The on-board app is a focused subset of Nauticare: the parts crew need while the yacht is working, and nothing else. It is built for the yacht's own crew accounts (Captain, Crew and Viewer). Other accounts can sign in but get no menu.
The sidebar aboard
- Dashboard: Your Boat, At a Glance and Recent Activities.
- Inventory: Overview plus a page for each inventory category.
- Maintenance: Overview, Manuals, Component Hours, Upcoming Tasks, Open Tasks, Overdue Tasks, Critical Tasks and History.
- Crew: Crew Members and each member's detail page.
- Tasks: Overview, To do, In progress and History.
As in the cloud app, Inventory, Maintenance and Tasks appear only when that module is active for the yacht and your permissions include it, so two crew members can see different sidebars. Dashboard and Crew are always there.
The header holds the rest: a gear button for Vessel Settings (if your permissions include vessel settings), the notifications and alerts button, and your avatar, which opens Account and Logout.
What you can edit aboard
Maintenance, Tasks and Inventory are the areas the yacht owns. Aboard, they behave exactly as they do in the cloud app for a cloud-only yacht: create and edit components, record running hours, upload manuals, work through and complete tasks, adjust stock. These are the same edits that are switched off in the cloud app while the on-board app is live. Your own permissions still apply, the same as in the cloud.
In Vessel Settings, the Inventory tab (inventory categories) and the Connectors tab are also managed aboard.
What is there but read-only
- Crew: crew members, their personal details and their permissions are shown so you know who is aboard and who can do what. They are managed in the cloud app and arrive by sync.
- Account: your Personal Details and Notifications preferences are shown read-only for the same reason.
- Vessel Settings → General: the yacht's own details are read-only aboard.
Vessel Settings aboard has fewer tabs than in the cloud: General, Inventory when the Inventory module is active, and Connectors.
What needs the cloud app
Everything else. Any area of Nauticare not listed above, and all the company-level pages, exists only in the cloud app. To reach it you need a device with internet access, not the yacht's own network:
- Messaging: there is no Messaging in the on-board app, and chats are not copied to the yacht, so even aboard a vessel-managed yacht you send and read messages in the cloud app, with an internet connection.
- Risk Manager: Risk Assessments and Permits to Work are cloud-only and are viewed and edited in the cloud app.
- Other cloud-managed areas: Calendar, Map, Certificates, Documents, SMS, Operations, Crew Docs, Safe Manning, Work/Rest, Leave Requests, Guests, Charters, Finance, Reports, Activities and Owners all live in the cloud app. Where crew or yacht details affect the on-board app, changes made in the cloud flow down to the yacht on the next sync.
The Nauticare phone apps are the cloud app too. They always connect to the cloud and cannot open the on-board app. Aboard, open the on-board app in your phone's browser instead. See Nauticare on Your Phone.
What needs a live connection
A few things aboard are done by the cloud on the yacht's behalf, so they only work while the yacht is online:
- Generating maintenance task schedules from a manual with AI. The analysis runs in the cloud.
- Connectors. Connecting or disconnecting a data provider, suggested mappings, and fresh readings all come through the cloud. See Connectors in the Vessel Settings section.
- Emailed sign-in codes. See Signing In Aboard.
Everything else aboard works with no connection at all.