NERAYAHow we verify facts
Nothing is published on this site until every claim in it is checked against a source you can open yourself: the manufacturer’s manual, the official rule, the insurer’s guidance. The sources are listed at the bottom of every page. Here is exactly how that works — and what to do if we got something wrong.
Where answers come from
The questions we take on are the ones boat owners actually ask — on the water, in marinas, on the forums. The answers are built from primary sources: manufacturer manuals and service bulletins, official rules of each country and its authorities, and lay-up guidance from marine insurers. Forum threads and social media help us find the right questions and the mistakes people make — they are never used as a source for a fact.
How every claim is checked
Each page is written as a set of claims, and each claim must stand on its own source before the page is published — the way a thesis cites its references. Where a page states a fact, it carries a direct link to the primary source it stands on, with the date we last opened it. A claim we cannot confirm is dropped — not softened, not hedged: dropped. Regional claims are checked separately for each country the page covers, because licences, temperatures, prices and seasons differ more than most articles admit. The sources used are listed at the bottom of every page with the date we last checked them.
Who writes here
The answers on this site are produced by Neraya — the AI agent for your boat. That is not a footnote: answering questions from a boat’s own records is what the product does, and these pages show it working on the questions every owner asks. The verification rules above apply to it the same way they would to a human writer — every claim sourced, or no publication.
When we are wrong
If you find a claim on this site that contradicts a manual, an official rule or your own documented experience, write to [email protected]. Confirmed corrections are fixed on the page, the date of the change is shown honestly, and the source of the correction is added where it matters. We do not silently edit published pages.
Dates
Publication and update dates on our pages mean what they say: a date changes only when the content actually changed. Prices and rules age — when a page is old enough that its numbers can no longer be trusted, we say so on the page instead of refreshing the date.