixes

• New: Learn library. Built-in safety + how-to content for recreational boaters. • Home-screen quick actions (Android) — long-press the app icon to jump straight to the Catch Log or Learn library. • Plus fullscreen + landscape video playback, accessibility polish across the app.

Tide chart, redesigned. Swipe across ±7 days right from the briefing card. The chart leads with the current depth, anchors hi/lo labels to their dots, and pins the Y-axis labels alongside so they don't slide when you swipe. The 24-hour view is now the default — tap "Now" any time to switch to the tank-gauge view. Tide Stations drawer picks up the same ±7-day swipe pager, a local moon-phase column, and an anchored "now" snapshot in the header. Subtitle now distinguishes Harmonic vs Subordinate stations at a glance. Wind & Wave hour drawer now shows a one-line verdict ("Brisk wind, choppy seas. Tiring; small boats stay in close.") with a color-coded severity chip, a Prev/Next stepper to walk neighboring hours without dismissing, a "much stronger gusts" warning when conditions get tricky, and a segmented sustained-wind line that changes color with severity per hour. Plus dozens of polish + accessibility fixes — chart labels survive 2.5× Dynamic Type, the hi/lo callouts no longer hide behind the curve fill.

New: Catch Log — record fish with photo, location, and a snapshot of the conditions you caught them in. North Carolina anglers can submit their required state harvest reports straight from the app. Federal HMS reports (bluefin, swordfish, marlin/sailfish) open the NOAA portal with field-specific guidance for sign-in and manual fill. New: VHF Directory + Emergency tools — VHF channels, U.S. Coast Pilot guidance for Vols 1–3, a MAYDAY card with live GPS, and a new Assistance page with tap-to-call for BoatUS and Sea Tow. New: Wind & Wave 48-hour chart with hourly wind quivers and swell-direction arrows. Live NDBC buoy data on the Forecasts card. Plus historic conditions snapshots on Boating Moments and dozens of polish, accessibility, and stability fixes.

New: Catch Log — record fish with photo, location, and a snapshot of the conditions you caught them in. North Carolina anglers can submit their required state harvest reports straight from the app — no more jumping out to the deq.nc.gov site. New: Marine Comms — VHF channel reference for hailing, working, and recreational use; Coast Pilot guidance for U.S. Vols 1, 2, and 3; and a one-tap MAYDAY card with live GPS read-out. New: Wind & Wave chart — 48-hour outlook with hourly wind quivers and swell-direction arrows for surf and offshore planning. Plus historic conditions snapshots on Moments and a stack of visual polish and bug fixes.

Moment photos and Catch logging are live! Tap the + button on the briefing page to log a fish — species, length, weight, photo. Each catch gets the current marine conditions stamped on it. View your catches on the new Catch log with List, Map, and Stats tabs. What's new in 1.0.4: • Moments photo sharing feature with draggable Length/Weight stamps • Log catches with photos, length, weight, and disposition • Live state regulations on the capture screen so you know if a fish is in season before you keep it • Auto-fill catch time and location from your photo's EXIF data • Pick your home port from the marine harbor directory • Catch log Map with NOAA charts and OpenSeaMap seamarks • Stats tab — kept vs released, top species, monthly cadence, personal best length • Marine Comms: VHF reference, emergency phraseology, and GPS-aware MAYDAY templates one tap from your briefing • Night-Red mode improvements throughout — photos collapse to red, every text surface respects dark adaptation • Sharper marine charts (2× retina tiles) • Bigger touch targets across every map and form control • Many small UX and accessibility fixes

1.0.3 — Smarter visibility values, cleaner forecast labels, faster charts, and reliable nav labels on every iPhone. Plus polish across the briefing experience.

Stability fixes: resolves a rare crash that could occur when quickly switching between locations and another rare crash with local caching. Improves briefing retry when stale error handling.