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Two of the three people running Digital Sea Service are yachties who met during training courses. They’ve experienced firsthand how challenging it is to track sea time. Whether it’s miscalculating sea days and being forced to leave mid-course or begging yachts you worked on years ago to help recount logbook pages, sea service tracking is a notorious hassle. At Digital Sea Service, their goal is to eliminate this frustration so yachties can focus on their careers, not their paperwork.
Read on for what John, Director, has to say about their services that help you save time:
“2 out of the 3 people running the company are Yachties. Both having met doing courses and both with the same shared experiences of how sea time is something that is frankly a pain in the arse. During this course seeing people having to drop out because they have miscalculated their sea time and having to return to sea mid course to get more days.
Either you start too late in your career and you are begging yachts you worked on 3 years ago to go back and count pages in their old logbooks. Or you loose the scraps of paper you have written your days on and you are frantically flipping through logbook pages when you should be packing for your fight home.”
Free Forever
Our app and service are completely free, and we’re committed to staying that way for individual users forever. We believe in supporting people at the start of their journey without charging for access to our services. In the future, we do plan to cover our costs by running ads, but our core mission remains to keep our platform accessible to everyone at no cost.
Cross Platform
We have made a concerted effort to ensure our services are accessible to as many users as possible throughout their careers. That’s why we offer the same features whether you’re using our website or apps, available on both iOS and Android.
Report Types
We will your tedious sea service testimonials for you! We have launched with the most common report types, with the MCA, PYA, Nautilus and 2 USCG forms, with more in the pipeline to include NOE applications, Australian and New Zealand too. The new forms are as a direct result of feedback we have already had and we are determined to be as useful as we can be to as many people as possible.
Over 100 Vessels
We have over 100 vessels signed up so far and just want to spread the word. The more people who sign up the more crew we can help. It is already making our lives so much easier we just want to shout as loud as possible to get the word out.
We are in talks with several Managment companies and they are of course interesting in the fleet wide time saving a productivity increases amongst the Deck Officers and Engineers.
Industry Partnerships
We are in discussions with several management companies, all of whom are keenly interested in the potential for fleet-wide time savings and productivity gains among deck officers and engineers. We have also had constructive talks with many training schools with the philosophy that targeting people at the start of their careers will help them throughout them! It doesn’t matter if they don’t eventually choose to become an officer , better to record their days and not need them than vice versa.
With yachting moving towards a more certified and more qualified industry sea time will only become more and more relevant. It is already a key part of what it takes to become a qualified deck or engineering officer and soon the interior crew will need to do the same soon with the introduction of their certification coming soon!
Our philosophy is simple: helping people early in their careers will benefit them throughout their journey. Even if they don’t pursue officer qualifications, it’s better to record their sea time and not need it than to need it and not have it.
The Future of Yachting
As the yachting industry evolves towards enhanced certification and qualification standards, the significance of sea time is growing. Currently a crucial requirement for deck and engineering officers, similar certification benchmarks are soon to be expected for interior crew as well. This increased focus on practical experience, alongside the modernization of our processes, aims to equip all crew members to navigate the industry’s challenges more effectively, thereby improving safety and service quality onboard. We are witnessing a pivotal moment as the industry aspires to elevate professionalism and standards. Personally, I just look forward to a future where I don’t have to deal with another jungle of spreadsheets or piles of notes to do necessary but usually painful admin.
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