Your boat's
digital companion

Digital service book, history, reminders, boat data — for a smoother boat experience.

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Why boat.life

Keep the record. Protect the value.

A well-kept boat is a well-documented boat. Log every service, repair, trip and upgrade as you go — you'll predict issues, catch small things before they become big ones, and avoid problems on the water. And the next owner inherits a boat with its full history intact.

Free, always
No subscription, no paywall. Keep a full digital service book for every boat you own.
Yours, privately
Your logs stay private by default. Share with your family, your mechanic, or a buyer — on your terms.
Handover-ready
Export a clean, professionally laid out service history the day you decide to pass the boat on.
Increase your boat's value
A well-documented boat sells better. A full service and refit history makes your boat easier to sell and easier to price. Let the work you've put in speak for itself.

boat.life

Your boat's digital companion

You own your data

Your boat. Your trips. Your memories. Yours to keep.

boat.life is built around a simple promise: the information about your boat belongs to you — not to a chartplotter brand, not to a marina app, not to us. It stays with you when you change navigation system, when you switch phone, and even when you sell the boat.

Everything about your boat in one place

Specs, manuals, equipment, receipts, service history and reminders — collected by you, owned by you, not locked inside someone else's hardware.

Your logbook is your memory

Every trip you log stays yours. When you sell the boat you keep the logbook — because those are your routes, your weekends, your memories.

Hand over the boat, keep the story

When it's time to sell, transfer the boat's record to the new owner with one tap. They get the maintenance history. You keep your trips and notes.

Reachable from anywhere

Phone, tablet, web — same data, no lock-in. Export whenever you want. No proprietary file format standing between you and your history.

Other systems rent you access to your own boat. boat.life gives it back.

No ads

Your service book and logbook — completely ad-free.

This is your information about your boat. We will never place ads in your service book or logbook, and we will never build ads from your data.

Never ads in your data

Your service book, logbook, photos and notes stay ad-free.

No profiling

We don't build an ad profile of you or your boat.

Follow companies if you want

You can choose to follow yards, dealers and brands to see what they share — always your call.

Selling the boat

Hand over the boat — without losing the history

When you sell, the new owner needs the full picture: service history, manuals, equipment, receipts. You want to keep your trips and memories. boat.life makes both happen in a few taps.

Start the transfer

Open the boat, go to Settings → Transfer boat. Enter the new owner's email — they need a free boat.life account.

Choose what to hand over

By default everything practical is included: service book, receipts, manuals, events, equipment, photos and Remember notes. Your trip log stays with you.

Keep a read-only copy

Choose to keep an archived copy of the boat in your account. You can still read the full history and your logbook — you just can't add new entries.

Export anything you want on paper

Print or save PDFs of the logbook, service book and tech specs straight from the transfer wizard before you confirm.

Confirm — and the boat moves

Type the boat's name to confirm. The new owner gets the boat in their account with the full history, and you keep your trips, photos and memories forever.

Your boat changes hands. Your history doesn't.

Features

Your digital service book, beautifully kept.

Tech specs & equipment

Engine, rig, dimensions, onboard inventory — your boat's full spec sheet and gear list in one place.

Service book

Add what you've done, keep what you plan. Every job, receipt and reminder lives with the boat.

Reminders

Set seasonal and recurring reminders — winterising, antifouling, safety checks — so nothing slips through.

Manuals & documents

Keep engine manuals, schematics, invoices and certificates next to the boat they belong to.

Planning & checklists

Organise per boat with reusable checklists, seasonal plans and passage prep — so every trip starts ready.

Private or public

Keep your boat record fully private, share with crew, or open a public page for the world to see.

Your boat's own knowledge

From the pile of manuals and invoices — to answers in seconds.

Drop in your engine manual, the yard's invoices, service receipts, schematics and the forum post that saved your weekend. boat.life turns it into a searchable record for your specific boat — not generic advice from the internet.

