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Yacht Watchkeeper User Guide
Welcome to the Yacht Watchkeeper User Guide. Find step-by-step guidance for crew operations, onboarding, rotation, scheduling, Hours of Rest, compliance, travel, payroll and vessel operations.
Getting Started
Getting Started
Join your yacht, find your way around and understand your access.
Menu & View As
Find your tools, customise navigation and understand the yacht and person currently being viewed.
Definitions
Plain-English explanations of maritime, crew-management and scheduling terms.
Notifications
Review alerts, open the exact record and manage phone delivery and personal preferences.
Dashboard
Vessel Intelligence & Weather
Read vessel position, weather and AIS movement history without confusing estimates with confirmed records.
Birthdays
Check upcoming crew birthdays and privately organise presents, cake and cards.
Crew Management
Crew List
Manage the manifest, crew access, joiners, compliance and crew records.
Tabs: Crew Management · Crew Compliance Centre
Joiners & Onboarding
Invite a new joiner, send an offer letter, follow their onboarding portal and approve them into the crew.
Compliance Centre – Certificates
Upload crew certificates, review their evidence and understand minimum requirements, passport safeguards and PRVH.
FAL & Port Clearance
Prepare crew, guest, stores and effects declarations for port clearance.
Tabs: FAL 5 · FAL 6 · FAL 3 · FAL 4
Sign On/Off
Complete joining and leaving checklists, arrange section signatures and review outstanding work.
Cabin Movements
Review accommodation, maintain cabin rules and manage cabin movements.
Tabs: Layout · Setup & Rules · Move Plan
Crew Records
Uniform sizes, dietary & allergy information and medical declarations — each strictly role-controlled
Crew Records – Medical Declarations
See who has completed their medical declaration, view completed ones and remind those outstanding.
AI Document Scanning
Extract document information, check matches and apply reviewed results.
Sea Service
Review service records and prepare signed sea-service testimonials.
Watch Schedule
Watch Schedule
Plan watches, check department coverage and arrange approved watch swaps.
Hours of Rest
Hours of Rest
Review actual activities, confirm daily records and sign monthly hours-of-rest records.
Tabs: Daily Records · Monthly Overview · Crew Summary · Templates
Schedule Planner
Rotation
Manage rotations, linked travel and deliberate schedule changes.
Tabs: Leave Planner · Travel
Leave Planner
Review leave requests, department coverage and accrued leave balances.
Tabs: Leave Planner · Event Planner
Travel – Crew Movements
Plan crew arrivals, departures, flights and airport transport.
Travel – Flight Tracking
Follow crew flights, review disruptions and prepare travel letters and emailed travel packs.
Tabs: Movements Schedule · Travel Letters
Travel – Travel Letters & Packs
Create a crew travel letter, edit or regenerate it, and email a complete travel pack.
Flight Allowance
Review annual flight entitlement, used journeys and self-funded travel.
EU Day Tracker
Review Schengen presence, planned travel and rolling 90/180-day exposure.
Tabs: Non EU Crew Compliance · Day Tracker Calendar
Gangway Log
Sign In / Out
Keep the onboard headcount current for crew, guests and visiting workers.
Emergency Muster
Start a roll call, account for people and preserve each muster round.
ISPS Access Log
Filter and export the record of visitors, contractors and day workers who came aboard.
Crew Car
Reserve a crew car, record the driver at sign-out and close the journey when the car returns.
Deliveries
Record packages arriving aboard and where they have been stored.
Watchkeeper Station
Watchkeeper Station
Use the shared onboard tablet for gangway presence, watches, crew cars, portraits and emergency roll call.
Contractors & Day Workers
Contractors
Register visiting contractors, arrange access and retain their visit history.
Tabs: Contractors · Invitations
Day Workers
Maintain day-worker records, work sessions, invitations and payments.
Guests & Events
Guest Management
Maintain guest records, trips, accommodation and visit history.
Tabs: Guests · History
Guest Cabin Plans
Lay out the decks, assign guests to cabins for a trip, track mid-trip moves and export the plan.
Event Planner
Plan yacht events, organise calendar layers and control who can see each event.
Packages
Packages
Track expected packages, record deliveries and distinguish arrival ashore from receipt onboard and collection.
Training & Drills
Training & Drills
Create and take quizzes, run live training and follow training requests through HOD and Captain review.
Tabs: Create Quiz · Training
Vessel Certificates
Vessel Certificates
Manage vessel certificates, surveys, insurance and equipment obligations while retaining every uploaded document.
Voyage
Voyage & Mileage
Review recorded nautical miles and export voyage mileage reports.
Maritime Library & AI
Maritime Library
Search regulations, MCA notices, flag-state notices and your yacht's own SMS documents in one place.
AI Knowledge
Ask the assistant questions and maintain the documents it can use for your yacht or company.
Payroll
Payroll
Review monthly crew pay, correct payroll days, manage payment instructions and prepare readable payslips.
Tabs: Payroll · Gratuities · Settings
Expenses, Cash & Cards
Submit expense claims, issue and sign boat cash advances, process expenses in Payroll and keep the vessel card register.
Tabs: Crew Profile → Expenses · Payroll → Crew Expenses · Payroll → Credit Cards
Training Requests & Reimbursements
Request a course, follow approval, and manage the reimbursement that pays it back through payroll.
Tabs: Crew Profile → Training · Training · Payroll → Training
End of Contract
Prepare a crew member's final settlement, including notice worked or served off the vessel.
Vessel Settings
All Settings Tabs
Every Settings tab explained: particulars, operations, contracts, onboarding, training, stations, approvals, security, access, subscription and privacy.
Tabs: Vessel Particulars · AI Knowledge · Operations · Contracts · Onboarding · New Joiner · Training · Stations · Notifications & Approvals · Security & ISPS · Access & Permissions · Subscription · Privacy & Data Requests
Vessel Particulars – Chase Boats
Record chase boats, their documents and crew, and create a clearance pack for them.
Fleet & Management Company
Fleet Workspace
Work across authorised yachts, review fleet activity and manage company documents and subscription information.
Overview
Your management company home page, menu and company roles.
Crew Certification
Expiring, missing and unverified crew certificates across your yachts.
Tabs: Expiring · Missing · MCA Verification · ENG1
Vessel Certification
Ship certificates, surveys and interim certificates across the fleet.
Tabs: Ship certificates · Surveys & audits · Interim & extended
Hours of Rest
Rest non-compliance and unsigned months across the fleet.
Tabs: Unresolved non-compliance · Awaiting signature · Overdue sign-off
Joiners & Readiness
Incoming crew, onboarding progress and SEA readiness across the fleet.
Tabs: Joiners · Onboarding · SEA readiness
Leave & Rotation
Leave balances, changeovers, flight allowances and exceptions across the fleet.
Tabs: Leave balances · Upcoming · Flight allowance · Exceptions
Finance
Open payroll, expenses, gratuities and end-of-contract settlements across the fleet.
Tabs: Payroll · Expenses · Gratuities · End of Contract
Company, Team & Yachts
Company details, inviting staff, connecting yachts and securing your own login.
Tabs: Company Details · AI Knowledge
Subscription, Reports & Templates
Company subscription and setup, fleet reports and reusable document templates.
My Profile
Security
Sign in safely, complete verification and manage your password, trusted devices and Station PIN.
Request My Data
Download a copy of your personal account data or ask for your account to be deleted.
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