All Hands

Wet paint.
Crane lift. Divers down.

The things everyone aboard needs to know in the next thirty seconds, and nobody writes down. Post it once and every crew phone has it, with a countdown running on the lock screen and a record that files itself.

Every plan

It runs on the lock screen.

An operation with a timer becomes a Live Activity: the category, what it is, who is doing it, who authorised it, and the time left counting down. No app to open, no notification to find again an hour later.

A crew phone lock screen carrying two Live Activities: a Permit to Work for hot work and welding raised by M. Torres and authorised by Capt. J. Reid with 1:42:18 remaining, and a Diving operation for a stern hull inspection raised by S. Lewis with 0:48:05 remaining.
Muster Mate · two operations running, counting down

Nothing arrives uninvited

A routine post never pushes itself onto a lock screen. The phone starts the activity once the crew member has actually seen the post, so the lock screen only ever carries things they know about. An emergency is the exception, and starts everywhere at once.

The timer is the point

Hot work, a fuel transfer, divers over the side. The countdown is what everyone else needs, because it answers the only question they have: is it still going on.

It announces its own end

When the timer runs down the operation says so. The person who raised it and whoever is competent for it get a nudge before it lapses, and can extend it or end it early from the phone.

Thirty seconds to write.

A General post is a photo and a line of text. The formal ones carry more, because they have to: Permit to Work, Bunkering, Diving, Confined Space, Storing and provisioning, and any operation type your vessel wants to add.

Tag who it concerns

Type @ to tag a person or a whole department. Everyone still sees the post, so nobody is cut out of what is happening aboard, but the people it lands on get a louder push.

Up to four photos

Taken as you write it. The bulkhead with the wet paint, the tape across the passageway, the state of the space before work started. They open full screen from the post.

Your own operation types

The standard list covers what most yachts run. Add the ones your vessel actually does, with their own labels, and they behave like the rest.

Sent is not the same as read.

Every post carries the same three things, whether it is a crane lift or a note about the galley. This is the part a group chat cannot do: it tells you who has actually seen it.

Got it

One press to acknowledge, and the post shows the count against the crew: noted 1 of 4. You can see at a glance whether the message landed, and who it has not reached yet.

Reactions

Emoji on any post. The acknowledgement is the first pill in the row and it never comes off, so the record of who confirmed sits in the same place as the rest of the reaction.

Comments

A thread on every post. The question about the crane lift is answered under the crane lift, by name, instead of scrolling back through a WhatsApp group to find who said what.

Nothing piles up.

All Hands is what is happening now, never a standing board. A post without a timer clears itself at midnight tonight. An operation runs for as long as its timer says and then announces that it has ended. Nobody has to tidy it, and nobody has to scroll past yesterday to find today.

The things that should stay up — the standing notices, the ones with read receipts — live on the Notice Board instead. Two different jobs, deliberately kept apart.

And when it is not routine.

The same composer sends an emergency alert. It sounds every active crew phone, it starts on every lock screen rather than waiting to be seen, and it goes in the operations log like everything else.

Muster Mate carries Apple’s Critical Alerts entitlement, so a real emergency breaks through silent mode and Do Not Disturb. A drill deliberately does not — the crew are never trained to ignore the loudest thing the phone can do.

The log writes itself.

Every post lands in the admin as a row: the time, the category, what it said, who raised it, who authorised it, how long it stood and how it ended. Open one and it carries its own confirmations, reactions, comments and a downloadable report.

The All Hands log in the admin with one row opened out. A Custom operation, smoke detectors isolated, raised by Charlotte Webb and authorised by Marcus Reid, expired after two hours. The opened panel shows confirmations with the Chief Engineer confirmed at 16:57 and a Download report button, one reaction, one comment, and a record reading posted 16:12, Live Activity on, ended 18:12 timer elapsed, stood for 2h 00m.
Admin · one operation, opened out

A yard period, a bunkering, an isolation that ran longer than it should have: the answer is a row rather than somebody’s recollection.

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