About Verity
Meeting the Specific Needs of the Boatbuilding Industry
In 2009, Kelly and Steve Vaughn started Verity Yacht Publications to help custom yacht builders better serve their customers through high quality, custom made, marine technical documentation. Since then, Verity has been assisting industry leading manufacturers transition from cumbersome documentation processes and workflows to easy to use, tailor-made manual creation solutions that boat builder engineering teams, service departments, sales teams, and customers all enjoy the benefits of.
Our manuals are designed specifically for an optimal boat owner/captain end-user experience. They are are easy to navigate, easy to read, and packed with high-quality photos. Our manuals are created to match your brand standards, typography, and color schemes, all while designing the content to be searchable, reducing the amount of effort required to find what readers are looking for.
We are a full-service manual creation company, and tailor our services to meet the needs each boat builder. Our range of service includes:
- Manual creation and manual updating for production boat manufacturers as well as custom yacht builders
- On-site photography services
- Creating searchable keywords photo databases
- Model year updates of owner's manuals
- Creating and maintaining end-user-accessible databases of installed equipment with corresponding serial numbers and manuals.
- Implementing efficient workflows with manufacturer engineering teams to ensure all the requisite information about each system is included in the manuals.
- Integrated Manuals: Manuals are accessible via print, cloud, flash drive, QR code placard, or loaded onto a tablet.
- Custom engraved placards and labels
Verity Innovations for the Marine Industry
2009 - Modular Document Design. This document construction method allows manuals to be edited and maintained more accurately, and with more efficiency, saving time and reducing errors. This is especially helpful when an ECO requires a global change across all your manuals, or when changes in documentation are needed from one boat to the next (for example, when an engine package or air conditioning system changes).
2009 - Integration of Ultra-Wide Photography within Manuals: Provides unparalleled visual context and detail.
2009 - Keyword Searchable Photo Databasing of Yacht Builds: Created a comprehensive, searchable photo documentation database solution without the requirement for recurring subscriptions fees.
2010 - Fully Clickable Digital Owner's Manuals: Transforming how information within boat manuals is quickly and efficiently accessed.
2015 - Streamlined Document Markup: A no cost software solution which allows for engineering teams to easily input requested changes to a manual.
2019 - QR Code Manual Access: Providing instant, convenient access to digital documentation, manuals are stored in the cloud as which allows us to push out manual updates and make them available to boat owner's instantly.
2019 - Custom Digital Tablet Manuals: Delivering a modern, interactive, and portable manual experience. Custom tablets are pre-loaded with documentation specific to each boat.
2022 - Implementation of 360 photography: This photography method allows us to take spherical photos in extremely small and cramped spaces—the types of spaces impossible to photograph with a standard camera setup. With these photos, we can capture the entire space, from floor to ceiling, so that when viewing the photos, you're able to pan around as see the entire space as if you were physically inside the boat. This is very useful for recalling various stages of the as-built construction process. These 360 photos are implemented into the photo database. All without recurring fees as required by other software solutions.
2025 - Laser Engraved and UV Printed Placards and Labels - Implementation of laser engraving and UV printing technology to provide the marine industry with custom QR code placards, safety labels and name plates.