450
vetted captains across the US
Get trusted on the water
You're not just on the water. You're trusted on it.
You bought the boat. We help you earn the confidence to run it — and carry the proof in your pocket.
You bought the boat. We help you earn the confidence to run it — and carry the proof in your pocket.
A boat can cost more than your car, and the moment you leave the dock there's no one showing the way. Crossing a wake, docking in a current, threading a crowded inlet — it can be intimidating. There's real money on the line, and the people you love are counting on a safe return. We turn that uncertainty into confidence.
We prep beginners from the ground up to walk in confident and pass the assessment.
A focused touch-up sharpens the gaps before you're assessed.
Verify your skills, prove what you already know, and build a résumé that travels with you.
"Not until this course did I feel confident enough to take the helm."
"By the end she was docking confidently."
"I was initially a little intimidated but quickly built my confidence."
"I'm a careful, confident operator now."
Open the map, find a vetted captain near you, and book.
One consistent standard — the same 482-point assessment, every time — not a patchwork that changes marina to marina.
Your credential lands in your digital wallet the moment you earn it. No paper. No scrambling.
Your record of verified skill, built once and carried everywhere your boat goes.
Share your location with loved ones. If something goes wrong, the app surfaces the latitude and longitude of your last ping.
A NOAA buoy–powered dashboard with the boating weather you actually need, in one place.
Track your gear and get notified before anything expires.
Our highest level. Trusted boaters opt in to share their verified credential with law enforcement — it can lower your odds of being stopped and speeds the process where agencies opt in.
Carriers are tightening up and some boaters can't get approved at all. Verified skill changes that conversation — recognized safety training reduces premiums by 10–15% with most major insurers, and building your verified record helps the hard-to-cover become qualified.
Our promise: if we don't help you secure a discount, dinner's on us — a $50 gift certificate.
Every assessor in our network is insured, background-checked at the higher training standard, skill-tested, and license-verified — on a searchable map by location. 52% are former law enforcement. All of them are on a mission to calm the waterways.
We'll be waiting at the dock. Start becoming a safer boater today.
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