For boat owners — and the shops and yards that service their boats
Boat maintenance history & service record tracking
Every oil change, part and receipt kept against the boat instead of a shoebox — logged in under thirty seconds, one hand on the rail.
Thirty seconds, start to finish
The reason people stop keeping records is that keeping them is a chore. Three taps, and it's done properly.
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01Pick the service
Choose a preset and the checklist comes with it. Two engines? Tick both — it logs as one entry with per-engine hours.
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02It goes on the record
Hours, date, who did the work, every item ticked, photos and receipts attached — kept against the boat, not in a shoebox.
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03The next one is scheduled
Reminders repeat by date or by engine hours. Postpone one, skip it, or mark it done from the notification.
Everything your vessel needs
Nine things that otherwise live in nine different places — a drawer, a glovebox, three apps and someone's memory.
Logbook
Every oil change, impeller swap and overhaul — what was done, when, and which parts went in.
Equipment
A running history of pumps, plotters, batteries and chargers as they're installed, serviced or replaced.
Documents
Manuals, warranties, receipts, registration and survey reports, filed where you'll actually find them.
Contacts
The mechanic, the marina, the dealer and the crew — attached to the jobs they did.
Readings
Engine hours, voltages and fuel burn over time, entered by hand or carried across from a service entry.
Inventory
Consumables and spares with reorder thresholds, so you find out before you're out.
Checklists
Pre-departure and seasonal lists per vessel, ticked off item by item.
Reminders
By date or by engine hours — including “every 100 hours or every year, whichever comes first”.
Sharing
Give a partner or captain viewer or editor access. Invites claim themselves on sign-up.
The records outlive the boat
A documented history is worth real money at survey, and most sellers can only produce a folder of faded receipts. Hand the whole file to the buyer by email — they accept from a link, and it becomes theirs.
Keep view-only access to everything up to the handover. Costs are redacted by default, because what you paid your mechanic is not the buyer's business.
And if you ever stop paying, your records stay readable and exportable. We don't hold your boat's history hostage.
Simple, honest pricing
Pro is half price for your first year while we launch. Basic stays free for as many boats as you own; Pro adds the paperwork — receipts, manuals, surveys and photos of the work.
The launch price applies to subscriptions started here on the web. Subscribing inside the iPhone or Android app is $11.99 either way — the app stores take a cut we’d rather put into the discount.
- Full logbook, engine hours & reminders
- Equipment, contacts & checklists
- One profile image per vessel
- Anything your shop uploads to your boat
- Share view-only, and transfer when you sell
- Export your records any time
- Unlimited photos, receipts & documents
- Buyer reports to hand a potential buyer
- Captain’s documents & towing details
- Your own service checklists
- Full sharing — co-owners, crew and mechanics
- One account for your whole team, with per-person access
- Records that stay with the company as staff and boats change
- Help moving your existing records across
The free plan needs no card, doesn’t expire, and has no limit on how many boats you track — only on how much you store. Paid is billed annually, about a dollar a month, and starts with a 7-day free trial. If you ever stop paying, your records stay readable and exportable — we don’t hold your boat’s history hostage.
Shops, yards and mobile mechanics
Purpose-built for the people who work on boats for a living — not a boat owner's app with a second login bolted on.
Take a boat in by its hull number
The boat can exist before its owner does. Type the HIN, start the job, invite the owner whenever you’re ready — or never.
A work board that answers the real question
What’s in the yard, who has it, and what nobody has touched in four days. Filter by technician, status, customer or a partial hull number.
Inspection checklists you can hand over
Pre-service, haul-out, winterisation, 21-point post-service — or your own. A sheet stays private until you release it, so nothing half-finished reaches a customer.
Turnaround you can defend
Working days and waiting days reported separately, so a customer who took three weeks to approve a quote isn’t counted as your delay.
Your name on the record, permanently
Everything you log stays on the boat with your shop’s name on it — readable by the owner, and by whoever buys it next. The cheapest advertising a yard has.
Priced by people, not by boats
One person is free, forever. $19/mo covers three, $49 covers ten, $99 covers everyone — launch pricing, held twelve months.
Guides & resources
Get more out of your boat — and its records.
Boat Service Records
Keep a complete, verifiable history — and hand it to the next owner when you sell.
Read → ChecklistBoat Maintenance Schedule
A season-by-season checklist you can print or check off on your phone.
Read → ChecklistSelling Your Boat
The documents and records buyers and surveyors expect — as a printable checklist.
Read → ComparisonBest Boat Maintenance Apps
How to choose the right tool for tracking your boat — an honest guide.
Read →From a boat owner, for boat owners
Hi, I’m Jeremy Williams. I live on the Gulf Coast of central Florida, where I work in technology by day and spend most decent weekends on the water.
VesselFile started as a personal frustration. I was tracking annual service across a spreadsheet, a notes app and a whiteboard in the garage — and every time I actually needed a record, whether it was a warranty claim, a question from a mechanic, or a buyer asking what had been done, I was digging through a file cabinet hoping I’d kept the paper.
So I built the thing I wanted: one place that holds the whole history of the boat, that takes thirty seconds to add to while I’m still standing on the dock, and that goes with the boat when I sell it.
If you’re on a paid plan — thank you. Running this has real costs, and I keep the price deliberately low so as many owners as possible can use it. That only works because supporters chip in.
See you on the water,
Jeremy
[email protected]
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