FREE FOR BOATERS — ALWAYS
Your boat. Your marina.
All in Skipper.
Talk to your marina, log trips, track your boat's full history, and book slips — no phone calls, no paperwork, no app learning curve.
Free forever. No credit card. No catch.
Everything for boaters
Your boat's command center.
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Talk to your marina instantly
No calls. No hold music. No office hours. Message your dock master, request a pump-out, flag a slip issue, ask about your bill — all through Skipper. Skipper handles it.
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Find a slip, book it fast
See which transient slips are open right now at Skipper-powered marinas. Request and get confirmed fast — no callbacks.
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Ship's Log
Every trip logged: departure, destination, distance, crew aboard, weather and sea state, fuel used, engine hours start and end, notes. Your permanent nautical record.
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Boat Fax™
Every haul-out, every service, every maintenance record, every engine hour — time-stamped and permanent. Like Carfax for your boat. Sell your boat someday? Hand over the full history.
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Vessel management
Full specs, HIN, registration, unlimited photos by category. Tenders and dinghies linked to the parent vessel. Your boat's passport lives in Skipper.
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Engine tracking
Hours logged per engine. Service intervals. Full history. Never miss a service again.
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Hot Slip™
Annual slip at a Skipper marina? List it when you're cruising and earn back. Need a slip somewhere new? Book a listed one at a "full" marina. First program of its kind.
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Transient booking
Find marinas with available slips, check rates and amenities, book instantly across the Skipper network.
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Ask Skipper anything
Weather, tides, boating regs, troubleshooting, docking tips — Skipper knows boating. Ask anything, get a real answer fast.
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Carfax for your boat.
Skipper stores every haul-out, every service record, every maintenance job, every engine hour — permanently attached to your vessel. When you sell, you hand over a complete history that protects you and tells the full story of your boat's life.
Why boaters are leaving Dockwa
3.8 stars on Google Play. Here's what real users are saying:
Document uploads broken on Android
"Horrendous app. Can't get PDF or JPG to upload from my phone, One Drive, Google, Amazon or anywhere." — 1-star review, Aug 2024
Setup takes hours for basic tasks
"Never experienced such a hassle to setup a simple reservation. Insane waste of time." — 1-star review
Key features locked to desktop only
"Updates to a profile must be done on a computer, not a mobile device — but the app doesn't tell you why it's not working." — real review
Pay-to-play search results
Dockwa controls search ranking. Pay-to-play placement means the best marina isn't always what you see first.
Ready to put Skipper
on your boat?
Free forever. Everything for boaters — marina comms, trip logs, vessel history, slip booking — in one place.