Nauticare has two working areas, and the sidebar tells you which one you are in.
The company area
The company area covers the whole fleet. Its sidebar has four entries:
- Fleet — every yacht the company manages, split into All and Archive. See Fleet.
- Database — set-up shared by every yacht: Crew Documents, Crew Ranks, Vessel Documents, Controlled Documents (with a Forms and Documents switch for form templates and controlled documents), Risk Lists, Permit to Work Types and Vessel Profiles. Vessel Documents, Controlled Documents, Risk Lists and Permit to Work Types only appear if a licence on the account carries a module that uses them. See Database and Risk Manager.
- Map — every yacht in the fleet that is reporting an AIS position, plotted at once. See Fleet Map.
- Users — the company's management users and their roles. See Users.
Only management users see this area. Billing and company Settings are not sidebar entries — a Management Admin reaches them from the credit-card and gear buttons in the header.
The vessel area
Open a yacht from Fleet and the sidebar changes to that yacht's own menu. Up to fifteen items can appear in the main sidebar, by default in this order: Dashboard, Charters, Calendar, Certificates, Documents, SMS, Inventory, Maintenance, Map, Crew, Operations, Messaging, Tasks, Finance and Risk Manager; Reports, Activities and Owners sit in the More menu at the bottom of the sidebar by default, and you can move items between the sidebar and More (see Finding your way around). Which of them you actually get depends on the yacht's modules and on your permissions — see Modules — why your sidebar differs.
Everything under the vessel sidebar belongs to that one yacht. Its crew list, its documents, its maintenance schedules, its stock, its expenses — none of it is shared with another yacht, and nothing you do inside one yacht changes another.
The gear button in the header opens Vessel Settings, the per-yacht configuration page. Its tabs also vary with the yacht's modules. See Vessel Settings.
What is shared, and what is not
This is the distinction worth learning early.
- Shared across the fleet — the lists under Database. A crew document, a crew rank, a vessel document, a form template, a controlled document, a risk list item or a permit to work type is defined once for the company and then used on every yacht that picks it.
- Owned by one yacht — everything else. The actual documents held, the crew assigned, the forms filled in, the tasks raised, the money spent.
Each yacht picks which of the company-wide definitions apply to it in Vessel Settings, so two yachts drawing on the same company Database can still require quite different paperwork.
Vessel Profiles work differently: a vessel profile is a reusable starting set-up — crew ranks, required documents, forms, controlled documents and safe manning roles — under Database → Vessel Profiles that you pick when adding a yacht, so every yacht built from it starts configured the same way. The yacht keeps its own copy, so changing or deleting the profile later does not change yachts already created from it. See the Database and Fleet sections.
Where you start
Where you land after signing in depends on who you are: crew go straight to their yacht's Dashboard, management users go to Fleet, and an owner goes to their own portal. See Your first sign-in.