Starting a chat with one person
- Open Messaging on the yacht.
- Switch to the Crew Members tab. Type in Search member to narrow the list by name.
- Click the person. If you have already messaged them on this yacht, your existing chat opens; otherwise an empty chat opens with No messages yet!
- Type in the box and press Enter, or click the send button. Shift+Enter starts a new line without sending.
The chat is only created when you send your first message or attach your first file. Opening someone and leaving without sending leaves nothing behind, and a direct chat with no messages is never listed under Chats.
If Chats is still empty you see No conversations yet; Start messaging jumps to the Crew Members tab.
In an open direct chat, clicking the three-dots button (Chat info) at the top right opens Chat info, where you can switch Mute notifications on or off for that conversation.
Who is in the Crew Members list
Everyone you can message on this yacht: its active crew, plus the company's active office users. Under each name is their role — their rank for crew, Crew for someone without a rank, or Company for an office user — and when they were last active (see Unread counts, Online status and notifications). You are not listed yourself.
People with the same name are told apart by that role line. Someone who has not filled in their name appears as Unnamed crew member.
Drafts
Whatever you type but do not send is kept as a draft, per chat, and is back in the box when you return — including files you have already attached and records you have linked. Drafts are kept in the browser you typed them in: they do not follow you to another device or browser.
A file attached to a draft but never sent is removed after 24 hours, and drops out of the draft at the same time.
Saved messages
Saved messages is the first row under Chats. It is a thread with only you in it: Your personal notes: save important messages, links and files here. Only you can see them. When it is empty it shows Nothing saved yet. You can put text, files, photos and linked records in it exactly as in any other chat, and delete what you posted.
Nobody else can open or be added to your Saved messages — not the captain and not office users. Like every chat it belongs to one yacht, so each yacht has its own.