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FIRST-MATE™ Membership

Your preliminary briefing is only the starting point. FIRST-MATE becomes significantly more useful as your vessel, crew, cruising plans, and operational goals become more defined over time. All crew members may participate under a single membership.

One continuous platform. More relevant guidance. Better decisions at every stage.

FIRST-MATE™

Your AI cruising co-pilot and decision platform.

Personalized insights, tools, and guidance that grow with you across every stage of your cruising journey.

Your FIRST-MATE Membership Includes

Continuous operational guidance, planning tools, educational resources, and contextual support across every stage of your cruising journey.

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Bluewater Living-Volume I: A Primer for Aspiring Bluewater Cruisers

Bluewater Living-Volume II: A Practical Guide for Leaving Land Behind

Practical guidance for life aboard, ownership, systems, and cruising readiness.

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Coastal & Bluewater Briefings

Ongoing guidance on the topics, tradeoffs, and decisions that matter most.

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Roundtable Discussions

Live conversations with cruisers working through real decisions and questions.

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Captain’s Minutes

Use monthly minutes when you need focused help or a second set of eyes.

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FIRST-MATE BASE

Personalized briefs, vessel management and maintenance, crew support, passage planning, tasks and checklists, and planning tools built for real cruising use.

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FIRST-MATE CASE

Ask any question and and FIRST-MATE Case will help refine it, clarify the issues and assumptions, provide options for a solution, generate a plan and and respond to followup questions. Vessel, maintenance, crew, passage, ship's log and real-time weather make answers accurate and useful.

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FIRST-MATE gets more useful as your context grows.

The more you use FIRST-MATE, the more it understands your goals, preferences, vessel, crew, and cruising plans — delivering guidance that is increasingly relevant, practical, and actionable.

Optional guided programs are available later.

When your plans become more specific, you can add structured programs for Exploration, Acquisition, or Advanced Helm support.

FIRST-MATE Membership

Continue from your preliminary briefing.

$95 / month
Your context carries forward through Exploration, Acquisition, and Helm.
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  • Continuous access to FIRST-MATE guidance and tools
  • Secure, private, built for cruisers
  • Built for practical cruising use aboard and ashore
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