Informed Boating is an intelligent platform that learns your preferences, tracks your candidates, manages your deal, and stays with you through ownership and out on the water. One place for everything, with an IB FirstMate who knows your boat as well as you do.
Trusted by buyers, brokers, and surveyors managing real deals
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Pages of vessel intel
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Survey categories
6
Color themes
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Works offline at the dock
You find a listing you love. Then another. Then a broker sends three more. Survey reports pile up, emails multiply, spreadsheets fork into versions. By the time you close, the important details are scattered across a dozen apps and a kitchen table full of folders. And once you own her? You start from scratch with a new set of tools for maintenance, expenses, and trip planning. Nothing carries over. Nothing connects.
Informed Boating is the one place for all of it. Import listings, upload documents, forward emails - your IB FirstMate learns everything and connects the dots across your entire journey. It compares your candidates, preps your survey, tracks your deal, manages your maintenance, and helps plan your cruises. One platform from first listing to first anchorage, and every season after.
From browsing listings to anchoring in your favorite cove, your IB FirstMate keeps everything organized and gives you informed advice at every step.
Your always-on crew member through the entire journey. It learns your preferences, remembers every document, and gives you informed advice whether you're comparing listings, prepping for survey, or planning your next cruise.
Paste a link from YachtWorld, Boats.com, or any listing site. Your IB FirstMate pulls the details and builds a profile. Compare up to 5 candidates side-by-side across 16 dimensions.
Forward that 40-page survey report, the broker's spec sheet, or a ZIP of maintenance records. Your IB FirstMate reads it all and populates your vessel profile in minutes.
Every document is scanned for risks. Corroded through-hulls, deferred maintenance, expired safety gear - each finding gets a severity rating and cost estimate.
Checklists tailored to your hull, engines, and systems. Works offline for the haul-out. Print to Word for the surveyor. Track findings in real time.
Deep-dive system analysis: engines, generators, electrical, watermakers, stabilizers. The kind of detail that saves you from a $30,000 surprise.
Once she's yours, the platform keeps going: maintenance schedules, engine hours, work orders, expense tracking, spare parts, trip planning, and cruise logs. Your IB FirstMate transitions with you.
Invite your co-owner, broker, surveyor, or marina. Role-based access means everyone sees what they need and nothing they shouldn't.
Get notified when maintenance is due, a question gets answered, or a survey finding changes status. Deep links take you straight to the action.
Comparison reports, survey checklists, full data backup as ZIP. Everything you need for the closing table, the insurance company, and your own peace of mind.
Six themes from bright daylight to dark for night watches. Settings sync per device so it looks right on the flybridge and in the office.
Install as an app on your phone. Full features on any device. Offline mode for the boat yard, the dock, or that marina with terrible wifi.
The platform grows with you. Start wherever you are.
Tell your IB FirstMate what you're looking for. Import listings from YachtWorld or Boats.com with a link. Your IB FirstMate builds a profile for each candidate and scores them against your priorities.
Upload documents, forward broker emails, snap photos. Your IB FirstMate reads everything, flags risks, estimates costs, and generates side-by-side comparisons so you can decide with confidence.
Survey checklists tailored to your boat. Transaction tracking from offer to closing. Your IB FirstMate keeps every detail organized so nothing falls through the cracks on deal day.
Everything carries over into ownership: maintenance schedules, engine hours, expenses, spare parts, work orders. Plan trips, log cruises, and keep your vessel dialed in season after season.
Every phase of boat ownership gets easier when all your information is in one place and an AI assistant knows it cold.
Set up vessel workspaces for your clients and give them a premium, organized experience through the deal. At closing, hand over the workspace - your client keeps it for ownership and cruising, courtesy of you. You get client referral codes, a multi-deal dashboard, and an IB FirstMate that handles the repetitive questions so you don't have to.
Team plan, $79/mo
“I uploaded 200 pages of documents and within minutes had a complete risk profile with cost estimates. It would have taken me days to do that on my own.”
Informed Boating User
Trawler Buyer, Florida
“I asked the IB FirstMate to compare generator rebuild costs across two boats and it pulled data from documents I'd uploaded weeks earlier. That's the kind of detail that wins a negotiation.”
Informed Boating User
Sailboat Buyer, Chesapeake
“The comparison feature changed how I evaluate listings for my clients. Side-by-side scoring across 16 dimensions - I can't go back to spreadsheets.”
Informed Boating User
Buyer's Broker, Annapolis
Use it for free with one boat. Upgrade when you're ready for more.
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Interactive walkthroughs of each phase. Hover to pause, click to navigate.
Import from Listing URL
Drop in a link from YachtWorld or Boats.com. Your IB FirstMate fetches the page and extracts specs, price, and location instantly.
Upload a survey report and your IB FirstMate identifies every finding, rates severity, and estimates repair costs.
Port Eng
612 hrs
Stbd Eng
612 hrs
Generator
1,240 hrs
Everything you researched during the deal - specs, risks, documents, contacts - transitions into ownership. No starting over.
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JULY 2026
Map out cruises, marina stays, haul-outs, and maintenance windows. Distance and fuel auto-calculated from your boat profile.