Know what's due. Prove the care.
Head out ready.
Service records, reminders, checklists, expenses and a real-time readiness score for your boat, shared with the people who need it. First Mate, your AI assistant, does the paperwork.
However you keep your boat, it fits.
Hand the work to a yard or do it yourself, keep it on a mooring or a trailer, own the boat or crew on it. ReadyHelm keeps the part that matters to you.
Every invoice, every service, one record you can hand to the next owner.
Photograph an invoice and First Mate drafts the service entry and the expense. Work your yard logs arrives verified, and you choose what else the yard sees. When it's time to sell, the history report shows what was done and who did it.
Know what's due before it breaks, and prove you did the work.
Reminders by date or engine hours, a service log with parts and photos, and equipment you can track down to the impeller. Ask the mechanic who helped to verify an entry, and your DIY record carries weight at resale.
On Friday at four, know your boat is ready.
One readiness score, a before-trip checklist you can walk through by voice, the NOAA forecast for where you're going, and a float plan to whoever stays ashore, with a one-tap "we're back safely."
Your mooring, your tender, and your boat, with nothing coming due that you didn't know about.
Tackle and components, inspection dates, permits, slip leases and payments, all on the berth itself, so the history stays with it when boats come and go. Add the tender as its own boat with its own reminders.
See exactly what your marina did and what it cost.
Verified service entries next to every expense: fuel, dockage, storage and parts. Snap a receipt and it fills itself in. Export it all to a spreadsheet or PDF.
Every hour on the water, counted. Say yes to a trip in ten seconds.
Trip invites with the time, place and your role. Your hours and sea days toward a USCG license, with your certifications and their expiry dates in one wallet you can share.
Register once, check in from the dock, see your results that night.
Enter your club's season with your boat, crew and rating certificate. On race day, check in and file a float plan from your entry, see your start and course, and get results and standings as soon as the committee posts them, logged as a trip in your Captain's Log.
Your boat's paperwork, done while you're still at the dock.
First Mate is the AI assistant built into ReadyHelm. It reads your documents, answers questions about your boat, and drafts the records for you. You check every value before anything is saved, and anything it filled in rather than heard from you is marked Check this.
Log This Repair New
Tell First Mate what was done in your own words, or attach the receipt or invoice. It asks short questions for anything missing (the date, the engine hours, who did the work) and drafts the service entry and the expense. It asks rather than guesses.
Voice checklist walk-through New
Hands busy on the foredeck? The app reads each item aloud and listens for "check", "skip" or "note". On the USCG safety checklist, a spoken check is read back for you to confirm. At the end, the whole run comes to you for one approval.
Notes into to-dos New
Said "one PFD strap is torn and we're low on oil"? First Mate tidies your spoken notes, splits them into separate to-dos with the equipment, a priority and any due date you mentioned, and shows what you actually said next to each one.
Shortcuts New
What's Due Soon: everything coming due, overdue first, straight from your records. Boat Summary: a short recap of the last year and what may need attention, with a link to every record it mentions.
Set up a boat from its documents
Upload a survey, registration, insurance policy, receipt or yard invoice, and First Mate proposes the details: the boat, its equipment, policies and service history. It can also fill in your boat's missing specs.
Just ask
"What's due this month?" "When did I last change the impeller?" "Remind me to order zincs." First Mate answers from your records and sets reminders when you ask.
Every plan, Free included, comes with First Mate and a monthly allowance of credits; higher plans get more. Reviewing and approving is always free.
You decide what each yard and business sees.
Give your boatyard access to log work, and choose, business by business, what else it can see. Your rigger doesn't need your expenses; your yard may want your insurance. Turn a category off and it's hidden right away.
A business always sees what it needs to do the job: the boat's details and specs, equipment, the maintenance schedule, and its own work, quotes and messages. Your trips, Float Plans, moorings and slips are never shown to businesses.
| What a business can see | For new businesses |
|---|---|
| Service history others logged | On |
| Insurance | On |
| Expenses | Off |
| To-dos | On |
| Checklists | On |
| Documents | On |
Everything about your boat, finally organized
Maintenance Reminders
Set tasks by date or engine hours. When one comes due it lands on your to-do list and in a daily email, and logging the work rolls it forward.
Service Log
Every oil change, haul-out and repair, self-logged or confirmed by the yard, mechanic or mooring service that did it.
Readiness Score
One number that tells you, and anyone you share it with, exactly how ready your boat is to go.
Checklists
Before Trip, After Trip, the USCG safety checklist, ready-made templates, and custom checklists that repeat on your schedule. Walk any of them through by voice.
Equipment & Replacement Tracking
Know what's aboard, its condition over time, and when safety gear and equipment are due for replacement.
Expenses
Fuel, dockage, storage and parts alongside your service costs, with charts and CSV or PDF export. Snap a receipt and it fills itself in.
Moorings & Slips
Tackle, components, inspections and permits for a mooring; leases, payments, utilities and gate codes for a slip. Days-at-berth reports for your harbor master or marina.
Captain's Log & Crew
Log every trip with sea days, hours and nautical miles per person. Invite crew to a trip, and track your progress toward a USCG license.
Float Plans & Forecasts
Send a trip's details to whoever stays ashore, with NOAA wind, wave and tide forecasts recorded as the trip gets closer.
Racing
Register for your club's races, sign waivers, check in on race day, and follow results and series standings. Your crew, float plan and Captain's Log fill themselves in from the entry.
