Ownership in Nauticare always starts with an invitation from the management company that runs the yacht. You cannot sign yourself up as an owner.
The email
The company enters your email address, and Nauticare sends you an email. What arrives depends on whether you already have an active Nauticare account:
- No account yet — an email titled "Nauticare - create account". Its link opens a page where you fill in First Name, Last Name, a Password (at least 8 characters) and Confirm Password, tick the box agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Subscriber Agreement, and press Create Account. Your email address is fixed and shown for confirmation. The marketing-communications checkbox is optional. The link stays valid for 30 days.
- An account already — an email titled "Nauticare - join vessel" that links to the sign-in page. Just sign in as usual.
Accepting
Sign in. Because there is no yacht attached to you yet, Nauticare takes you to your Account page, where a yellow banner sits at the top:
You have been invited as owner of “…” by “…”. Accept the invite to view and share data.
The banner names both the yacht and the management company, and offers two buttons:
- Accept — opens a confirmation dialog, Accept Ownership?, restating that you become an owner of the yacht on Nauticare, managed by that company, and will be able to view and share your yacht's data. Confirm with Accept, or back out with Dismiss.
- Reject — declines immediately, with no confirmation step.
Once accepted, a green message confirms it and Nauticare takes you to your dashboard after a moment. From then on, every sign-in lands you there directly.
If you reject, a red banner confirms it and nothing further happens. The invitation is gone; the management company would have to send a new one.
Things that can go wrong
- You already have a role. An account that is currently a crew member, a management user or the owner of another yacht cannot be invited as an owner — one Nauticare account carries one role. Use a different email address, or leave your existing vessel, company or yacht first. An account that has already left its previous vessel or company can be invited.
- You already have another invitation waiting. Only one pending invitation (to a vessel, a company or a yacht) is allowed at a time; the existing one must be rejected before a new one can be sent.
- The banner is not there. You may be signed in with the wrong account — check the email address on your Account page against the one the invitation was sent to. If the company cancelled the invitation, it disappears too.
Accepting or rejecting an invitation works even if the management company's Nauticare plan is not active.