An owner can walk away from a yacht at any time, from their own account. It is the owner's counterpart of a crew member leaving a vessel.
Where it is
Open Account → Security and Privacy and scroll to the red Danger Zone: "In case you no longer want to be the owner of …", next to a red button reading Leave followed by your yacht's name.
The Danger Zone only appears while you are linked to a yacht.
What happens
The button opens a confirmation dialog, titled Leave and your yacht's name, which spells out the consequences: you lose access to the yacht's data, and to own it again you must be invited by its management company. Your account and your own data stay with you.
Confirm with Yes, Leave and the yacht's name, or back out with Cancel.
On confirming, you are detached from the yacht immediately and returned to your Account page. The sidebar loses its Dashboard and Crew entries, and signing in from then on lands you on the Account page.
Leaving works even if the management company's Nauticare plan has lapsed.
Afterwards
- Your account survives. Your login, personal details, photo and passport stay as they were.
- The yacht is unaffected. Nothing about the yacht, its crew or its data is deleted; you are simply no longer attached to it.
- Getting back in means a fresh invitation from the yacht's management company, accepted the same way as the first one.
- Deleting your account becomes possible once you are no longer attached to a yacht: a Dead Zone with a Delete Account button appears where the Danger Zone was. That is permanent and removes your data — if you are invited again later, you would have to create a new account.
Being removed by management
The management company can also remove you from the yacht on its own Owners page. The effect on your account is the same as leaving: you keep your account, lose the yacht, and land on the Account page with an empty sidebar.