If you’ve ever built a boat, you know the drill. Photos pile up on your phone, notes get scribbled on scrap plywood, and by the time you’re fairing the hull you’ve already forgotten how you solved the same problem on the transom three months back.

That’s the gap Boat Build Log is built to fill.

It’s a simple place to post photos and notes from the shop as you go, straight from your phone, dust on your hands and all. Log the step, the hours, a paragraph on what worked and what didn’t. Sixty seconds, then back to work.

The difference shows up later. Entries stay in shop order, oldest first, so the finished log reads start to finish, not newest-first like a typical blog feed. When the boat launches, you’ve got a real reference: the whole build, in order, ready to print or hand off.

And because every log is filed under its design, you can see how other builders handled the same hull. Same fairing problem, different shop, actual hours it took them. That’s the part no build manual gives you.

Right now there are 5 builds, 30 entries, and 262 hours logged across boats like the Northeaster Dory, the Shearwater 17, and a Boston Whaler 13 restoration. It’s early, which means it’s a good time to start your own log and be one of the first references for your design.

Start your build log at boatbuildlog.com.