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The vision · a project in development

A boat that understands the whole picture.

Navigation, weather, electrical systems and the decisions you make aboard should belong to one system. 32°N is the platform I’m building to connect them.

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Platform concept: boat, onboard services, and optional cloud.
Concept illustration, not a screenshot. Figures shown are illustrative.

Built around the boat.

Today’s instruments can each tell you something. The ambition is software that can consider the passage, the weather and the boat’s systems together — and help you decide what matters next.

Works aboard

The hub is authoritative. Essential logic and data stay on the boat, including when the internet disappears.

You stay in control

Calculations belong to deterministic engines. AI can explain and propose; permission to act is a separate decision.

The hub, and the optional cloud.

This is the architecture of the project, not a claim that every capability is ready. The diagram distinguishes the boat’s system from optional services and the displays that connect to it.

32°N architecture. On the boat, the hub is authoritative: all logic and all data live there, and it is fully functional with no internet. The boat's own systems (NMEA 0183 over UDP, the one live source; NMEA 2000 and serial, built but not yet wired; Victron, not started) and Perception on a GPU aboard (not built yet) feed one bus. The bus feeds the analysis engines (electrical, tides, anchor, AIS, COLREGs) and a persistent store for history (not built yet). The engines feed the scene runtime and AI-native apps, where AI proposes and a human decides, and scenarios reach the chart plotter (rented, not ours), the web and the phone. The cloud is optional: world data, Cognition (not built yet), the relay that reaches the phone when remote, and sync and backup. Cover the cloud and the boat still works.
On a phone, scroll within the diagram, or open it full size. The explanation below follows the same structure.
  1. Sources and perception. The boat’s own instruments feed the onboard system; NMEA 0183 over UDP is the one live source today. Perception is planned and not built yet.
  2. One data bus. Live readings share a native, path-addressed model, with access controlled by capabilities.
  3. Engines and history. Deterministic engines calculate results. A persistent store for history is planned and not built yet.
  4. Apps and scenes. The runtime turns those results into useful displays and proposals. AI proposes; a human decides.
  5. Optional cloud. World data, remote relay and sync sit alongside the boat; cognition is planned and not built yet. The core boat system must work without an internet connection.

The direction. The work underway.

The platform

The onboard hub, data model, bus, deterministic analysis, app runtime and displays form the foundation.

Standalone utilities

The electrical planner, simulator and other utilities have their own pages and availability. They are useful parts of the work, not evidence that the complete platform has shipped.

Explore the utilities

Perception and autonomy remain areas of development. Concept illustrations show the intended direction; follow the build notes for what has actually landed.

Built in the open.

I’m building the software I want on my own boat. You can follow the decisions, use the tools as they become available, and tell me what would make them more useful.

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