Kedge · by Taut

Your second anchor.

Kedge keeps the list, the dates and the record for a boat sailed by one or two — and works for weeks with no signal.

No account needed. Nothing leaves your phone unless you sign in to sync.

Three things, and not much else

Before you leave

Twelve checks, not two hundred, and only the ones that matter in the phase you are in — alongside, at anchor, on passage, laid up.

The dates nobody tracks

Flares, liferaft service, beacon battery and registration, gas, engine hours. Each one warns you with its own lead time, not on the day it dies.

A record you can hand over

Every tick, defect and passage, exportable as one file sealed with a code anyone can recompute. For the surveyor, the insurer, or the buyer.

Built for the boat with nobody watching

On a crewed yacht the captain signs off and the owner checks. Alone, there is no second pair of eyes — so Kedge is that, and nothing more. It has no crew accounts, no tasks to assign, no approvals, no costs to track, no chat. A failed check opens a defect and asks for a photo, because the photo is for you, in a yard, in eight months.

What it will not do

  • Navigate, route or forecast
  • Be your watch alarm or any life-safety alarm
  • Tell you a voluntary standard is the law
  • Hold your data hostage

What it knows about your flag

Kedge builds your list from the boat: length, flag, waters, engine, gas, liferaft, beacon. Where the carriage rules are verified, it says what is required and where that comes from. Where they are not, it shows the World Sailing standard and says plainly that it is not a legal list.

Price

One boat

Free · forever
  • Every check, job and date
  • Photos and defects
  • Passages and the log
  • Export, sealed, any time

Sync

€24 / year
  • Your boat on every device
  • Backup off the phone
  • Reminders by email before a date bites
  • Cancel and keep everything

Lifetime

€79 · first 100 boats
  • Sync, for as long as Kedge runs
  • One payment
  • Helps decide whether Kedge keeps going

Per boat, not per person. The free tier is the whole app — sync is a convenience, never a hostage.

If Kedge disappeared tomorrow

You would still have your boat's history: the export is plain JSON, written to be readable without us, and the seal is a SHA-256 hash anyone can recompute with a few lines of code. Experienced cruisers refuse purpose-built apps because they have been stranded before. That objection is the reason this feature shipped in the first version rather than the fifth.