Handoff, Marine OS

Your inspections are already excellent. Right now, none of it survives the season.

You run multi-point inspections, hull and prop cleanings, and preventive maintenance most owners never see the rigor behind, because you're a licensed captain running a technical operation, not a cleaning crew. But today that work lives in your head, in photos on your phone, and in a messaging thread. The owner sees a message and an invoice. None of it accumulates into anything that proves what you did, or what you're worth at renewal.

Your checklist, configured to how you already work.White label. The owner sees your name, not ours.The Passport is the byproduct, not extra work.A dropped signal never costs you a checklist tap.

Marine OS, Today's VisitSample record, for illustration only
Vessel
58' Express Cruiser
Visit type
Weekly multi-point inspection
Technician
Assigned
Checklist
22 of 22 points logged
Photos attached
19
Status
Sent to owner

The invisible work problem

The work happens. The proof of it doesn't.

A recurring multi-point inspection happens every week, on schedule, the way you said it would. The owner, who isn't aboard, sees a text message and a line on next month's invoice. None of it accumulates into a record. None of it proves your value when the contract comes up for renewal. And none of it survives you, if the owner sells the boat, or hires a different company, the season of work you put in disappears with the last text thread.

  • The weekly inspection that happened, evidenced only by a photo in a messaging thread and a line on an invoice.
  • The hull and running-gear condition noted at the last haul-out, now living only in a diver's memory.
  • The generator interval tracked in a notebook that goes home in one technician's truck.
  • A season of preventive maintenance the owner paid for and never actually saw.
  • The renewal conversation where you have nothing to show for a year of care but “trust me.”
  • The service history that vanishes the day the owner sells her, or hires someone else.

The daily tool

Run the operation you already run. Just don't lose the record of it.

Marine OS isn't a new way of working, it's the tool that captures the work you already do, so it stops disappearing the moment the visit ends.

  1. Vessel roster

    Every vessel under management, with the details your team needs before they step aboard.

  2. Engine-hour readings

    Point a phone at the hour meter and the reading fills itself in, verified against the photo, not typed off a gauge in bad light. A running record you're not reconstructing from old invoices.

  3. Your checklist

    A multi-point checklist you configure yourself, built around how you already inspect a boat. We don't hand you a fixed list; you build yours.

  4. Photo capture

    A photo against each point on the checklist, timestamped and attached to that visit, not buried in a camera roll.

  5. Technician assignment

    Assign the visit to the technician or contractor doing the work, and always know who's on which boat.

  6. Work history per vessel

    Every inspection, cleaning, and service call, in order, for as long as you've managed her.

  7. Attention flags

    Every checklist point comes back OK, Attention, or Fault, with a note attached, so what needs a decision doesn't disappear into a long list of check marks.

  8. Who did what, when

    A dated record of every technician who touched the vessel, and what they did.

  9. 1-click PDF service ledger

    One button on the vessel exports every published visit as a certified service ledger, ready to hand a broker or a surveyor without walking them through the app.

What the owner sees

Peace of mind for an owner who isn't aboard.

The owner gets a clean, branded view: their vessel was inspected, here's the report, here are the photos, here's what needs attention now and what can wait. It's the difference between an invoice and evidence.

That visibility is designed to function as a retention tool: an owner who can actually see the care going into their boat has a reason to stay put at renewal. We don't promise what any particular owner will decide; what we build is the evidence, not the outcome.

Owner View, Inspection Report
Inspected
July 18
Attention needed
Port shaft seal, minor weep, monitor at next haul-out
Can wait
Helm chair upholstery, cosmetic wear only
Photos
19 attached

Sample report, for illustration only.

White label

It carries your name, not ours.

Marine OS is branded with your company's name, logo, and colors. The owner experiences it as your system, because it is. Handoff sits underneath, doing the engineering, and stays unnamed to your clients if that's how you prefer to run your business. Your reputation is the product. We built the tool that lets you prove it.

Where this fits

Keep the software you already trust. This fills what it leaves out.

Most operators looking at this already run something for scheduling, estimates, and invoicing, and it's probably good at that job. Marine OS isn't asking you to rip it out. Three kinds of software already serve this industry, and each is genuinely strong in its own lane.

CategoryStrong atWhat it leaves out for a vessel
General field-service softwareScheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments, with excellent mobile apps.A boat is just a customer address. No engine hours, no systems, no asset history, nothing that survives the relationship.
Marina & boatyard management systemsSlip reservations, fuel dock, parts inventory, facility job costing.Built for the operator who owns the facility and the boats come to. Wrong shape for a mobile operator working boats at marinas they don't own.
Superyacht maintenance systemsFull planned maintenance for large vessels with a dedicated engineer aboard.Priced and scoped for that crew and that size, real overkill for a 40–100' vessel with no permanent crew.

