# Berths: Moorings & Slips

_ReadyHelm Pro Portal guide, chapter 06 · Last updated 2026-10-28 · https://app.readyhelm.com/guide/pro/moorings.html_

**🟠 Berths** has your organization's moorings and slips.

- **Moorings:** the ones owners have given your organization access to, plus the ones you added for customers who haven't joined yet. Each shows its owner, its next inspection and any open work. This is where mooring services do inspections, reports and mooring work.
- **Slips:** the ones a marina holds for its tenants (see [Adding a slip for a customer](https://app.readyhelm.com/guide/pro/moorings.html#pro-moorings-adding-a-slip-for-a-customer)), plus any a tenant has given you access to.

**Map** (next to **List**) puts the same moorings and slips on a map, labelled with the boat on each. It has search, the NOAA chart (the default), street map and satellite backgrounds, and **📍 Track me** for distance and bearing from your boat to a mooring, the same as the [Harbor map](https://app.readyhelm.com/guide/pro/harbor.html#pro-harbor-map). A mooring is placed by its owner's GPS, or by the harbor organization if one runs that harbor on ReadyHelm.

Owners grant access per mooring. Servicing someone's boat doesn't give you their mooring. A grant shows what an inspection needs (location, depth, tackle, components and approved limits) but never the owner's fee or expenses.

## Adding a mooring for a customer

**+ Add mooring for a customer** is for an owner who isn't on ReadyHelm yet. Enter the mooring number, harbor, coordinates, mooring type and the owner's name and email. You look after the record until they join.

**Send invite** (or **Resend invite**) emails the owner. When they accept, the mooring becomes theirs and you keep your access. The list shows **Invited** or **Declined**.

If another mooring with the same harbor and number already exists, you're warned first. Choose **It's a different mooring — add it anyway** only if it really is.

## Adding a slip for a customer

**+ Add slip for a customer** is for a marina whose tenant isn't on ReadyHelm yet. It takes:

- the slip and dock;
- the marina (from the directory);
- GPS, entered the same way as for a mooring;
- the slip type, and its maximum length and beam;
- its utilities (water, shore power and so on), each with an optional note such as "30A";
- how to find it;
- the tenant's name and email.

Tick the box to email the tenant an invite. Your organization holds the slip until they join and accept it. Until then:

- it's on your Berths list as **Held for** the tenant, with **Invited** or **Declined**;
- it's on your map and your harbor roster, and it shows on the Transient board as one of your own berths, so you can put visiting boats in it any time it's empty;
- **Edit details** changes it, and **Send invite** (or **Resend invite**) emails the tenant;
- **Dock boxes** records each box's label, size and lock code;
- **Lease terms** records the lease dates, fee and how often it's paid, deposit, first payment due and renewal deadline.

When the tenant accepts, the slip becomes theirs, with the utilities, dock boxes and lease terms you entered. They get fee and renewal reminders and record their own payments, which go in their expenses. Your organization keeps access, which the tenant can remove. To add many slips at once, use the harbor [Import](https://app.readyhelm.com/guide/pro/harbor.html#pro-harbor-import) with a Kind column.

## A mooring's details

Open a mooring to see its type and size, block or anchor, pennant and ball, last inspection, next due, approved length and its **Components**. **+ Add component** records a part, with an optional **Recommended replacement** date.

### Editing a mooring

- **A mooring an owner shared with you:** **Edit location & tackle** changes its GPS position, depth, mooring type and size, chain, block or anchor weight, pennant and ball, for example after you replace the tackle. The owner gets a notification listing what you changed. The permit, fee and approved limits are the owner's to edit.
- **A mooring you hold for a customer:** **Edit details** also covers the mooring number, harbor, how to find it, the owner's name and email, and the permit.

**GPS positions** can be typed in any of these forms. The reading shows under each field (for example *42° 12.348′ N*), so a typo stands out before you save:

- decimal degrees: `42.2058` and `-70.7201`;
- degrees and minutes: `42 12.348 N` or `70°43.206'W`;
- degrees, minutes and seconds: `42 12 20.9 N`.

Pasting a pair such as `42.2058, -70.7201` (from Google Maps, for example) into Latitude fills both fields. A value that isn't a real coordinate, or a latitude typed in the longitude field, is flagged, and you can't save until it's fixed.

Picklists such as mooring type and component type have **+ New…**, which adds a value only your organization sees.

**Ownership history** lists owners and boats over time.

## Inspections

**+ Start inspection** creates a draft. Fill it in on site:

- the inspection date;
- a row per component, prefilled from the mooring, each with a result (**Pass**, **Pass with comments** or **Fail**), an optional measurement, and comments (required for Pass with comments);
- photos per row (save the draft first, then add photos) and **photos of the whole mooring**.

**Save draft** keeps working on it; **Delete draft** discards it. **Finalize** makes it the permanent record and updates the mooring's last inspection and next due date. Every **Fail** becomes one of your work orders automatically, and the owner can choose to track it too.

### Changing a finalized inspection

**Amend** opens the same editor. Saving asks why you're changing it, and the reason is kept with the change. Earlier versions stay viewable under **History**. Photos are never deleted; removing one in an amendment only drops it from the current version.

Inspections the owner recorded themselves are labeled **Owner-recorded** and are read-only for you.

### When the owner responds

The owner can add their own notes and photos (shown apart from your findings), message you about the inspection, or dispute it. A disputed inspection shows **Disputed by the owner**:

- **Agree — I'll correct it**, then amend the inspection;
- **Disagree**, with an explanation (required).

Settled disputes stay under **Past disputes**.

## Reports

**+ Issue report** builds a PDF from the finalized inspections you choose (**Include these finalized inspections**, then **Generate PDF**). It includes the mooring's details, component ages, results, measurements, comments, photos and your business details.

Issued reports never change. If an inspection in a report is amended later, the report shows **Inspection amended since** and offers **Issue revised version**. Older versions stay downloadable and are marked **Superseded**. Download any version with **↓ Download PDF**. Owners see and download the same reports.

## Mooring work and service

Each mooring has its own **Work orders** and **Service log**.

- **Complete** on a work order asks for the date and what was done, then **Complete & log service** records it in the mooring's service log.
- **+ Log service** records work directly. Tick **Replaced components** to update those parts' last-replaced dates. That's the only way a component's age is set.

## When access ends

If an owner removes your access, the mooring leaves your list, but your work doesn't disappear. **Past inspections** keeps your inspections on record under your name, and **Reports you issued on these moorings** keeps your PDFs downloadable.

When a mooring is sold, the new owner chooses whether to keep your access. Until they do, you can read your past work but not start new inspections.

## Common questions

### Can a mooring service do inspections in ReadyHelm?

Yes. Start an inspection on the mooring, record Pass, Pass with comments or Fail with measurements and photos for each component, then finalize it. Every Fail becomes a work order, and you can issue a versioned PDF report that the owner sees too.

### Can I add moorings for customers who aren't on ReadyHelm?

Yes. **+ Add mooring for a customer** (or **+ Add slip for a customer** for a marina) creates a record your organization looks after until the owner accepts an emailed invite.