What is Weather Routing Vs. Vessel Performance Monitoring?

KC,

You’re absolutely right.

Let me clarify.

I meant that professional meteorologists should be hand plotting, though few do.

For some locations, it’s not critical, as the automated analysis has enough data to get it right. But for data sparse areas, it takes a human brain to get the most from the data.

Also related to this as you said, professional mariners have a lot of other stuff to do.

But that’s also why I said those seemingly helpful, shortcut programs, can mask some real dangers, in that they provide a bit of a false security.

They simply can’t compete with someone like Fredwx who is doing it every day, all day.

But shipping companies are cheap. And weather is one of those subjects that no one wants to pay for because all this wx data is free. So, it becomes a hard sell.