About AtMyBoat.com
Open-source marine intelligence.
Built by a tinkerer on Lake Erie.
For boaters who want more than their proprietary systems will give them.
At My Boat began in November 2025 — one boater, one frustrated afternoon, and the stubborn belief that open-source tools could do what expensive proprietary systems wouldn't.
Our Story
Started on Lake Erie. Still just a boater with a soldering iron.
At My Boat began in November 2025 with a simple idea: what if your boat's electronics talked to each other? Not through a closed system you paid a fortune for and can never modify — but through open tools you actually understand and control.
Skipper Don started this project on the waters of Lake Erie because the proprietary systems available weren't doing what he needed. So he built something that did. Then he shared it.
That's still the whole story.
What We Do
We bridge the gap between proprietary and open.
d3kOS Marine Electronics Platform
Our flagship open-source helm control system. It sits alongside your existing marine electronics, reads from your NMEA 2000 network, and adds the intelligence layer that expensive proprietary systems never included.
DIY Marine Electronics Guides
Step-by-step tutorials for building and installing your own marine systems using off-the-shelf components. Written by a tinkerer for tinkerers — no jargon, no gatekeeping.
Real-World Testing
Every system we share has been tested on the water in real Canadian boating conditions. Lake Erie is not a gentle proving ground. If it works there, it works.
Community Knowledge
A growing community of boaters sharing what they've learned. The best marine electronics knowledge has always lived on docks and in engine rooms — we're just putting it online.
Our Mission
Open the things that were closed.
Marine electronics have been a closed world for too long. Expensive proprietary systems that don't talk to each other, can't be modified, and lock you into one manufacturer's ecosystem. We're here to change that — not by replacing what you have, but by opening it up.
- Bridge the gap between proprietary marine systems and open-source tools
- Give boaters full control over their own vessel data
- Create compatibility between old and new marine technology
- Share knowledge freely — guides, community, code
Why d3kOS Exists
Not a replacement. A bridge.
d3kOS doesn't ask you to throw out your Garmin, Simrad, or Raymarine. It connects to your existing NMEA 2000 network and works alongside everything already on your boat.
What it adds is what the expensive systems don't give you — a voice assistant that knows your vessel, AI diagnostics that read your engine data, a camera system with fish detection, and a dashboard you actually understand and can modify.
Built on proven Raspberry Pi hardware. Fully open source. You own it completely — the hardware, the software, the data. No subscription required to use what you already paid for.
d3kOS is the intelligence layer your proprietary system was never going to provide. Not because it couldn't — because it was never in their interest to.
The Community
Good people. Good boats. No gatekeeping.
Since launching in November 2025, At My Boat has grown steadily in the marine electronics community. Recreational boaters, fishing enthusiasts, and small commercial operators across North America — all of them frustrated with the same thing, all of them finding the same answer.
What brings people here isn't the technology. It's the approach. Everything is shared openly. Nothing is locked behind a manufacturer's wall. If you can read it, you can build it, fix it, and improve it.
That's the community Skipper Don built on Lake Erie. You're welcome in it.
Ready to see what your boat can really do?
Download d3kOS, explore the hardware, or just come talk to the community. No sales pitch. Just boaters.