My Boat was specifically produced in response to customer demand for an iPad App that would appeal to every boater. Cleverly, it automatically syncs all the data from the company’s hugely popular App for iPhone - ‘What’s on my Boat’.
My Boat is a comprehensive and intuitive app that, apart from anything else, is just plain fun to use
Features of My Boat include:
• Dashboard: Reminders, Trips, Costs, Checklists
• My Boat: Essential boat and safety information
• Trips: Email trip details and photos and post directly to Facebook
• What’s aboard: See what you’ve got, where it is and photos
• Costs: Cost details, types, amounts, totals
• Reminders: Notifications on your iPad of what needs doing
• Service history: Summary and details at a glance
• Checklists: Pre-programmed and make your own
• Backup/share: Backup and share between devices
• Multi-boat: One boat or lots
Sailor Adrian Stanway, the developer, says, “One of the major benefits of having thousands of existing customers for our boating Apps is that they give us constructive feedback and tell us their needs. We love that. It let’s us build products that are based on input from all types of boaters and give people what they really want and will actually use”.
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