The dock neighbor who never leaves the dock.

Small sensors on your boat, a DockNeighbor Station at the marina or aboard, and your phone anywhere. DockNeighbor watches the boat around the clock and does what a good neighbor would: tells you the moment something's wrong, and if you're overdue getting back, tells the people who'd want to know. It's also where your dock talks — your marina, the boat next to you, the events and trips coming up.

  • 🌊 Bilge, batteries, shore power, anchor
  • 📣 Alerts reach you, then who you choose
  • 🛰️ Sensors that run for years on a battery, no Wi-Fi
  • 📡 Through your marina's station, or your own
The idea

A neighbor that never goes home.

The best thing about a good dock neighbor is that they notice. Water in the bilge, a pedestal that tripped, a battery quietly dying, an anchor starting to walk — and they tell you, not the other way around. DockNeighbor is that neighbor, on the boat all the time, with sensors instead of luck: small ones that run for years on a battery and reach a DockNeighbor Station up to a mile away.

Vessel Monitoring

It tells you first, wherever you are

Water in the bilge, a dying battery, a dropped pedestal, an anchor starting to drag — the failures that happen quietly, at 2 a.m., three states away from you. DockNeighbor watches for them and reaches your phone in seconds. And if you want, it reaches one more person who can actually get to the boat.

1

2:14 a.m. — water rises

A leak sensor in the bilge trips and stays tripped. The station hears it, and the cloud knows in seconds.

2

2:15 a.m. — you know, and only you

Your phone gets it three states away. If it's a hose on a sensor, you say so and nobody else ever hears about it.

3

2:20 a.m. — still rising, no answer from you

Now it tells the one friend you named who's at the marina tonight. Not before.

It never wakes anyone but you for a blip. A friend hears about it only when an alarm is still going five minutes later and you haven't tapped "I've got it" — except a dragging anchor, which reaches them the moment it reaches you. Free reaches one friend for the anchor alarm; paid plans reach up to five for any alarm. You pick who, and which alarms.

Trip Planner

When you're overdue, it tells someone

A good neighbor knows when you left and when you said you'd be back — and makes the call when you're not. Plan the trip, say who should know, and DockNeighbor does the rest.

🗺️

Plan it on real depth

A route is only as good as what's under it. Plan on depth tiles and real channel lanes, for the draft you actually have.

📋

File a float plan

The oldest safety practice on the water, and the one most often skipped — because telling somebody is a chore. Here it's a tap, and the overdue call is automatic.

📍

Let them follow along

A partner meeting you at the ramp, family watching a passage. You pick who sees where you are, and for how long.

The trip planner, voyage history and location sharing are live today; float plans are in development. Everything here is included on your plan the day it ships.

Boat Community

It's also where the dock talks

Most of what happens at a marina isn't an alarm. It's the season — and the people. Your marina, your dock neighbors, and what's coming up, in one place.

🏢

Your marina

Notices from the office, haul-out and splash dates, and the marina's events — posted once, seen by everyone in the slips.

💬

Your dock neighbors

Message the boat next to you, the whole dock, or a group you set up. Add a friend and, if you choose, let them hear an alarm.

📅

What's coming up

Events to RSVP to, and who's heading out where — so a trip becomes a raft-up, or at least somebody knows to take a line when you get back.

Underneath

How it actually works

Sensors on the boat talk by long-range radio to a DockNeighbor Station: the marina's, or one you bring aboard. The station reports to the cloud, and the cloud reaches you first and your neighbors only if it has to.

How DockNeighbor works Battery-powered sensors on the boat send their readings by long-range radio to a DockNeighbor Station, either the marina's or one aboard. The station reports to the DockNeighbor Cloud, which shows you the boat from anywhere and sends alarms to you first and then to the neighbors you chose. Partner devices on the boat's own network are read by the station too. ⛵ On the boat DockNeighbor sensors · years on a battery 🌊 Bilge & leak sensors 🔋 Battery voltage ⚡ Shore power 📍 GPS tracker Partner devices on the boat's network 💧 LinkTap · Shelly · Starlink · routers 📡 DockNeighbor Station At the marina, or aboard Hears sensors up to a mile away Keeps working through an outage Wi-Fi · Ethernet · 4G ☁️ DockNeighbor Cloud Alarms, the live view, history, and your Dock's conversation 📲 You, anywhere Push on every plan · email, SMS and WhatsApp on paid plans 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The neighbors you chose Hear an alarm only if it keeps going and you haven't answered LoRaWAN radio boat's network internet first then, 5 min later
Sensors reach the station by radio, the station reaches the cloud, and the cloud reaches you first and your neighbors only if you don't answer.
For marinas

A dock is a place before it's a group

One DockNeighbor Station covers the whole facility. Marina Manager by DockNeighbor gives the office every boat in its care on one board, every owner one message away, and a reason for slip holders to stay.

Plans follow the boat.

Start free with the anchor alarm on your phone. Add sensors and a plan when you want the boat watched while you're away. While we’re in beta, every plan is free — no card required.

Get DockNeighbor on your boat

Create a free account, add your boat, and add sensors when you want her watched.