Under sail

The engine you hardly use, the rig you rely on.

Most of a sailboat's record is on the calendar: the shrouds, the sails, the winches and the furler, beside an auxiliary diesel that runs a few hours a trip. LazyJack keeps them in one place, from a day sail out of your home marina to a longer passage.

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What it does for a sailboat

The rig, the sails and an engine that runs little.

The auxiliary, by the year or the hours

An engine that runs forty hours a season still needs its oil changed. Give the oil and filter a schedule of every 100 engine hours or every year, and the job is due at whichever comes first. On a sailboat that is usually the year.

The standing rigging and its age

Add the mast and standing rigging with the date it was fitted, and the yearly inspection follows. If you mean to re-rig in a given year, put that date in Service or expiry due, and Today shows it from 60 days before.

Sails, winches and the furler

Each sail, each winch and the furling gear is equipment of its own, with its own suggested plan: the sail inspection and wash, the winch service, the furling gear service. A problem you notice on a trip stays with the sail it belongs to.

Day sails and passages, and the spares aboard

A trip leaves from your home marina unless you say otherwise. For a longer passage, plan it, run your departure checklist and make a kit of what to have aboard. Spares are listed by the locker they are in, so you know what is aboard before you go.

Your assistant

Ask about the boat the way you would ask a friend.

Connect an AI assistant that supports MCP, and it reads and writes the same record, with only the access you gave it. It plans the trip, reads the service list and records the hours you give it. It never says the boat is ready to go: it tells you what the record shows.

How to connect your assistant

An example conversation

We're going over to Gull Island on Saturday and back Sunday. Plan the trip, and tell me what's due on the boat before then.

Planned the trip from Oyster Bay to Gull Island for Saturday. One thing is overdue: the standing rigging inspection. Your departure checklist is waiting on the trip's page.

Do we have a spare impeller aboard?

One, in the cockpit locker. It is the only one, and the raw-water impeller job uses it.

Setting it up

Start with the engine, then the rig.

The first run sets up the boat and the engine with its usual services in three short steps. Then add the mast and standing rigging, the sails, the winches and the furler as you meet them, and take the plans LazyJack suggests for each.

Setting up a sailboat, step by step, in the guide

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