Eyes on your boat
and your water.

Swain and the team

Your chief of staff for the boat and the water around her, who leads your crew. Bring in anyone below when you need them.

• Weather

  The water every morning: wind, seas, the tide at the pass, and whether today is the day.

• The boat

  The boat's own file: one per boat, born when the captain names her, kept in Boats.

• Surveyor

  Walks the boat with you on the phone and keeps her file: hours, gear, what he saw, what he could not.

• Wrench

  Engines, fuel, batteries and plumbing. Asks the year and the hours before he says anything.

• Harbor

  What is going on within a run of your slip: fuel, the yard, the fish fry, who is hauling out. Owns the flyers on your phone.

• Hull

  Bottom, paint, zincs, canvas and brightwork. Knows what your water does to a hull.

• Purser

  Registration, documentation, insurance and the slip. What she actually costs a year.

• Pilot

  The run and the anchorage: bridges, locks, shoaling, and what you will see on the way.

• Mate

  What is aboard against what should be, the float plan, and the crew: kids, guests, the dog.

• Rigger

  The rig and the sails: tune, trim, when to reef, and what that noise upwind is.

• Racer

  Club racing: the line, the first beat, your handicap and the season calendar.

• Fish

  What is running, where, on which tide, and the regulations that just changed.

• Wake

  Ballast, speed and line length for the sport you are towing, and who is watching the water.

• Trailer

  The ramp, the tow, the bearings and the flush. Your waters are wherever you can drive.

• Broker

  Thinking about a different boat, or selling this one: what she is worth and what a listing hides.

• Studio

  Draws her every day, thirty ways, from her own photograph once Surveyor has one.

• Walkie-Talkie

  Takes the notes for every capture on the captain's phone, and keeps them.