Every cruiser deserves a bosun.
Lazarette catalogues your boat as you talk, photograph and file — then answers the questions that actually come up. Where’s the spare impeller? What’s due before we sail? What does the manual say about bleeding the fuel system? At the chart table, or two hundred miles from her.
In sea trials now — coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Built aboard the sailing yacht Embla.
The chandlery problem
Stop buying things you already own.
Every cruiser has walked back from the chandlery with another tube of sealant, opened a locker untouched since spring, and found two more. A cruising boat has dozens of stowage spaces — cockpit lockers, the lazarette, the voids under the bunks — and nobody remembers what’s in all of them. Lazarette answers before the duplicate purchase happens: in the chandlery aisle, or in a browser tab three weeks before you’re next aboard.
Do I have any Sikaflex aboard?
The Bosun
Two tubes of 291i in the port cockpit locker, stowed in May. There’s also a part-used tube in the tool bag.
Ask the Bosun — the crewmate inside Lazarette.
Getting her aboard
Catalogue her by talking.
Cataloguing a boat shouldn’t feel like data entry. Lazarette takes the boat the way you’d hand it over to a new crewmate:
Walk the lockers, narrating
Open each locker and say what you see. Speech is handled on the device wherever the platform allows — and the contents land as inventory, stowed where you said they were.
Photograph the nameplates
A photo of the data plate becomes a component card — make, model, serial — so the boat knows exactly which heater, which charger, which pump it carries.
Drop in the manuals
Short manuals answer questions as they are. Long ones are read and indexed page by page, so the right page surfaces when you ask.
Aboard
The boat plan is home.
Every locker a pin, every pin a list of what’s stowed there.
Why not just a chatbot?
The catalog is the context.
A diesel heater manual covers five models in one PDF — different fuel pumps, different glow plugs, different fault codes. Hand that PDF to a generic chat tool and you get five answers back, with homework. Lazarette already knows which model is bolted into your boat — captured when you catalogued it, photo and serial on file — so you get the answer for your heater. Not a list of possibilities.
A PDF in a chat tool is a document. A PDF in Lazarette is a document plus a boat.
Local first
Works where boats live.
Offline, first
Marina signal is what it is. The catalog lives on your phone and answers without it — at the far pontoon, on the hard, at anchor.
Voice stays aboard
Dictation is handled on the device wherever the platform allows, and your recordings never reach our servers — only the words do.
Yours to take
Export the whole boat as plain files a human can read and any AI can use. Your records are never held hostage.
Pricing
One price for the boat. Crew sail free.
You buy Lazarette once, for the boat. The AI — manual Q&A, voice cataloguing, photo extraction — runs on credit blocks you top up when you need them: nothing auto-renews, and credits don’t expire. When crew sharing arrives, crew will join free to read the boat and ask the Bosun anything — on your credits — and their access ends when they step off. No per-seat pricing, ever.
Prices are set at launch. While she’s in sea trials, everything is free.
She’s in sea trials.
Lazarette is in beta on iPhone and Android, being sailed hard before launch. If you’d like to help test her — sailor or not — pick your platform. Nothing to buy, and no waiting on us: both routes are self-serve.
One tap. TestFlight is Apple’s free testing app — iPad works too.
Step 1 — joins the tester group, which is the list Google Play checks.
Step 2 — opt in to the testDo both, in that order, using the Google account that’s signed in to the Play Store on your phone. Lazarette turns up in Play a few minutes after you opt in.
Just want to hear when she’s ready? Say hello: [email protected]