Portis Master's Edition is the captain's bridge — live water levels, port lookup, bridge clearances, Notices to Mariners, captain's log, and private port notes — for sailors running their own vessels. No company tenant. No procurement department. Just your boat, your routes, your data.
Captains running for a fleet get the same bridge through their company's account. Master's Edition is for the rest — owner-operators, charter masters, captains between contracts.
Eight tools that are live right now in every Master's Edition account. No add-ons, no per-vessel surcharges. More is coming — early captains help shape what's next.
156 Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway ports with facility records, entry notes, bridge clearances, regulations, and sourced contacts — and growing every season. Search by name, region, or cargo type.
Air-draft calculations live against your vessel's keel-to-masthead height and current water level. Moveable bridges report open clearance when known. 86+ records across 15+ port systems.
NOAA on the US side, Environment and Climate Change Canada on the Canadian side — current readings and forecasts, charted against IGLD 85 datum.
USCG and Canadian Coast Guard live feeds, proximity-filtered to the ports on your route. Links back to the original notice every time.
Per-voyage entries that pre-fill from voyage state. Export to PDF or CSV, timestamps signed, retained for the life of your account.
Your own living guide per port and facility — entry procedures, berth conditions, contacts, draft observations, dated visit history. Photo capture with pen, text, and arrow annotation.
Enter every ship you sail — dimensions, mast heights, drafts, contacts — and switch between hulls in one tap. Bridge clearances, drafts, and notes follow the active vessel.
Windy marine layer integrated directly into the bridge — wind, wave, and pressure overlays for the Great Lakes, keyed to your departure port and route.
No seat math, no per-vessel multipliers, no annual lock-in. If the season ends and you don't need it, pause for the winter and your data waits.
Try it for 30 days, free, on your next voyage. If it doesn't earn its keep, walk away — your captain's log exports to PDF on the way out.
On the roadmap: voyage briefing flow, cargo & manifest, compliance assist, crew & rotation, company handshake, and offline PWA support.
Functionally similar bridge — same maps, same weather, same port lookup. The difference is ownership: a company account belongs to your employer, and your access ends when the contract does. Master's Edition belongs to you. Your voyages, your logbook, your settings — all follow you between vessels and between contracts.
Yes — and a company handshake feature is on the roadmap. When you take a contract for a fleet that uses Portis, you'll be able to opt into a temporary sync for the duration of that contract. That feature is in development. For now, Master's Edition and any future company account are kept separate.
Anything you sail — owned, chartered, leased, borrowed. Up to three active vessels per account. If you're a relief captain bouncing between boats, contact us and we'll work out a rotation plan.
Offline support is on the roadmap. Right now the bridge requires a connection for live data — water levels, NtM feeds, and weather. Your captain's log entries and port notes are stored locally on your device and don't require a connection to read. Full offline voyage briefing download is planned for a future release.
Yes. One-click export to PDF or CSV, anytime — including the day you cancel. Your log entries and port notes are backed up to Portis servers via Supabase, encrypted at rest.
Right now, no. Portis is built for the Great Lakes — lock windows, ice timing, tributary draft, NOAA / ECCC / USCG and the rhythms of a season that closes in January. Atlantic and Gulf coasts will come, but they're not what we're for today.