About YachtGrade
YachtGrade was built by a USCG 100-ton captain who spent five years managing, detailing, running and selling boats, after four years building business IT systems.
YachtGrade is what happens when those two backgrounds meet.
A factory knows the hours on every machine. A camera system knows who came and went, and when. A doctor's office can pull up a full history in seconds.
Boats had none of it. Looking after a boat still runs on phone photos, group texts and memory. A tech checks the bilge, and the proof is a picture somewhere in a camera roll. An owner is told everything is fine, and is asked to take it on trust. When a boat is sold, its history is whatever somebody can remember.
I started on boats, working on them through college.
Then I spent four years in IT, building systems for businesses that could not stop and wait for them: manufacturers whose lines depended on the machines and networks behind them, security camera installations that had to record every hour of every day, and doctors' offices that needed their computers working before the first patient walked in. The lesson from those years was simple. A good system is one nobody has to think about. It fits the way people already work, it records what happened without being asked, and it is there when someone needs to prove it.
Then I spent five years back on the water in South Florida. I managed boats, detailed them, ran them as a USCG 100-ton captain, and sold them. About thirty boats in all, from 32-foot day boats to a 58-foot yacht, working alongside the mechanics, electricians and specialists who kept the systems aboard running.
YachtGrade is the system that should have been there all along. A check written for the boat in front of you, from what is actually aboard it. Every photo stamped with when it was taken, not when it happened to upload. A score an owner can take apart, and a report they actually read.
What that means for your team
Checks written for the boat in front of you.
The checklist is built from what is actually aboard. If a boat has no generator, there are no generator checks. There is no N/A to tap through.
Made for a moving deck.
Built to be used one-handed, standing up, in the sun. A tech who has to stop and think about the software has already stopped doing the check.
Nothing to learn.
If any of your technicians needs training to run a check, that month is on us. It is one of the four promises, and it comes from years of building systems for people who did not have time for complicated software.
Proof that stands up.
Every photo carries the time it was taken as well as the time it arrived, so an old picture is never passed off as today’s.
Your records stay yours
I no longer manage boats. YachtGrade is software for the companies that do.
Other companies never see your boats.
Each company’s YachtGrade account is separate. People at another company do not have access to your boats, owners, photos or reports through their account.
Shared links can be opened without an account.
Owner report and Boat Brief links open without an account. Anyone with the link can open it, so share it only with people you want to have access.
Your records are never held hostage.
One button emails you a download link with all of your company’s data, including its boats, photos, checks and reports. The guarantee also covers access to your records if something happens to YachtGrade.
Beta invite
The first 100 beta members get 5 boats free for life. No card, no contract. We ask for honest feedback.
Paid plans have money-back guarantees on the first paid months. Your rate is locked for five years while your subscription stays active. Read the guarantees
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A YachtGrade report is a condition and readiness report. It is not a survey, is not carried out by an accredited surveyor, and is not a substitute for a pre-purchase, insurance or damage survey.
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