Boat smart. Boat safe. Boat together.
Plan your trip, manage your journey, capture beautiful memories, and return safely.
Frequently Asked QuestionsYachtCloud9 Is For
Skippers
Organize trips, invite your crew, and share your experience on the water. Float plans are now at your fingertips, with all important information stored and readily available.
Crew
Join trips and communicate with your skipper and mates, access important information and documents, and maintain your personal emergency information all in one place.
Marinas, Clubs, & Moorages
Claim your location for free and become a YC9 Verified Destination. Customize your profile, accept float plans online, and monitor vessel check-ins and schedule changes.
Features
Plan your trip and invite crew
Organize your solo trip or connect with other YachtCloud9 boaters and organize your adventure collaboratively. Discuss your trip, plot your itinerary, select a boat, and upload related documents to ensure smooth sailing.
Create quick and easy float plans
Completing a float plan has never been easier. Float plans are automatically generated using the information entered to plan your trip and the final safety checks performed before departure. YC9 Verified Destinations receive your float plans automatically when they're the next location in the trip itinerary. A PDF version of the float plan is always available for download and shared with crew.
Log your journey and memories
Keep a history of all your activities on the water. Once your journey begins, start tracking your real-time trip course with coordinate logs and location check-ins from your mobile devices. Share photos and notes, and keep them for you and your crew to come back to any time.
Take the guesswork out of crew safety
Each crew member is responsible for maintaining their own safety information, ensuring that it is up to date before every trip. Crew safety information is automatically gathered into the trip and float plan, taking the guesswork out of handling crew-related matters from at-sea emergencies to meal planning for sensitive diets.
Check in and out using SMS
Checking in and out of locations has never been easier. As a skipper, you now have the option to interact with trips outside of the YachtCloud9 app when you add your mobile number. When you start a trip, you will receive SMS messages you can respond to every time you're expected to check into and out of a location on your itinerary.
Become a YC9 Verified Destination
As a YC9 Verified Destination, boaters will know that your locations’ credentials and data have been checked and confirmed by YachtCloud9. You'll receive float plans from YC9 skippers when your location is a destination in their itinerary, and you can be confident that float plans will always contain the detail you need.
FAQ
What is YachtCloud9?
YachtCloud9 lets you plan your trip, manage your journey, capture beautiful memories, and return safely.
Our cloud based software can enhance safety on the water, and let's you spend more time having fun instead of dealing with paper forms.
YachtCloud9 also plays an important role in connecting the dots between boaters and businesses like marinas and clubs, by providing smart solutions to share vital information, safely.
In short: more fun on the water, less time planning.
Why should I join?
Boating is fun, but it is even more rewarding when friends join. With YachtCloud9 you can easily and quickly plan your trip, invite your friends and share all important information with them, anytime, anywhere.
Safety is an important part of being out on the water, and YC9's tools can add an additional layer of awareness and safety to your adventures.
What does it cost?
YachtCloud9 started with a focus on safety while boating. We want to provide a toolset which is free, to entice everyone to participate without cost barriers.
Our feature roadmap also includes premium products and business oriented tools.
Why not join today - no credit card required and all features included!
Where can I access YachtCloud9?
Anytime. Anywhere. (internet connection required)
Access your YachtCloud9 account from any mobile device or desktop browser. YC9 puts all your information at your fingertips at the dock and during your trips.
Plan your trip comfortably at home, then finish your safety check and visual inspection right at the dock or on your vessel, using your phone or tablet connected online. It's that easy!
About Us
YachtCloud9 was started by three passionate boaters and entrepreneurs from Vancouver (CA), Amsterdam (NL), and Edmonton (CA). Together we bring decades of experience in the software and boating industry to the table.
Kay Gruenwoldt
Co-founder & CEO
Sarah Cassady
Co-founder & CTO
Colin Jackson
Co-founder & CMO
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Contact
Have ideas about features you'd like to see us roll out? Want to chat about integrating YachtCloud9 into your business? We'd love to hear from you!