Verified History Report
Thinking of selling? A report for a buyer, broker or surveyor that separates work verified by a pro from work you logged yourself.
Messages & Sharing
Share a boat with family, crew or a co-owner as a viewer or editor, and keep the conversation with them, and with your yard, attached to the boat. Get your reminders and messages by email, text or both.
Quotes from Your Yard
When your yard prices a job, the quote lands in your app and your inbox. Approve or decline it with one tap, and an approved quote becomes the work order. If your yard takes bookings, pick a time for the work right from the app.
Vessel Records
Insurance, registration, racing ratings, identifiers, specifications and documents, with the expiring and expired ones flagged.
Two-Factor Sign-In
Turn on a code from your authenticator app at every sign-in, so your boat's records stay yours.
Works with Your AI Assistant
Connect Claude and just ask: what's due, what it cost, log today's oil change. You choose what it can see and edit, its changes can wait for your approval, and you can undo them. It never deletes anything.
Credential Wallet & Emergency Info
Your certifications, licenses and emergency contacts travel with you, not the boat, and you choose who sees them.
Start free. Upgrade when your fleet needs more.
Every plan includes reminders, the service log, checklists and voice walk-throughs, expenses, moorings and slips, Captain's Log, Float Plans and First Mate. No credit card required to start.
Free
- 1 boat
- 250 MB storage
- Captain's Log, trip invites & Float Plan
- Crew & vessel sharing, with per-business controls
- Voice checklist walk-throughs
- First Mate: documents, chat, Shortcuts & Log This Repair
Skipper
- 3 boats — room for a tender
- 2 GB storage
- Messages with crew & your yard
- Custom checklists
- Receipt auto-fill for expenses
- Far more First Mate credits
- Connect your AI assistant, like Claude
Captain
- Unlimited boats
- 10 GB storage
- Everything in Skipper
- Twice Skipper's First Mate credits
Questions from boat owners
Is ReadyHelm free?
Yes. The Free plan covers one boat with 250 MB of storage, including maintenance reminders, the service log, checklists and voice walk-throughs, expenses, mooring and slip records, Captain's Log, Float Plans, crew sharing and First Mate. Skipper ($4.99 a month or $49.90 a year) adds up to three boats, messages and custom checklists. Captain ($9.99 a month or $99.90 a year) adds unlimited boats and 10 GB.
How do maintenance reminders work?
Set a task to repeat every so many days or engine hours, such as an oil change every 100 hours or 12 months. When it comes due, it lands on your to-do list and in your daily reminder email. Logging the work rolls the schedule forward to the next due date.
How does the voice checklist walk-through work?
Tap Voice walk-through on a checklist. The app reads each item aloud, shows it in large text, and listens for check, skip, note, next, back, repeat or finish. On a safety checklist like USCG Safety, a spoken check is read back and needs a confirm. Nothing is saved as you go: at the end the whole run comes to you for one approval. Where your phone can't listen, big buttons do the same thing. It's free on every plan and doesn't use First Mate credits.
What does First Mate do, and does it change my records on its own?
First Mate reads boat documents, answers questions about your boat, writes a short Boat Summary, turns a repair or a receipt into a draft service entry and expense with Log This Repair, and can tidy voice checklist notes into suggested to-dos. It never saves anything on its own: you review its drafts field by field and approve them. The only exceptions are small things you ask for in chat, like a reminder, and those offer an undo.
Can I control what my boatyard sees?
Yes, on every plan. For each business you give access, you choose whether it also sees service history others logged, insurance, expenses, to-dos, checklists and documents. Expenses start off for new businesses. A business always sees what it needs for the job, such as the boat's details, equipment and maintenance schedule, and never your trips, Float Plans, moorings or slips.
What does a verified service history mean?
An entry is verified when the boatyard, mechanic or mooring service that did the work logged it in ReadyHelm, or confirmed an entry you logged yourself. The verified history report separates verified work from owner-logged work, because buyers, brokers and surveyors weigh the two differently.
Do I need my boat's HIN to get started?
No. Add the boat with its basic details and enter the hull identification number later. Everything you log in the meantime moves to the boat's record when you add the HIN.
Can I keep records for a mooring or a slip?
Yes, on every plan. A mooring record holds its tackle, components, inspection dates and permit. A slip record holds the marina, utilities, gate and dock box codes, and lease terms with payment reminders. Either can produce a days-at-berth report for your harbor master or marina.
Does ReadyHelm track sea time for a USCG license?
Captain's Log records hours underway and sea days for each person aboard, where a sea day is a trip with at least four hours underway, and shows your progress toward an OUPV or Master license. It's a running count to help you prepare, not a filing with the Coast Guard.
Who can see my boat's records?
Your records are private unless you share them. You can share a boat with crew, family or a co-owner as a viewer or editor, and give your boatyard access to log work, choosing what else it sees. Your boat's name can appear in crew search so crew can ask to join, and you can hide it.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. ReadyHelm runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and you can install it to your home screen like an app. You need a connection to load and save your records.
Can I use ReadyHelm from Claude or another AI assistant?
Yes, on Skipper and Captain. In Claude (claude.ai, the Claude Desktop app or Claude Code), add ReadyHelm as a connector at https://api.readyhelm.com/mcp and sign in. You choose which areas it can see or edit, whether it gets sensitive info, and which boats. By default its changes wait in ReadyHelm for your approval, and you can undo what it changed in the last 30 days. It can't delete anything. Disconnect it any time under My Account, Security.
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