The crew knowledge base.
Everything OnDeck builds outside the course, grouped by when you need it: getting hired, working onboard, preparing for tickets and building your career record.
Hiring Tools
The working kit for finding, checking and accepting the next job — separate from the course that teaches you how the industry works.
CV Reviews
Start with a free instant AI check against Ryan's eight-point hiring rubric. When you want a final human judgement, choose The Captain's Read for a written mark-up and recorded verdict from Ryan himself.
Crew Agency Tracker
Work through 17 yacht crew agencies and platforms, save the email or username you registered with, and mark every profile for a refresh whenever new daywork goes onto your CV.
Contract Scanner
Upload a yacht crew contract or offer and get a nine-point plain-English read — wages, leave, notice, repatriation, hours, medical cover and unusual clauses — plus calm questions to send back before you sign. Flag and commercial/private status are handled explicitly. Read once and not stored. Free, no account needed.
On-Deck Reference
What you reach for on the job — product knowledge, step-by-step procedures, and the rules of the road.
Deck Product Database
117 onboard maintenance products. Paint systems, teak care, antifoul, compounds, sealants & lubricants, deck equipment — every product linked to the playbook SOPs that use it, with quick-reference specs, crew tips, warnings, and PPE.
Deck Operations Playbook
Step-by-step guides for 24 common deck jobs — varnishing, teak care, washdowns, polishing, anchoring, tender work and more. Every job lists the products to use, the sequence, the safety controls and what goes wrong. Your vessel's SMS and manuals still rule.
COLREGS
International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea — verbatim text with practical OnDeck interpretations. Rules 1–19 annotated, plus lights, shapes, sound signals, and a 65-question quiz engine.
Marine Notices for Yachts
The UK MCA Merchant Shipping Notices (MSN), Marine Guidance Notes (MGN) and Marine Information Notes (MIN) that apply to commercial yachts — pulled from gov.uk and filtered for yacht relevance, refreshed automatically every month.
OOW Module Prep
Before the classroom. Learn each module's core method in advance, so the course week consolidates instead of introduces.
OOW Oral Prep
Get ticketed. Study notes from primary sources and an AI examiner to drill you until you can answer out loud.
OOW 3000 GT Oral Prep
23 study modules covering the complete MCA OOW (Yachts <3000 GT) oral syllabus, built from primary official sources — SOLAS, COLREGS, STCW, MARPOL, MGN 315 — plus simulators, visual tools, drills and model answers. Each module is a set of short lessons with worked visuals, scenario questions and oral model answers.
OOW Live AI Examiner
A spoken AI examiner for the MCA OOW oral. Sit a scored mock or drill one module out loud — one question at a time, coaching when you get it wrong, and a debrief at the end. Source regulation named every time.
OOW Flashcards & Quiz
Flip-card study with spaced repetition and a self-marking quiz for the OOW oral — buoyage, flags, COLREGS, lights & shapes and sound signals with original OnDeck diagrams, plus every syllabus module as question-and-answer cards.
Career Tools
Track where you are and plan where you're going — built around the real MCA and RYA requirements.
Your Career Record — start here
How the five career tools fit together, and — once you're signed in — a checklist of where your record stands and the next thing worth doing. One free account covers all of them.
Certificate Tracker
Track every certificate's expiry in one place — ENG1, STCW refreshers, your CoC, GMDSS, visas and the rest — and attach the actual certificate as a PDF or photo, stored privately on your account. See at a glance what's expired, what's within 90 days, and what's clear.
Find an ENG1 doctor
Every MCA-approved ENG1 doctor on one map — the UK, the Med, the Caribbean, the US and South Africa — taken from the MCA's own list. Search by town or postcode, or sort by distance from where you are.
Sea Service Logbook
Track qualifying sea time across your whole career path — MCA OOW and Master (Yachts), and RYA Yachtmaster Coastal, Offshore and Ocean. Log each voyage once; watch live progress against the real requirements, with a printable summary. Career documents live here too, including the official MCA Training Record Book download.
Career Pathway Planner
Gap analysis and sequencing for the MCA yacht deck ladder — OOW <3000GT, Master <500GT and <3000GT. Projects your eligibility date from your real rotation, sequences courses so nothing expires before the oral, and flags the traps that stall applications. Verified against MSN 1858.
Service Endorsements
Ask the captains and HODs you've served under to confirm your service. You write the statement, send them a private link, and one tap records it against your career record — a named, dated reference that travels with you to the next job.
Career Passport
Your whole record on one page — sea service totals, certificate status, progression toward your ticket, and confirmed endorsements. Share it with a private, revocable link when you apply, or print it to PDF.
When It Goes Wrong — Who To Call
Unpaid wages, a captain who is the problem, stranded with no way home. The channels crew can actually use — the free 24-hour helpline, Nautilus, the PYA, the ITF, your flag state and port state control — in the order to use them, and what each one cannot do. Includes the flag-state complaint routes we could verify, and the certificate to photograph on your first day. Free, no account needed.