Digital twin for owner-modified vessels

Every boat is a custom build. Yours should have the receipts.

VesselTwin keeps one private, searchable record for the boat you actually own: specs, documents, service, parts, photos, and the upgrades that make it yours.

Start your vessel’s record

Free for individual owners during early access · Upload your first manual in under a minute

The problem

Your boat left the factory as one of many.
It isn’t anymore.

Every repower, electronics refit, canvas swap, and plumbing fix takes your vessel a step further from the original datasheet. Five years in, the manual in the glove box barely describes the boat underneath you.

Most owners cope with binders, camera rolls, and half-remembered receipts. When you sell, survey, or break down far from home, that history either saves you — or it costs you.

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Hull #42 — your boat
Beneteau Oceanis 40.1 · 2019
  • Raymarine Axiom 12 plotter (2022)
  • Lithium house bank — 400 Ah (2023)
  • Rewired helm harness after water intrusion
  • Garhauer replacement mainsheet blocks
  • Volvo Penta D2-50 impeller replaced Mar 2025
None of this is in the factory spec. All of it is in your twin.

What it does

Capture what changes. Find it when you need it.

Built for the parts of ownership no factory brochure covers — the rewiring, the replacements, the upgrades that make the boat yours.

A modifications log, not a maintenance log

Every repower, rewire, refit, and replacement — with the parts, photos, costs, and the why behind each one.

Measurements you can find again

Drop a measurement right on a photo — thru-hull diameter, hatch opening, cushion cutout. The number lives on the image.

Documents that come back when you search

Manuals, surveys, invoices, warranties — scanned, searchable, with AI pulling out dates, vendors, and costs.

Parts you’ll need to match again

Serial numbers, impeller sizes, belt specs, and compatible alternatives — ready the next time something fails.

Specs that match your boat, not the brochure

Stored in metric, shown in your units. Overwrite the factory number when you swap a tank — the twin stays accurate.

Zone-based photo gallery

Photos organized by where they are on the boat — engine room, lazarette, helm — not by upload date.

Adding a boat · Upload owner’s manual
oceanis-40-manual.pdf
12.4 MB · Extracting…
MakeBeneteau
ModelOceanis 40.1
Length (LOA)40 ft · 12.2 m
Beam13 ft 10 in · 4.2 m
Fuel capacity55 gal · 200 L
EngineYanmar 4JH45 · 45 hp

Tech-forward setup

Drop in your owner’s manual.
Skip the typing.

Upload the PDF that came with your boat — or a photo of the spec sheet on the engine cowling. Our AI will try to pull out make, model, engine, dimensions, capacities, electrical, and fuel — and pre-fill the form so you can review, fix anything off, and start logging the interesting parts: the things that have changed since.

  • PDF, JPEG, PNG, WebP — up to 20 MB
  • Stores the manual alongside your vessel for future reference
  • If your make/model isn’t in the catalog yet, it’s auto-submitted for review

The other half

You’re not the first to own this boat.

Somewhere out there, another owner already solved the problem you’re about to Google at 10pm. VesselTwin is built so that knowledge travels with the hull, not the owner.

Live now

Per-model intelligence

  • Model catalog

    Owner-built catalog of makes, models, and variants — search it when you add a boat.

  • Public model pages

    One page per make, model, and year, with specs, photos, guides, and known issues.

  • Known-issue patterns

    “8 of 24 owners reported seacock leaks around year 5” — caught before it catches you.

  • Maintenance intervals

    What similar boats actually do between services, rolled up from real owner logs.

  • Parts compatibility

    Every logged serial grows the graph: “this impeller fits 6 Yanmar models.”

Owner-to-owner

  • Upgrade guides

    Owner-authored walkthroughs with steps, parts, tools, costs, and lessons learned.

  • Vendor reviews

    Which rigger do Tartan 34 owners actually use? Model-scoped shop and tech reviews.

  • Guide comments

    Threaded replies for fitment questions and what owners did differently.

  • Model follows

    Follow a hull family and get alerts when owners publish new guides or reviews.

Live signals + roadmap

Crowdsourced intelligence — the part no forum can give you

The first structured community signals are live: model pages can show owner-shared guides, known issues, maintenance intervals, compatible parts, and vendor reviews. The roadmap now pushes those signals into richer trends, cost ranges, and project planning as more owner data lands.

On the roadmap: Email digests · Cloneable build templates · Refit cost ranges · Sister-ship meetup map.

Example insight
Beneteau Oceanis 40.1 · 2019–2023
218engine hours
median impeller replacement interval
vs. factory 1,000h
Illustrative — the live view aggregates from owner-logged services as more data lands.

Private by default. HIN, registration, and marina location are stripped from anything you share — contribute anonymously, share with one mechanic, or go fully public, all from the same record.

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Built for the people who live with the boat

Owner

The weekend captain

You’ve made the boat yours over years. VesselTwin remembers what you’ve forgotten.

Fleet

Charter & yacht managers

Multiple hulls, multiple crews, one consistent record for each vessel and every hand-off.

Service

Shops & techs

Owners share the exact vessel record with you before you’re even at the dock. Less guesswork, fewer callbacks.

Broker

Surveyors & brokers

A full modification history at closing — more than a stack of receipts and a hopeful seller.

Start the record your boat deserves.

Free for individual owners. Add your first boat, upload a manual, and log what your hull has really become.

VesselTwin is in early access — features, availability, and pricing may change as we learn from early owners.