When questions arise, good guidance shouldn't depend on office hours.
Whether you're exploring cruising, evaluating a boat, planning a passage, or troubleshooting a system failure in a remote anchorage, FIRST-MATE helps you work through the problem using your circumstances, available vessel information, and specialized cruising knowledge.
FIRST-MATE helps develop ten—and growing—types of personalized briefs, drawing on your information to provide guidance specific to your circumstances. It also simplifies vessel and systems setup, creates situation-specific checklists and watch schedules, and supports NAVOPLAN's comprehensive five-phase passage planning process.
FIRST-MATE CASE helps you work through questions, problems, and decisions using available information about your vessel, its systems and maintenance history, crew, passage plans, weather conditions, and cruising goals. It helps you evaluate alternatives, identify risks, and determine practical next steps.
From your first thoughts about cruising to the day you sell your boat, FIRST-MATE CASE is there to help you work through the questions that matter.
Whether you're exploring a new lifestyle, evaluating a boat, planning a passage, or dealing with an unexpected problem, CASE draws on available information about your circumstances to help you understand your options and decide what to do next.
What should my family understand before we make this lifestyle change?
Does this vessel fit our plans, experience, and budget—or should we walk away?
What ownership costs might we be overlooking?
Given our route, vessel, crew, and weather, does this departure make sense?
What should I check first, and what are the risks of proceeding?
What alternatives, consequences, or overlooked factors should we consider?
From your first cruising dream to your next unexpected challenge, FIRST-MATE helps you find a way forward.
