Used-boat due diligence, organized
Pre-purchase clarity for used-boat buyers.
Paste a listing, or type the details in, and TrueHull returns an organized checklist: what the details flag, which official records to pull for your state, and exactly what to ask the seller before money moves.
TrueHull organizes your research. It does not access or verify official records, and a report with few flags is never an all-clear.
A rule-based indicator built only from the details you submit. It is not validated, statistical or predictive, it does not measure the condition of the boat, and a lower number does not mean a sound boat.
- Seller notes include risk terms: soft deck or hull spots.
- Regional storm exposure match near the submitted location.
How it works
Three steps, one document you can print.
Paste the listing
Drop in listing text and TrueHull pulls out year, make, model, length, type, state, HIN, price and engine setup. Or type the details yourself.
TrueHull reviews and flags
Risk rules read the details you gave (engine hours, seller-note language, HIN format, and local storm history) and mark what deserves a question.
Work the checklist
You get the official records to pull for your state, the questions to ask the seller, and the spots to inspect. Print it and take it to the boat.
Where the guidance comes from
Real hurricane tracks, not a vague warning.
TrueHull compares the vessel location's representative point - your ZIP code where we have one, otherwise the county - against NOAA/NHC storm-track data and lists the named storms in the Atlantic, Gulf and eastern Pacific basins that passed nearby, with dates and approximate distances you can ask about.
NOAA/NHC HURDAT2
Matched locally · county representative point
Intensity shown is the storm's strength at its closest
approach, not its lifetime peak.
Questions it hands you
- Where was the vessel stored during those storm dates?
- Was it hauled out, trailered, or left in the water?
- Any water intrusion, repairs, or insurance claims since?
This identifies possible regional exposure near the submitted location. It does not verify where the vessel was during a storm or whether it was damaged, and it is not an insurance, title, salvage, registration, USCG or law-enforcement record check. Matching runs in all 50 states and DC for the Atlantic, Gulf and eastern Pacific basins, at ZIP precision where a ZIP is provided.
The part buyers get stuck on
Boat records are scattered across state and federal agencies. We route you.
Every report routes you to the official checks for your boat: state title, registration and lien records, the federal theft and documentation files, and a state stolen-boat search where the state offers one - each with the agency link and the identifiers it needs. We route you in all 50 states, to official and authoritative sources.
TrueHull organizes these checks and links you to the agencies. It does not query, retrieve, store, or verify official results on your behalf, and a missing record never proves a clean history.
Hull identification
We check the format, then tell you what to do with it.
12-character U.S. format check passed. Confirm these characters match the transom plate and the paperwork before you buy.
A decoder tells you what the characters mean. TrueHull reviews the format and structure, then points you to where the number has to be confirmed: on the hull, on the title, and against the official records for your state.
This is a format review only. TrueHull does not decode the HIN against any official manufacturer or government database.
About
Why TrueHull exists
Buying a used boat means trusting a stranger's description of something most people cannot easily inspect. The paperwork is fragmented: titles and registration sit with individual state agencies, theft records sit with law enforcement, and storm history sits in federal weather data. Each one lives somewhere different, and none of it is obvious to a first-time buyer.
TrueHull was built to organize that process. It takes the listing details you already have and turns them into a checklist: what the details flag, which agency handles your state, what to ask the seller, and what to look at when you stand in front of the boat.
We are deliberate about what the product will not claim. The sections that make a data claim state their own limits, and the report tells you plainly what it cannot verify. A tool that overstates itself is worse than no tool at all when the purchase is this large.
Where it stands today
TrueHull is early-stage and in active development. The report engine, ZIP- and county-level storm matching in all 50 states for the Atlantic, Gulf and eastern Pacific basins, 50-state routing to official state and federal checks, and HIN format review all work today. The public buyer experience is being finished now.
Who it is for
First-time buyers who want a guided process, remote buyers evaluating boats in another state, and organized researchers who want one place to keep it all. Brokers, dealers and surveyors are welcome too: TrueHull routes buyers toward professional inspection, never away from it.
Honesty as architecture
We tell you what no report can verify.
Sections that make a data claim state their own limits, and each report carries a confidence assessment showing what supports it and how to improve it.
States where TrueHull routes you to the official state and federal record checks.
First season NOAA/NHC records storm wind fields, and where our search starts.
Sections in every report, with limits stated on every section that makes a data claim.
TrueHull does not access or verify official records. A report does not confirm ownership, title status, liens, theft or salvage history, insurance claims, accident history, registration, or USCG documentation status, and it does not verify where a vessel was during a storm or whether it was damaged. Nothing here replaces a marine survey, a sea trial, or a title and lien search. Every report recommends them.
The waitlist
Building the first version of TrueHull
The buyer experience is in active development. Join the launch waitlist and we'll email you once, when TrueHull is ready to use. If you work in the marine industry, partnership and business conversations are welcome too.
Waitlist privacy
The waitlist collects your email, and nothing else.
If you join the launch waitlist we collect your email address only — no name, no phone, no address, no boat details. We use it for one thing: to email you once, when TrueHull is ready to use. We do not sell it, rent it, or use it for anything else.
Waitlist emails are handled by our email provider, Loops, which stores the address on our behalf. You can be removed at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email we send, or by writing to support@gettruehull.com.
TrueHull LLC is the controller of this information; you can reach us at support@gettruehull.com. This note covers the launch waitlist only; it is not the full privacy policy for the TrueHull service, which ships with the product.