For boat owners
Everything about
your boat, in one place
Forward an invoice or a manual and it files itself. Keep the maintenance schedule, parts, manuals, vendors and expenses together, and ask your private FirstMate anything about your boat.
14 days free, no card required.
The sample boat needs no account. Trailer boat? See a 24 ft sample boat. Not ready to sign up? Build a checklist for your boat.
Just bought your boat?
Start with the pile of paper that came with it. The survey, the purchase papers and the old invoices become your boat’s record and its first to‑do list.
Drop in the paper
The survey, the purchase papers, and every old invoice the seller handed over. Upload them or forward them to your boat's address.
It reads all of it
Service history, parts, vendors, equipment and expenses are filed where they belong. Anything it is unsure of waits for you to confirm.
Findings become to‑dos
Each survey finding becomes a to‑do tied to the survey it came from, so nothing the surveyor flagged gets lost.
Then run the boat
A maintenance schedule from your manuals and invoices, one to‑do list, and a FirstMate that answers from your own records.
See it in action
A quick walk through the screens you will live in, or skip the mockups and tour a fully loaded sample boat yourself.
Look around a sample boatA FirstMate that has read everything
It knows what oil your generator takes, when the thruster was last serviced, and what the survey flagged, because it read your documents. Ask in plain language and get answers from your own boat's records.
Your inbox does the data entry
Email a survey, an invoice or a manual to your boat's private address. It reads the whole thing, files the service history, parts, expenses and vendors where they belong, and holds anything it is unsure of for you to confirm.
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Maintenance and a calendar that nag for you
Service intervals track by calendar and engine hours, from your manuals and invoices. The calendar pulls in maintenance and service appointments, and you can subscribe to it from your phone so the boat shows up next to the rest of your life.
Subscribe in Apple or Google Calendar
Your survey becomes your to‑do list
Drop in the survey from your purchase. Each finding becomes a to‑do tied to the survey it came from, so nothing the surveyor flagged gets lost.
Each to‑do links back to your survey.
Example screens. The boat, the yard and the numbers are made up.
Everything your boat needs, together
Each tool feeds the others, so the more you put in, the more the platform does for you.
Your private FirstMate
Ask about your boat in plain words and get answers from your own documents, photos and emails. When your records do not say, it tells you so.
Forward it and it files itself
Email an invoice, a survey or a manual to your boat's own address. Service history, parts, vendors and expenses land where they belong.
Maintenance that nags for you
Service intervals by calendar and engine hours, taken from your manuals and invoices, and a to‑do list of what is overdue or due soon.
One calendar, on your phone
Maintenance due dates and service appointments on one calendar you can subscribe to from Apple or Google Calendar.
Parts and manuals, joined
Spares with part numbers and where to buy them, and manuals tied to the equipment they belong to.
Every dollar accounted for
Expenses sorted by category, and reports you can print or email.
Survey findings, sourced
Every finding in your survey becomes a to‑do tied to the survey it came from.
Private by default
Every page with your records needs you to sign in. Your records are not sold.
Built by a boat owner
Frank, founder of Informed Boating
I bought a boat and inherited a mess: a survey PDF, a folder of manuals, a parts list on a napkin, and a maintenance history that lived in the previous owner’s head. Within a month I had a dozen browser tabs and three spreadsheets, and I still could not answer simple questions about my own boat.
So I built the tool I wanted. Forward a document and it files itself. Ask a question and get an answer from your boat’s own records. Keep the survey, the maintenance, the parts and the expenses in one place, with every to‑do traced back to where it came from.
If you have ever lost an afternoon to figuring out what you already owned, this is for you.
One plan, everything included
Informed Boating
Run your boat, all in one place.
$299 a year.
Every feature included. Billed yearly.
14 days free, no card required. Every feature, from the first day.
Start free trial- Forward or upload invoices, manuals and your survey; they are read and filed for you
- A maintenance schedule and one to‑do list, with survey findings turned into sourced to‑dos
- Parts, equipment, manuals, vendors and expenses in one place
- An off-season projects list for the months the boat is laid up
- FirstMate, your boat's private assistant, 200 messages a month
- 100 photo and document readings a month, 15 GB of storage
- Up to 3 boats
Subscriptions open soon. Your free trial starts today and nothing is charged.
How the trial, billing and canceling work: see pricing details
Questions, answered
Everything you might want to know before you start.
What is Informed Boating?
One place for everything about your boat: the maintenance schedule, service history, parts, manuals, vendors and expenses, plus a FirstMate that answers questions from your own records. It is built for boat owners, to run the boat you have.
Do I have to enter everything by hand?
No. Forward an invoice, a survey or a manual to your boat's private email address, or upload it. It reads the document and files the service history, parts, vendors and expenses it finds. Anything it is unsure of waits for you to confirm instead of being guessed.
What should I send first?
One recent service invoice, or the page of your engine manual with the service chart. From those it can show your first due item. A survey, if you have one, fills in much of the rest.
What is the FirstMate?
Your boat's private assistant. It has read the documents, photos and emails you sent in, so you can ask what oil the generator takes, when the thruster was last serviced, or what the survey flagged. It answers from your boat's own records and says so when the records do not have the answer.
I just bought my boat. Where do I start?
Drop in the survey, the purchase papers and the old invoices the seller handed over. They are read and filed for you, and each survey finding becomes a to‑do tied to the survey it came from, so nothing the surveyor flagged gets lost.
What does it cost?
Every account starts with a 14-day free trial of everything, with no card. After that there is one plan: $299 a year, billed yearly, for up to 3 boats with 200 FirstMate messages and 100 photo and document readings a month. There is no free plan and no monthly price: if you do not subscribe, your boat becomes read-only, nothing is deleted, and you can still export everything. An optional one-time Boat Onboarding is $149.
What is the $149 Boat Onboarding?
An optional one-time setup. Send us your photos and documents in bulk and we set up your boat for you, so you start from a filled-in record instead of a blank one.
Can I put my boat's calendar on my phone?
Yes. Maintenance due dates and service appointments go on one calendar you can subscribe to from Apple Calendar or Google Calendar. It refreshes on its own.
Is there a free plan?
No. Every account starts with a 14-day free trial of everything, with no card. After that there is one plan: $299 a year. We email you 3 days before the trial ends and again on the last day.
What happens when the trial ends if I do not subscribe?
When your trial ends, your boat and every record on it are kept. If you have not subscribed, the boat becomes read-only: you can still open everything and export it, email sent to the boat is saved and filed as soon as you subscribe, and subscribing picks up where you left off. Until subscriptions open, an account whose trial has ended is not locked.
Can I cancel anytime?
Your subscription renews each year until you cancel. Cancel any time in Settings, under Plan and Billing: access continues through the end of the year you paid for, and after that your boat is read-only. Your records are never deleted and stay exportable.
Is my information private?
Your boat's records are yours and are not sold. Every page with your data needs you to sign in. Logins you store for marinas and systems sit in an encrypted vault that the assistant never reads.
What kind of boats does it work for?
Any boat, sail or power, trailered or in a slip. The tools it shows adapt to the boat you add.
Stop running your boat on spreadsheets
Send in your survey, one invoice or your manual’s service chart and see your first to‑do and your first due item.
14 days free, no card required.