Pricing
Per boat. The whole crew is included.
Annual subscriptions, billed the way owners already budget — like insurance, a rating certificate or a race entry. Cancel any time; your key runs to the end of the term you paid for.
SailTac Cruising
Performance cruisers and casual racers
$129per boat / year
Instruments, weather and routing for passage-making.
- Live instrument displays on every phone, tablet and laptop aboard
- Six-model weather fetch with cross-model confidence
- Passage routing on your boat's own polar, with land avoidance
- Offline chart tiles — cache the whole course in one click
- Passage logging and CSV export
- Health monitoring and auto-reconnecting instrument sources
PredictWind Standard is $249/yr for forecasting alone, without instrument integration.
SailTac Racing
FlagshipSerious race programs — PHRF, ORC, one-design keelboats
$299per boat / year
Everything in Cruising, plus the full race and analytics suite.
- Everything in Cruising
- 1 Hz race logging with automatic mark rounding and course advance
- Start tools: RRS 26 sequence, line bias, pin and boat pings
- Constraint routing with mark rounding sides and planned start times
- Automated debrief attributing time lost — with every figure's basis
- Per-forecast-model accuracy scorecard graded on what you actually sailed
- Polar plot, angle discipline, wind shifts and shift-play verdicts
- Sail and staysail effectiveness against like-for-like baselines
- Helm analytics by point of sail, wind band and day vs night
- Multi-page printable PDF race report and a 4:5 social recap card
Less than one race entry fee, and about 20% of an Expedition license.
SailTac Custom
Sailmaker lofts, coaches, grand-prix programs, clubs and fleets
from $1,499per year
Multi-boat visibility, bespoke analytics and hands-on support.
- Everything in Racing, across a roster of boats
- Multi-boat fleet dashboards and season analytics
- Coach and sailmaker portal access
- Custom polar development from your logged races
- Bespoke report sections for crew, sponsors and clients
- Onboarding, priority race-week support and custom feature work
Club, class and fleet site licenses are quoted on this tier.
Every tier starts with a free 30-day trial — no card required.
Founding Fleet — $199/yr, locked
The first 100 boats lock SailTac Racing at $199/yr for as long as the subscription stays active. In exchange we want your feedback: what broke, what was confusing, and what the report should have told you that it didn't.
How to claim it
Pick SailTac Racing at checkout and enter the founding-fleet code in the promotion field. If you don't have one, ask us for one — while there are still boats left.
Where it sits
How SailTac compares
The professional tools are built for a full-time navigator most amateur programs don't have. The phone apps are easy, and stop at the finish line. SailTac is built for the boats in between.
| Capability | SailTac | Professional nav software | Phone apps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Amateur + pro racers, performance cruisers | Professional navigators | Individual sailors |
| Devices aboard | Every phone, tablet and laptop on boat Wi-Fi | One PC | One master device |
| Weather routing | Six models with per-leg confidence coloring | Yes | Basic or none |
| Automated debrief with time-loss attribution | Yes | Manual analysis by an expert | Replay only |
| Forecast-model accuracy scorecard | Yes | No | No |
| Sail and staysail effectiveness | Yes, like-for-like baselines | Partial, manual | Sail usage only |
| Helm analytics by condition and day/night | Yes | No | No |
| One-click PDF report and social recap | Yes | Data export, do it yourself | Screenshots |
| Learning curve | An afternoon, with a demo mode to practice in | Weeks | Shallow but quick |
Our own summary of the category, written to be useful rather than flattering. Products change — check the current feature list of anything you're comparing before you buy.
Questions
Before you buy
Anything not covered here, just ask — scott@sailtacperformance.com. A real person who races reads it.
- Is it per person or per boat?
- Per boat. One subscription covers every phone, tablet and laptop aboard, for the whole crew. Per-seat pricing would fight the way the product is built — the point is that everyone can see the numbers.
- How does the license actually work?
- You get a license key by email. Enter it once, on any device, and it unlocks SailTac for every device on that boat. It's tied to the boat name you give at checkout, not to a person or a machine.
- What happens when my year is up?
- Your subscription renews and we email you a fresh key to paste in. If a renewal is late, the app keeps working for 14 days with a warning banner rather than locking you out — a license should never be the reason you can't race.
- Does it work offshore with no signal?
- Yes, and that's the point. Fetch the weather and cache the chart tiles for the course before you leave the dock, and everything — instruments, routing, logging, analysis — runs with no connectivity at all.
- What do I need to run it?
- A Windows computer aboard — Windows 10 64-bit (version 1809 or newer) — and NMEA 0183 instrument data over the network. The installer includes everything else; there's nothing to install first. Crew connect from their own phones and tablets over the boat's Wi-Fi.
- Is there a Mac or iPad version?
- The server that reads your instruments is Windows-only today. But the interface itself is a web app, so Macs, iPads, iPhones and Android tablets all work as displays over the boat's Wi-Fi — they just need the Windows machine running somewhere aboard.
- Can I try it before I pay?
- Yes — 30 days, every feature, no card. Download the installer, request a trial key, and run the built-in demo simulator on your kitchen table before you ever plug it into the boat.
- What if the season gets away from me?
- If you subscribe in the spring and don't get to race it that season, email us and we'll sort out the next year. We'd rather have you racing with it than holding a grudge.
Try it first
30 days, every feature, no card. If it doesn't earn its place on your boat, you've lost nothing.