Yacht Watchkeeper

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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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