Planned maintenance, statutory record books, inventory, crew and compliance for 30–70 m yachts — self-hosted on the vessel, working mid-Atlantic, with an AI engineer on watch.
The whole system runs on a small PC on the vessel. No cloud account, no third-party servers, no subscription that bricks your history. Owner's privacy by architecture — and it works fully offline, mid-ocean, updating only when you choose.
Ask it anything about your boat. It reads your live data and your actual manuals, remembers the vessel's quirks, drafts requisitions and defect reports for your confirmation, and emails the Captain a morning brief. Bring your own API key — you control the cost.
Designed by a serving yacht engineer around real routines: hour-based PMS, per-cylinder exhaust-temp trending, watch handovers, tank soundings that drive the dashboard, an MEPC-format Oil Record Book. It matches how an engine room actually works.
Answers come from live vessel data and your own documents — with sources shown, permissions respected per crew member, and crew privacy redacted by default.
PMS & work orders · running hours · parameter trending with alarm bands · watch log book with tank soundings · fluid analysis · defects · shipyard periods with Gantt · procurement → PO → goods receipt · supply forecast · ETO & electro-technical registers
voyages · noon reports with fuel-per-mile trending · bunkering · CII · passage plans · PSC inspections · drills · safety meetings · incidents with corrective actions
housekeeping schedules that roll forward · guest preferences & allergy sheets · linen, amenity and uniform stores · wine cellar with 15,000-wine offline catalog, bottle photos, food pairings and a printed owner's wine menu
recipe library with allergens · menu planner cross-checked against guest allergies · HACCP temperature logs · provisioning · APA charter accounts
deck log book · snag list with photos · watches & anchor watch · handovers · drills & safety equipment · tender operations
crew register & certificates · MLC/STCW rest-hours with automatic compliance flags · rotation planner · SEA employment agreements with digital signing · payroll records · budget vs actual
cross-department tasks · version-controlled document library · photos from any phone · print-ready official documents · illustrated user manual built in · automated 3-2-1 database backups
Keelson keeps the statutory records the way the conventions describe them — filled in as part of the daily routine, not reconstructed the night before.
Electronic record books require flag-State approval per vessel. Until yours is approved, Keelson works as the working log and transfers to the approved paper book via a certified true-copy print — we say that plainly rather than oversell it.
An owner's login sees a single private portal — nothing to learn, nothing to click through.
Your install keeps working forever — the licence covers support and updates.
Self-hosted on a small Windows PC aboard (~20-minute guided install; a €400 mini-PC is plenty). 60-day full trial. If support ever ends, your installation — and every record in it — keeps running.
Nothing bad. Keelson is self-hosted — it doesn't phone home and can't be switched off remotely. Your install, your database and your documents remain fully functional forever. Source-code escrow is available for fleet clients.
Only when a crew member asks the assistant a question — and only the minimum needed to answer, sent directly to the AI provider using your own key. No key configured means nothing ever leaves the boat. Crew personal data is redacted from answers unless the user is the purser or captain.
It follows the MEPC.312(74) structure with three-step signing, strike-through corrections and an audit trail — but electronic record books need your flag State's approval per vessel. Until then, use it as the working log and transfer to the approved paper book via the certified true-copy print.
A small dedicated Windows PC on the ship's network. Crew use Keelson from any phone, tablet or laptop over the ship's Wi-Fi — nothing to install on their devices.
Yes — equipment registers, inventories and maintenance history are part of the setup service. Our own first vessel came in with eleven years of history from its previous system.
One click, when you have connectivity, at a moment you choose. The updater backs up the database first, applies the new version, and restarts — or stays put if the boat prefers not to change anything mid-season.
Keelson wasn't designed in an office. It grew watch by watch in a working engine room, each feature added because the boat needed it that week.
Adrian Vincent Amora
Founder, Vincetech Labs · ETO / Engineer
Adrian first went to sea in 2006 — on deck, as a deckhand and chase-boat driver — and spent nearly a decade learning boats from the teak down before crossing to the engine room through dual deck-engineer roles on 30- and 71-metre yachts. Since 2014 he has kept the same 50-metre private motor yacht running as her ETO and engineer — today appointed her Chief Engineer by captain and management. Two decades at sea, over ten seasons in one engine room, every system aboard his responsibility.
He also happens to hold a degree in computer science. For ten of those years he logged maintenance in a PMS built far from the sea, by people who had never stood a watch — and quietly kept a list of everything it got wrong. Keelson is that list, answered: written in the crew mess and the control room of a working yacht, and tested every day on the very machinery it describes.
A Filipino engineer based in Italy — one of the seafaring people who quietly keep the world's fleets running — Adrian founded Vincetech Labs with a simple conviction: the software that runs a yacht should be built by someone the yacht has actually depended on.
A live half-hour walk-through of the actual system running aboard — your questions, our screens.
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