Built by a crew dad
BoathouseOS started on the bank of a regatta course. Lineups were in one place, race times in another, the food tent sign-up somewhere else, and the rest was buried in group texts and email. That's eight places to check just to know when your kid races and what to bring.
So a rowing parent built one app that has all of it, and kept building it with the coaches, rowers and parents who use it every week.
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Set the boats
Coaches build lineups the way a crew sits: cox, stroke, down to bow.
- Saved crews and standard practice lineups load in one tap
- Every crew drawn in its shell, oars on the side the boat is rigged (coaches turn it on or off)
- Rowers who check in fill the empty seats
- When someone calls out, the coach hears who can move up
- Oar sheets, and Launch and Recovery jobs for every boat
Athena (8+)
Practice, Tuesday 4:15 PM
- CoxM. Alvarez
- 8J. Okafor
- 7T. Lindqvist
- 6R. Patel
- 5D. Brennan
- 4S. Nakamura
- 3C. Moreau
- 2A. Farley
- 1Open: E. Shaw called out
Can move up: K. Ito (checked in, no boat)
Review every practice
The cox's phone tracks the boat, so coaches see how every crew rowed, with no extra gear in the boats.
- Every boat's split and stroke rate side by side, minute by minute
- Average split, best minute, top rate and meters per stroke for each crew
- Each boat's trail on a satellite map of the water
- Stroke rate from the phone's motion sensor, on as soon as the cox taps ON THE WATER
- Kept for a week, or as long as the club picks
3×10' Monday 4:00 PM
Split /500m, minute by minute
Athena
Avg split
1:51
Best min
1:48
Avg rate
24
m/stroke
11.3
Follow the race
Race day on everyone's phone, from launch time to the medal count.
- Live boat tracking on a satellite map of the course
- Results posted as they come in from CrewTimer or HereNow
- Launch-time alerts that move when the regatta runs late
- A view-only link for grandparents and fans, no login needed
Today's races
- 1stMen's Youth 8+Athena6:12.4
- 3rdWomen's Youth 4+Paula7:31.0
- Men's Youth 4x · Lil FellasRacing now
- Women's Youth 8+ · New Albany11:40 AM
Feed and move the team
The parent jobs that used to live in a dozen group texts.
- Food tent sign-ups that start from the last regatta's list
- Volunteer slots, and the hours people put in
- Rides and seats, plus a rooming list for away regattas
- The trailer list, and the order to load the boats
Food tent: Head of the River
- Bagels, 3 dozenFilled
- Fruit trays, 21 of 2
- Coffee for 40Open
Rides
Team bus: 38 of 45 seats taken. The Shaws' car: 2 seats left.
Everything else a club runs on
- The boathouse
- Fleet list, QR stickers on each boat (scan to sign it out or report a problem), damage reports, boat reservations, a logbook, equipment inventory and rack rentals
- Roster
- Bios, erg times, family links, guests from other clubs, and graduates who move to alumni
- Winter training
- Coaches post the day's workout; rowers log erg intervals, lifts and runs from their phone, an erg-room kiosk or their Concept2 logbook (or the coach types them in); everyone's splits side by side with 👏 cheers from coaches and teammates, 2K/5K rankings (you pick who sees them), a weekly training-load check and a 10-second daily wellness check-in (sleep, energy, soreness, mood) for coaches to spot who's run down
- Messaging
- Team chats, coach announcements that show who's read them (one tap reminds the rest), and phone alerts you can switch on and off
- Photos and film
- Team photos and videos with tags, likes and comments, plus slow motion and frame-by-frame steps for technique review
- Club business
- Forms, surveys, elections, incident reports, memberships, and payments and expenses sent to QuickBooks Online
- Your club's look
- Your colors and logo on every screen, and a public club website
- On any phone
- Installs from the browser on iPhone and Android, no app store needed
Built for SafeSport
USRowing clubs with junior rowers have to follow the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP). BoathouseOS's messaging follows those rules on its own, and the board gets a report showing where the club stands.
- Parents are included in every chat between an adult and a rower under 18
- A parent can ask that adults not message their child, and the app holds to it
- No texts to minors, and a kept record of every message for the board
- SafeSport training and background checks tracked, with reminders before they lapse
- Yearly training for athletes and parents logged in one place
SafeSport report
Riverside Rowing Club (sample)
11 of 14
adults trained
8 of 9
background checks
- ✓ Athlete training offered 2 months ago
- ✓ Parent training offered 3 months ago
- ✓ Parents copied on adult-minor messages
- ✓ 2 no-message requests honored
How it compares
iCrew is built for rowing clubs too. Here's what each one offers, going by iCrew's own site.
| Feature | BoathouseOS | iCrew |
|---|---|---|
| Practice and regatta lineups | ||
| Attendance / practice check-in | ||
| Equipment inventory and damage reports | ||
| Boat tracking on a map | Premium | |
| Boat reservations and logbook | Premium | |
| Team chats | Premium | |
| Forms, surveys and elections | Premium | |
| Incident reports | Premium | |
| Live regatta results from the timing system | Not listed | |
| View-only link for fans | Not listed | |
| Food tent sign-ups | Not listed | |
| Rides and rooming for away regattas | Not listed | |
| Collect fees and dues | Coming | |
| Mobile app | Installs from the browser | App Store and Google Play |
| Price | Founding-club pricing: ask us | $0.75 a member a month ($1.00 on Premium), $0.35 a parent, plus $59 to set up |
“Premium” means only on iCrew's Premium plan. “Not listed” means it isn't on icrew.club. iCrew details from icrew.club, checked October 2026.
Or the usual patchwork
Plenty of clubs run on a registration system plus a free group chat. SportsEngine's HQ Premium plan is $749 a year, plus 3.25% and $2 on every registration payment. GroupMe and Remind are free, but they're only messaging: no lineups, no boats, no race day.
Coming from another app?
Bring your roster and fleet over from a spreadsheet. The importer reads iCrew's member and boat exports, RegattaCentral and SportsEngine files.
Get it for your club
Tell us about your club and we'll set you up: your colors, your logo, your roster and fleet brought over. Or look around the demo first.
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