Loop Tech Solutions
Cruising America's Great Loop should feel like cruising — not like fighting apps, manuals, and a stack of half-trustworthy data every single evening. We take the technical work off your plate, so you can keep your eyes on the water.
The hard part
You drop the anchor or tie up, and then the second job starts. Bridges and lock schedules in one app. Tides and currents in another. Weather somewhere else. Fuel, anchorages, marinas, where there's even room tonight — all of it scattered across a dozen tabs and a few apps you don't fully trust, none of which talk to each other.
So you stitch it together by hand, again, and hope you didn't miss the one thing that matters tomorrow. The tools were supposed to make this easier. Mostly they just made it someone's second job — yours.
That's the hard part. It's the part we want to take off your plate.
What we're building
Pelorus is our flagship: a daily passage planner for Great Loop cruisers. Instead of handing you more data to sort through, it does the sorting — bridges, locks, tides, currents, weather, fuel, anchorages, marinas — and answers the one question that actually matters: what should I do tomorrow?
We're not building it from a conference room. We're building it for our own 2028 Loop — which means every decision gets made the way a Looper would make it, because the first people who have to trust this route are us.
Pelorus is in active development, with early access opening in 2026. It's not finished, and we won't pretend it is — but it's real, it's the thing we're pouring the work into, and the early-access list is where you'll hear it first.
Illustrative — not live data. Pelorus is in development.
Where we're headed
The Loop has a lot of hard parts. Once Pelorus is doing its job, the same idea extends naturally: take the technical work off the Looper's plate, one piece at a time.
We're looking ahead to connected onboard hardware that feeds Pelorus directly — your boat's own data, working with your plan instead of sitting in a separate gauge you have to read and translate yourself. That's where we're headed, not where we are today. We'll build it the same way we're building Pelorus: only when it's real, and only when it earns your trust.
Who's behind it
Loop Tech Solutions is Rob and Jen Casteen. We're relocating to the North Carolina coast to stage for our 2028 Great Loop — which makes us the most demanding users Pelorus will ever have. If it doesn't earn our trust on the water, it doesn't ship.
The reason we think we can build this well: Rob has spent 25+ years making hard, finicky technical systems disappear so the people using them can get on with their actual work — production engineering, automation, the unglamorous infrastructure that just has to be right. That's the same instinct behind Pelorus, pointed at the water this time. Jen leads how we talk to the Looper community we're building for.
Twenty-five years of production engineering. A US Army background in radio and satellite comms. And a genuine reason to get this right: we're going to be out there too.
Stay in the loop
Early access opens in 2026. Leave your email and we'll bring you in when it's ready — no spam, no pitch, just a note when there's something real to put in your hands. Building something for the Loop yourself, or want to talk? Same form.