Route Fuel Planner
AI picks the best fuel stops along your route, with backups and risk alerts.
Fuel prices, availability, and dock conditions are crowd-sourced and may not reflect the latest on-water reality. Always call the fuel dock to confirm prices, hours, and depth before arrival. WetSlipFinder is not responsible for any inaccurate information.
How the route fuel planner works
The route fuel planner takes your departure city, destination, vessel range, and preferred fuel type, then sequences candidate marina fuel docks along the great-circle corridor between the two points. Each candidate is scored against four factors: distance from start (so you don't run dry), distance from the rhumb line (so you don't burn fuel detouring for fuel), dock depth and maximum length match against your vessel, and price freshness from the operator's last submitted update.
Route planning workflow
Set a conservative range — most cruisers use 70% of theoretical tankage to lock in a hard 30% reserve. Choose your fuel type (diesel, gas, or ethanol-free); "any" widens the candidate pool when you're flexible. Click Plan Fuel Stops. The planner returns up to eight ranked stops along the corridor and surfaces the AI-recommended primary so you can build the plan around verified pricing, hours, and dock depth.
Fuel optimization process
For long passages, the cheapest plan is rarely the fastest. The planner balances price against detour cost — a $0.40-per-gallon savings at a fuel dock 12 nm off the rhumb line is usually a net loss once you account for the extra fuel burned reaching it. The AI recommendation accounts for that math automatically. For Bahamas, Caribbean, Hawaii, and Bermuda passages, plan to depart with full tanks; outer-island fuel runs 50–100% above U.S. mainland pricing.
FAQs
How accurate are the prices? Operator-submitted prices through the owner portal are typically same-day. Always confirm by phone before arrival. Can I plan around weather? The planner sequences fuel; pair it with our marine weather pages for a weather-window check on each leg. What about island routes? For Hawaii inter-island and Caribbean chain routing, use fuel docks near me with an island anchor selection.