Are YOU using the PLANNING feature on WINDY?

If you want to know how to use the distance and planning feature on Windy or just to find out how we plan our sailing trips, this video is very informative and will help guide you through some details that you may not be aware of.

Thanks for watching!

Much love,
Moya, Charlotte and Robin

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PLANNING FEATURE IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DESKTOP VERSION OF APP AND ONLY ON THE ECMWF WEATHER MODEL.

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00:00 Did you know about the distance and planning on the Windy app?
00:59 Robin plots a course from Richards Bay to Port Elizabeth
02:07 Distance and trip duration
03:08 This is where things get interesting
04:09 What to expect with the wind, wind gusts and swell
05:53 Summary: miles, duration, flexibility to alternate departure time
06:19 What we do
06:58 Its free!
07:11 Give us your feedback

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[alessandrogaiardo]

Thnks a lot Robin it's look very simple and workable free solution for planning a trip

[flor.]

Thank you very much. Best regards from Germany. 🙂

[watertekmusic]

Thank-you so much! Great sailing to yuh!

[raytheron]

That's moerse. Thanks, Robin. Now all I need is a yacht! :-) Seriously, great to see some content from you again. Thanks, boet!

[SVBlownAway]

Best part is it’s for free 😃 thanks for sharing

[solesurchin]

Excellent. Learn something new every day!

[SailingLearningByDoing]

Thanks for that video! I use windy often but didnt know of this feature. It will come in handy. 🙏

[GeorgieRebane]

Ive only ever used Windy on my cell phone. Will be downloading it to my laptop to try this out. Thanks for the great video

[ianprice]

Absolutely amazing wasn’t aware that it had this free feature thanks a million Robin 👍👍👍

[juergenhofstaetter]

Thank you! A very cool feature I wasn't aware of. 👍

[whitecap]

Many thanks. You have been a big help. Make sailing much easier and safer.

[raydavies]

An excellent presentation of Windy that I will be using from now on. Subscribed

[janetlloyd]

Thank you so much for this info and video. We are now using it for our passage from Florida to the USVI along the I65 route.

[georgerogers]

Sadly no longer available on the free version of the app. Not sure if it's worth upgrading to the paid version or alternatively changing to predictwind which has more weather routing functionality but is much more costly?

[larrygordge]

Thanks Robin, appreciated the info! 👌 I love the Windy App - so wish we had the technology back in the late 70's ('77-79) when I did a circumnavigation in my 36' steel one-off multi-chine ketch, Bellatrix. It's been awhile but getting ready to do it again, and hopefully soon, whilst I still am able!
May I contact you privately (I have your email and your cell), as I have a few questions I'd like to ask confidentially and not within this forum?

[tvonzweck]

Thanks for the video. I have started to play around the planning feature and cannot for the world of me figure out why the wind barbs shown in the bottom (along with wind speed/ gusts, waves, etc...) do not match the actual direction of the wind as shown in the main screen, ex. In your video it is clear most of the time the wind is coming from the NE, yet the barbs in the trip planning data table show winds from the the left to right which in my world with north up... would be saying you'd have westerly winds. Makes no sense and makes the feature useless due to its ambiguity and conflicting information.

[allanmcclintock]

hi well presented. Just a query you may be able to answer. We stumbled across your video trying to find the answer. which wind direction is correct?? the chart shows a NE wind direction (on your vid) but the graph for the plan is different!! and different when we try to plan. Or are we completely looking at something the wrong way?

[danielserfaty]

Simpático loco que le da gusto al mundo

[kaijasong]

Hi Robin, enjoyed your video, BUT, using the free windy APP version on IOS I do NOT see the same MENU on the left side and NO DISTANCE AND PLANNING FEATURE…am I missing something?

[Top-Jimmy]

Can it plan the best VMG for parts of the laid out course? ( routing ) as using it like a road map as the crow flys, would not be accurate enough for my usage purposes. Any advice appreciated champ. Thanks.