Safety Equipment — the gear, where it is, and when it lapses
Keep the boat's safety gear and its dates on file so nothing expires unnoticed.
EPIRBs, liferafts, flares, extinguishers, immersion suits, first aid kits — anything aboard with a date on it. theONE holds what it is, where it is stowed, and every date it carries, and surfaces those dates on the Work List before they lapse.
One piece of gear can carry four different dates — service, battery, registration, and a hydrostatic release on a float-free beacon. The list shows WHICH one is closest, not just how long: "Registration · 30 days" tells you what to do; a bare "30 days" makes you open the record to find out.
Steps
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Open it
Search for it — "Safety Equipment", or the gear itself: "EPIRB", "liferaft", "flares" all land here. The menu (☰) has no Safety Equipment row; its Safety group holds MOB History only. The Open Safety Equipment button on this article in the app's Help Center is the other way in — and for crew the only one: search offers Safety Equipment to the owner, management and the captain, not to crew.
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Add a piece of gear
+ in the toolbar. Pick the type, then name it the way you would say it out loud — "Raft, flybridge locker" beats "Liferaft 1" at three in the morning. Where it is stowed shows on the list itself, so you are not opening records to find the thing.
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Only the dates that apply
Dates are switches, not blanks. A fire extinguisher gets one date; a float-free EPIRB gets four. Leave a date off and theONE says nothing about it — it never invents a deadline you did not enter.
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Why registration matters on a beacon
An unregistered 406 beacon still transmits. It just reaches a rescue coordination center that has no idea whose boat it is, or has the previous owner's phone number. NOAA wants it re-registered every two years and nothing on the device tells you when that lapsed. That date is exactly what this screen is for.
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Record a self-test
Swipe a beacon right → Tested. A 406 beacon is meant to be self-tested monthly, and each test spends part of a finite budget of cycles — which is why it is worth recording rather than remembering.
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Gear that leaves the boat
Swipe left → Landed ashore. It comes off the active list and off the Work List, and the record stays. A beacon that was aboard during an incident is part of that incident's record long after it is landed. Nothing here deletes.
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Who can see it
The owner, management, the captain and crew open the list and see every piece of gear and where it is stowed. Adding and changing gear is for the owner, management and the captain.
Related
- Work List — everything the boat owes, on one screenSee what needs doing without opening four different screens.
- The Emergency drawer — what's there and when to use itMayday assist, nearest harbors, USCG districts.
- Document Vault — manuals, warranties, registrationsWhere to put PDF manuals and how to scan paper documents.
- Expiry reminders — 60, 30, 7 days, and day-ofGet a morning notification before registrations, insurance, and crew licenses lapse — even if you haven't opened the app in weeks.