Know the boat before you pay for the survey.
Before you fall for a listing — or drop $2,000–3,500 on 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.
In development now. Reserve your founding spot and you're first in when it opens. No card, nothing to cancel.
We'll tell you the price before anyone is charged — and founding members get the lowest rate we ever offer. For a six-figure boat, and a $2,000–3,500 survey on the wrong one, being early costs you nothing here.
- 📏Air draft — the number to confirm, not trust 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? 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: the model's known trouble spots, this boat's open questions, and what's already verified — so your $2,000–3,500 survey is spent checking the right things, not 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 reserving
A walk through the actual product — the real sample boat, not a mockup.
Tell it what matters to you
The Loop's hard limits are fixed — air draft, draft, 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 — 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 — 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 | PASS — unverified | 16'5" | 19'6" |
| Water draft (loaded) under | PASS | 3'2" | 5'0" |
| LOA at or under | PASS | 38.83 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. The air draft is published, not measured — so it clears the bridge on paper, and we say exactly that instead of showing you a confident green. Below it: one head, not two — a real miss against what you asked for, and it costs the match score.
Then the part a listing won't tell you
The known trouble spots for that exact model — every claim tagged for how much to trust it: verified fact, listing claim, fleet pattern, or open question.
And the one-pager you hand your surveyor
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.
We don't replace the survey — we keep you from wasting one on a boat that was never going to fit.
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