$20 · one-time · lifetime updates
Track engine hours, services, haul-outs, and survey-ready history across every vessel you own. Outboards, inboards, sailboats. Twenty dollars, one time. No subscription. No account. Works offline.
$20 lifetime · Works offline · No account · Lifetime updates included
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Fleet view, engine-hour timeline, and survey-ready report previews go here.
Most boat maintenance lives in a binder in a damp locker, a stack of receipts in a glove box, or a spreadsheet that nobody touches between seasons. Boat Journal is the real-software version, designed for the way boats actually age.
| What a paper logbook gives you | What Boat Journal gives you |
|---|---|
| Paper logbook in a damp locker | Real software that does the math |
| One book per vessel | Every vessel in one file |
| Engine hours written in pencil | Engine hours that drive your reminders |
| Receipt taped to a page | Photos attached to each log entry |
| "When did we change the impeller?" | Search every entry in under a second |
| A folder buyers and surveyors dig through | A polished survey-ready report ready to send |
| Lost if your book gets wet | A backup file you control |
| Re-buy for every new boat | Lifetime updates, every vessel, one price |
YachtWave is free, AI-powered, and cloud-based. Boat Journal is $20 one-time, runs entirely on your machine, and never sends your records anywhere. If you prefer your maintenance history not be a data product, the local file is the safer default.
My Vessel Logs is around $59 per year with cloud sync and USCG-compliance exports. Boat Journal is $20 once, with no recurring fee and no cloud. The tradeoff is no real-time sync. The win is your records still work when the subscription would have lapsed.
This is for you if:
Outboards, inboards, sailboats, jet skis, tenders. Each gets its own service history, engine hours, photos, and reminders. Switch between them with one click.
Marine engines age on hours and seasons, not odometers. Boat Journal tracks both and reminds you on whichever comes first. Twin engines log independently.
Every haul-out, every blister repair, every bottom-paint application, every zinc swap. Five years of records ready when the broker asks, the surveyor inspects, or the next owner walks the dock.
When it is time to sell, generate a polished PDF with every service, every haul-out, every receipt. Brokers and surveyors move faster when the paper trail is real. Hand it to a buyer at the dock.
Lay-up, fogging, antifreeze, fuel stabilizer, battery pull. Reusable checklists per vessel, checked off and dated each season. Spring commissioning the same way.
Twenty dollars, one time. Every V1 purchase includes free lifetime updates: new features, new vessel templates, every future release. No subscription, no upsell, no premium tier.
Selling a boat is the moment your maintenance history pays off. The survey-ready report turns every log entry, every haul-out, every impeller swap, every zinc, into a polished PDF with a cover photo, a vessel summary, service history grouped by year, photo gallery, and totals. Hand it to a broker, attach it to a Yachtworld listing, or hand it directly to a buyer at the dock. The records do the selling.
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Marine intervals are hours-based for some services, calendar-based for others, and both at once for the items you cannot afford to miss. Boat Journal computes reminders from your actual log entries, not from a generic OEM schedule. Twin engines reminded independently. Overdue, due soon, and upcoming grouped at a glance.
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Boat Journal runs entirely in your browser. No server, no account, no telemetry. When you add a vessel, log a haul-out, or attach a photo, the data is written to your browser's local database. We cannot see it. We do not have it.
The backup file is a plain JSON file you save to a folder of your choosing: Dropbox, iCloud Drive, an external drive, your boat's thumbdrive in the chart-plotter mount. Restoring on a new computer is one click. The file is human-readable so you can verify your records before you trust the app.
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Yes. Each engine is logged separately with its own hour reading and service intervals, but rolls up under one vessel. You see port and starboard side-by-side or you collapse to vessel totals.
Yes. Sailboats have an auxiliary engine, rigging service intervals, sail inventory, and haul-out history. All are first-class entries in Boat Journal.
Yes. Boat Journal is a single HTML file. After download, it runs entirely in your browser with no internet required. Useful when you are at the dock and cell coverage is spotty.
In your browser's local storage on the device you opened the file with. There is no server. Export to JSON to back up or move between devices.
No. There is no sign-up, no login, no email collected at runtime. The only place we know about you is the checkout receipt.
Yes. Buy once, every future version is free. Re-download the latest file from the receipt link anytime.
Yes. The license is per person, not per device. Use the JSON export to sync your data between machines.
Boat Journal logs the same data a surveyor or insurer would want, but it does not produce a specific USCG-formatted document. If documented compliance is a hard requirement, look at My Vessel Logs.
Boat Journal is a maintenance log, not a voyage log. Track services, engine hours, haul-outs, and survey prep. For underway logs, trip reports, and crew certifications, a dedicated logbook app fits better.
Because a maintenance log is the kind of thing you should still own twenty years from now, when the company that built it might not exist. Subscriptions diverge the company's interests from yours. We chose the side you would choose.
Not currently. The product is twenty dollars with a 14-day refund window. Effectively a buy-and-try with the money back if you do not keep it.