About
One person who knows boats, looking after yours.
Martingale isn’t a call center, an app or a boatyard. It’s me. One number that gets answered, and a standard I don’t bend on. I keep the list of boats short so every boat gets real attention and the phone keeps getting picked up.
Boats I've personally worked on, in the weeds
In the marine industry, on the water and in the shops
Run the crane, thrown the blocks, faired the hull, cut the glass, climbed the masts
On-time launches for the boats I look after. Your dates hold.
The background
The part most owners never get to see.
I’ve spent my working life in the weeds with boats, over five hundred of them. I’ve run the crane and thrown the blocks. I’ve faired the hull and cut the fiberglass. I’ve climbed all the masts, built the rigs, painted the topsides, raced the boats and fixed what broke. Professional sailor and boat captain. Head rigger at a busy yard. Boatbuilder in Warren, Rhode Island. Then seven years as co-owner of a five-star rigging company, running all of its operations, where the habit of writing down every fitting on every boat began. That habit is where your boat’s record comes from.
Most owners never see that side of the work. It’s the side that tells you whether a job was done right or done.
I kept seeing the same thing, boat after boat: good owners buried in coordination. Chasing the yard for a status. Getting an invoice for work they didn’t understand. Watching a launch date slip with nobody accountable. The boat had stopped being the fun part and turned into a second job.
Boats like that used to have a captain. Most owners don’t have that person anymore. Martingale is my answer: your captain, ashore.
How it works
Simple for you. Rigorous behind the scenes.
I learn the boat
Every system, its history and its quirks, written down instead of carried around in somebody's head.
I line up the right people
The right tradesperson, briefed properly, with the boat's history in hand, so the work gets done once and done right.
I manage the work
Scheduling, follow-through, the work checked against the standard, your dates kept. You get an update instead of a pile of invoices to decode, and a boat that's in better shape than you left her.
I stay ahead of it
The routine things happen on a schedule. When something does go wrong, you make one call and I stay on it until it's solved.
What you can see
Not an app. But nothing I do for your boat goes unwritten.
Everything lands in a portal you can open on your phone. Every system aboard, the manuals, the work list, each job as it moves, and the vendor's own itemized invoice when it's done. I show you what I pay.
The record keeps itself current. From those invoices and from the manuals for the gear aboard. That's how I have the answer when you call: the part number, the last service, what comes due next.
You can look whenever you want. Most owners mostly don't, and that's fine by me.
What you can count on
Five things I don't bend on.
I answer.
One number, and it's me. No dispatcher, no rotating cast, no callback that never comes.
I don't quit on a hard job.
Anybody can manage an easy one. Mine starts where it gets difficult: the obsolete part, the yard that slips, the builder who'd rather not stand behind the work.
If my people can't, I find people who can.
A deep bench is what twenty-five years in this industry buys you. No project is too complicated or too small.
I work for you, not the yard.
Straight pricing. I show you what I pay, and when I negotiate a better price you share in the savings.
Straight answers.
I'll tell you plainly what a boat does and doesn't need, including when the answer is "leave it alone."
Serving Rhode Island & Boston
Daniel Martinez
Founder, your captain ashore
If that sounds like what you’ve been missing, let’s talk.
Send me the make, the marina and whatever’s been nagging at you. No commitment. We’ll have a straight conversation about whether I’m the right person to look after her.