Grant Gleason
Founder
I grew up going to the beach — fishing, surfing, body surfing, diving, and just about anything else you can imagine.
I’m from Florida, and I’ve spent the last ten years working in hospitality on the beach in my hometown. When your office is the sand, weather isn’t small talk — it’s the whole operation. Wind, swell, tides, storms: every day started with checking conditions, and every day meant juggling five different apps to get one clear picture.
I always figured it shouldn’t work that way. Everything you need, in one place — that was the vision.
Fetch is that vision. A surf, marine, and weather forecasting app built by someone who actually lived on the forecast — whether you surf, fish, sail, paddle, or just live your life on the water.
What Fetch does
- Live forecasts
- swell, wind, tides, and weather for your exact spots
- Real buoy data
- forecasts predict; buoys report; Fetch reads them live
- Pro map layers
- see the whole ocean move, not just one number
- 7,500+ surf spots
- a global catalog, searchable and savable
These tools helped me, and they still do. They answer questions, give advice, and sometimes keep a bad situation from happening at all. I hope Fetch does the same for you — so you can get out and do the things you love, and maybe put a smile on someone else’s face while you’re at it.
Until next time, Grant