No screenshots of a someday-roadmap. These are the real components from the Master's Edition bridge — the same numbers, layout, and language you'll see the first time you open a facility. Read this page and you'll know precisely what you're buying.
Open any facility and the decision strip is the first thing on screen — the go/no-go read for the approach, computed from live feeds and your own vessel limits. No menu-diving for the figures that actually matter.
The base registry tells you what the dock can take. Your personal standards tell you what your boat will do there — set once, private to you, and quietly feeding the decision strip every time you come back.
Standards are stored against a specific boat at a specific dock. Switch vessels in the selector and the limits change with you — the 760-footer you ran last season and the boat you're on this week keep their own numbers.
They overlay the base registry: when you open Richardson Dock, your 25′ 6″ max draft is what the decision strip checks against, not the dock's published maximum. Your judgement, applied automatically.
Every call is a few taps to record — drafts, water level, what you saw. The one thing to understand: each section carries its own visibility toggle, so you choose line-by-line what stays private and what you share.
This is the one idea worth slowing down for. Every section you fill in has its own switch:
Because the toggle is per-section, you can keep your drafts private and warn the fleet about that cracked camel — in the same log entry. Nothing is shared by accident.
Three different things attach to every facility, and captains mix them up constantly. So we keep them visibly separate — each with its own colour, its own audience, and a label telling you exactly who can see it.
Freeform private notes — the scratch pad in your head, written down. Never shared unless you explicitly send a note to another Portis user.
Per-vessel operational limits — max draft, clearance minimums, preferred berth. Private, and they drive the decision strip when you open this dock.
Log entries marked “Share publicly” — yours and other captains'. The collective memory of who's been here and what they found.
The numbers in the decision strip aren't typed in by hand or scraped from a stale PDF. They come straight from the official US and Canadian feeds, refreshed continuously.
US water levels & gauge readings
tidesandcurrents · liveCanadian water levels
api-iwls · liveUS Notices to Mariners (District 9)
NAVCEN · liveCanadian Coast Guard NtM feed
e-NAV · live