About Watchkeeper
Watchkeeper creates practical vessel safety-management and operational recordkeeping systems for small commercial maritime operators.
The focus is simple: turn safety-management requirements into documents that owner-operators, masters and crew can actually understand, customise and use onboard.
Watchkeeper products are designed around real vessel operations, including:
- pre-departure decisions
- crew fitness and fatigue
- voyage and shore-contact planning
- marine radio records
- fishing and diving operations
- tender and dory activities
- machinery, fuel and oil records
- planned maintenance
- defect management
- incident reporting decisions
- emergency drills and crew induction
- monthly SMS reviews and corrective actions
Built for practical use
The documents use clear language, large completion fields, connected reference numbers and structured audit folders.
Customers receive editable Word documents and print-ready PDF files, allowing the system to be customised to the actual vessel, crew, equipment and operation.
Independent commercial templates
Watchkeeper is an independent commercial template provider.
Watchkeeper products are not produced, endorsed or approved by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the Protected Zone Joint Authority or another regulator.
The products do not guarantee:
- legal or regulatory compliance
- an inspection outcome
- survey acceptance
- issue or renewal of a Certificate of Operation
- acceptance by another authority
Every operator remains responsible for confirming the requirements that apply to their vessel and operation.
Our purpose
Watchkeeper aims to make vessel safety documentation easier to understand, easier to complete and easier to maintain—without replacing the judgement, responsibility and genuine implementation required from vessel owners and masters.