Day route planner for marine service providers
List the day's jobs in order, with the drive or walk between them. See when you'll finish, what the day brings in, and what you really earn per hour once the time between boats is counted. No maps, no account: just your numbers.
Revenue for the day
$536.00
Effective rate, travel included
$92.95 / hr
5 h 46 min door to door
Rate on the boat
$128.13 / hr
4 h 11 min of job time
Done by
12:46 PM
On time. 1 h 35 min of travel (27% of the day)
| # | Stop | Boat | Arrive | Finish | Travel before | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marina A | 34 ft sail | 7:25 AM | 8:16 AM | 25 min | $102.00 |
| 2 | Marina A | 40 ft power | 8:26 AM | 9:26 AM | 10 min | $120.00 |
| 3 | Marina A | 28 ft sail | 9:31 AM | 10:13 AM | 5 min | $84.00 |
| 4 | Marina B | 45 ft power | 10:33 AM | 11:41 AM | 20 min | $135.00 |
| 5 | Marina B | Zinc swap | 11:46 AM | 12:16 PM | 5 min | $95.00 |
| Back home | 12:46 PM | 30 min | $536.00 |
How this works
These are your numbers, not market prices. The defaults are a worked example so the tool shows something useful; they are not what anyone charges in your area. Replace them with your own rates and costs.
Jobs run in the order you list them. For each one:
- Arrive = when the last job finished (or your start time) + the drive or walk to this stop.
- Time on the job = fixed minutes, or minutes per foot × boat length, rounded up to a whole minute.
- Revenue = flat price, or price per foot × boat length.
The trip home is added at the end. Rate on the boat = revenue ÷ hours on jobs. Effective rate = revenue ÷ (hours on jobs + hours of travel). The gap between the two is what travel costs you.
The example: four dive cleanings at $3.00/ft and 1.5 minutes per foot (34, 40, 28 and 45 ft), plus a $95 zinc job, across two marinas. That is 4 h 11 min on boats and 1 h 35 min of travel, done at 12:46 PM. $536.00 for the day: $128.13 an hour on the boat, but $92.95 an hour door to door.
Using it
- Group boats by marina. A 5-minute walk down the dock and a 25-minute drive look the same on an invoice and very different here.
- Count the slow parts of arriving: parking, the gate, checking in with the harbor office if your permit requires it, carrying gear down the dock.
- Try moving one job to another day and watch the effective rate. Recurring customers in the same marina are what make a route pay.