Pricing
Free to start. Unlimited for €9/month.
Try it with no account or credit card. Go unlimited when you leave for good, and cancel when you're back.
Plans
Free
€0 / month
Enough to try reChain before your next passage.
- 3 requests per month (weather or assistant)
- No account, no credit card
- Works with your current inReach plan
⭐ Premium
€9 / month
Unlimited weather files and assistant answers, for every passage.
- Unlimited weather and assistant requests
- Cancel anytime
- One subscription per inReach address
- Fair-use policy to protect the service
Payments on this site are processed securely by Stripe. Premium is also available as an in-app subscription in reChain Grib (App Store and Google Play). Manage my subscription
Tracking
€0 / forever
A live tracking page with the forecast wind, for the people following you.
- Full track and archived passages
- Forecast wind around the boat
- Messages from shore to your inReach
- GPX export
Good to know: replies arrive as satellite messages on your own Garmin plan and count toward it like any other message. A weather file uses about 7 to 20 messages. If you use reChain often, a plan with unlimited messages is the most economical.
Satellite messages
What reChain uses on your Garmin plan.
Replies arrive as ordinary satellite messages and count toward your plan like any other message.
- GRIB weather file
- About 7 to 20 messages depending on area, resolution and forecast range; the app shows the estimate before you send
- Assistant answer
- A few short messages
- Tracking
- Uses your inReach's MapShare tracking
- Tip
- If you use reChain often, a plan with unlimited messages is the most economical
FAQ
Subscription, answered.
What does the free plan include?
3 requests per month, weather or assistant, with no account or credit card. The tracking page and messages from shore are free, with no time limit.
What does Premium include?
Unlimited weather and assistant requests, under a fair-use policy to protect the service. One subscription per inReach address, cancel anytime.
Do messages count toward my Garmin plan?
Yes. Replies arrive as ordinary satellite messages and count toward your plan like any other message. A weather file uses about 7 to 20. If you use reChain often, a plan with unlimited messages is the most economical.
How do I cancel?
At any time from the Manage my subscription page, or from the App Store or Google Play if you subscribed in the app.
Is reChain affiliated with Garmin?
No. reChain is an independent service built by JCskipper, a professional yacht delivery skipper. Garmin, inReach and ZOLEO are trademarks of their respective owners.
Set sail with reChain.
Three minutes is all it takes. Do it before you leave the dock.
- Install the free appreChain Grib, on iOS or Android, to prepare weather requests and read the files offline.
- Add the contactjcskipper.rechain
@gmail.com to your inReach contacts. No pairing, no account. - Create your tracking pageFree, so family and friends can follow your route and write to you. Create my page
Already convinced? Go unlimited: ⭐ Go Premium · €9/month