Your boat,
handled.

Because almost no yard is great at everything. There are maybe two or three truly full-service yards in the country. The rest are excellent at some things and thin at others. Still good yards, but you don’t take a paint job to the yard with the best riggers. You take it to the yard with the great paint shop, and bring in your own riggers if you need them. That makes every real project a logistics problem: the right shop for each part of the job, the right people brought in, the schedule held together. That is what Martingale does. Martingale advocates for the boat and for you, and doesn’t send you packing when things get hard.

A captain ashore looks after your boat the way a private captain would: lining up the yards, mechanics, riggers and specialists she needs, keeping detailed records, and being your one point of contact. Martingale isn’t a boatyard and doesn’t do trade work. Pricing is straight, with no games and no surprise line items, and Martingale works for you, not the yard.

Every component aboard is written down: systems, makes and models, part numbers, what was done and who did it. The record is kept current as work happens, not rebuilt from memory at haul-out, and each system gets an honest read on where it stands, so you know what’s sound, what’s wearing out and what’s on borrowed time. Seeing the whole boat at once is what lets maintenance get planned and grouped instead of scrambling from one emergency to the next. It isn’t a private notebook. The record lives in the portal owners log into, next to each vendor’s itemized invoice, so you can read it any time. And it stays with the boat. It can be handed over as a spreadsheet of every system and a calendar of what’s due, which matters when you sell.

A full-time captain runs roughly $80,000 to $120,000 a year all-in once you add payroll taxes, workers’ comp and benefits, and even a part-time captain is real money. Martingale gives you the same captain-level oversight for a flat retainer that’s a fraction of that, with nobody on your payroll.

No, because Martingale believes in specialists. Many yacht management firms try to do the work themselves, assembling their own detailing crew and troubleshooting as much as they can to capture as much revenue as possible, and they do a mediocre job at everything outside their own trade. You don’t want a detailer checking your oil, or a mechanic polishing your stainless. Martingale has been doing this long enough to know that when you put the right people on the job it goes well, and when you ask people to stretch their abilities to keep it all under one roof you end up with a boondoggle.

Yes. Coordination is hard, and it is exactly what Martingale does and why it works. Martingale brings in the best people for each job and prepares them for it with the boat’s documentation, so they can get the job done the first time, which saves you money and skips that first hour of head-scratching.

One number reaches the person who already knows your boat, and it gets answered. Texts and calls get a real answer the same day, usually much sooner, and if something’s going wrong at the dock that’s exactly what the number is for. Most of what comes up never reaches you at all, because it’s handled before it needs to.

Martingale’s network is strongest in Rhode Island and the greater Boston area, but the boats it looks after are supported as they travel, and the network is growing all the time.