About Loli·GO

Loli·GO gets a boat and the dock receiving it talking before the boat arrives, so neither one spends the day reacting to the other. The captain knows there is a lane waiting. The dock knows what is coming and how much of it. Nobody is guessing, and nobody is on the radio.

Why it exists

The gap between a boat at sea and the dock expecting it has always been closed one phone call at a time. A dock sizes its crew for a guess; a captain steams in and finds out. Nearly everything that costs either of them money is decided in that one conversation — the lane, the crew, the ice, whether a boat waits — and it happens too late to change anything and leaves nothing behind.

Why a captain uses it

Time on the hook is time not fishing. A dock holding your estimate hours ahead can have a lane and a crew ready when you get there instead of finding room once you are alongside — and when it cannot take you at the hour you wanted, you hear that while you can still do something about it.

What the dock told you is in writing with the time on it, so nothing turns on who remembers the call. The same holds after the landing: what you brought in, what has been weighed and priced, and what is still waiting, without phoning the office to ask.

Why a dock uses it

A day planned against real numbers costs less than a day planned against a hunch. Knowing what is coming, when, and how much of it is the difference between a crew sized right and a crew standing around — or a boat held off because nobody knew two were arriving on the same tide.

It also means the day settles itself. Every estimate, revision, question and answer stays on the record with a name and a time against it, so the arguments that used to run on memory do not start. Landings still waiting on a weight or a price are on one screen rather than in somebody's head.

How you get in

A dock enrols its vessels and authorizes the captains who run them. There is no public sign-up and no password: the dock adds you, it texts you, and you sign in with your mobile number and a six-digit code. Captains work from the phone app or captain.loligo.app; docks work from dock.loligo.app. If your dock uses Loli·GO and you have not been invited, ask your dispatcher — or leave your number on getting set up and we will text you.

What it is not

An advisory is an estimate made at sea, not a measurement and not a purchase commitment: a dock that receives one is saying it has read the estimate, not that it has agreed to buy the catch or to a price, and species, weights and prices are confirmed on the certified scale at landing. It is not a fish ticket, a logbook, a landing report or any other regulatory filing, and sending one notifies no agency. It is not a safety, navigation or emergency service, and no message sent through it reaches the Coast Guard — in an emergency use VHF Channel 16, your EPIRB, your DSC radio, or 911. The Terms say all of this at length.