Clear & Active is a free paperwork tracker for charter operators with one to ten boats. Add your boats and crew, put in the date on each paper, and the board shows what runs out first. Each paper can send a heads-up text to whoever renews it, every date can go in your phone's calendar, and the boarding-ready sheet lists what a Coast Guard boarding asks to see for the boat and the crew aboard, with the rule behind each line. It's saved on your phone only: no account, and nothing is sent to us.
Crew:
- Merchant Mariner Credential: 5 years from issue (46 CFR 10.205).
- Medical certificate: up to 5 years, 2 for STCW (46 CFR 10.301).
- Pre-employment drug test, once per hire, mates and deckhands too (46 CFR 16.210, 16.105).
- CPR and first aid (46 CFR 11.201).
- TWIC, usually optional on small charters (Policy Letter 11-15).
The business:
- Drug-testing consortium and the 50% random rate (46 CFR 16.230).
- The March 15 MIS report (46 CFR 16.500).
- Insurance.
Boats:
- Certificate of Inspection, annual inspection and drydock for boats over 6 passengers (46 CFR 176.107, 176.500, 176.600).
- Coast Guard documentation, 1 year for commercial boats (46 CFR 67.163).
- Florida registration (s. 328.72, F.S.).
- FWC charter license (s. 379.3501, F.S.).
- EPIRB registration, every 2 years with NOAA (47 CFR 80.1061).
- Hydrostatic release (46 CFR 185.740).
- FCC station license and radio inspection (47 CFR 80.25, 80.903).
- Flares (46 CFR 176.808, 160.021-5).
- Fire extinguisher service (NFPA 10, 46 CFR 25.30-10).
Studying for the license itself? Captain's Ticket has free practice tests for OUPV and Master. Renewing an MMC? The MMC Renewal Card walks through every step and fee.
Rules read on the official text November 11, 2026. Not legal advice; the boarding officer decides what to check. Made by Headed In LLC in Tampa Bay. Privacy