Rest hours

The Rest Hours Planner keeps the record of hours of rest that STCW and the MLC require, and checks it as you type. You enter the periods you worked; the rest is the rest. The checks run on rolling windows, not calendar days: at least 10 hours of rest in any 24 hours, at least 77 hours in any 7 days, rest in no more than two periods with one of at least 6 hours, and never more than 14 hours between rest periods.

A day with no entry is "No data" — never assumed compliant. The month calendar colours every day by its verdict, and the record prints as a PDF with signature lines for the seafarer and the Master.

Everyone, on every plan including Free, for your own record. On a ship licence the Master also keeps every crew member’s record (up to the ship’s seats: 10 people, 10 more per pack) and prints the whole crew; each crew member sees only their own, and it goes to the Master only — never to other crew or the office. In a personal-plan crew group your record reaches the group’s Master only if you switched on "Share my rest hours with the Master".

1. Open "Rest hours" from the Ship & crew menu. The Master on a ship licence picks the person under "Crew member"; everyone else sees "Whose record" with their own name.
2. Pick the "Date", or tap a day in the month calendar.
3. Set "Ship's clocks this day": "No clock change (24 h day)", "Clocks retarded 1 h (25 h day)" or "Clocks advanced 1 h (23 h day)". It is pre-filled from the clock change set under Ship’s time in Settings.
4. Tap "Add period" and enter the start and end of each work period in ship’s local time; a period that ends before it starts runs past midnight. For a day off, tap "Record as full rest day (no work)".
5. Read the verdict — "Compliant", "VIOLATION", "Incomplete data" or "No data" — with the worst rolling 24-hour and 7-day rest beside it. A breach is listed in red with the rule it broke.
6. If your flag allows the STCW exception and the company confirms it, tick "Flag-approved exception in force this day": the weekly minimum drops to 70 hours and rest may be split into three periods. The planner still warns when the exception’s own limits are broken.
7. Master only: after an emergency, write the reason and the compensatory rest given under "Master's emergency override log" and tap "Log override". Crew see any override logged about them.
8. To print, set "PDF period — from" and "to", or tap "Last 14 days" or "This month", then "Download PDF". The Master on a ship licence also has "Whole crew PDF" — one page per person.

• Enter the surrounding days too. The rolling windows reach into the day before and after, so a date next to an empty day can only ever be "Incomplete data".
• Drills and musters count as work. Enter the times as they actually happened — inspectors compare the record with the logbooks, drills and cargo operations.
• An explained breach with compensatory rest recorded is far better than a bare "VIOLATION". Ask the Master to log the override on the day.

• Port State Control and vetting inspectors ask for the rest-hour records of the people on watch and compare them with the logbooks, the drill record, cargo and bunkering times and arrival and departure times. A record that does not match the logbook is worse than a breach.
• They look for days under 10 hours of rest, weeks under 77 hours, rest cut into more than two pieces, long stretches without rest and days with no entry — "no record" is not rest. They check that each breach is explained, that compensatory rest was given, and that the record is signed by the seafarer and the Master. The PDF has both signature lines and lists every breach under its day.

• Free plan: your own PDF counts as one of the 3 main prints a month and carries the "Made with SeaReady (free)" watermark. The "Whole crew PDF" is a paid document and needs the ship licence.
• A PDF covers 1 day to 1 year; the default is the last 14 days.
• Keeping records for other crew needs a ship licence. A person over the ship’s seats can be viewed and printed but not logged until a seat is freed or a pack is added.
• Overrides are the Master’s entry: on a ship licence only the ship’s Master, on a personal plan only someone whose rank is Master.
• Records sync through the SeaReady server when the phone has a connection; with no internet they are held on the phone until it returns. The server keeps 3 years; official rest-hour records must still be kept as your flag and company require. The office sees only the number of days with a breach, never the record.