The day you claim. The day you sell. The day you hand over. The day you are boarded. And the day something breaks four hundred miles from the yard that knows your boat. Everything on this page exists for those days.
They try. They sit at a kitchen table with an adjuster and try to remember what was in the cockpit locker, what the tender’s outboard cost in 2021, and whether the anchor rode was two hundred feet of chain or three hundred.
An inventory assembled that way is always short, and the shortfall is money. AFTWISE builds the total-loss package continuously instead: what was aboard, what it cost, when you bought it, where it lived, and the photographs to go with it.
It is built to be read rather than restored, which is the point: the person opening it does not have AFTWISE™.
The spreadsheet has thirty-one columns, and not one of them is the trip, the latitude or the longitude; the JSON package carries all three, so a project stays tied to the passage it was filmed on and the place it was filmed. None of the three is better than the others — each is better at one job. A PDF is made for a person to read, which is why the reports above are offered as one, and it cannot come back in. A CSV does arithmetic, which is why they are offered that way too. JSON does neither of those well and is not trying to: it is the copy another program can pick up whole, which is the difference between handing an editor your project and handing them something to retype.
Page one of the packet — the identification an adjuster asks for first, the policy number and the insurer’s claims line beside it, and the counts standing behind what follows. The equipment and stock themselves run to the pages after it.
A safety stop is not the moment to remember which folder the registration went into, or whether the insurance summary is on this iPad or the other phone. AFTWISE™ keeps the papers an officer asks for in one collection, and opens it with one tap from Vessel Documents.
Registration, title, insurance, certificates and licenses, policies and plans, and any previous boarding report are in the collection without setup. Anything else joins with a check box on the document itself — a survey, a warranty, the manual you want to hand across — and keeps its own category, because this is a second way of looking at the same papers, not a re-filing.
Registration and insurance carry an orange None on file flag when nothing answers them, so the list doubles as a completeness check.
Scanned images become pages; a file that cannot be merged is named on the cover as one to open separately in AFTWISE. The cover also lists what is carried in person rather than filed — photo ID, the boater education card where required, and the safety equipment that Readiness & Compliance covers.
The one tap. The report opens over the list it was built from: the packet button first, then what officers commonly ask for with the answering paper nested under each — the registration and the insurance summary here, first pages showing.
Close the report and you are on the managed list: the Write a Plan templates AFTWISE™ keeps above it, the filter note naming the categories that join without a check box, and each document below with its check box and an Open / Manage button.
The originals stay aboard. AFTWISE™ keeps a convenient copy of your papers and builds a packet to show at a stop. It does not replace the original, hard-copy documents. Vessels are required to carry the original documents aboard, and a copy does not meet that requirement. Verify the current rules for your vessel and waters.
A registration certificate or an insurance policy is somebody else’s paper, so AFTWISE™ stores it exactly as issued and never offers to edit it. A waste management plan, a float plan, an emergency action plan and a drug and alcohol policy have no original anywhere else — you write them. So AFTWISE writes them with you.
The template says which vessels need one, then does the three things the regulation asks a plan to do: it sets the discharge rules the vessel follows, describes how garbage is collected, processed, stored and landed, and names the person in charge. It closes with how to make it your own.
The four templates, at the top of Vessel Documents. The note beneath them is the app’s own.
Page one of the demonstration boat’s plan as AFTWISE renders it. The person in charge and the notes on adapting it are on the page after.
Most owners answer that question with a number they made up several years ago and have quietly stopped believing. AFTWISE™ answers it from the records you already kept — and tells you where the number could be wrong.
Fourteen of them to file against — fuel, oil and fluids, maintenance, parts, tools, marina and dockage, pump-out, provisions, insurance, registration, electronics, safety, media, and everything else. The split that tells you where the money is really going.
What that month down the Tenn-Tom cost, all in — fuel, locks, marinas, the alternator that failed in Demopolis.
Which piece of gear has quietly consumed four thousand dollars in repairs and is now a replacement decision rather than a repair one.
Who you use, what they charge, and what they have actually done to your boat over the years.
Read it over a week, a month or a year, and every figure follows the window you pick — the total, the number of records behind it, the largest category, the average, and what it is being compared against.
A week compares to the week before it, not to last year. The same costs can then be read over time, ranked by category, split by where the record came from, or attributed to the trip that produced them — and filtered to operating, maintenance or media spending alone. The total is made of three things rather than one — expense entries, costs logged against a maintenance record, and gear bought for the boat — which is worth knowing before you go hunting for a figure, because the Expenses screen lists only the first. A service invoice belongs in the total and not in that list, and Expenses is exactly where an owner looks when a number seems wrong — so the total names its sources underneath itself rather than leaving you to find them, and says outright when everything in a period came from one of them.
An app you share voyages on can tell you where you went. It cannot tell you what the month cost, what it burned, what was serviced or what comes due next — because it holds none of that.
If you are working toward a license, or renewing one, the days have to be evidenced — vessel, tonnage, route, capacity served, underway days, and somebody willing to attest to them.
AFTWISE builds that record from the trips you already logged, and keeps the attestation attached to it. The alternative is a shoebox and a good memory, and the Coast Guard is not especially moved by either.
The meters are the fallback only when a trip was closed without an arrival time, and the entry records which of the two the figure came from.
AFTWISE works out how many service days a continuous run covers — a day for each full 24 hours under way, and one more only if at least four hours are left over — and tells you to enter the rest, rather than quietly booking them on your behalf.
Claim a shorter day than the floor and it asks you to write down why — because a short day genuinely can be claimable, and that is a call for the person signing the form to make and justify, not for software to guess at. Hours are kept to the tenth of an hour — six minutes — and nothing anywhere pads them upward to reach a threshold. And where the engine meters and the clock disagree by more than an hour, the trip form tells you before you claim the day — an hour of slack absorbs meter rounding and the maneuvering either side of the passage proper, and on a sailing leg a gap is expected rather than alarming.
Twelve days recorded, ten claimed. One entry ran 3.4 hours against the four-hour floor for a boat of this tonnage, so AFTWISE™ logged it and marked it Not Claimed. The hours are kept; the claim is not made for you.
Backup and restore on every plan, exports in formats that open anywhere, a controlled handoff on Captain when the boat changes hands — and nothing of yours on a server of ours.
Every broker will tell you the same thing: two identical hulls, one with a complete service history and one with a folder of guesses, do not fetch the same price or take the same time to sell.
