Keeply is where your boat's whole record lives — every system, every part, every passage. Here's why I built it.
In August of 2025 I finally made the big left turn out of the Pacific Northwest and pointed the bow toward Mexico. It had taken me ten years to get the boat ready — countless trips back and forth, parts ordered and re-ordered, a thousand small decisions about systems I would later have to remember.
My main tools for tracking all of it were an Excel sheet and a to-do list. My phone's camera roll became nothing but photos of broken bolts and engine part numbers. I tried apps on the market and found they took longer to set up than they were worth — just a pretty version of the Excel sheet.
"If not, then we just made another app that we will discard."
So I built Keeply. The aim is simple — every system, every part, every passage, in one place. A real source of truth, not another silo. Easy enough that we actually use it.
We make jokes about cruising being fixing things in exotic locations. The weekend trip cancelled because of a simple breakdown. The mechanics laughing because it's the height of the season. It's part of boating — boats are complicated systems and they need attention. The hope with Keeply is to give you back a little of the time you'd otherwise spend remembering what you forgot.
Fairwinds and a following sea,
Not a maintenance app. Not a checklist tool. A connected record of your boat — built around three ideas, each one a thing every cruiser knows is true.
Every system, every part, every service date — kept in one place and surfaced when it matters. The next thing that needs doing arrives in your inbox before you have to go looking for it.
Engines, rigging, plumbing, electrical, watermakers, anchors, electronics — every system on your boat with its own card. Make, model, year, photos, manuals, service log, parts. The full record lives in one place, not three apps that don’t talk to each other.
When you add equipment, Keeply identifies the make, model, and year-variant. The maintenance schedule that gets built isn’t generic — it’s the real pre-filter and pickling intervals for the actual watermaker on your boat. And when you want help finding something fast, First Mate is right there.
If one of these sounds like you, we built this for you specifically. If none of them do — you'll know from the demo within five minutes, and that's fine.
Owns a serious cruising sailboat or powerboat in the 35–50ft range. Sails 20–60 days a year. Manages every service themselves. Has a Mexico trip, a Caribbean rally, or a Pacific Northwest summer in the calendar. Wants to feel as organised as they are competent.
Living aboard, often crossing oceans, often offshore for weeks at a time. Knows that a missed service isn’t an inconvenience — it’s a safety issue. Already power-uses three or four marine apps and hates the fragmentation. Will use every single feature Keeply ships, and will tell us in detail when something’s wrong.
Stepped up from a daysailer or a smaller powerboat to something real — a Jeanneau 44, a Nordhavn 63. Overwhelmed by systems they’ve never managed before. Actively Googling "boat maintenance tracker" right now. The AI equipment setup is the moment they realise Keeply is built for them.
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