One mobile app for Sail Time's renters and base owners: guided check-on and check-off at the dock, the maintenance hub your bases have been asking for, and a public API that keeps everything landing in Embark.
Sail Time already did the hard part. Embark runs bookings, check-on and check-off records, and the maintenance log today.
But the dock still runs off-app. Base owners have waited years for a maintenance tool worth using, and franchisees have started building their own apps around Embark to fill the gap.
This phase ships the missing front end and the rails under it: one mobile app for renters and owners, plus a public API on Embark so fuel data and future integrations land in the platform instead of around it.
Working range, pre-kickoff. We bill T&M against actual hours every month. Discovery's job is to tighten the picture, not loosen it. The cleaner we get on scope, the tighter this gets. Final number locks before we ship.
Design and dev bundled. Overhead (PM, design review, QA) is on the scope spread.
Step-by-step flows renters walk through at the dock. Confirmations, condition notes, and fuel readings captured before they cast off and after they tie up.
Profile and account functions ride as embedded Embark web views inside the app. Same experience, lower build cost.
Boat list with details, outstanding needs across bookings, quick log entry, and history in one place.
Checkpoint templates by boat type auto-generate the list every owner works from. Built Embark-first; new capability, live in web and app.
Keys, docs, and a fuel-ingestion endpoint. The app, the Fuel Manager feed, and your internal builders all plug into the same rails.
Targeted modifications for check-on/off and maintenance, error tracking, then deployment to both app stores.
10 fields on a cramped screen, no order to it, and no one on the other end reading it. Renters skip it, owners fly blind, and every base builds its own workaround.
"Nobody fills out paperwork with a boat waiting."
A guided flow that moves one step at a time, reads clean in full sun, and hands owners a live picture of what every boat needs. Everything lands in Embark, one source of truth.
"A renter stepping onto a boat should be thinking about the water, not the app."
"On day one, it looks great. By day 300, it is disjointed."
You get one cross-platform app on both stores in about 6 weeks: check-on and check-off at the dock, the maintenance hub your base owners have been asking for, boat-type checkpoints, and a public API that keeps everything landing in Embark. Timing lines up with off-season testing this fall. Kickoff starts on signature. Say the word and we'll cast off.
Brian Hammond
VP of Sales, FYC Labs
bhammond@fyclabs.com
fyclabs.com