Water-Only Routing
The route is solved across the lake surface itself, so it bends around every peninsula instead of drawing a straight line through it.
124 lakes across 50 states — charted and live
Navigation engineered to keep your hull off the bottom.
Navi Wake routes you over water only — around every point, shoal, and no-wake zone on the lake — and follows the channel markers the way someone who has boated it for thirty years would.
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Plot
Water-only routes
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Avoid
Shoals and no-wake
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Arrive
Marker by marker
The routing engine
It already knows where the water goes.
Most map apps will happily send you straight through a peninsula. Navi Wake solves the route across the lake surface itself, then smooths it into a line you can actually steer.
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Shoreline
Every cove and point on the lake, charted
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Water Surface
Sampled into a navigable grid, not a guess
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Over Water
Routes never cut a corner across land
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Jitter Filter
GPS noise rejected before it moves your boat
The helm deck
Every instrument you need, and none you don't.
Speed over ground, course, depth under the keel, and whether your hull actually clears the route ahead — read straight off the phone in its mount, sized for one glance in direct sun.
A sample runSample telemetry
Course over ground
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Speed over ground
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Straight off the GPS, jitter filtered before it moves your boat.
Depth under keel
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Draft clearance
2 shallow spots
3.5 ft draft + 1.0 ft buffer
Where the survey is thin, it says so plainly instead of showing you a green bar it can't stand behind.
Capabilities
Everything you need on the water, in one place.
Every one of these is built and on the water today — not a roadmap.
Channel Marker Guidance
Red and green markers, daybeacons and the channel they define, pulled from OpenStreetMap and NOAA's own electronic charts.
Depth Contours & Soundings
Surveyed depth bands and individual soundings from NOAA ENC data — including drying areas that go dry at low pool.
Draft Clearance Check
Tell it your draft once. Every route is measured against the survey and flags the spots too thin for your hull — or says the depth is unknown.
3D Helm View
A course-up satellite view with the route laid on the water ahead. Car-navigation clarity, on the lake.
Live Gauges
Speed over ground in knots and mph, course on a real compass, and the lake's current level from the nearest USGS gage.
Trip Planner
Chain waypoints into a run, see the true water distance before you leave, and keep the plan for next season.
GPX Export
Send the routed water path to your chartplotter or handheld as a standard GPX route, not a straight-line waypoint dump.
Float Plans
Leave a plan with someone ashore. They get a live page with your position and an honest timestamp, and it flips to overdue on its own.
Offline Lake Packs
Download the grid, nav aids and depth for a lake before you lose signal. Routing keeps working on the water with no bars.
Report Pins
Drop a pin on a deadhead, a sandbar that moved, or a shoal that isn't on any chart, and it's there for the next boater.
Shoal & No-Wake Awareness
Shallow humps that swallow lower units are flagged in amber, and no-wake zones are drawn before you are already inside one.
Destination Search
Marinas, boat ramps, fuel docks and waterfront restaurants by name — pick one and the water route builds itself.
Built For The Helm
Phone-first, high contrast in direct sun, installable to your home screen. No chartplotter, no subscription hardware.
How it works
From dock to destination in four moves.
No chartplotter to mount, no course to plot by hand, no local handing you directions by landmark. Open it and go.
Drop your destination
Search a marina, ramp, or restaurant by name — or just tap the spot on the water you want to end up.
Take the water route
Navi Wake solves a path across the lake surface, bends it around land and shallows, then smooths it into a line you can steer.
Hit go
Your position, heading, and speed go live. Distance and arrival time update as you run, and the map stays where you put it.
Follow the markers
Run the channel marker to marker, with shoals and no-wake zones called out before you reach them — not after.
Coverage
124 lakes. 50 states. Charted on demand.
Every lake is charted from real hydrographic data — the water boundary, the islands, the shoals between you and the far shore. Where navigational aids have been surveyed, Navi Wake follows them; where they haven't, it says so plainly instead of guessing.
TX
Texas
11 lakes
CA
California
10 lakes
TN
Tennessee
9 lakes
NC
North Carolina
8 lakes
NY
New York
8 lakes
MI
Michigan
7 lakes
SC
South Carolina
7 lakes
GA
Georgia
6 lakes
WA
Washington
6 lakes
AZ
Arizona
5 lakes
VA
Virginia
5 lakes
AR
Arkansas
4 lakes
FL
Florida
4 lakes
KY
Kentucky
4 lakes
OK
Oklahoma
4 lakes
UT
Utah
4 lakes
CT
Connecticut
3 lakes
MD
Maryland
3 lakes
ME
Maine
3 lakes
MN
Minnesota
3 lakes
MO
Missouri
3 lakes
WI
Wisconsin
3 lakes
WY
Wyoming
3 lakes
AL
Alabama
2 lakes
CO
Colorado
2 lakes
ID
Idaho
2 lakes
IL
Illinois
2 lakes
IN
Indiana
2 lakes
MA
Massachusetts
2 lakes
MT
Montana
2 lakes
ND
North Dakota
2 lakes
NH
New Hampshire
2 lakes
NJ
New Jersey
2 lakes
NM
New Mexico
2 lakes
NV
Nevada
2 lakes
OR
Oregon
2 lakes
RI
Rhode Island
2 lakes
AK
Alaska
1 lake
DE
Delaware
1 lake
HI
Hawaii
1 lake
IA
Iowa
1 lake
KS
Kansas
1 lake
LA
Louisiana
1 lake
MS
Mississippi
1 lake
NE
Nebraska
1 lake
OH
Ohio
1 lake
PA
Pennsylvania
1 lake
SD
South Dakota
1 lake
VT
Vermont
1 lake
WV
West Virginia
1 lake
Don't see your water? Open any lake in the index and Navi Wake charts it on first visit — the survey takes about a minute.
Browse The Lake IndexOur approach
Built by people who have run aground.
Navi Wake comes from a lot of hours on the water. It is built on three simple rules.
A route across land is not a route
If a line cannot be steered by a boat, it does not get drawn. Every path Navi Wake returns is solved on water and nothing else.
The lake does not care about your signal
GPS wanders, phones lose bars, and glare washes out screens. The app is built for the worst conditions on the water, not the best.
Glanceable beats detailed
You are steering a boat, not reading a dashboard. Anything that cannot be understood in a one-second look does not belong on the screen.
“Everyone who knows this lake learned it by running aground once, or by riding with somebody who already had. Navi Wake is the second option.”
Cast off
Your chartplotter cost two thousand dollars. This one is free.
Open it on the phone already in your pocket, grant location once, and run the lake. Nothing to install, no account to make.
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