Frequently asked questions

A permanent digital identity for your boat. The record lives with the hull rather than with you, so it carries forward when the boat is sold — the way a vehicle history follows a car rather than its driver.

You register the vessel once, add what matters, and it stays attached to that boat for as long as the boat exists.

A weatherproof badge that goes aboard your boat. Scanning it pulls up the vessel’s profile — no app to download, no account needed to look.

Somewhere visible and easy to reach with a phone, close to where the captain stands: near the helm, in the cockpit, on the companionway door or windshield, or on the hull beside the cockpit. Avoid spots that are hard to reach, like the bow or high on the topsides. Apply it to a clean, dry, smooth surface.

Your second badge is an identical spare. Keep it somewhere safe in case the first is ever damaged.

The MXE number is a permanent identifier, assigned once and never reissued. It stays with the boat it was assigned to and follows it through every change of ownership.

No two vessels share one, and a number is never recycled — not even after a boat is decommissioned.

Honestly: the app works without it, but the badge is the point. Everything else is a record. The badge is what makes that record reachable by someone standing at the boat.

The flexibility is in what a scan reveals. One badge, and what appears depends entirely on who is looking.

Install it from any page. It opens straight to your dashboard and you stay signed in, so there’s no logging in on a dock in the wind.

On iPhone or iPad: open moxieyacht.com in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. It has to be Safari — other browsers on iOS don’t offer it.

On Android: Chrome will offer to install it, or use the menu and choose Install app.

It depends who’s scanning, and who you’ve authorised.

A stranger — someone admiring the boat at a dock, or a buyer at a brokerage — sees a limited public profile: vessel name, make, model, year and photo. Not your documents. Not your contact details. Nothing that identifies you.

Someone you’ve given a share link to sees more, because you decided they should. And when you scan it yourself, you get your own full record.

Same badge, three different answers.

No. Documents are private to you and to the people you explicitly share them with. A public scan never reaches them.

Your own full record, because you’re signed in — every stored detail, your documents, and their expiry status. Same badge, different view.

The profile renders differently depending on who’s signed in when the badge is scanned. One badge, showing each person exactly what they’re entitled to see.

It’s the part of Moxie we’ve applied for a patent on.

Partly. A share link you create shows the vessel details you choose, and can list which documents you have on file by name — the files themselves can't be opened from a share link yet. You can revoke it at any time, and no account is needed on their end. A marina you give access to can open your registration and insurance, if you choose to share them.

Registration, insurance, boater card and fishing licence — the paperwork you’d otherwise keep in a damp folder in a locker.

Each document shows its status at a glance: current, expiring soon, or expired. Add the expiry date when you upload — it’s printed on the document — and Moxie tracks it from there.

Yes, if you’ve explicitly saved that vessel for offline first. Open the vessel and choose to make it available offline, and its documents come with you.

Moxie doesn’t quietly cache things in the background. You decide what’s stored on your phone, so you always know what’s there.

Documents are held in private storage, reachable only by you and by anyone you’ve deliberately shared with. They’re not public, not indexed, and not reachable from a scan.

The identity transfers to the buyer. The MXE number, the badge on board, and the vessel’s own details all stay with the boat.

The rule is simple — what describes the boat carries; what describes you doesn’t:

You keep a permanent read-only copy of the vessel as it was on the day you sold it. Anything the new owner adds afterwards is theirs, and isn’t visible to you.

The seller starts the transfer from their account using your email address. Moxie emails you a link that only works for that address.

You open it, create an account if you don’t have one, and accept. Once the seller pays the transfer fee, the vessel appears in your dashboard with its history intact.

A boat’s HIN and year of build don’t change, in the same way its MXE number doesn’t. Locking them is what makes the record worth anything — a record you can freely rewrite isn’t a record.

If something was entered incorrectly, it can be corrected with supporting documentation. Contact support and we’ll put it right.

You can decommission it. The vessel is archived, its record preserved, and its MXE number retired permanently — never reissued to another boat. Available on every plan.

Current pricing is on the pricing page.

Plans differ mainly in how many vessels you can keep active and how much you can store against each. Because features change as we build, the pricing page is always the accurate answer.

Photos differ too: Basic keeps 1 photo per vessel; Full Access holds up to 20 per vessel, and you can share them as a gallery.

Yes, and it’s charged to the seller once the buyer accepts. Nothing is charged if a transfer is never accepted.

You can print a temporary one immediately — your badge is downloadable from the vessel’s page, and plain paper works while you wait.

For a replacement, email support@moxieyachting.com with your MXE number. Replacement fees apply. Your MXE number never changes, so the new badge is identical to the old one.

We’re headquartered in California and the Bay Area is where you’ll find most of us, most of the time. But a hull number is a hull number, and nothing about Moxie stops at a state line.

If your boat floats, we’ll badge it.