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Shimbiri at anchor in a turquoise bay below a forested headland

The boat app that answers back.

Ask your boat anything. It’s read the manuals. It watches the systems. It’s sailed every mile with you.

Ask Purser about your boat manuals, or plan your next passage, in plain English.

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Shimbiri connects your boat’s instruments, manuals and live data into one system aboard: a navigator, an engineer and a purser that know your vessel inside out. Built and proven at sea on Shimbiri, with Shimbiri Evolution™.

The 16 jobs it does, and why they belong together →

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Shimbiri
Connecting…
finding the boat…
One system, the whole passage

It sails the whole passage with you.

01
Plan

Ask for a passage like you’d ask a navigator: a real, weather-aware route on your chart, edited with a finger.

02
Go

Wind, tide and layline stay in front of you, no menus to dig through: the same live data Shimbiri works from.

03
Watch

Depth, wind, battery and engine, watched continuously: the boat keeps an eye on itself so you don’t have to.

04
Adapt

It watches every new forecast and tells you when to change course or wait, so the plan stays alive for the whole trip.

The part no one else does. It advises and shows why; you decide.
Why Shimbiri

Shimbiri replaces 16 apps.

They share one record. Your instruments, charts, forecasts, manuals, crew and logbook feed one live record of your boat, so every answer is grounded in your boat’s actual state.

The apps you replace
See how each one works →

“Punching a coastal passage into ChatGPT looks clever if you don’t know the technology, and amateurish if you do. The answer comes back brilliant, but it doesn’t know you, your boat, or today’s, tomorrow’s and next week’s conditions, and it can’t. Shimbiri is what gives the AI that picture. Then it’s genuinely useful on the water.”

Ben Shipley · Founder
Proven at sea

I’d never sailed a Sydney–Hobart. With Shimbiri aboard, we won our division.

Built and proven on this boat, in real conditions; the Weather Officer that briefed those watches is the same one you run on your own boat.

Shimbiri under spinnaker, SHIMBIRI.AI kite flying, on her way to winning PHS Division 1 in the 80th Sydney–Hobart, the Captain’s first
The Purser
A flood aboard
→ photographed it, asked how to fix it, got walked through it
The Chief Engineer
A hidden autopilot fault
→ found in the boat’s stored data, saved thousands
The Weather Officer
Racing up the Derwent
→ the call to tack, and the data to convince the crew
How it works

Join the beta.

Beta test users run the full system. The Chief Engineer pack is supplied at cost. See pricing →

Who it’s for

Cruiser, racer, commercial or fleet

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The Apps

The catalogue: what each app does and how the crew works it

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Answers

Real questions, answered with the working shown

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Create

Build for the boat and share it

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Shimbiri anchored alone off a turquoise reef-fringed shore

More time out here. That’s the whole idea.

Your whole passage. One system.

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Built by a keen sailor who needed it, and proven aboard Shimbiri. It gets better every week.