Boating News

You may have seen that Chesapeake boater and Argo Navigation boating app creator Jeff Foulk went viral on TikTok after his daughter Megan, a college student who decided last minute to attend the show with her dad, posted a video of him at the Chicago Boat Show in January. Argo, sponsor of PropTalk’s Club Notes section, was doing well, but things shot to a whole different level after the TikTok post.

When I started Argo Navigation, I felt that a company could really focus on crowdsourcing in a lot of different ways,” Foulk said. “And by crowdsourcing, I mean taking advantage of boaters’ knowledge or data that they’re collecting to benefit the community, and that could be in terms of dropping pins used to identify hazards or providing reviews of good anchorages and things like that.

Jeff Foulk has had a crazy few months. Developer of the navigation app Argo, Foulk saw his creation go from modest success to viral sensation after daughter Megan posted a video of Dad trying to pitch the app to Chicago Boat Show attendees. That video now has an astonishing 28 million views—and Foulk’s Argo briefly ranked above heavyweights Google Maps and Waze on both app stores. But let’s let him tell it.