Guides for the people who run boat fleets.
Practical notes for rental, charter, boat club and sailing school operators: keeping track of boats, handling late returns, staying ahead of maintenance and sending routes to captains.
- TrackingHow to track rental boats: trackers, phones and fleet platforms comparedGPS trackers, a phone left aboard, or a platform on the boat's own network: what each tells a rental operator, and how to choose.Read the guide
- OperationsWhen a rental boat is overdue: a step-by-step procedure for the dockA practical overdue procedure for boat rental operators: due-back times, grace periods, return zones, an escalation ladder and what to write down.Read the guide
- MaintenanceEngine hours tracking for rental and charter fleetsWhy engine hours drive boat maintenance, why logbooks drift, and how to read hours straight from the engine over NMEA 2000.Read the guide
- SafetyGeofencing a boat rental area: how to draw boundaries that workDraw a rental area on the chart, add a buffer so GPS jitter does not cause false alerts, mark no-entry zones, and decide what happens at the line.Read the guide
- DispatchSending routes to charter captains without taking the helmPlan routes in the office, check them against the chart for each boat, send them to captains to accept, and follow progress without controlling the boat.Read the guide