Nautiq.

While sailing across the Atlantic, I realised there is no common knowledge base for sailors' repair knowledge. When I asked around and talked to other sailors, I learned that this is a common issue people complain about.

When liveaboards face a broken part on their boat, they ask around in WhatsApp communities (of which there are a lot), or they search the web for a solution. The group chats are filled daily with questions and answers, so it's hard to find a helpful repair on your specific issue in the chat history. The same problems get explained from the ground up, over and over again.

On the internet you might find a post in a forum from eight years ago, with no way to ask a follow-up question. The knowledge to fix most things already exists, but it's locked inside individual heads, buried in long forum threads, or shared once and lost.

After a bit of brainstorming I came up with Nautiq: the first app built for sailors to post and log the repairs they make on their sailboat. Once a repair is posted in Nautiq, it stays there, accessible to everyone via the web or the app.

Each question and answer becomes part of a searchable library of fixes, organised by the systems onboard: engine, electrics, rigging, plumbing, sails, hull, navigation. Instead of starting from zero with every breakdown, owners can build on what the community has already figured out.

Nautiq is for the people who actually maintain their boats: weekend sailors who want to fix things themselves instead of waiting weeks for a yard slot, liveaboards far from any marina, cruisers crossing oceans, and owners of older boats where the original manuals are long gone.

It's not a marketplace, not a forum dump, and not a social feed. It's a tool that respects people's time and the seriousness of the problems they're solving.

Boats are expensive to own, expensive to repair, and unforgiving when things go wrong at sea. A community that makes it easier to keep them running well makes the whole experience safer, cheaper, and more accessible, especially for people who don't have a professional skipper or a mechanic on speed dial.

That's the long-term bet behind Nautiq: that distributed, contextual repair knowledge is more valuable than any single manual, and that giving sailors a good place to share it is worth doing well.

The app is finished on the software side; right now I'm focused on marketing and on filling it with real repair posts. I'm in close contact with several sailors who regularly log their repairs and are starting to populate the app.

Nautiq is live on the App Store, and you can learn more at nautiq.world.