Slips
Know every slip without walking the dock.
Your docks on one screen: who is in every slip, what boat is in it, when the lease ends and whether they’ve paid. It’s the first thing we built, and everything else in Field Guide Marina hangs on it.
Blue Heron, our demo marina: five docks, 120 slips.
From a binder to a map.
Most marinas keep their slips in three places: a spreadsheet, a binder and somebody’s memory. That works until the busy season, or until that somebody is out on the water.
TODAY
- “Who’s in 214?” means the binder or a walk down the dock
- The marina map is an aerial photo with dry-erase marker on it
- Boat lengths live in someone’s head, so a big boat gets offered a small slip
- A boat sits in a slip nobody is billing, and nobody notices
ON FIELD GUIDE MARINA
- Every slip on a map, colored by its lease
- Click any slip for the tenant, their phone number, the boat and the lease
- Every slip knows what fits in it, and warns you before a boat doesn’t
- A walk down the dock with a phone finds the boats you aren’t billing
Draw your docks once.
Lay out your piers, walkways and every odd-shaped corner of your marina on a grid, and drop each slip into place. From then on the map colors itself: green for open, blue for leased, amber when a lease ends within 30 days, red when it’s overdue.
Click a slip and you see the tenant, their phone number, their boat, their lease and what they paid. Print it for the dock office wall if you like.
Watch the marina map in action. 2:13
One slip, everything about it.
Every slip knows what fits.
Each slip carries its length, width, depth, how boats tie up and whether it has 30, 50 or 100 amp power. Each lease carries the boat. If a boat is longer or wider than its slip, you hear about it before the lease is signed, not on the first windy day.
Covered, uncovered, houseboat slips and dry storage all live in the same place.
When a tenant buys a bigger boat.
Move a tenant to a new slip, or swap two tenants, and their leases go with them. The old slip opens up on the map, and if you have a waitlist, the right boater can hear about it first.
Moving and swapping tenants. 2:29
When a slip opens, the right boater hears first.
Keep your waitlist in the same place as your slips, with each boater’s boat size and the dock they’d like. Tenants can add themselves from their phone.
Turn on Smart Auto-Fill and an open slip is offered by email to the first person in line whose boat actually fits it, with a link to claim it and a time limit. If they pass, it moves to the next person. Your staff still write the lease, so nothing happens without you.
Slip 300-12 opens. It fits boats up to 24 feet.
- 1. Dale, 27 ft cruisertoo long, skipped
- 2. Rosa, 22 ft pontoonfits: offer sent
- 3. Tim, 20 ft fishing boatnext, if Rosa passes
Made-up boaters, the way the waitlist decides.
Dry storage, counted properly.
Set up your storage yards with how many boats each holds, and the system counts what’s left as leases come and go. Dry storage leases renew just like slips.
Visiting boaters, by the night.
Rent chosen slips by the night at your rates and minimum stays, with an option for boaters to pay a little extra to guarantee an exact slip. A slip held by a seasonal tenant is never offered.
The rest of the Slips package.
Slips pricing
- Up to 75 slips$249/month
- 76 to 200 slips$349/month
- 201 to 400 slips$499/month
Setup from $1,500. Your website, hosting, email and support are included. No booking fees.
Questions owners ask
- Our dock layout is unusual. Will the map work?
- Yes. You build the map from piers, walkways and shapes on a grid, and they can be turned and resized to match what’s really on the water. We draw it with you during setup.
- We have covered slips, houseboats and a storage yard. Is that one system?
- Yes. Slip types and dock sections are yours to name, and dry storage sits right beside your wet slips.
- How do our slips and tenants get in?
- We bring them over for you from your spreadsheet or your old system as part of setup. You check them before anyone is invited.
- Do we have to use every part?
- No. Switch off what you don’t use, like dry storage or the waitlist, and it disappears from the menus. Nothing is deleted if you turn it back on later.
See your slips on it.
A 30-minute walkthrough on a working lake marina, with an exact quote for yours.