Wayfinder Bridge will provide you with tips, tricks & how-tos to ensure you’re getting the most out of Wayfinder.

🆕 **New Releases** - what’s new in Wayfinder

🚢 Wayfinder Onboarding - getting started with Wayfinder

🧭 **Wayfinder Compass** - leverage Wayfinder’s core features and best practices, from pre-departure to post-voyage

📚 **Wayfinder Academy -** in depth how-tos, instructional videos & FAQs

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🆕 New Releases

Last updated: July 29, 2026

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View multiple timelines at once!

Introducing an improvement to the visualization of the weather timelines across all pages in Wayfinder (Fleet view, voyage page, simulator, etc). Instead of seeing a single timeline scrubber for one variable at a time, you’ll be able to see multiple plots simultaneously, with their timestamps synced. In addition, you will have the ability to customize the routes and weather plots that are visualized in the right hand rail.

➡️ Learn more

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Wayfinder's new Voyage and Route experience

Introducing an updated Voyage Management + Route Editing experience that makes it faster to navigate, compare route options, and confidently adjust routes.

➡️ Learn more

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Data Health Scores

Wayfinder now surfaces data health scores for each vessels, giving you visibility into the reliability of noon report data. You'll find a new Data Health column in fleet view showing each vessel's assessment, with a link to the vessel reports page for the full breakdown — including quality and availability scores, and whether report corrections have improved data quality over time.

➡️ Learn more

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Wayfinder Product Newsletters - Archive

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🚢 Wayfinder Onboarding

Getting started with Wayfinder is easy. Review the articles below to set up your account, familiarize yourself with the platform, and learn about our approach to voyage optimization.

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Shoreside teams

Getting Started

Voyage set up

Tracking your vessels and fleet

Adding vessels to Wayfinder

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Vessel teams

Getting Started

How it Works

Reviewing Daily Guidance and Realizing Gains

Master Handover Materials

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🧭 Wayfinder Compass

Wayfinder improves fleet safety, efficiency, and profitability at all stages of the voyage life-cycle - from voyage simulation and routing to end-of-voyage reporting and claims support.

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PLAN

Plan your voyage in Wayfinder with weather precision, real time market inputs, and vessel specific data.


Vessel teams are responsible for setting up voyages in Wayfinder:

Create a Voyage

Pre Departure Plans


Shoreside teams should complete each of the following steps/checks prior to each voyage:

Set Market Factors

Set Voyage Constraints

Set and Confirm Safety Limits

Simulate Voyage Options


Wayfinder Voyage Simulator is a powerful planning tool that allows Operators to evaluate voyages with precision using Sofar’s weather and vessel-specific VPMs.

Wayfinder Voyage Simulator is a powerful planning tool that allows Operators to evaluate voyages with precision using Sofar’s weather and vessel-specific VPMs.

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EXECUTE

Wayfinder provides daily optimized RPM and route guidance to vessels, based on the latest & most accurate ocean intelligence.


Vessel teams will receive Wayfinder’s daily optimized RPM and route guidance:

Reviewing Daily Guidance and Realizing Gains

Heavy weather support

Seakeeping Alerts


Shoreside teams can access real-time information about weather, performance and vessel guidance:


Wayfinder Optimization provides daily guidance to vessels, which is delivered both over email & within the application

Wayfinder Optimization provides daily guidance to vessels, which is delivered both over email & within the application

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How-to Guides

Set Voyage Constraints

Set Market Factors

Set and Confirm Safety Limits

Seakeeping Alerts

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