The checklist
Select the equipment aboard. YachtGrade builds the checks that apply to that boat. Add location notes and reference photos to help technicians find the equipment.
If the boat does not have it, it is not on the checklist. There is no N/A to tap through.
Built from the equipment aboard
Each check carries a location note, so a technician who has never been aboard can find the right equipment. There is also a free printable boat inspection checklist built the same way.
Equipment aboard. Tap to add or remove.
Sample checklist, shortened. The real one runs forty checks or more.
Checks grouped by location
A checklist organized by subject can send a technician back across the engine room again and again. Bilge pumps are one heading, seacocks another, fire suppression a third, even though all three are in the place where the technician is already standing.
Grouped by where you are, not by what it is
Everything in one location comes up together. You name the places and put them in the order you actually walk the boat.
Place the equipment. Its checks move with it.
Say where the air conditioning strainer is on this boat, and its check moves to that location. Set up the equipment, and the checklist follows it.
Only tell it what varies from boat to boat
You do not have to tell YachtGrade that an engine is in the engine room. It asks for the locations that can vary from boat to boat, such as chargers and strainers.
Three fridges. One check.
The question comes up at whichever fridge you reach first and names the others, so the technician does not check the galley fridge and walk away.
You do not have to place everything first
Before you place any equipment, the checklist keeps its default grouping. Place one item, and only that item moves.
In the field
Answers and photos save on the phone with no signal and upload when signal returns. Sharing the finished report still needs a connection.
Each completed check is marked Pass (no issue found), Watch (worth monitoring) or Action (needs attention now). A skipped check shows as Not checked and is left out of the score rather than counted against it.
A photo keeps the time it was taken, even if it uploads later. A reviewer can see when the work was actually done.
Every photo shows the time it was taken.
Buttons stay clear of the phone’s notch and home bar, with tap targets big enough for wet fingers.
A photo of the bilge pump can also show the bilge. Attach it once to both questions. Each question still keeps its own answer.
Save any photo to the camera roll, or download a whole visit as one file.
Reuse a photo from the boat’s library when nothing has changed. It keeps the date it was actually taken and is labeled as coming from an earlier visit.
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