Every cruiser knows the feeling — five years later you remember the green-trim sailboat in Princess Louisa, but not the couple's names. Bosun's Mate keeps that memory for you, with the people, pets, and the anchorage you shared.
Log the hull colour and trim before the names. Add the crew, pets, even socials — phone, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook — all in one card.
Save the day to your Cruising Log with one tap of your location. Bosun's Mate reverse-geocodes the coordinates to the place name: Princess Louisa, BC.
When the other boat is also on Bosun's Mate, their public profile attaches automatically. Photo, bio, hailing port — pulled in for you.
No credit card · Free forever plan + 7-day Pro trial · Web, iOS & Android
Two features every captain has been asking for — shipped this month.
Tap once on the map, or use your device's location — Bosun's Mate reverse-geocodes it into a real place name (Princess Louisa, BC · Roche Harbor, WA · Wrangell, AK). Every Cruising Log entry and every Cruiser Contact keeps the moment and the where together, so five years from now you'll still know exactly which cove that was.
Face ID / Touch ID / Fingerprint sign-in, a real home-screen icon, offline-capable logging, and camera-native receipt capture. Web still works everywhere — every plan syncs across all three.
Pick a preset (powerboat, sailboat, fishing) or start blank. Add engine, transmission, electronics — all in one tidy registry.
Snap a receipt with your camera. Note an engine hour. File a fuel fill-up. Every entry is filed under your vessel automatically.
Maintenance due dates by hour or date. YTD costs by category. Overdue alerts. Your boat's whole story, in your pocket.
By hours, dates, or seasons. Knows what's overdue.
Trend lines, MPG, range — quiet bookkeeping for noisy engines.
Departure → return, hours underway, distance in nm, anchorages and photos. Your seasons, captured.
Snap a receipt — AI fills in vendor, total, date. Multi-photo per entry.
Invite your partner, mechanic, or co-captain. Unlimited crew, no extra cost.
A git-log for your boat — see who logged what, when, across every category.
One captain, several boats. They each have their own log.
Renewal dates that don't sneak up on you.
Add a fuel fill-up on the dock, read on the couch.
Make it yours — track hours, PSI, anything that matters to your boat.
Log costs in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP and 3 more. Your call on the display total.
Pick a preset, get sensible defaults, then customize categories and fields to suit your vessel.
Early feedback from beta captains across North America. Want to add yours? Tell us your story.
"I finally stopped keeping fuel receipts in the chart drawer. My mechanic asked for a service history last spring and I just hit Export PDF."
"Cruising Log is genuinely the feature I didn't know I needed. Hours, distance, average speed — all logged with the trip. Better than my paper notebook ever was."
"Shared access with my wife means she stops hunting for parts numbers when I'm down below. Co-Captain access for free was the dealbreaker for me."
Bosun's Mate is now live on the App Store and Google Play — free plan, no card required. Or keep using it in your browser; every plan works across all three.
