What's Been Happening to Your Boat While You Sleep?

G'day from BoatMind! You go home after a weekend at the marina, head hits the pillow — and somewhere out on the mooring, your boat is doing things you'll never see. The tide comes in. A southerly picks up overnight. The mooring line goes taut, snaps back, goes taut again. By morning the wind has dropped, the water is glassy, and when you check in on the dashboard it all looks perfectly calm. But was it? Until now, BoatMind could tell you what conditions were like at the moment you looked. Today's update changes that. Now it can tell you what actually happened while you were asleep. WHAT'S NEW IN TODAY'S UPDATE We've been working hard on a set of features that turn BoatMind from a live monitor into a proper picture of your boat's wellbeing over time. Here's what's new: Motion Monitor — completely rebuilt The motion display now shows a proper aircraft-style Attitude Direction Indicator — the same instrument pilots use to know exactly which way they're pointing and how steeply they're tilting. Your boat's roll and pitch animate in real time, and when you select a time window, it actually replays the motion your boat experienced during that period at whatever speed you choose. One minute of real motion in about ten seconds. You can literally watch your boat ride out last night's swell from your kitchen. Sea State classification BoatMind now automatically classifies conditions using the Beaufort scale — Calm, Slight, Moderate, Rough, Very Rough. It works out the sea direction too: beam sea, head sea, quartering sea. Combined with live tide data and a forecast wave height, the motion assessment now reads like a proper weather report for your specific mooring. Mooring Jolt Counter — this one surprised us This is the feature we didn't know we needed until we saw the data. Every time your mooring line snaps tight under load — what sailors call a snatch load — there's a brief spike in acceleration. BoatMind now counts those spikes. We've been watching the numbers on our own boat and the difference between a calm night and a breezy one with wind against tide is remarkable. Some nights: zero jolts. Other nights: double digits. Why does this matter? Snatch loading is what fatigues mooring lines, shackles, and cleats. It's not the big storm that gets you — it's a hundred ordinary nights of repeated snatch loads slowly working the gear loose. Now you can see it building up, and decide when it's time to inspect. Bow Motion Estimate We added something that sounds a bit technical but is actually very useful: an estimate of how much your bow is moving vertically, in metres. A 10-degree pitch on a 9-metre boat means the bow is heaving nearly a metre up and down. That's a very different picture to just seeing "10 degrees" on a graph. Daily Report — now includes all of the above The morning email report now includes sea state, mooring jolt count, roll and pitch averages, bow heave, and tide information alongside battery, bilge, GPS, and weather. The AI summary has been updated to interpret it all — so instead of numbers, you get a plain English read of how your boat spent the last 24 hours. Reports history page Every daily report is now stored and accessible from the dashboard. Hit the Reports button to browse the last 90 days. Click any date to see the full detail. Useful for spotting trends — or for checking exactly what was happening the night before you noticed something wasn't quite right. THE BIGGER PICTURE All of these features come from the same question: what is actually happening to your boat when no one is there? The bilge pump tells you about water. The battery tells you about power. The GPS tells you about position. But the motion sensor tells you about forces — the loads your boat, her fittings, and her mooring gear are actually experiencing. That's information that simply wasn't available to most boat owners before. We're building towards a complete picture. Not just "is my boat okay right now" but "has my boat been okay, and what should I be paying attention to next time I visit." Fair winds, The BoatMind Team Brisbane, Queensland https://boatmind.au