Know the boat before you pay for the survey.
Before you fall for a listing, or pay for a survey, haul-out and sea trial, see whether it clears the Loop's hard limits, how it scores against what you actually need, and where the expensive risks hide.
Read a real sample dossier first → It takes two minutes and shows exactly what you'd be joining.
$49/year for founding members, the lowest rate we ever offer. Founding rate closes November 30.
It covers your first year; after that you renew at the standard price. Cancel anytime.
Join as a founding member now and a full year of AGLCA membership is on us. It can be a new membership or a renewal of your current one, worth $85, through our sponsor program. 20 available, first come. We send you the details after you join. It costs more than the subscription does, and that is the point.
Already have an account? Checkout is open. Subscribe at your rate whenever you're ready.
On a six-figure boat, being early costs you nothing here. Published surveyor rates run about $28–35 a foot, plus haul-out and a separate engine survey.
Your first boat is free. Create the account, paste a listing, and see her whole workup before you pay anything. Checkout comes when you want a second boat or the PDFs, and your rate is shown there before anything is charged.
Reserved a founding spot earlier? Your rate is locked on our side. Create your account with the same email you reserved with and it attaches automatically. If anything looks off, email support@caniloop.net.
- 📏Air draft: confirm the number before you trust it Will it fit under the 19'6" fixed bridge that stops boats cold in Chicago? We track it by model, so you know before you make an offer.
- 🌊Draft & range Can it clear the skinny water and cover the long fuel-less stretches? These are the two gates that quietly disqualify boats people fall for, and a listing often gives you the wrong version of the number.
- 🛠️A survey-prep brief you hand your surveyor A printable PDF with the model's known trouble spots, this boat's open questions and what's already verified. The survey you pay for gets spent checking the right things instead of rediscovering what everyone already knows.
- 🔔Your shortlist in one place Track your candidate boats with price history and status in one place, so you're not refreshing listings all day.
Here's what you're joining
This walks through the actual product with the real sample boat. It isn't a mockup. Join, and you paste in a boat you're actually looking at.
Tell it what matters to you
The Loop's hard limits are fixed: air draft, draft and range. Everything else is yours: diesel or gas, a price ceiling, two heads, a walk-around queen, thrusters. Weight what matters to you and switch off what doesn't.
- ✓ Air draft (lowerable) under, for your route: Chicago · 19'6" ▾
- ✓ Water draft (loaded) under · clears 5'0"
| On | Criterion |
|---|---|
| ✓ | Diesel power |
| ✓ | Price at or under 200000 |
| ✓ | LOA at or under 50 ft |
| On | Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ | Two heads | 2 ▾ |
| ✓ | Walk-around queen berth | 2 ▾ |
| ✓ | Fresh water capacity 120 gal | 2 ▾ |
| Washer / dryer | 1 ▾ |
The gates are the Loop's. The weights are yours, and that's what makes the score your score.
You paste the listing
Nothing gets scraped. The parser proposes the fields and you confirm them.
Two answers at once
Does it clear the Loop's hard gates (pass, fail, or needs verifying), and how well does it match what you said you wanted? Mission fit and personal fit, side by side.
| Gate | Status | This boat | Loop limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air draft (lowerable) under | VERIFY | — | 19'6" |
| Water draft (loaded) under | PASS | 3'8" | 5'0" |
| LOA at or under | PASS | 41.3 ft | 50 ft |
| Range (at displacement speed) | VERIFY | — | 250 mi |
| Diesel power | ✓ | gate |
| Price at or under $200,000 | ✓ | gate |
| Two heads | ✗ | wt 2 |
| Walk-around queen berth | ✓ | wt 2 |
| Fresh water capacity | ✓ | wt 2 |
That amber row is the point. No professional review publishes a bridge clearance for this model and the listing didn't state one, so the gate says VERIFY instead of a confident green, and the dossier tells you to bring a tape. Below it, the boat has one head and you asked for two. That's a real miss, and it costs the match score.
Then the part a listing won't tell you
The known trouble spots for that exact model, with every claim tagged for how much to trust it: verified fact, listing claim, fleet pattern or open question.
And the brief you hand your surveyor
It carries the model-specific check items, this boat's open questions and what's already verified, so your survey money is spent looking in the right places.
You still need a survey. We just keep you from wasting one on a boat that was never going to fit.