FOR MARINAS · YACHT CLUBS · HARBORMASTERS

Every waterfront monitors 16.
Yours could understand it.

One small receiver at your marina or yacht club turns the VHF chatter you already live in into a smart harbor safety node: push alerts the second something serious hits the air, a running bulletin of hazards and notices, and radio that rewinds — free for you and your staff, and a safer basin for every boater in it.

LIVE NOW: Boston Harbor · Hampton Roads · Long Beach Harbor  Your harbor could be next

Five things a DockTalk marina or club gets

Everything below is the real product, drawn exactly as it looks in the app — and every event shown is real audio our receivers captured.

1 · PUSH ALERTS

Know about the mayday before the phone rings

Our AI listens to every channel around the clock and pushes a notification the moment something serious airs: a mayday, a pan-pan, a capsize, a vessel taking on water in your harbor. Your dock staff hears about it while it's still happening — not from a customer an hour later.

10:17
Sunday, August 30
DOCKTALK · now
PAN-PAN — capsized vessel east of Salt Pond
Coast Guard urgency broadcast, Hampton Roads Ch 16. Tap to listen.
DOCKTALK · 12m ago
Sailboat fouled on lobster pot near Boston Light
Pan-pan from sailing vessel Alana Geo — no engine, drifting near rocks. TowBoatUS responding.
DOCKTALK · 1h ago
New hazard on the harbor bulletin
8-foot debris adrift near Sheep Island and Hingham Bay.
Serious events only — no noise, no radio checks
2 · THE HARBOR BULLETIN

"Here's what you need to know" — distilled, not droned

The Coast Guard airs the same Sécurité five times; your customers hear none of them. DockTalk distills every official broadcast into a running bulletin: the hazard, the place, the time window — debris in the channel, live-fire exercises, a sunken buoy — with re-airings folded into one row and the original broadcast one tap away. Print it, post it, or just check it with your coffee.

TOPMOST RECENTHARBOR BULLETIN
aired 5× · 1h ago
HAZARD
8-foot debris near Sheep Island
vicinity of Sheep Island and Hingham Bay
▶ hear the broadcast
today 1–3 PM
EXERCISE
Live-fire exercise window
danger zone active — mariners keep clear
▶ hear the broadcast
2d ago
HAZARD
Aground cabin cruiser near Nixes Mate
near Nixes Mate, Boston Harbor
▶ hear the broadcast
Real rows from the Boston board this week
3 · RADIO THAT REWINDS

Missed the call five minutes ago? Play it back.

A scanner is ephemeral: blink and it's gone forever. DockTalk keeps everything. Walk back into the office, scroll back, press play — with captions, so you can read what was said even when the dock is loud. Every incident becomes a story with chapters as follow-ups air, so you catch up on the whole thing in one listen.

◀◀  REPLAY · 5 MIN AGO · BOS CH 16
The pod is wrapped around the rudder. We request assistance.
Vessel requesting assistance, this is TowBoatUS Boston on one-six.
Boston Harbor · Ch 16 · Distress/Hailing
CHAPTER 1 OF 3 · 5 MIN AGO
❚❚
Aug 30 · 6:35 PM   0:21 / 0:58
Captions run as the tape plays — scrub anywhere
4 · 16+ CHANNELS, ANY PHONE

The whole VHF band in your pocket

Your node demodulates every working channel at once — hailing, bridge-to-bridge, Coast Guard, the fishing fleet, your own working channel — and streams them live to any phone. The base radio stays at the desk; you hear the harbor from the fuel dock, the travel lift, or home at midnight.

LIVE CHANNELS · BOSTON
All flowing from one receiver on the harbor
06
SAFETY
08
COMMERCIAL
09
CALLING
10
COMMERCIAL
12
VTS
13
BRIDGE
14
VTS
16
DISTRESS
18A
COMMERCIAL
22A
USCG
67
BRIDGE
68
MARINA
69
PLEASURE
71
PLEASURE
72
SHIP-SHIP
78A
PLEASURE
▶  LISTEN LIVE — CH 16
Yellow = someone's keyed up right now
5 · LIVE AIS SHIP TRACKING

Every ship in the harbor, moving live on the chart

A real-time chart of your whole harbor — every ferry, tanker, tug, and fishing boat — and the radio rides on top of it. When a vessel keys its mic, it lights up on the chart, so you always know who's talking and exactly where they are. Watch a tow come to your customer, or the fuel barge round the point, from the office.

Live harbor map with 136 vessels moving in real time
Boston Harbor in the app: 136 vessels, live

Hear it in action

Five real events, captured by DockTalk nodes in the last week, drawn exactly as the app replays them. Press play on any card: that's the actual radio, captions running in time with the audio.

◀  swipe · press play — every card is the real captured audio  ▶

What hosting takes: a shelf and an outlet

A marine antenna with a view of the water and a Raspberry Pi the size of a deck of cards. This is the real install covering Boston Harbor right now — no tower, no equipment room, no soldering. Marinas and yacht clubs are exactly the prime sites we equip for free.

Raspberry Pi and SDR dongle inside a weatherproof enclosure
The whole thing: a Raspberry Pi + receiver dongle in a weatherproof box
Marine VHF antenna mounted on a deck railing overlooking the harbor
The antenna on a railing with a clear shot at the water — a piling or clubhouse roof works the same
The enclosure mounted on an outside wall, antenna cable attached
Mounted outside, plugged in. That's the whole install — it's on watch

Hardware on us

A marina office or clubhouse is a prime spot: on the water, powered 24/7, antenna-friendly. For sites like yours we ship the entire kit free. It costs you an outlet.

Zero maintenance

Plug it in once. Updates, health checks, and channel plans are managed remotely; if it goes offline it recovers on its own. Nobody on your staff ever touches it.

Free premium for your staff

While your node is on watch, DockTalk Pro is free for you and your staff — and every moment your node captures first carries your marina's or club's name in the app.

THE ANGLE, STRAIGHT UP

Your marina or club already is the safety hub of its harbor — boaters call you when something happens. A DockTalk node makes that official: you become the smart safety node for the whole harbor, the place that knew first, with the receipts to play back. That's a story your boaters tell other boaters — and for a club, a member benefit no burgee across the bay can match.

Put your harbor on watch

Thirty seconds. Tell us where you are; we'll tell you if the site qualifies for free hardware (marinas and yacht clubs almost always do) and ship the kit.