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A marina slip map drawn from an aerial photo

SlipRight

Every marina has a slip chart somewhere: a laminated drawing on the office wall, a CAD file from the last dock project, or a spreadsheet with a column for each dock. It's right on the day it's made and wrong by July, and nobody on the dock can see it.

SlipRight draws your marina as a live map. The office reads it, the dock staff carry it on a phone, and each boat owner sees their own slip on it.

From an address to a draft

Type your marina's address and SlipRight finds it on a public aerial photo, the same kind of imagery used for county and state maps, or you match your own drone photo with three pins. It drafts your docks and slips from the photo and hands you the draft to correct. Drag a dock to move it, pull a corner to reshape it, turn it a few degrees, merge two docks, or draw a slip it missed.

A map drafted from the aerial photo, at the step where the office checks the dock names.

Slip detection, from the boats in the photo

SlipRight finds the slips along each dock from the boats tied up in it: how far apart they sit, which way they face, and where the fingers between them fall. The draft starts close to what you rent, so most of the work is checking it.

Number every dock at once

Pick where each dock's numbers start, how many digits they use, and whether they run in order or odds on one side and evens on the other, and SlipRight numbers every dock in one go, showing what the slips will be called before it writes anything. When a dock's slips change later, renumber it, and your customers stay in their slips.

Numbering every dock at once: where to start, how many digits, and what the slips will be called.

A live map of who's where

Once it's published, the map shows every slip as Occupied, Vacant, Reserved, or in Maintenance. Hover or tap a slip to see who's in it and their boat, search for a customer, a boat, or a slip and watch it light up, and see tonight's transient stays on the same docks as your seasonal boats.

The live map over the aerial photo, with a slip open to show who's in it.

Assigning a slip takes a customer, their boat, and a slip, and the slip list is filtered to what the boat fits by length. SlipRight warns you when someone else is already in it, or when the customer is leaving another slip.

The winter yard, and dry stack, on maps of their own

Keep as many maps as your marina has: summer slips, the winter yard, dry stack. The live map follows the season dates you set, or you pin one. For the winter yard, draw each yard area over the photo and Suggest layout places the boats for you. It orders them by launch week, so the first boats back in the water aren't buried behind the last, and keeps clear of buildings, roads, docks, and the water. You see the plan on the map before anything is saved. A boat owner can hold a summer slip and a winter spot at the same time, and both stay held.

A winter layout suggested on the yard map, every spot numbered, before it's saved.
Each spot with its boat, its owner, and its launch date, then Use this layout.

Every boat owner sees their own slip

On My slip, each boat owner sees their slip on your marina's aerial photo, with the dock, the slip size, and their boat, on their phone or in any browser. A new customer on their first visit finds their dock without a phone call.

The boat owner's slip on the marina's aerial photo, on their phone.

Your slips, described your way

Track what your marina knows about each slip, from power to water depth, with slip fields of your own, and bring them over in the slips import. If your docks have something the editor can't draw, send us a photo of it.

Already have the slip list in a spreadsheet? Import it, with who's in each slip, and draw the map around it. Moving a marina off a spreadsheet shows how.

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