Maintenance and service logs
Every job, engine hour, and part logged against the system it belongs to, with a plain view of what’s overdue, what’s due this month, and what’s on track. Say what you fixed and it’s logged.
Tight Ship · Coming soon to iPhone, iPad, and Android
Keep a tight ship.
The boat-management app we built aboard WARRIOR, our 2021 Leopard 45, for cruisers who live on their boats and are often a long way from a chandlery, a mechanic, or a signal.
- Built aboard a Leopard 45
- Works with no signal
- Deckhand is free
Why we built it
Three weeks on the hard we didn’t need.
Soon after we bought WARRIOR, we were sailing her to the Turks and Caicos when water started coming into the engine room. The previous owners had never had the rudders dropped for service, the kind of job that is easy to put off when nothing seems wrong.
Nothing seemed wrong right up until it was. We hauled out in St. Martin, waited on parts shipped from Italy, and spent three weeks on the hard. The builder’s recommended service would have prevented all of it.
That is the gap Tight Ship fills. Dave started it as a notebook and a spreadsheet aboard WARRIOR, and it grew into the app we use to run the boat: what’s due, what’s stowed where, and what it all costs, kept on the phone in the cockpit instead of a binder at the nav station.
We’re experienced cruisers, not professional mechanics. Tight Ship is built for owners like us: one boat that is also home, fixed with whatever is in the spares locker, often days from the nearest signal.
A Life Warrior owns the outcome. On a boat, that starts with knowing what’s due before it becomes a haul-out.
What it keeps
One place for everything the boat asks of you.
Everything saves on the device first, so it all works at anchor with no signal, and nothing waits for a connection.
Safety-gear expiry
Life raft, EPIRB, flares, extinguishers, PFDs, and the first-aid kit, each with its service and expiry dates, flagged before a date slips past.
Provisions by locker
Stores and spares recorded by the locker they live in, so the spare impeller and the last bag of coffee can be found without emptying the boat.
Owner’s manuals, offline
The manuals for your engines, saildrives, and gear, kept on the device. When the watermaker stops in a bay with no signal, the manual is already aboard.
Budget
Fuel, marina nights, permits, and parts, each kept against the job it belongs to, in the currency you paid in, with the year set against your budget.
Checklists
The routines that keep a boat safe, before a passage and before you leave her at anchor, on the phone in the cockpit and ready to tick through.
A look inside
Made for a rolling deck.
Laid out to be easy to use on a rolling deck, with every system on a map of your boat, right where it sits aboard.
Screens show our demo boat, Sample Cat.
Pricing
Start free.
Deckhand is free and keeps your data on your device. Captain and Admiral add sync and more, for boats that are also home.
Free for good, no card needed
Deckhand
Free
Your data stays on your device. One boat on one device, what’s due, jobs and the logbook, and it all works with no signal.
For liveaboards
Captain
$49.99 /year
or $5.99 a month · 1-week free trial
Everything in Deckhand, plus sync across phone, iPad, and laptop, photos and receipts on every job, and the offline manuals library.
For the serious owner
Admiral
$119.99 /year
or $11.99 a month · 2-week free trial
Everything in Captain, plus Skip Advisor, the AI assistant with voice and Live Talk.
Founding Crew
$34.99/year
Join the waitlist before launch and get Captain for $34.99 a year, locked in for as long as you stay subscribed.
Join the Founding CrewTight Ship is made by Sailing Life Warriors, a dba of The Life Warriors, LLC.
Coming soon
Join the Founding Crew.
Tight Ship is coming soon to iPhone, iPad, and Android. Join the waitlist at mytightship.com and we’ll send one email when it’s ready to come aboard.