An owner is a category of their own. They are not a management user and not a crew member, and they hold no per-yacht permission list — so nothing you tick on a crew member's Permissions tab has any bearing on what an owner sees.
How an owner is added
On the yacht, go to Owners and press Add Owner. The dialog asks only for an Email — there is no role or permission picker, because an owner's access is fixed.
The invited person receives an invitation and, once they have an account, accepts it from their Account page through the Accept Ownership? prompt, which names the yacht and the company that manages it. Until they accept, they show as Pending in the Owners table and the invitation can be cancelled from there. An active owner can be removed from the same table.
The Owners page is only reachable by management users; crew on the vessel do not see it even when they can see Guests.
What an owner sees
An owner signs into a small app of its own, with two entries in the sidebar:
- Dashboard — a card for their yacht and a card summarising its finances.
- Crew — everyone currently serving on the yacht, as read-only cards. There is no invite, no archive, no onboard toggle and no way into a crew member's record.
There is no Messaging for an owner, even on a yacht whose plan includes it.
They also have their own Account page, where they keep personal details, security settings and a Passport and Visa tab. The passport matters: it feeds the onboard manifest export for the vessel.
Crew only appears once the ownership invitation has been accepted — before that the owner has an account but no yacht linked to it.
Why it works this way
Access for owners is granted feature by feature rather than through the crew permission system. The practical consequence is that an owner is invisible to, and excluded from, the machinery that serves crew and management: they do not appear on the crew list, they are not included in crew notifications, and giving them "more permissions" is not something that can be done from the vessel's permission screens. If an owner needs to see something they cannot, it is a question for Nauticare rather than a tick somewhere.