Marine OS doesn't compete in any of those three lanes. It's the layer none of them provide: the vessel's own record, the inspections, the photos, the technician history: accumulating independent of whichever company happens to be invoicing this season, built so it can travel with her at a sale. Keep the scheduling and invoicing tool you already run; Marine OS is built to sit alongside it, not replace it.

In developmentDeeper integration with the field-service and accounting tools operators already run, so the record and the invoice stay in sync without double entry. Not shipped today.

The byproduct

A season of honest inspections becomes a real service record.

Run recurring inspections for a season, and the vessel ends up with something most boats never have: a genuine record of what was checked, when, by whom, with photographs to back it up. That record is called a Yacht Passport, and it belongs to the vessel, not to whoever happens to be managing her this year, which means it can transfer at a sale, the way a maintenance log ought to but rarely does.

If you're also a broker, this is worth noticing: you're building that record while you manage the boat, and it becomes a selling asset the day you list her, the same underlying record, doing double duty.

See what a Yacht Passport looks like →

A Yacht Passport is a private operating record, not a statutory or class document. It does not replace Flag State registration, Class certification, or USCG requirements.

Astra Intelligence

Ask the vessel's record a question.

Every Marine OS account includes Astra Intelligence. Ask a plain question about a vessel and get an answer sourced from that vessel's own records, with the source shown.

An example exchange, sample record

“When did we last check the port shaft seal, and what did we find?”

Logged during the weekly multi-point inspection on July 18, noted as a minor weep, flagged to monitor at the next haul-out. Photo attached.

Source · Weekly Multi-Point Inspection, July 18

Available today

  • Typed questions, answered from that vessel's own records, with the source shown.
  • Finding a past inspection, a service note, or a photo attached to it.
  • Confirming when a point was last checked, and by whom.
In development
  • Voice input
  • Photo upload for Astra to read directly
  • Document Q&A
  • Comparing findings across a fleet

Astra Intelligence retrieves and explains what's already in your records. It does not make any procedure safe, and it does not offer navigational, stability, or compliance advice. For anything safety-critical, the vessel's own certificates, her class surveyor, or her flag administration remain the authority.

Pricing

Priced per vessel, not per headache.

Billed to you, the operator, monthly. A flat account minimum covers your first five vessels; each vessel beyond that adds a per-vessel rate that steps down as your fleet grows. No per-technician charge. Owner views are included.

Fleet sizePrice
Up to 5 active vessels$495 / month
Vessels 6–10+$99 / vessel / month
Vessels 11–30+$79 / vessel / month
Vessels 31+Custom, from +$59 / vessel / month
ImplementationFrom $2,500

Recurring vessel care in South Florida is commonly billed to owners at several hundred to a couple of thousand dollars per vessel, per month. Set against that, this sits at a single-digit percentage of the revenue it supports. We make no promise that it will win or retain any particular contract, only that the cost is small next to what you already charge for the work it documents.

Beyond the checklist

The inspection record becomes the owner’s Passport.

What Marine OS logs on the dock doesn’t have to stop at your own records. Operators can offer their owners a finished, co-branded Vessel Passport or Yacht Passport built from that same inspection and service history, presented under your name, as part of the service you already provide. Terms for offering it through your business are set individually, on a working session.

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Questions

Questions a working captain actually asks.

  • Does it work offline, on a dock with no signal, or inside a metal engine room?

    A checklist tap saves to the device instantly and queues for the record; if the connection drops mid-visit, nothing is lost, it syncs the moment signal returns. What it doesn't yet do is let you start and work an entire visit from a point with zero connection from the outset; that's full offline operation, and it isn't there yet. We'd rather tell you exactly where that line sits than have you find out at the worst moment.

  • Who owns the data?

    You do. The inspection results, photos, and technician records you enter belong to your company. The vessel-specific service history that accumulates into a Yacht Passport is treated as belonging to the vessel, so it can travel with her at a sale, the way a maintenance log ought to, but rarely does. We're explicit about that split at setup, so there's no ambiguity later.

  • What happens if I stop using it?

    You keep your work. Export of your vessel roster, inspection history, and photos in a plain format is part of the deal, not a retention lever. We're not going to hold your own records hostage to keep you as a customer.

  • Can my technicians use it on a phone?

    Yes, that's the point. It's built mobile-first, for someone standing on a dock or in an engine room, not a desktop tool a technician has to walk back to the office to use.

  • Does the owner see everything, or only what I publish?

    Only what you publish. You control what goes into the owner view: you can complete an inspection and hold the write-up until it's ready, or keep a note private to your own team.

  • What if the owner sells the boat?

    The Yacht Passport is designed to travel with the vessel at a sale, on terms the outgoing owner sets. It isn't tied to your contract with that owner, so the record you built doesn't have to end when the ownership does.