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How-to guides for every part of YachtGrade, with screenshots, and plain writing about looking after boats.
No news, no announcements. Things worth knowing if you look after somebody else’s boat.
How to · 5 November 2026
Put your name, logo and contact details on every report, send reminders from your own address, and set the order your techs walk a boat.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Say what you see, check what the app heard, and tap once. Nothing is saved as an answer until you do.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
File registration, insurance and survey papers, confirm when they run out, and know who gets reminded.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Add what the boat carries, log hours for each engine and generator, and keep a record of its parts.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Set service intervals by hours or months, see what is due next, mark a service done, and watch it show on Today.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Browse every photo by day or place, choose the cover that heads the report, and download one photo or a zip.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Edit your company's checklist by size class, add your own checkpoints, change one boat only, and control who may edit.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Get a copy of every check, report and photo, know who can run it, and read what the Billing tab shows.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
An answer that needs work becomes an item on the boat's To do tab. Sort it, give it to a tech, and see it close when the next check passes.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Finish the check, build the report, send the link or PDF yourself, and issue a corrected version without touching the one already sent.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
See which boat needs attention first, what keeps going wrong across the fleet, how hard engines run, and what customers say.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Four ways an owner can see their boat, what each one shows, and what an owner can and cannot change.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Get YachtGrade on your iPhone or Android phone, and know what it does when the signal drops.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Upload the deck drawing, mark where the gear is, draw the way out, and print a dated sheet for the bulkhead.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Price what a boat needs, send the owner one link, and see their answer item by item.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Photos saved on the phone send when there is a real connection. Here is how to read the queue, what to try, and what never to clear.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Export the boat's records, take it off your account and your bill, or archive a boat you will come back to.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Plan a visit, give it to a tech or a team, and see it in your phone's own calendar and on the map.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Put the people in a van in one team, give work to a person or a team, and see where it lands on Today.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Keep your own vendor list, send one finding to up to three vendors for a price, and see where each request stands.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
Tap through the boat in the order you walk it, say what is in each place, and every check on that boat follows your route.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
The first problems people hit, what is usually behind each, and which guide has the full steps.
Read itHow to · 5 November 2026
The You tab: your password, your language, how reports are translated, and using one email for more than one company.
Read itHow to · 30 October 2026
Sign up, learn the screens, and do the first four things in the right order.
Read itHow to · 30 October 2026
For techs and crew who were sent an invite: open it, create your login, and know what you can do.
Read itHow to · 30 October 2026
The sign in email that never arrives, links that expire, a forgotten password and the wrong company, one fix at a time.
Read itFor owners · 4 October 2026
Typical hours for gas, diesel and outboard engines, and why the service record says more than the meter.
Read itFor owners and their teams · 4 October 2026
The steps of a written boat hurricane plan, what Florida law says about marinas, and what to record before the storm.
Read itFor owners and their teams · 4 October 2026
The rules of thumb, who states them, the few sourced numbers, and how per-boat records make upkeep predictable.
Read itFor owners and their teams · 4 October 2026
Which boat renewals come due, how often, who sets the date, and how a service company keeps track.
Read itFor owners and service companies · 4 October 2026
Winterizing steps by system, who recommends each one, and where Mercury and BoatUS disagree.
Read itFor owners and service companies · 4 October 2026
Published service intervals for Mercury, Honda, Yamaha and MerCruiser, each tied to its manual, with the gaps stated.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Every person on the account is already in the price. What changes, per person, is exactly what they're allowed to do.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Weights, tiers, and the one rule that stops a sinking risk from reading as a passing grade.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Two QR codes, two audiences, and one equipment registry underneath that tracks running hours and calendar months so nothing gets missed either way.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Universal checkpoints, equipment-driven blocks, and why every boat's checklist assembles itself instead of getting built by hand.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
How the queue holds your work on the phone with no bars at all, what the badge tells you while it's waiting, and what actually helps on a real job.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Starting a visit, working the checklist one question at a time, photos that answer two things at once, and what finishing actually does.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
Add the boat, tell YachtGrade what it carries, and its checklist and berth are ready before the first check.
Read itHow to · 28 September 2026
No login, frozen the moment it's issued, and your name on it, not ours.
Read itFor owners · 28 September 2026
Walk the boat cold, read the engine room rather than the engines, and ask for the history before you ask for the price.
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