v1.5 · Shipping
Core administration.
Document storage, cost tracker, maintenance schedule with engine-hours integration, crew permissions, NMEA-2000 device inventory from auto-discovery.
Platform · Boat Management
The paperwork your boat actually needs.
Insurance documents, registrations, survey reports, cost tracking, maintenance schedules, crew permissions, sensor inventory. All of it in one place, and all of it connected to the real operating data of the boat — engine hours, miles sailed, battery cycles.
What's covered
Every administrative corner of the boat.
Most sailors manage this stuff across a mix of folders on iCloud, spreadsheets, and a few apps that don't know about each other. I built boat management to pull all of it together in one place that also knows how many hours the engine has run.
Documents
Certificates and papers.
- Vessel registration certificate
- Insurance documents and schedule
- VAT payment evidence
- Survey reports with photos
- Safety certificates (EPIRB, life raft)
- Radio licence
Maintenance
Schedule and history.
- Service intervals pulled from engine hours in real time
- Next-due reminders before you miss them
- Maintenance log with dates, parts, labour costs
- Outstanding jobs with priority and notes
- Haul-out history with photos and survey notes
Costs
Where the money went.
- Fuel by port and date
- Mooring and marina fees
- Parts and consumables
- Labour costs
- Annual and rolling cost summaries by category
Hardware inventory
Every device on the boat.
- Auto-discovered NMEA-2000 (National Marine Electronics Association 2000) devices
- Manual entries for non-networked equipment
- Manufacturer, model, serial number
- Purchase date, warranty status
- Health status from the systems monitor
Crew and access
Who can do what.
- Named crew profiles with contact details
- Per-crew platform permission scopes
- Captain-only vs. all-crew app access
- Temporary access for deliveries or charters
Display layouts
Multi-Function Display configuration.
- Named MFD (Multi-Function Display) layouts per context: anchor, passage, marina
- Layout saved and restored automatically when a scene activates
- Per-device overrides for different screens
What makes it different
Connected to the boat, not a standalone spreadsheet.
Engine hours come from the bus.
The maintenance schedule knows the engine has 212 hours on it because it reads from the NMEA-2000 bus — not because you typed it in. Oil change at 250 hours? The reminder fires automatically with a 20-hour warning. No manual logging of hours required.
The same is true for battery cycle counts from a Victron monitor, watermaker run hours, and generator runtime. Anything the bus reports becomes maintenance intelligence.
Boat-sale export is a v2 goal.
When I sell the boat, I want to hand the new owner a complete picture: the full log, every service record, every survey, all the receipts, the sensor inventory. That should be one export — not a frantic folder-gathering exercise.
The new owner imports it into their own 32°N instance and starts with the full history. Nothing proprietary, nothing that requires buying a subscription to access records about your own boat.
Access model
Owner-only by default.
Boat management is the one part of 32°N that is owner-gated. Crew see what they need; you decide what that is.
Per-crew permission scopes.
When you add a crew member to the boat profile, you choose their scope: read-only on all apps, full access to nav apps but not management, or a custom set. Scopes are enforced at the platform level — individual apps do not manage their own access rules.
Temporary access with expiry.
For a delivery crew or a charter, you create a temporary credential with an expiry date. It automatically revokes at the end of the delivery. No need to remember to remove someone from the boat's device registry.
Financial data is owner-only.
Cost tracking and document storage are visible only to the owner by default. You can grant a specific crew member read access to specific document categories — for example, the first mate may need to see safety certificates. You decide.
Audit trail for all changes.
Every write to the boat management data — a new maintenance entry, an updated document, a crew permission change — lands in the platform audit log. Structured, queryable, tamper-evident.
Roadmap
Where this is going.
v2 · Next
Boat-sale export.
Full handover bundle: logs, surveys, maintenance records, photos, receipts. New owner imports into their 32°N instance. Portable format, no proprietary lock-in.
v2+ · Later
AI-assisted maintenance.
Agent observes usage patterns and flags upcoming maintenance before it becomes urgent — "watermaker pre-filter due based on run hours, not calendar." Proposals come to you as maintenance queue additions.
Read about the full platform.
The demo lets you explore 32°N without any hardware. The platform page has the five-layer architecture — boat management sits in the apps layer, built on the same platform services as every other app.