For yard periods & refits
One source of truth during your yard period.
A locked, priced baseline and a governed change-control loop. Every change raised, costed, decided and recorded — one system for the yard, the captain, the owner and the contractors.
30–50%
Typical overrun on an opened-up refit, against original quoted scope.
1.75–2.5×
What a change costs mid-project vs. if it had been in the original spec.
10–20%
Where well-managed projects land. The spread in between is discipline, not luck.
The loop
One loop, every change.
The same governed path for a $2k tweak or a $200k addition. Approval moves the baseline and the timeline, and authorises billing automatically.
- 01
Raise
Anyone captures a change, in app or by message. Draft structures it; a human confirms.
- 02
See impact
Cost and schedule impact computed against the live position before anyone commits.
- 03
Decide
The right person approves, rejects or defers within their authority, on the record.
- 04
Update
Approval moves the baseline and timeline, and authorises billing. Nothing is hand-edited.
Decisions
Every change costed before it's decided.
Work added mid-project costs 1.75–2.5× what it would have if specified up front. Draft puts the cost and schedule impact in front of the approver at the moment of decision — so the $9k addition gets decided on its merits, not discovered at redelivery.
- Authority built in
- Decide what's within your limit; larger changes route to the right person automatically.
- On the record
- Approve, defer or reject — attributed, timestamped, and visible to everyone it affects.
Time
Every slip visible, and every slip attributed.
Idle time is a named driver of overrun: trades standing down while an answer sits in someone's inbox. In Draft every decision is routed to the named approver with the clock visible — every day added to the schedule is a day someone chose, on the record.
- Slip called out
- An approved change extends the bar and shows the days it added (+6d).
- Redelivery tracked
- The current date against the original target, at all times.
The record
The record stays with the vessel.
Every package, change, approval, photo and date is logged against the vessel — not the crew, who turn over. Brokerages read the refit record alongside the survey; wider-market figures put the premium for thorough records at roughly 10–20%. Draft produces that record as a byproduct of running the period.
- Append-only
- Who raised it, who decided it, when — the trail a dispute or a warranty claim needs.
- Export is always free
- The refit as a spreadsheet: change ledger and billing schedule, yours on exit too.
Capture
Raised from the dock, not the office.
A found problem gets reported the way people already report things: a message. Draft structures the note into a change — package, description, who raised it — and a human confirms it before it enters the record. AI never prices, approves or attributes.
- In app or over WhatsApp
- Contractors and crew raise changes from wherever the work is — no login, no form.
- Human-confirmed
- Nothing becomes fact in the record until the captain or PM ratifies it.
Running more than one boat?
Every vessel and yard period in one view.
Each project reports itself — baseline, forecast, variance and redelivery per vessel, computed live — so the same team oversees more boats without stepping back from control.
For charter yachts
A charter yacht earns by the week — and a yacht on the hard earns nothing.
Weekly base rates for yachts over 100 ft commonly run $100k and up, and the industry's own project managers are blunt: without disciplined pre-planning, you could double your shipyard period. Draft protects the relaunch date — every decision routed with the clock visible, every added day chosen on the record, the booking calendar in view.
$100k+
Typical weekly base charter rate, yachts over 100 ft.
2×
What an ungoverned yard period can become, per the industry's own project managers.
~7 wks
The high-season calendar a Mediterranean charter yacht is actually protecting.
Pricing
One subscription per vessel.
Banded by vessel length, billed monthly, and that's the whole bill: every seat — yard, captain, owner, contractors — and every change, in the yard period and between them.
The evidence
Every figure on this page, sourced.
The Value & Evidence Brief sets out what overruns actually cost, what causes them, and where Draft changes the outcome — each figure tagged by the strength of its evidence, with the sources on the final page.
Start your next yard period on Draft.
One system for the yard, the captain, the owner and the contractors.