Guides
Local knowledge, region by region.
Nothing is published here yet. When the guides arrive they will be short and regional: the wind that decides your week, the channels that stay sheltered when it blows, and the bays worth the detour. Until then, the region pages are the fastest way in.
What a guide will be
One sea at a time.
Every guide will belong to a region, so the region page and the guide list always say the same thing — and so you can filter down to the sea you actually go out on.
- The wind that names the week. The jugo, the bura, the meltemi, the mistral, the tramontana — what each of them does to the sea, and what it means for the day you had in mind.
- Which channel is sheltered when it blows, and which crossing is worth saving for a calmer day.
- Anchorages and mooring fields worth the detour, and what open hydrographic data knows about the depth in them.
- Tides, currents and bar crossings where they decide the day rather than decorate it.
- Reading a comfort score for the boat you actually have, and for the crew you are taking out on it.
A guide needs somewhere to live before it can be written — a small editorial system that keeps one article in step across every language. That is the part that is missing, and it is being built.
Ten regions
Start with your own coast.
Each region page carries the local weather that decides a day there, what that sea asks of a skipper, and a link to the official warning service for it.
Adriatic
Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, and Montenegro
Greece
Ionian, Saronic Gulf, Cyclades, and Dodecanese
Turkey
Bodrum, Marmaris, Göcek, and Fethiye
Western Mediterranean
Balearics, Côte d’Azur, Liguria, Sardinia, and Corsica
Caribbean
BVI, USVI, Antilles, and Grenadines
Florida and the Bahamas
Florida and The Bahamas
US East Coast
Chesapeake, Long Island Sound, and New England
US West Coast
California, San Francisco Bay, and Puget Sound
Australia
Queensland, Whitsundays, Sydney, and Perth
New Zealand
Hauraki Gulf, Bay of Islands, and Marlborough Sounds
Hear when Bonasea opens.
The sign-up at the foot of this page is for one message: the day Bonasea is out. The guides come after that, and we would rather write them than promise them.
Find your day on the water.
Set your boat up once, and every route you care about gets a ten-day answer.
Three days free when it lands. No card to start.