Crew Share
The LayCosts off the top, then the boat, then the rest by lay.
The settlement gets worked out on a legal pad at the dock, at the end of a four-day trip, by whoever is least tired. It is the one arithmetic on the boat where a mistake gets remembered.
A boat comes in, the catch sells, and the money splits in a fixed order — the trip's own costs first, then the boat's share of what is left, then the rest across the people who worked it by their lay. Every boat sets its own lay and its own boat share, and neither of them travels.
About this tool
What Crew Share solves
Splitting a trip is not one calculation, it is an order of operations a boat settled on once and has kept ever since. The trip's own costs come off the top in real money — fuel, ice, bait, grub, the offload. The boat then takes its share of what is left rather than of the gross, because charging the crew for the boat's cut of money that went straight back out as fuel is the argument this tool exists to stop having. What survives divides across the people aboard by lay, the share weight this boat uses, where a captain on a share and a half against a deckhand on one is simply 1.5 to 1. Money is counted in whole cents from the first line to the last, and the spare pennies from an uneven split go to the biggest lays so the shares always add back up to what the catch made — which the page checks and says out loud. It refuses to suggest a lay or a boat share, because those are the boat's own and nobody else's.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.