Vessel & documentation standard
Everything below was recorded during the handover and the first weeks of ownership. It replaces nothing — the original manufacturer manuals remain the source documents; this is the boat-specific layer on top of them.
Documentation standard
Every entry carries a status, and the status is the point. Confirmed means read off a label, a plate or a manual. Probable means identified from a photograph or strongly implied but not yet verified in the hand. Reported means someone said so — usually Mike — and it has not been checked. Fault / unverified means a symptom is known but the cause is not.
The purpose of the distinction is to stop a sentence like “Mike says the gauge doesn't work” quietly becoming “the sender is broken” three months from now. Upgrade a status only when something physical confirms it, and say in the notes what confirmed it.
What this is
Every boat comes with a carrier bag of manufacturer manuals and nothing that tells you about your boat: which seacock is behind which panel, where the bilge pump cable actually runs, what the previous owner changed and when. That knowledge lives in one person's head, and it leaves with them.
There is a 360 walk-through of this same boat: every hotspot in it opens the record you see here, so the picture and the paperwork are the same thing.
DigiBoat is one file per boat. It knows where every component is, what it connects to, what has been done to it and what is still unknown — and it says which of those it is certain about. It opens on a phone at the pontoon with no signal, and it can be handed to the next owner intact.
Things I'd value your view on
- Where did your boat's knowledge come from — a previous owner, a surveyor, or working it out yourself the hard way?
- What would you want to look up standing in the cockpit in the rain?
- Is the seacock register the useful part, or the wiring, or neither?
- Would you sit down for an evening to fill this in, or does it need to build up as you go?
- What would it be worth to hand this to a buyer with the boat?
Provenance of this file
Built from the handover conversation and the survey follow-ups. Photographs embedded in the earlier v0.2 file are not carried over here — that file remains the picture library until images are re-attached to these component records.
Boat map
Three views of the same hull, bow to the left. Click a compartment to list what has been mapped inside it — and, just as usefully, what has not. Cables and pipes are drawn over the top, routed the way they run rather than straight through the boat. Tap a compartment and the runs reaching it come forward.
Systems atlas
Each system with its component count and confirmation state. Fresh water is the first system mapped end to end, so it is drawn out below.
FW — Fresh water, current route
Dashed boxes are assumed, not traced. The tank vent, the tank outlet, the calorifier circuit and the gauge sender wiring are all still to be followed by hand. Control for the pump is the “Water Pump” switch on the main domestic panel.
Components
| ID | Component | System | Location | Status |
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Add component
Cable & pipe runs
One record per cable or pipe: where it starts, where it ends, and which compartments it passes through. Record the route and the file draws it — on the boat map above, and as a schematic here. Nothing needs to be drawn by hand.
Add a run
Circuits and lines still to trace
Drawn from what is already known about Murphy. These are jobs, not records — nothing here is a claim about how the boat is actually wired.
Through-hulls & seacocks
Every hole in the boat, what it serves, and whether its valve turns. Add one and you are asked to click its position on the underwater view, so the register and the map stay in step.
Add a through-hull
Openings to look for
The fittings a boat like Murphy normally has. Every one is a thing to go and find, not a thing that is known to exist.
Procedures
Written procedures live here — the manual Mike never wrote. Only what has actually been established is recorded; the rest is listed as still to write, so the gaps stay visible.
Still to write
Ship's log
What happened and when — sailing, discoveries, incidents, work done. The log records events; section 07 tracks what is still unresolved.
Issues & watchlist
Open items, worst first. An issue stays open until something physical closes it.
Maintenance log
Work actually carried out, with what it cost and when it is next due.
Document library
Original manuals handed over with the boat. Paper copies are aboard unless noted.
| Document | Covers |
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Open questions
The investigation list. Each one is something to answer with a torch and a camera rather than a guess.