One connected navigation system
Traditional marine navigation systems are built around a chartplotter at the helm. These tools are built for navigation and handle the marine environment and everything that follows.
But route planning does not happen on chartplotters. It happens at home, on the sofa, or below deck at anchor – and it happens on mobiles, tablets, and laptops.
Getting those plans onto the chartplotter is incredibly time-consuming. It often means exporting GPX files, or recreating routes manually on the plotter.
Orca changes this. Orca is a modern navigation system that connects planning and navigation into one seamless experience. Orca helps you make better decisions before you go on the water and while you are out there – while delivering deep boat integration and marine-grade reliability.
Mark, who runs the YouTube channel Sailing Aquarius, gives a great introduction to Orca in the following video.
Delightful planning
The Orca app is a fantastic planning tool. It ties together the important pieces that you need for planning: Charts, routes, and weather forecasts. What really elevates the experience is how these tools work together. Explore the charts to find a destination, plan a route with automatic routing, and view exactly how the weather forecast will be along the route.
A Channel crossing. A local weather front builds up at three-quarters along the route. The current route proposal barely escapes this weather front and sees 7 m/s peak wind speed, but a delay of 1 hour would give 14 m/s wind speeds.
Once you are happy with your plan, save it. You can then pick it up on all your devices, because Orca comes with seamless cloud synchronization – as you expect from a modern navigation experience.
When you get to your boat, just power on your Orca Display, and the route is already there with all the information you need, including the upcoming weather forecast.
Orca Display is both a planning and a navigation tool.
Navigate with complete control
Orca is an incredibly powerful navigation system. It connects to your boat with the Orca Core, bringing AIS, radar, autopilot controls, wind instruments, depth sounders, GPS, tanks, engine info, and batteries into the Orca experience.
This deep integration means you can finally get a complete planning and navigation system, where the route you planned at home is the same route that is powering the autopilot in your boat – without the friction that follows traditional chartplotters and standalone navigation apps.
With Orca, you can use the same charts, the same weather forecast, and the same tools no matter if you are at home, at the helm, or below deck.
Upgrade to a modern navigation experience
Orca combines route planning, charts, weather, AIS, radar, autopilot control, and onboard instruments into one connected system.
Plan anywhere. Navigate everywhere. This is modern boating with Orca.
Orca Display 2 makes planning and navigation fun and effortless.
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Customer Reviews
The Tesla of chart plotters.
Denmark +3 moreSailboat35-45 feet (10.5-13.5 meters)Living aboard +2 more10 connected devicesMore stable than I expected and new features every year without buying new devices. Initially considered upgrading my old Raymarine plotter to Axiom, but got frustrated paying around 2000EUR for a product that was essentially 5 years old. Decided to try Orca after trying the free app for a few weeks, and the Core 2 did not cost more than I was willing to loose if It did not live up to expectations. on third season with Orca now, and have not looked back. Using it with iPad Pro (1000 nits = quite usable in sunlight) & Iphone, as the Display 2 is simply too old to justify its price.
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Baltic Sea +3 moreSailboat35-45 feet (10.5-13.5 meters)Long trips +1 more12 connected devicesSuperfornøyd med Orca
Show Full ReviewGreat to getting an overview, not so great for navigation
DenmarkSailboat35-45 feet (10.5-13.5 meters)It's very nice and simple to use. It's great that you can have all your n2k data on you tablet/phone But for navigation I wouldn't use it. It simply doesn't have the needed settings to display all information. In my instance I'm sailing in an area where there is a DW route, it comes up clearly on my Garmin active captain app. Overall is fell like it's way to limited in the settings for your display of the chart When working on an transas ecdis you as an example have the option to hide spot soundings at a certain depth. Eg your boat draft is 5 meters, and spot sounds of more then 12 meters is not needed in the chart
Show Full ReviewPromising product held back by atrocious customer support
United StatesSailboat35-45 feet (10.5-13.5 meters)Long trips13 connected devicesClearly entered the market half-baked and relied on user feedback to identify bugs. The marketing is decades ahead of the actual user experience. Written promises to bring Garmin radar support unfulfilled. If you need customer service, you're better off jumping off a bridge. What a shame, the product holds such promise.
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Orca Display
MediterraneanSailboat45-55 feet (13.5-16.5 meters)Living aboard13 connected devicesOrca has been my guide to show me the path on the ocean.
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