Engines & Equipment
Every engine, generator, and system aboard on its own record — serial numbers, specs, manuals, and the full history of what's been done to it.
Nobody Aboard Knows the Serial Number
Order the Right Part, or Lose the Week
Something fails, and the first question is never “what's wrong” — it's “what exactly is it?” The plate is behind the engine, half of it is unreadable, the crew member who knew the model left last season, and the part gets ordered off a photograph and a guess. In remote sourcing the biggest delay isn't shipping, it's identifying the wrong thing: a wrong part number means a wasted shipment, a second round of customs, and days you didn't have. YACHTWAVE® yacht management software puts the answer in every pocket before the call is made — every engine, generator, and system aboard with its make, model, serial number, specifications, manuals, and its own service history.
Every Engine and System Aboard Has Its Own Record
Not a line in the vessel's notes — a registry of the boat's actual systems, so a yacht manager can answer a question about a piece of gear without standing in front of it.
Engine & Equipment Registry
Every engine, generator, and system on board with serial numbers, specs, and its own history — nothing aboard is a mystery, even to crew who joined yesterday.
Mechanical — the Hour-Metered Systems
Main engines, generators, transmissions, thrusters, stabilizers, watermakers: the systems that run on hours and drive the service calendar. Horsepower, fuel type, install date, and the hour meter that decides when work comes due.
Equipment — Everything Else Aboard
Electronics, plumbing, safety gear, deck hardware, appliances. The gear that never appears on a spec sheet is exactly the gear nobody can identify when it fails — so it gets a record too, with its location aboard.
Spares in Storage Stay Quiet
Mark an item deployed or not, and the spare sitting in the lazarette stops generating service reminders for work nobody needs to do. Your reminder list stays about the boat as it actually runs.
Open Any Engine or System and Its Whole Life Is There
The item record is the hub the rest of YACHTWAVE hangs off. Everything that happens to an engine or a piece of equipment happens on its own record — which is why the answers are specific instead of general.
Its Own Service History
Every job done to that engine, in order, with dates and engine hours — the maintenance log for one engine rather than the whole boat. The answer to “when was this last done?” sits on the engine that had it done.
Service Schedules Set on the Gear Itself
Each engine and each piece of equipment carries its own preventative maintenance intervals — by calendar, by engine hours, or whichever comes first, exactly the way the manufacturer specifies it. The 250-hour service belongs to the port main, not to the boat in general, so it comes due when that engine's hours say it does.
The Schedule Creates the Work
When an interval comes due, YACHTWAVE writes the work task and notifies the crew — nobody has to watch a calendar. The steps you defined on the schedule arrive as the checklist on that task, so the job and the procedure travel together.
Reminders Before It's Due, Not After
Schedules are evaluated nightly and warn you ahead of the date — 30 days out on calendar intervals, 10 hours out on engine hours. Enough notice to get the parts aboard and the yard booked, instead of discovering it on the morning it was due. More on service schedules →
Manuals & Documents on the Gear, Not in a Drawer
Owner and service manuals, schematics, wiring diagrams, warranty paperwork, and dealer invoices attach to the item itself, each with its expiration date where it has one. The crew member standing in the engine room at seven on a Saturday morning has the manual for that exact model open on their phone, rather than a search box and a hopeful guess.
Photos on the Item
The data plate photographed while somebody could still reach it. The installation, before the panel went back on. The corroded fitting you want the yard to look at before you describe it badly over the phone. High resolution, so you can zoom in and read the serial number off the plate.
Expenses Booked to the Item Pro & Ultimate
Every invoice, part, and yard bill booked against the engine or the piece of gear it was spent on. Cost per system stops being a reconstruction at budget time and becomes something you look up — and the generator that has quietly cost more than it's worth stops hiding inside a total.
Everything in One Place, per Item
History, schedules, manuals, photos, and costs on the same record, on tabs, on every device. That's what makes a handover an afternoon instead of a season — the crew member who joins next month opens the engine and finds everything the last one knew.
You Pick the Model — the Manuals and Service Schedules Are Already In It
Pro & Ultimate
Cataloguing a boat is the job everyone puts off, because it means copying specifications off plates in awkward places and hunting manuals that may or may not match the model you have. Search the library for the engine or equipment you own and the record arrives with the specifications, the service intervals, and the documentation already in it — because that library is the part of YACHTWAVE® that people, not machines, build.
Engine & Equipment Database
Leverages a database of thousands of engines and equipment items — service schedules, documentation, and manuals attach to your gear automatically. Pick the engine or gear you actually have and its record arrives already filled in.
Researched by People, Not Scraped by Bots
This is where YACHTWAVE spends real money on real staff. Researchers work on the library full time: finding the manufacturer's own documentation for a given engine or piece of equipment, reading it, entering what it actually says, and verifying it against the source. It isn't scraped off dealer listings, it isn't crowd-sourced, and it isn't generated by a language model that will state an oil capacity with total confidence and no basis. Where two sources disagree, a person decides which one is right.
A Wrong Specification Is Worse Than None
Missing data makes somebody go and look. Wrong data makes them act. An incorrect interval schedules the service at the wrong time, a wrong capacity orders the wrong volume of oil, and a manual for the neighbouring model variant sends a mechanic down a procedure that doesn't apply to your engine — then the warranty claim turns on paperwork built from all three. Verification isn't a feature of this library; it's the reason it exists.
Factory Intervals, Out of the Box
Service schedules arrive from the manufacturer's own maintenance schedule for that model, so the tasks YACHTWAVE creates are the ones the builder specifies — the standard a warranty administrator measures you against, rather than a rule of thumb inherited from the last person who owned the boat.
Documentation That Arrives With the Gear
The manuals come attached. Instead of hunting a PDF for a twelve-year-old generator and filing it by hand on every boat that has one, the documentation is already on the record — the right document for the right model, because somebody checked that it was.
Names Your Fleet Can Report On
Manufacturers and models come from a maintained list rather than free text. Three spellings of the same engine across a fleet is how reporting quietly stops working — and it's also what makes the AI Mechanic® answer for your exact model instead of boats in general.
The Engine & Equipment Registry is included in every YACHTWAVE® edition — including the free Personal Edition — with photos, documents, service schedules, and maintenance history on every item. The Engine & Equipment Database, with thousands of pre-filled engines and equipment items and their documentation, is part of the Pro and Ultimate editions.
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Put Every Engine and System Aboard on the Record
Catalogued once, carried in every pocket, and read the same by the crew, the yard, and the parts desk — make, model, serial, and history, ready before anybody places an order.
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