Everything in one boat record
Manuals, schematics, invoices, service reports and notes — uploaded once, organised around your boat.
Ask your own documents
“When did I change the oil filter last?” gets answered from your invoices and logs, with the source one click away.
A real service logbook
Every maintenance action lives next to the document that proves it — chronological, searchable, never lost in an inbox.
Stays with the boat
Sell her or hand over to new crew and the full history goes too. New owners step aboard knowing exactly what was done, when, and why.
On the pontoon, in the engine bay, at home
Same record on phone, tablet and desktop — so the work and the answers travel with you.
Private by design
Your documents are yours. We never sell them and never use them to train public AI models.

Ask your boat

When did I last change the oil filter?

Last on 14 June 2024. The oil filter was replaced during a service at Skärgårdsvarvet (Volvo Penta D2-40).

Source · invoice759.pdf · row 3

Which impeller fits?

According to the engine manual, page 47: Volvo Penta 21951354. You have two spare impellers registered in your onboard inventory.

Answers come from your own manuals, invoices and notes — every claim links back to the source.

Logbook

Every trip, recorded. Every moment, replayable.

Press start when you cast off. boat.life records the track, the speed and the events along the way — so you can review the passage, share it with friends, and keep a real cruising history.

GPS tracking

Your route drawn on the chart in real time, with distance, duration and waypoints captured automatically.

Speed tracking

Live and historical speed — see max, average and the colour-coded speed line along the whole track.

Event logging

Log sail changes, reefing, refuelling, wildlife and harbour entries — with photos and notes.

Emergency & alerts

One-tap emergency with your live position, plus geofence and arrival alerts for crew on shore.

Return to emergency mark with bearing and distance

Replay your trip

Scrub through the passage afterwards — see the route, speed and events animate from cast-off to docking.

Trip replay with map, speed colours and scrub timeline

Share live position

Send a private link to family so they can follow along — they see the boat move, nothing more.

Live GPS tracking of a boat trip shared with family

Community

A community for people who love being on the water.

Find new places, lend a hand, and meet the people who make boating better. On the water, we help each other — and boat.life brings that together.

Make friends

Connect with other boat owners and build your own boating network.

Message each other

Chat directly with your boating friends, share tips and coordinate meetups.

Discover boats

Search for boats and their owners by name, model or home port.

Share knowledge

Learn from experienced owners and share your own hard-won wisdom.

Live friend map

See where your boating friends are on the water right now, in real time.

Ask for advice

Need help? Ask the community — from 'is there space for me?' to 'what was that sound?'.

Stay in touch

Talk to the boats around you. Help each other out.

Group chats, harbour chats and instant messages between berths — plus a live map so you can find your friends on the water, lend a hand when someone needs it, and never feel alone out there.

Group chat
Create a chat for your sailing club, friends or family crew. Plan trips, share photos and keep the season's stories in one thread.
Harbour chat
Every harbour has its own room. Ask if there's space, warn about the weather, or just say hello to the boats already moored.
Berth-to-berth messages
Spot a boat two berths down and want to say hi? Send an instant message straight to that berth — no phone number needed.
Live map
See friends and nearby boaters on the map in real time. Wave hello, share a course, or come to the rescue when someone needs a hand.

Our story

From boat owners' need to a whole boating community.

We built boat.life because we needed it ourselves. We've spent years on the water, and like every boat owner we know the feeling — the beautiful sails, the perfect sunsets, and then that moment when something makes a sound you don't recognise.

We wanted a single place for our boats, our families, the places we visit and the trips we take. Maintenance logs, things to bring back and forth, quick notes so nothing gets forgotten. And we wanted to remember it all — not just the specs, but the stories, the people, the moments that make a boat a life.

The community part grew naturally. Once friends came in, we wanted to find others nearby, people in the same harbour, people with the same boat model, someone who had already solved that weird engine problem. Boating is very much about helping each other, and we try to bring that together here.

