Yacht Management — Run the Whole Boat from One Screen

The Problem

Yachting still runs on spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads, and paper logs.

Service intervals in one spreadsheet, vendor quotes buried in email, certificates in a drawer, day-worker hours in a soggy notebook — and one person who “knows where everything is.” At 3am with a failing generator, that’s exactly the system you don’t want to be fighting.

The knowledge walks off the boat

Crew turns over, and twenty years of “how this boat actually works” leaves with them. Nothing written down, nothing searchable.

Money leaks through the cracks

Three quotes for the same job, scattered across three inboxes. Nobody compares them properly. The boat pays the difference.

Surprises find you at sea

The interval you missed, the spare you didn’t carry, the certificate that expired last month — paper logs don’t warn you. They just sit there.

Everything Aboard, Handled

11 modules. One login. Zero binders.

Each module replaces a spreadsheet, a notebook, or a guy who’s on another boat now. Together they run the vessel.

Dashboard

Walk aboard and know the boat’s status in 5 seconds. Overdue, upcoming, and running — at a glance.

Maintenance

Never miss a service interval again. Hours-based and calendar-based scheduling, both — the app keeps watch.

Machinery

Every engine, genny, and pump on file with hours and history — so the answer to “when was this last serviced?” is never a shrug.

Inventory

Know what’s in the lazarette without opening the lazarette. Parts, spares, and consumables — counted and findable.

Projects

Every refit and work-list item prioritized, tracked, and exportable — so the owner sees progress, not promises.

Documents

Any certificate or manual one search away — with expiry alerts before the surveyor asks, not after.

Navigation

Marinas on file and an AI route assistant for passage planning — leave with a plan, not a guess.

Only Here

Estimates

Vendor quotes stacked side by side, line by line — pick with your eyes open. Our competitors have nothing like it.

Invoices

Every dollar spent on the boat, accounted for and findable — owner’s questions answered in seconds, not weekends.

Crew

CVs, certs, contacts, and start dates — the whole crew file in one place, ready before the agent calls.

Day Workers

Hours logged, rates tracked, everyone paid right — and the soggy notebook retired for good.

Runs Through Everything

The AI

Not a 12th module — the crew member inside all 11. Ask it anything about your boat. See what it does ↓

AI-Native, Not Bolted On

An AI that sees what’s about to break.

Legacy tools added a chatbot in 2026 and called it innovation. ZipYacht was built around its AI from day one — it reads your machinery, your hours, your history, and talks like a chief engineer who never sleeps.

Ask it anything about the boat

“When did we last change the racors?” “What did the watermaker cost us this year?” It knows, because it lives in your data — not a generic chatbot reading a manual.

Spares tuned to your exact machinery

It reads your engine list and tells you what to carry before you cross — impellers, belts, filters, anodes — for your serial numbers, not “boats in general.”

Foresight, not hindsight

Hours climbing toward an interval, a part that fails every season, a certificate about to lapse — it flags what’s coming so 3am stays boring.

We’re crossing to the Bahamas Friday. What spares should I carry for the mains?

Based on your twin C18s at 4,210 hours: carry two fuel filter sets (you change them every ~250 hrs and you’re at 190 since the last), one spare impeller per engine, coolant, and belts. Your port engine’s last oil analysis flagged rising iron — I’d bring an extra oil filter and sample kit.

Anything about to bite us?

The liferaft service is due in 23 days and the tender’s 100-hour is at 96 hours. Both are flagged on your dashboard.

M/Y Contessa100-ft motor yacht · in service today

Proof, Not Promises

Built on a real boat. Not in a WeWork.

ZipYacht Management is forked from the live system running M/Y Contessa — a working 100-ft motor yacht — every single day. Every feature earned its place at sea before it shipped.

Real maintenance — actual intervals, tracked and hit, season after season
Real machinery — engines, gennies, and systems with real hours on them
Real money — genuine vendor quotes compared, genuine invoices paid
If it didn’t survive a working yacht, it didn’t make the product

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Transparent Pricing

The price is on the page. Imagine that.

No “request a quote.” No sales maze. Some competitors hide their pricing — we think you should know what the boat costs before you call. Here it is, all of it.

The App

Software License

$1,790/year

Full access to all 11 modules and the AI, for your vessel and your whole crew.

All 11 modules, nothing gated
Unlimited crew accounts with roles
Phone, tablet, laptop — no installs

Hosting, AI & Maintenance

$189/month

Keeps the lights on and the AI thinking — secure hosting, AI usage, updates, and support.

Secure hosting, your data isolated
AI usage included — no token math
Updates and support, ongoing

Live Onboarding · Optional

$90/hour

We set your boat up with you, screen-to-screen. Most vessels are running fast — and it’s optional.

Your machinery and intervals loaded
Crew trained on their screens
Pay only for the hours you use

Need more? Data migration, custom reports, and integrations are available as add-ons — priced up front, like everything else here.

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Good to Know

Straight answers, before you ask.

Who is this for?

Captains and chief engineers who run the boat day to day, owners who want to know their vessel is squared away, and management companies running fleets. If you’re responsible for a yacht’s maintenance, money, or crew — this is your screen.

Who owns my data — and can anyone else see it?

You own it, full stop. Every customer’s data is isolated at the database level — no other boat, broker, or vendor can ever see yours. Export it whenever you like; it’s your logbook, not ours.

Does it work on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It runs in the browser on iPad, phone, and laptop — nothing to install, nothing to update. The engine room check gets logged from the engine room, not back at the nav desk.

How fast can we be set up?

If you can run a boat, you can run this in five minutes — no training week. Start solo for free-form entry, or book live onboarding at $90/hour and we’ll load your machinery, intervals, and documents with you, screen-to-screen.

What can the AI actually do?

It reads your boat’s own data — machinery, hours, history, inventory, spending — and answers like a chief engineer. Ask what spares to carry for a crossing, what’s about to come due, what a system has cost this year, or how to plan a passage. It’s tuned to your exact vessel, not boats in general.

What makes the Estimates module different?

It puts vendor quotes side by side, line by line, so you can compare scope and price with your eyes open before committing the boat’s money. As far as we know, no other yacht management app does this — and it routinely pays for the software by itself.

Run the whole boat from one screen.