MANAGING PERFECTLY WELL


LIKE IT OR NOT PAPERWORK IS A FACT OF MODERN DAY LIFE AND REMAINS AN INEVITABLE PART OF OWNING AND RUNNING A LARGE YACHT OR FLEET WITHIN TODAY’S REGULATORY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK. ONLINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WILL LIGHTEN THE ADMINISTRATION BURDEN, INCREASE EFFICIENCY, SIMPLIFY REPORTING FUNCTIONS AND ENABLE REMOTE PERSONNEL TO ACCESS IMPORTANT YACHTING DOCUMENTATION FROM ANY LOCATION


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ontrolling, harnessing and organising aspects of our everyday lives through an internet connection is becoming more and more widespread as each day passes.


Whether it’s remote shopping and banking, or something as simple as adjusting the settings of your domestic heating while you’re still away. These are the kind of daily routines we are now very familiar with. The overriding objective being to make our lives that much easier and more efficient!


Systems need to be written and coded in an intuitive way that anyone with basic scrolling and menu option experience should be able to use. Thankfully, that rule of thumb certainly applies to all seven of the yacht management software products that


were carefully and diligently explained to me by their developers, during research for this short, but, hopefully, informative report.


While software products offering a broad range of yacht management tasks are as popular as ever, the good news for captains, crew and shore-based managers is they now have even more options available to be able to ‘pick and choose’ software that can handle more specific tasks in a more in-depth way.


Pinpoint Works, for example, is a specialized location-based work list product. It was born out of yacht crew’s frustration from having project managed an 80m new build and the impossible scenario of making sense from individual sub-contractor, shipyard and internal crew work lists with endless email chains to dozens


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