What started as a personal tool has become a home for your boating life. Your boats and your places at the core — your family, your friends, the harbours and the neighbours who help each other out on the water. A place to remember, to connect, to belong. Always there when you need them.

— Christian & David, founders of boat.life

From boat owners

Quiet confidence, every season.

“I spend a lot of time and money on my boat to keep it in order. And it gets used so few days a year, so it really has to work when I'm out there. boat.life helps me keep track of what needs doing so I don't run into problems.”

Henrik

Owner · 34 ft sailboat

“I love that I can keep track of all the maintenance. For me it matters most when I sell the boat, because I know I will at some point, and having a proper service book is going to help me get the most value out of it.”

Anna

Owner · classic motor cruiser

“There are a lot of functions in boat.life and I can't wait to see what comes next. The in-harbour messages, the service book, and the AI (I'm a Pro member) that scans and categorises receipts on its own. And the geo location reminders. I just love it for keeping track of things.”

Mikael

Pro member · twin-engine RIB

Pricing

Free is great. Pro makes it smoother.

boat.life is free to use — for real. No locked features, no countdown, no friendly nudges to upgrade. Pro is for those who want to save time with AI, not because Free is missing anything.

Free

For every boat owner. Forever.

€0 / forever

No trial, no card, no nagging. The full boat.life experience — yours to keep.

Up to 3 boats — free forever
250 MB document storage — enough to keep you going for a long time
Photos, specs and notes
Full maintenance log and service history
Documents, manuals, receipts and warranties
Reminders, checklists and timeline
Places, trips and the live map
Friends, groups and harbour chat
Stays with the boat when she changes hands

No limits hidden in the small print. Free isn't a teaser — it's the product.

Optional

Pro

Everything in Free, plus AI that saves time.

Adds to Free

Ask your boat. Get answers from your own manuals, invoices and notes — with the source one click away.
Collaboration. Invite crew, family or co-owners to your boats — everyone keeps the boat in sync.
AI fills your forms. Dictate a note — AI turns it into a complete reminder, service entry or logbook record.
Voice commands. Say "Start trip", "Send message to Anna", "Remind me…" or "Add fix…" — Pro runs the command directly, no forms to fill in.
AI receipt scanning. Snap a receipt and the date, amount and category fill in automatically.
Email receipts to your boat. Forward an invoice to your private boat address — it lands in the right place.
Automatic document summaries. Long PDFs and forum threads get a clean summary you can skim in seconds.
Shared GPS map. Invite other Pro users to overlay their boats on one live map — great for sailing races, convoy cruises and rescue coordination.
Up to 5 boats. Room for the whole family's fleet — dinghy, day cruiser and the project boat in the garage.
5 GB document storage. Plenty of room for manuals, schematics and years of invoices.

Pro is how we keep the lights on — so Free can stay genuinely free for everyone else.

For fleets

Fleet

Everything in Pro, built for many boats.

Adds to Pro

Unlimited boats. Manage as many boats as you need under one account — no per-boat caps.
10 GB document storage. Double the Pro storage for manuals, schematics, photos and years of invoices across your whole fleet.
All Pro features included. Ask your boat, AI receipt scanning, email-to-boat, document summaries and the shared GPS map — for every boat you own.

Built for charter operators, boat clubs, families with several boats and anyone managing a small fleet.

Our philosophy: Free should feel complete on its own. Pro is for owners who want their boat's knowledge a few questions away — not a paywall around features you already rely on.

Privacy & security

Your data is private and safe.

Your boat data belongs to you. It's stored on encrypted, EU-based infrastructure, and only you (and the people you invite) can see it. We will never sell your personal data, boat data, service history, documents or contact details to another company. You decide who can access your boat, and you can change or remove that access whenever you want.

FAQ

Questions & answers

A home for your boat, your family, your places.

Remember every trip, every friend, every sunset. And find new places with a community that helps each other. Free, forever.

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