For boaters without a home mooring
Prove your cruising.
Keep a dated record of every mooring, know how your movement looks against the Trust's guidance, and have the evidence ready before you are asked for it.
Start your log — freeNo card needed. Your log is yours to export at any time.
In the Canal & River Trust's own review of boat licensing, 826 continuous cruiser licence renewals had been refused for failing the bona fide navigation requirement, and a further 429 boats had been sent early warning letters because of inadequate evidence of compliance.
That is roughly one in seven of the 8,825 boats licensed without a home mooring — and the second figure is a paperwork problem, not a cruising one.
How it works
Log where you are
One tap records your position, the date and the time. Takes a couple of seconds when you moor up. You can add past moorings by hand too.
See where you stand
CruiseProof counts the days from when you arrived — not from your last log entry — and warns you before you reach fourteen. Your cruising range is tracked against the Trust's twenty-mile guidance as you go.
Produce the evidence
Export a dated cruising log with coordinates, place names and a map of your movements. The document you attach to a licence renewal, or send back when a letter arrives.
Free to log. Pay when you need the proof.
Logging your moorings and getting overstay warnings costs nothing, for as long as you want. The evidence export, renewal reminders and full history are £4.99 a month, or £39 a year.
Start your logQuestions
How far do I actually have to move?
The Trust publishes no fixed minimum. Its guidance says it is unlikely to accept a range of movement under about twenty miles across a licence period, and that you must not stay in one place beyond fourteen days. CruiseProof shows you both figures continuously so nothing is a surprise at renewal.
Does a cruising log actually help?
The Trust's own guidance tells boaters to keep a record of their movements, with supporting evidence such as GPS coordinates. Its compliance team builds its picture from sightings logged by patrol officers, and boaters' groups have documented cases where those sightings were incomplete. Your own dated record is the answer to that.
Is this legal advice?
No. CruiseProof records where your boat has been and shows how that looks against published guidance. It cannot promise the Trust will accept anything, and it is not a substitute for advice if you are already facing enforcement.
What if I forget to log for a while?
You can add moorings retrospectively, and the export shows which entries were recorded at the time and which were added later. A contemporaneous record carries more weight, so the log is honest about the difference rather than hiding it.