It is free, and it stays free. There is no account and no paywall, we set no cookies, and nothing about you gets sold or followed around the internet. Running it costs a few dollars a month. If that ever gets paid for by anything other than me, it will be written on this page before it appears anywhere else on the site, and it will never change a grade or push you toward a launch. Conditions come from public data (Open-Meteo for wind, NOAA for tides and currents, the National Weather Service for alerts) and refresh through the day; the page also pulls map tiles and fonts from their providers, so loading it sends those public services the standard request information any website fetch does. The scores are estimates and the honest downsides are on every spot, so you can make your own call before you load the car.
The launch guides cover access, parking, cost, water clarity, wildlife, fishing, and how to share the water with the manatees, dolphins, and nesting birds that live here. They are written from the water, not from a brochure.
Who's behind this
I'm Joe. I live in Clearwater and picked up paddleboarding not long ago.
When I get into something new I go all the way in, so I ended up researching every launch on this stretch of coast: which ones are worth the drive, when the tide turns the water clear, where the wind wrecks a morning, which spots close for manatee season.
That left me with a pile of notes it felt like a waste to keep to myself. So this is that research, turned into something you can actually use. If it saves you one bad drive or one rough paddle, it did its job.