Case study
Sidon Voyage Planning

Plan your voyage.
Navigate with confidence.

Sidon needed a platform where sailors could plan multi-leg passages, find moorings, and read the weather — without switching between six different tools. One chart. Everything on it.

Client
Sidon Voyage Planning
Deliverables
Product DesignWeb AppAI IntegrationCMS
Year
2024
Live site
sidonmarine.uk
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Six tools. One chart.

Sailors were stitching together routes on paper charts, weather on Windy, moorings on a PDF directory, and tidal data from a separate app. The brief: collapse it all.

The challenge was not feature parity — it was deciding what to leave out. Every extra control is a distraction when you are 20 miles offshore trying to find a berth before dark.

12k+
Nautical miles planned on the platform annually
400+
Active sailors and captains using Sidon
3,200
Moorings and anchorages indexed
What we did

3 disciplines.
One voice.

01 — Product

UX & Information Architecture

Every screen had to work at sea — on a phone in bright sunlight with salt-stiff fingers. We stripped the interface to its essentials and built back from there, testing at each stage against real passage plans.

02 — Engineering

Chart & Route Engine

Multi-leg route building with automatic distance and heading calculations. Live Windy weather overlays for wind, wave, and swell. Tidal stream analysis with ETA calculations baked into the chart view.

03 — Data

Mooring Intelligence

3,200 indexed moorings and anchorages with depth, facilities, and approach notes. Crew sharing with role-based access so a skipper can share a passage plan with the whole crew in one tap.

"

For the first time, I planned an entire Atlantic crossing without leaving a single tab.

— James R., Offshore Skipper

Chart view
Route planning
Route planning
Mooring search
Passage logbook
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