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: May 14, 2026

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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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Self-serve Onboarding

Add a vessel and complete onboarding in one guided flow, with key details pre-filled where available. Each vessel is set up with a custom Sofar vessel performance model (VPM), built from class-average data and continuously tuned with real-time performance data.

➡️ 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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