Ohmywind MCP Server

OhMyWind ⛵

Talk to your LLM. Cast off with confidence.

OhMyWind turns any MCP-capable assistant (Claude, Le Chat, Cursor, Goose, Zed, Continue) into a sailing planner. Ask in plain language, anywhere in the world: get a per-leg ETA, a 1‑5 complexity score, and a deep-link to the full plan. On the French Atlantic coast it goes further, swapping the global current model for the SHOM Atlas C2D and MARC PREVIMER atlases. Free, keyless, open source.

ohmywind.fr · MCP endpoint · MIT

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Try it in 30 seconds

1. Open your MCP client and add the endpoint:

https://mcp.ohmywind.fr/mcp

2. Ask, in your own words:

"Demain matin, Marseille → Porquerolles, sur un Sun Odyssey 36. Bonne idée ? Combien de temps et c'est tendu comment ?"

3. Your assistant calls the OhMyWind tools and answers in plain language. On hosts that support the MCP Apps spec (Claude, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, VS Code Copilot, Goose, Postman, MCPJam) you also get a live, interactive widget: the ohmywind.fr plan view rendered inline. On hosts that don't (Cursor, Le Chat, terminal), the assistant hands you the same plan as an ohmywind.fr deep-link. No account. No API key. No credit card.

First time with MCP? It takes 2 minutes. Pick your client on modelcontextprotocol.io/clients, then follow the remote-server quickstart. Claude Desktop users can start with the user quickstart. In Le Chat, add it under Connectors → Add connector → Custom MCP connector and paste the endpoint above.

If your client only speaks stdio

Some hosts cannot reach a remote MCP server directly yet. Bridge it with mcp-remote, which runs locally and forwards to the endpoint:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ohmywind": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.ohmywind.fr/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Nothing else to configure: no account, no API key, no OAuth, no credit card. A client that asks you for credentials is guessing rather than reading the server, and you can leave those fields empty.

Ask it something real

Three prompts, each exercising a different tool:

• "Quels bateaux tu connais ? J'ai un First 27." maps your boat to a polar archetype. The assistant chooses from the descriptions; there is no server-side lookup table.
• "Le vent au cap Sicié samedi après-midi ?" returns wind and sea at one point, AROME first, in knots.
• "Meilleur créneau cette semaine pour Marseille → Porquerolles ?" walks every hourly departure up to 14 days out and compares them in one call.

Why OhMyWind

What the LLM sees

Four MCP tools, all async, all keyless:

plan_passage declares an MCP Apps UI resource (ui://openwind/plan-passage) on its _meta. Hosts that support MCP Apps render the live ohmywind.fr/plan?… view in a sandboxed iframe automatically, with no host-specific CSS and no vendor lock-in. Hosts without MCP Apps support silently get the structured payload + the openwind_url deep-link.

Architecture

packages/
├── data-adapters/   # pure domain logic (forecast adapters, polars, routing, complexity)
├── mcp-core/        # FastMCP server (cloud-agnostic, no Gradio, no HF deps)
├── hf-space/        # Docker wrapper for Hugging Face Spaces (Starlette + uvicorn)
└── web/             # React 19 + Vite app deployed to Cloudflare Pages (ohmywind.fr)

mcp-core stays deployment-agnostic. Re-deploying on Fly, Modal, or a VPS is a different Dockerfile calling the same build_server(). See docs/architecture.md.

Run locally

# Tests + lint (data-adapters & mcp-core, Python via uv)
cd packages/mcp-core
uv sync --all-extras
uv run pytest -x -q
uv run ruff check .

# Local HTTP MCP smoke
cd packages/hf-space
uv run python app.py   # serves :7860, point any MCP client at /mcp

# Web app (ohmywind.fr)
cd packages/web
npm install
npm run dev            # vite dev server
npm run build          # outputs packages/web/dist

V1 scope

Wind, sea (Hs max), per-leg ETA, 1–5 complexity. Tides and currents ignored on the Med (negligible). No automatic routing optimisation: the LLM and the human stay in the loop. Roadmap and scope decisions live in plan/ (local).

Calculation method

Defaults below are what the MCP server uses unless overridden by tool parameters. Implementation: packages/data-adapters/src/openwind_data/routing/passage.py.

Polar speed model

• 7 archetypes (cruiser_20ft, cruiser_25ft, cruiser_30ft, cruiser_40ft, cruiser_50ft, racer_cruiser, catamaran_40ft), each with an ORC-style polar in packages/data-adapters/src/openwind_data/routing/polars/.
• Lookup is bilinear interpolation in (TWS, TWA), clamped at grid edges.
• TWA is symmetric [0°, 180°] only, no port/starboard distinction.

Boat speed adjustments

• Efficiency factor (default 0.75). ORC polars are theoretical maxima. Real cruising loses ~25% (sail trim, comfort margins, helmsman, untracked currents). Override per call: 0.85 racing, 0.75 cruising, 0.65 loaded family cruising, 0.55 heavy seas / fouled hull.
• VMG / tacking correction. When the route's TWA is below the boat's optimal upwind angle (typically ~42-48°), the simulator assumes the sailor tacks. Effective speed toward destination is polar(optimal_TWA) × cos(optimal_TWA − route_TWA). At dead upwind this reduces to polar(opt) × cos(opt) ≈ polar / √2; at TWA=20° with opt=45° the reduction is only cos(25°) ≈ 0.91.
• Wave derate (opt-in). max(0.5, 1 − 0.05 × Hs^1.75 × cos²(TWA/2)). Disabled by default; sea state feeds the warning bar rather than slowing the boat.
• Minimum boat speed. 0.5 kn floor, prevents division blow-up in extreme stalls.

Timing

• Single-pass approximation. A 6 kn heuristic estimates segment mid-times, then real polar speeds are computed at each mid-time's actual wind. No convergence iteration. Bias is bounded by the Mediterranean's multi-hour wind correlation length.
• Routes are split into ~10 nm sub-segments by default for per-segment weather sampling. Drop to 5 nm for tight coastal work; raise to 20 nm for long offshore legs.

Compare-windows mode

plan_passage accepts an optional latest_departure that turns the call into a window comparison: it walks N hourly departures over the same route and returns one entry per window. Weather is fetched once (cache prewarm), simulations are in-memory. Hard cap: 14 d × 24 h = 336 windows. The LLM (not the server) picks the best option qualitatively.

Mediterranean defaults

• Tides ignored. < 40 cm in the Med, negligible vs. forecast uncertainty.
• Currents ignored. Liguro-Provençal current too weak / variable for V1.
• Wind model. AROME 1.3 km (≤48 h horizon, captures thermals and local winds). Auto-falls back to ICON-EU (≤5 d) → ECMWF IFS 0.25° (≤10 d) → GFS (≤16 d) when the passage extends past AROME.
• Wave model. Open-Meteo Marine (significant Hs, period, direction).

What's not modelled (V1)

• No automatic routing optimisation: the LLM and human stay in the loop on departure choice.
• No coastal acceleration zones (capes, peninsulas): the caller adds intermediate waypoints.
• No port/starboard polar asymmetry, no spinnaker-specific curves, no hull condition modelling beyond the efficiency knob.

Credits

Wind & sea: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). Hosting: Hugging Face Spaces. Map tiles on ohmywind.fr: CARTO / OpenStreetMap.

License

MIT.