Pathr · Live on iOS & Android

Boating, simplified.

Pathr is a new boating navigation app, built by sailors for the way people actually use their boats today. It's live on the App Store and Google Play.

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What Pathr is

The boating app a modern owner actually wants to open.

Most boating apps still feel like extensions of the 1990s chartplotter. Dense, fragmented, and forgiving of nothing. Pathr starts from the opposite premise: that owning a boat should feel less like operating a console and more like opening a good app on your phone.

Plan a route in seconds with depth-aware auto-routing. See radar, waves, wind, AIS traffic, and a seabed layer on one clean map. Charts download before you cast off and work with no signal. The chart, wind and waves are free; auto-routing, radar, AIS and the seabed layer come with Premium. And for owners who want a second set of eyes, Pathr Co-Captain (an AI co-pilot in active development) is coming next.

Auto-routing

Safety Advisor

Live map layers

Offline-first

The product, in pictures

A modern marine app at a glance.

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Auto-routing (Premium) or manual routing. The captain stays in control. Routing · PNG

Live map layers: wind and waves, plus radar, AIS and seabed with Premium. Map layers · PNG

Live AIS traffic with collision alerts (Premium). AIS · PNG

Anchor charts that show what's below (Premium). Seabed · PNG

The story

Built by boaters who got tired of "good enough."

Pathr started the way a lot of good products do: out of frustration. The founders are boaters and builders who looked at the state of marine software and asked an obvious question: why does my phone do everything beautifully on land, then fall apart the moment I leave the dock?

The team brings an unusual mix of credentials: a National Test Pilot School graduate, a founding engineer from an automation startup that was later acquired by a $1B+ technology company, and an award-winning innovative product developer. Together they formed SmartSail, Inc. to build the modern boating intelligence platform, starting with the Pathr Navigation app today, and continuing with Pathr Co-Captain (an AI co-pilot) in the next chapter.

"Owning a boat should feel less like operating a console, and more like opening a good app on your phone."
Lucas Wright, Founder & CEO

The team

Lucas Wright

Founder & CEO

Vision · Product · Marketing

Flight test engineer on safety-critical autonomous systems. National Test Pilot School graduate. Sailing since childhood; tests Pathr on his own Catalina 38.

Chris Netten

Co-founder

Software · Systems · Scale

Founding engineer at an automation startup acquired by a $1B+ technology company. Full-stack geospatial engineer. IoT systems architect.

Will Gwinn

Co-founder

Hardware · Strategy · UX

Award-winning innovative product developer. Has taken hardware from concept to commercialization.

Why now

A new generation of owners is on the water.

Younger, time-pressed, and app-native, they have no patience for fragmented tools and 1990s chartplotters. They expect the same software quality they get on land. Pathr is built for them.

Modern marine data (S-57 charts, real-time AIS, satellite weather) and frontier AI both finally make a captain-grade software experience possible. Not as a slogan, but as a real product.

Launch timing

Now live on the App Store and Google Play.

Pathr Navigation
Live on iOS and Android.
Pathr Co-Captain
AI co-pilot integration in active development.

Press assets

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Key facts

Product

Pathr Navigation (iOS & Android)

Company

SmartSail, Inc.

Location

Incorporated in Delaware · Based in San Diego, California

Status

Live on the App Store & Google Play

Platform

iOS & Android

Pricing

Free; Premium is optional and free for a new account's first 60 days

Coming next

Pathr Co-Captain (AI co-pilot)

Founders

Lucas Wright, Chris Netten, Will Gwinn

Short description · 1 sentence

Pathr is a modern boating navigation app, built by sailors for the way people actually use their boats. It's free on iPhone and Android with charts that work offline, and Premium adds auto-routing, radar, AIS traffic and anchor charts.

Boilerplate · 1 paragraph

Pathr is a new boating navigation app that helps owners plan smarter trips and get home with less hassle. Built by a team of sailors and engineers, Pathr combines auto-routing tuned to the boat, real-time weather and AIS traffic, a seabed layer for anchoring, and a modern marine basemap, with charts that work offline. Pathr Navigation is live on iOS and Android: free to download, with Premium (auto-routing, radar, AIS and more) free for a new account's first 60 days. Pathr Co-Captain, an AI co-pilot that will brief trips and watch the things you can't, is in active development: it is being built to learn from every Pathr trip, every boat and every set of conditions.

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