A tug that misses a job, a ferry that misses a run, a crew boat stuck at the dock — that’s not a maintenance problem, it’s a revenue problem. ZipMarine keeps your maintenance records audit-ready, your crew papers current, and your whole fleet on one screen, so the surprises get smaller and rarer.
If you run towing vessels, you live with Subchapter M — the Coast Guard rule that says you need a documented safety and maintenance program, not just a well-run boat. Other commercial vessels face the same idea under ISM, the international safety-management code. Either way, the test is the same: can you show, on paper, what you did and when? ZipMarine keeps that paper trail building itself while your crew just does the work.
Every task has a schedule, a record of who did it, when, and what parts went in. When an auditor asks for six months of generator history, it’s one search — not a weekend with three binders.
Licenses, medicals, drills, sea time — tracked per person with expiry alerts before anything lapses. No more finding out at the dock that a deckhand’s credential expired last month.
COIs, survey reports, insurance, safety management documents — versioned, dated, and flagged ahead of renewal. The current copy is always the one everybody sees.
Audit-ready records that back up your TSMS or safety management system. We don’t certify you — your surveyor does that. We make sure the evidence is organized, complete, and findable.
Charter rates, ferry schedules, dredge contracts — they all assume the boat runs. An unplanned yard day costs you the yard bill and the day’s earnings, and the second number is usually bigger. ZipMarine is built to shrink the unplanned part.
The AI reads your manuals, your machinery list, and your service history, then flags what’s trending toward failure — rising hours on a pump, a service interval about to slip, a part that keeps coming back. You fix it at the dock on your schedule, not underway on the job’s.
Get three quotes for the same shaft job and compare them line by line on one screen — labor, parts, yard time. You approve with the full picture, and the winning quote becomes part of the vessel’s record automatically.
Know what’s on every boat and on the shelf before you order. When the boat two slips down already has the injector you need, that’s a five-minute walk instead of a three-day wait.
The math is blunt: one prevented breakdown can cover the software for the year. Lost charter hours, a missed tow, crew standing by on the payroll — those numbers are yours, and you already know them. Bring them to the demo and we’ll do the arithmetic together.
Run the Numbers With UsThe deckhand logs engine hours from a phone in the wheelhouse. The port engineer sees every overdue task across the fleet. The office sees what it’s all costing. Same system, different views — that’s role-based access: each person gets exactly what their job needs, and nothing they shouldn’t touch.
Which boats are earning, which are due for service, which have a paperwork problem brewing — one look, every morning, before the coffee’s cold.
Deckhands and engineers record work and hours where the work happens. Costs, approvals, and budgets roll up to whoever signs the checks — without anyone retyping anything.
Every boat’s history stays its own — clean for audits, clean for surveys, clean if you ever sell the hull. The rollup is a view, not a blender.
Everything above. Every vessel. No per-seat games.
Ask your yard what one unplanned haul-out day costs — the bill plus the lost work. Then look at that number again. This is the cheapest insurance on the waterfront, and you can see the full breakdown before you spend a dollar.
See Full Pricing →Less than you’d guess. We import your existing records — spreadsheets, exports from a legacy planned-maintenance program, even scanned logs — and the AI helps map them into vessel histories. You don’t start from zero, and you don’t stop operating while it happens. Most operators run both systems in parallel for a few weeks, then quietly stop opening the old one.
You do. Full stop. Every record, every document, every history line is yours, and you can export all of it at any time in standard formats. If you leave, your data leaves with you. We earn the renewal — we don’t hold your records hostage for it.
Yes. Each vessel’s data is isolated: its maintenance history, documents, and costs stand on their own, which is what auditors and surveyors want to see. The fleet rollup reads across them without mixing them. And your company’s data is never visible to any other ZipMarine customer, ever.
A deckhand’s first task — log hours, check off a job, snap a photo of a worn part — takes about as long to learn as it took to read this sentence. There’s no training course because the screens are built for work gloves and short patience. The office side takes an afternoon. If your crew can use a phone, they can use this.
Ten minutes with your actual vessel — its machinery, its paperwork, its problem children. If it doesn’t make the operation simpler, don’t buy it.