The essentials for understanding how crewmenu works — and what it deliberately doesn't do.
No. You open a space, share a nine-digit code, and each crew member enters it to join. An account is optional — it only helps you find your voyages later.
It's the access key for your space, like a share link. Anyone with the code can view and fill in the meal plan. Keep it within your crew.
Yes. crewmenu is a utility offered to sailing crews. No credit card, no commitment.
No, and that's by design. crewmenu links what the crew enters — who eats what, who brings what, what's already aboard — but it never plans for you and never totals quantities. You know your crew.
The galley hand is assigned per meal, not per day or on automatic rotation. The right cook depends on the dish — you don't assign the vegetarian to the steaks. The Galley tab simply shows who cooks what.
Yes. Each space generates a clean PDF sheet — meal grid and grocery list grouped by status — to pin on the chart table.
Only if you enable it. Notifications are strictly opt-in, and always grouped into a single digest. Never one email per change.
Your data is hosted in Canada and processed in compliance with PIPEDA and Quebec's Law 25. No payment data is stored. Any dietary information you choose to add to your profile (allergies, diet) is visible to your crew for meal planning, and erased if you delete your account.
French (Quebec and France) and English. Meal terminology adapts to locale: « Souper » in Quebec, « Dîner » in France.
ebbDesk Technologies, run by a sailing instructor, builds tools to make teaching sailing easier: ebbDesk for sailing-school management, Sailcasted for celestial navigation, and crewmenu for meal planning on liveaboard courses.