Shared boats and small fleets
A family boat with three sets of keys, a partnership, a sailing club, or a small charter or rental operation. The problem isn't just the boat — it's coordinating the humans around it.
What can go wrong
When more than one person uses a boat, the gaps are between people.
Nobody's sure who was aboard last
Or whether the water was left on, the charger unplugged, or the hatch open. Shared boats accumulate small unknowns.
A guest needs to see, not touch
A renter or guest should be able to check the boat's state without being able to open the water or change settings.
Staff need control, owners need oversight
And nobody wants to hand around a single shared login with everything unlocked.
An incident with no paper trail
Something happens and there's no record of what led up to it — hard on a charter operation especially.
How DockNeighbor covers it
Each risk maps to something that ships today, with the plan it needs called out honestly.
Real roles, not a shared password
Per-vehicle sharing with three roles: Full Admin (everything), Monitor & Control (view + operate), and Monitor (view-only — right for renters and guests). Invites go to an email address and are accepted in the app; everyone uses their own account. Inviting a crew needs Weekender or Voyager on that vehicle — Weekender shares with up to 5 crew members, Voyager up to 10 — and being invited is always free.
One plan per boat, shared by all
The plan follows the vehicle, so a club or partnership pays once per boat and every shared user inherits its features — not per person. Ownership transfers cleanly when a boat sells.
A record of what happened and when
The event log and history answer the "who left the water on" question — 2 years on Dockside, 3 years plus CSV export on Weekender, 5 years on Voyager — the CSV is handy for incident reports.
Protection regardless of who used it last
The same watch applies no matter whose turn it was: a flood alarm reaches the owner, then the neighbors they marked, with nobody's app open. With a LinkTap valve on the hookup, every open is volume/duration-limited and the alarm closes it on its own.
A whole fleet in one app
Multi-vehicle support lets one operator switch between boats in a single app.
The setup
Small battery-powered sensors, bought once. If your marina runs a DockNeighbor Station, they are the whole install.
Recommended hardware
- Battery, bilge and shore power in one box — per boat, one device slot~$62
- Bilge float sensor — per boat~$60
- GPS tracker — per boat, for fleets that move~$58
- LinkTap valve — optional per boat on city water, Weekender and up
Hardware is per boat. Prices are approximate retail. A fleet at one marina shares its station; a boat that cruises carries its own (the M2-4G with a SIM).
No station within range? Bring your own aboard: the M2 ($99) on the boat’s internet, or the M2-4G ($149) with your own SIM. Which one, and where to buy →
Recommended plan
Weekender per boat — Voyager for charter
A shared boat needs at least Weekender ($7/mo · $60/yr) per boat — that is where crew sharing with roles starts (up to 5 crew members), with SMS and WhatsApp alerts, 3 years of exportable history and the shared record of who did what. For charter or rental boats with more people to keep in the loop, Voyager ($12/mo · $120/yr) per boat shares with up to 10 crew members.
Each vehicle can start with one free month of Dockside.