Plot a Bahamian voyage
on one chart.
Find slips that fit your draft. Clear customs once and have it attached to every booking. Keep your vessel papers and crew lists on file; they follow you between marinas.
The captain’s job, in three lines.
Find a slip that fits the boat. Clear customs once and have it on file at every port. Log the vessel and crew so they follow you between marinas. The rest is ops. We run that.
Match by draft, not by hope.
Filter 247 slips across 13 marinas by the vessel's actual particulars. Depth at MLLW, finger-pier vs T-head beam, power amperage, fuel availability, and customs port-of-entry. The grid surfaces only what fits. No scrolling through marinas you can't approach at low tide.
File once. Clear at every port.
Yatlas drafts a Foreign Direct Customs Clearance (FDCC) packet from your vessel papers, crew list, and itinerary, then submits it to the Port Department before you arrive. The dockmaster sees it. The customs officer sees it. You don’t hand-fill anything at the slip.
Upload once. They follow you between marinas.
Vessel papers and crew documents live in a private captain’s vault. Booking a slip pulls the relevant docs to the operator’s booking record. Adding a port to the trip pulls them to that port’s customs file. No second upload. No passport-photocopy at the slip office.
Every booking, hold, clearance: on the captain's record.
Yatlas keeps an append-only history of every slip held, booked, fueled, and cleared under your captaincy. The ledger is yours: exportable as a PDF for your résumé, your insurer, or the next owner who asks where you've taken the boat.
The captain app opens after cohort 1.
What captains ask before logging
No. Slip booking is free for captains. The marina operator pays the transaction rate. You can soft-hold a slip without payment, provided your vessel papers are on file.
Free account, no card on file required. Soft-hold a slip with vessel papers attached. The owner or charter party pays the slip when the booking firms; your relationship with the boat doesn't drag your wallet through customs.
The FDCC packet Yatlas drafts mirrors the Port Department's existing Form C7 and crew manifest. Submission goes through the official channel, not a private API. Captains still need to clear at port-of-entry: Yatlas removes the dockside paperwork, not the legal arrival.
Add it from the captain's console: registration number, flag, particulars, owner letter. Verification is async (24h typical). You can search slips and pre-fill bookings while the vessel is pending; the booking firms once vessel is verified.
Yes. Charter captains running their own delivery + slip + customs can do the full flow. Captains employed by a charter operator may have parts of the flow handled by their charter desk. See /for/charters for the operator side.
Same flow. Yatlas's slip filters include mast clearance for sail (bridge + cable considerations on approach) and rig type. Power-specific filters (fuel uplift volume, generator hour-meter sync) layer in on top.
Log a vessel. Hold a slip before the trip plan dries.
Captain accounts are free, take 4 minutes, and don’t need a card on file. Add the vessel papers, drop in the crew, search slips. The hold sits open 72 hours while you confirm with the owner or charter party.
Talk to operations.
Yatlas is pre-launch. Cohort 1 is open to 5 Bahamian marinas through Q3 2026: founding-marina pricing, weekly product calls, white-glove migration. Even if you’re not ready to commit, the 20-minute walkthrough is on us.