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Coast Guard Manifests for Charters

If you run boat charters — fishing, sailing, dive or sunset trips — you need a passenger list the Coast Guard recognises: names, ages and an emergency contact for everyone aboard. EquipDash builds it for you. You make one choice when you set up the experience, and from then on every departure has a Download Coast Guard manifest button and every passenger is asked for an emergency contact when they book.

A regular experience — a walking tour, a class, a workshop — never sees any of this. It only switches on for the experiences you mark as a boat charter.

Marking an experience as a boat charter​

It's the same Product type picker you already use on rentals.

  1. Open the experience (or create a new one).
  2. Find Experience type (optional · advanced).
  3. Choose 🚤 Boat charter.

Setting an experience's type to Boat charter, which applies the Coast Guard passenger manifest

That's it. You'll see a small note confirming "Applies: Coast Guard passenger manifest." Two things are now switched on for this experience:

  • Each passenger is asked for an emergency contact (name + phone) when they book.
  • Every departure gets a Download Coast Guard manifest button.

To turn it back off, set Experience type back to Standard experience.

Tip: you can set the Experience type when you first create the experience (on the Additional Information step) or any time afterwards from the experience's detail page.

What your passengers see​

When someone books a boat charter on your widget, each passenger card asks for an emergency contact name and phone alongside their other details. On a standard experience those fields don't appear, so you never add friction where it isn't needed.

Downloading the manifest​

  1. Open the charter experience and go to a departure (a specific date and time).
  2. In the participant list toolbar, click ⚓ Coast Guard manifest.
  3. A PDF downloads, ready to print or hand over.

The Coast Guard manifest button in a charter departure's participant toolbar

The manifest includes, for the departure:

  • Vessel / charter, departure time and assigned captain in the header.
  • Each passenger's name, age, emergency contact, special needs, waiver status and whether they've boarded.

Ages are worked out automatically from each passenger's date of birth. If a passenger hasn't given a date of birth or an emergency contact, that cell simply shows a dash — fill it in and re-download any time.

Letting Dash AI build it for you​

Prefer it on autopilot? Turn on the Passenger Manifest Builder agent (in Dash AI → Agents → Templates, filter to Boat Charters). The evening before, it builds a Coast Guard-ready manifest for every charter departing tomorrow and flags anyone still missing an emergency contact or an unsigned waiver — so the crew can chase them before boarding.