About Skiffcast
A harbor briefing for the people who actually run it.
Skiffcast is built for the five kinds of skiffs you see at the SWFL ramps — the weekend trailer-angler pairing tide and wind before the launch, the kayak angler caching the briefing before the Myakka or Peace current takes them out of cell range, the on-the-water guide re-checking red tide and fuel stops at dawn, the full-time local glancing at the same NOAA and FWC feeds the harbormaster watches, and the snowbird who just rolled in needing the harbor briefing in plain English. One card, one harbor, one read.
What’s on the card
- TideNOAA CO-OPS tide stations
- WindNational Weather Service gridpoint forecast
- Water temperatureNOAA CO-OPS water-temp sensors
- Red tide statusFlorida FWC KFLREDTIDE weekly report
- Solunar ratingsLocal astronomy, computed on-device
- Transient slipsSkiffcast marina directory
- Fuel docksSkiffcast fuel-and-ice guide
- Tie-up restaurantsSkiffcast waterfront dining directory
- Harbor eventsSkiffcast SWFL events calendar
- Offline cacheLocal browser mirror of the last briefing
How the data flows in
NOAA CO-OPS readings, the National Weather Service gridpoint forecast, and the Florida FWC weekly red-tide report stream in on their own agency cadences; solunar windows are computed from your lat/lon on every load; the marina, fuel-dock, restaurant, and event lists are curated from the SWFL harbormaster reports and the harbor calendars themselves. Every waterway run writes the result to a local browser mirror under skiffcast:<waterway>:conditions|v1, so when the tower drops the last briefing keeps reading. The Offline Snapshot reads the same mirror — no separate cache to lose.
Spotted something off?
A wind speed that doesn’t match the water, a tide curve that looks wrong, a fuel price that’s stale, a restaurant that’s moved — send it to the curator inbox and it lands in the next data refresh.
data refreshed daily