Big Buoy vs Bluewater Forecast

Big Buoy puts live marine conditions in front of you before you fish. Real NOAA buoy data, tides, solunar tables, wind and wave forecasts. The stuff that decides whether you go and where you set up. LIVE NOAA BUOYS 873 stations across the East Coast, Gulf, Great Lakes, and West Coast, updated every 10 minutes. Water temp, wave height, swell period, wind speed and direction. Straight from the buoy, no fluff. TIDES THAT DON'T GO DOWN Tide predictions for 3,400+ stations, served from Big Buoy's own servers. When government feeds have an outage, your tides keep loading. Charts show highs, lows, and the current stage at a glance, and the gauge picker always shows the closest station to you with live status. DEPTH CHART (PRO) Survey-grade bathymetry built from NOAA ENC and Army Corps eHydro surveys, layered right on the map. Read the bottom. Find the ledges, humps, channels, and drop-offs that hold fish, inshore and offshore. SOLUNAR FISHING TIMES Major and minor feeding windows computed with a real astronomical model, tied to your spot. Plan the day around the bite instead of the other way around. WIND, WAVES & WEATHER 7-day forecasts free, 16 days with Pro. Pro also compares all five major models (GFS, HRRR, ECMWF, GEM, ICON) so you can fish the consensus instead of trusting one run. SAVED SPOTS & MONDAY BRIEFING Save unlimited spots. Get a Monday morning email that reads the week ahead for your water so you can pick your day early. BIG BUOY PRO For anglers who fish around a work schedule. Limited days on the water means every trip has to count. Pro gives you the 16-day window, every forecast model, the Depth Chart, and satellite overlays (sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, ocean currents) to pick the right day and run straight to fish. Ad-free. $4.99/month or $39.99/year. The free tier stays genuinely useful: live buoys, 7-day forecasts, tides, and solunar, supported by ads. REAL DATA, REAL SOURCES NOAA NDBC buoys. NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions. NOAA ENC and USACE eHydro surveys. Copernicus satellite data. We show you where every number comes from. Questions or a station you want added? big-buoy.com — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://big-buoy.com/privacy

Bluewater Forecast is a map-first marine weather app for inshore and offshore anglers, surfers, sailors, divers and boaters. It puts the forecast on a chart and covers the next five days for 45 locations on the US Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Hawaii coasts. Turn on the layers you need and they render over your coastline. WHAT YOU GET (FREE) • Buoys — NOAA NDBC stations nationwide: wave height, period, wind, water and air temperature, pressure, updated every 10 minutes • Waves — height, period and direction from GFS-Wave, hour by hour to five days, with the swell trains split out • Wind & gusts — NOAA HRRR 3 km for the first two days, the NWS National Blend to day five, drawn as streamlines • Tides, water levels and currents — NOAA CO-OPS predictions, observed water level against the tide (surge shows as the gap), and tidal current stations • Radar and clouds — NOAA MRMS quality-controlled radar (non-precipitation echoes removed) and GOES-East imagery, plus forecast cloud and precipitation fields when the clock is moved forward • Sea surface temperature (NASA MUR), NWS marine alerts, NOAA artificial reefs, the NOAA nautical chart • A one-screen dashboard for your spot: conditions, tide, sun and moon, a five-day meteogram, the nearest buoys • Saved spots, and push alerts when a spot's wind, swell and tide line up BLUEWATER PRO • Inshore Topo — bottom structure for creeks, passes and flats from NOAA topobathy lidar and sonar surveys, rendered at about 3 m: 1 ft contours in the shallows, relief shading for holes and ledges, intertidal flats marked, and a 3D mode that tilts the chart over the surveyed bottom. Covers the 45 dashboard locations. • Temperature breaks — labelled isotherms from NASA MUR sea surface temperature, in °F • Fishing hotspots — a composite that scores where temperature breaks, colour changes, current edges, eddy edges and bathymetric slope coincide • Ocean currents and eddies — Copernicus Marine forecast currents as flowing particles, with sea-height rings that trace the eddy edges • Chlorophyll — NASA PACE ocean colour, the boundary between blue and green water DESIGNED FOR THE WATER A dark, high-contrast chart built to be read in sunlight. Forecast fields are prepared on our servers ahead of time, so most views load in about a second, and the last forecast for a saved spot stays on screen while a weak connection catches up. ONE CLOCK Move the time from now to five days out and every forecast layer follows — wind, waves, clouds, currents, tides. Observation layers fade when the clock leaves the present rather than presenting old data as a forecast. FREE TO USE The forecast, buoys, radar, charts and map are free. Bluewater Pro is an optional subscription managed on our website; sign in with a Pro account here and its layers unlock. Bluewater Forecast is an independent app, not affiliated with NOAA, NASA or Copernicus. It is a planning tool — never for navigation or safety-of-life decisions. Inshore Topo depths are relative to NAVD88 (about mid tide), survey dates vary by area, and conditions at sea change faster than any forecast.