Guests
Know the day
Where you are, where you’re going, what’s on next and what’s for dinner. At a glance on the home screen, in detail one tap away.
The guest and crew app for superyachts
Everything your guests want to know, on every screen on board.
Live position, weather, today’s plan, the menus, the crew and the safety briefing on the cabin iPads and salon TVs, in one calm look that matches the yacht. Kept up to date by your crew.
- ScreensiPad · TV · web admin
- InstrumentsNMEA 0183 · AIS
- RunsOn board, not in the cloud
- At seaWorks offline
01 · What it is
One app for every screen on board.
Onboard brings the yacht’s live data and the crew’s content together on every screen: the iPads in the cabins and the TVs in the salons. The crew edit it in one web admin, and every change reaches every screen at once.
Crew
Change it once
Itinerary, menus, WiFi codes, messages and crew profiles are edited in one admin, drafted, then published to every screen.
The yacht
Live from the bridge
Position, speed, wind and depth come straight from the yacht’s NMEA instruments; nearby traffic from AIS.
02 · Live at sea
Where we are, what’s around us, what’s coming.
Live map
Chart or satellite view with the yacht’s track, nearby vessels and forecast layers for wind, swell, air temperature and rain, played forward hour by hour.
Nearby yachts
Who’s anchored next to us and who’s passing, from AIS: type, length, builder, distance and where they’re bound, with photos where known. Your own tender shown on the map.
03 · Hospitality
The menu, the crew, the WiFi and the safety brief.
Menus and the wine list
Food, wellness and the cellar as pages guests can search, with tasting notes on every wine. The chef shows or hides a dish in a moment.
Meet the crew
A profile for everyone on board: photo, role, where they’re from and a few words, grouped by department.
WiFi and safety
The network and a QR code to join, per cabin if you like. Muster stations on the deck plans and the safety video.
04 · The wine database
A wine list in minutes, not evenings.
Type a producer, a wine, a region or a grape, and pick the bottle. Onboard fills in the rest: region, classification, grapes, tasting notes, a short description and what to serve it with. About 330 widely stocked wines, from the great Champagne houses and Bordeaux to Burgundy, Tuscany, Rioja, Napa and New Zealand.
Your vintage, your words
Add the vintage and a line about the year; everything filled in can be changed before it reaches the screens.
Your own wines too
A bottle you add by hand can be saved into the yacht’s own database, so it fills the next list in one go.
New wines arrive by themselves
When the yacht is online, new wines are downloaded and added once a day. The yacht’s own wines are never touched.
Part of the Wine database add-on.
On the TVs
When nobody is watching, the TV becomes a slow show.
After a few idle minutes, each TV turns into a full-screen loop: the live map with the forecast, the weather, where you are, today’s plan, a crew member, the menus and the safety video. A press on the remote or a touch brings the home screen back.
05 · For the crew
Kept up to date by the crew, from any browser.
Draft, then publish
Changes stay drafts until you publish. Screens update the moment you do: no reloading, no visiting each cabin.
The right screen, the right content
Group screens by cabin or area, so each cabin shows its own WiFi voucher and its own tiles.
Messages on the home screen
Short notices such as “Tender leaves at 16:30”, scheduled to appear and disappear on time.
Ready-made content
Destination and menu packs import in a click, with photo credits kept; or start from a blank page.
Your yacht, your look
The yacht’s name, emblem and home-screen photo; tiles renamed, reordered or switched off.
Roles for every department
Editors see only their own sections: the chef the menus, the purser the itinerary. A change log shows who changed what.
06 · How it works
Built for life at sea.
Onboard runs on a small server aboard the yacht, not in the cloud. Screens keep working with no internet at all; when a connection is there, it quietly fetches forecasts, AIS and map tiles and keeps them for later.
- BridgeNMEA 0183 instruments over TCP or UDP
- Onboard serverOne Docker package on the yacht’s own server, such as a NAS. One port.
- ScreensiPads, TVs and the admin, on the yacht’s network
- Screens
- iPad as a home-screen web app (touch). Android TV players such as the NVIDIA Shield with the Onboard TV app (remote control). Any modern browser.
- Server
- Any machine on the yacht’s network that runs Docker. A Synology NAS works well. No cloud service needed.
- Instruments
- NMEA 0183 over TCP or UDP: position, course, speed, heading, wind, depth. AIS from the yacht’s own receiver or an online service.
- Offline
- Fonts, map engine, map tiles and the last forecast are kept on board. Nothing has to load from the internet.
- Updates
- Signed updates offered in the admin, installed in a few minutes, with one-click roll back.
- Your content
- Stays on the yacht, in one database you can back up.
07 · Packages
Start with the essentials. Add what your yacht needs.
One licence per yacht: the Onboard base package, plus add-ons for the features that matter on board. Add one later with a new licence key and it switches on; take one away and nothing you have made is lost.
Base package
Onboard
Everything to run the screens and the admin.
- Home screen, tiles and the TV loop on every iPad and TV
- Live map with the yacht’s position, course and speed
- Today, the itinerary and the current stop
- Menus, crew profiles, WiFi and the safety plan
- Info pages and home-screen messages
- The web admin with roles and a change log
- Updates over the internet
Add-on
AIS
Nearby yachts: the tile, the page and the TV loop card, with other vessels and your tender on the live map.
Add-on
Weather
The weather tile and five-day forecast, and the live map’s wind, swell, temperature and rain layers.
Add-on
Wine database
About 330 wines to fill your wine list from, and a wine list with details: descriptions that open on press, classifications and tasting notes.
Add-on
Screen groups
Group screens by cabin or area, each with its own tiles, messages and WiFi card, and its name on screen.
One-off
Destination packs
Ready-made destination pages with photos, by region: the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the French Riviera, Sardinia & Corsica, Italy, Croatia & Montenegro, Greece and Turkey.
Try it for 30 days. The trial includes every add-on and one destination pack of your choice.
Base package
€1,000 per year
The Onboard licence for one yacht
Add-ons
€500 per year, each
AIS, Weather, Wine database, Screen groups
Destination packs
€250 each, one-off
or all eight regions for €1,000
Next steps
Bring Onboard to your yacht.
- Installation on the yacht’s own server
- The TV app for the yacht’s players
- Connection to the bridge instruments
- The look matched to the yacht
- Crew shown how to use the admin
- Updates over the internet
Contact
Tell us about your yacht and her AV system, and we’ll send the prospectus and arrange a demonstration.
Email us