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PenLog  ·  Supervisor guide

Set up a drydock and run it

From an empty project to a signed-off close-out report. Set it up once, and the dashboard fills itself as your contractors work — no chasing.

1 Create2 Fire zones3 Penetrations 4 Send links5 Track6 Verify7 Export
1

Create the project

Hit New Project and enter the vessel and job details — ship name, drydock location, your start and embarkation dates, and the vessel identity (IMO, flag, class society). The embarkation date also sets how long the contractor links stay live.

Create New Project form
2

Set your fire zones

The one step you don’t want to skip. Under Fire Zone Boundaries, add each main vertical zone as a frame range from the fire plan (e.g. FZ2 = 52–108). These zones do two jobs: they’re the list your contractors pick from when they log a pen, and the app uses them to give every penetration its number — like D05-FZ2-001. Add a pen yourself by frame and the app matches it to the right zone for you.

No fire zones = no numbers. Until the zones exist your contractors have nothing to pick, so their pens can’t be numbered. Set them here at creation — or add them later by editing the project, and any pens still waiting on a zone get numbered automatically the moment the zones cover them.
Fire Zone Boundaries with a zone entered
3

Get your penetrations in

Two ways — mix them as you like:

  • Contractors log their own as they work — the simplest; nothing to pre-load.
  • + Add them yourself, from the pen-list toolbar.

Everything lands in one live table — deck, zone, frame, contractor, status, photos — filterable by contractor, with overdue pens flagged.

Penetrations table with the toolbar
4

Send contractors their links

Open Contractor Dispatch and Generate Magic Link — one per person (e.g. Gecom / Steven). Each person gets their own secure link and QR code; share it by WhatsApp or show the QR on-site. No app, no password.

You can regenerate a link if it leaks, revoke it when someone leaves, reactivate it if they return, and assign specific pens to specific people so each person sees only their own work.

Contractor Dispatch with per-person links
A contractor's QR code

Each person’s QR — scan to log in, no password

5

Watch it fill

As contractors submit, the dashboard updates itself — totals, what’s open, what needs photos, what’s overdue, and completion by contractor. No chasing: you see the whole job at a glance.

Project dashboard overview
6

Verify on your round

Open Verify on your phone and pick the contractor you’re walking with. You get his sealed penetrations grouped by deck, in frame order — and only ones whose evidence is complete, so you’re never sent to a boundary you can’t finish.

At each transit you see the closing photograph and the pen number to expect on the tag. Tap Verified, or Not right with a reason. Because you do it standing there, the record shows the moment you actually looked at the seal rather than when you got back to the desk.

A boundary nobody has classified stays on the round rather than being hidden from it — you’re the one who can say what it is, so you’re asked for the rating at the bulkhead and it verifies in the same tap.

Queried a pen? It stays sealed and stays on your list — the reason is recorded against it and the contractor can be sent the details. Nothing about the ship’s fire status changes, because the boundary hasn’t moved.

The verification round on a phone: sealed boundaries grouped by deck, in frame order
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Export the close-out report

When you’re ready, the toolbar above the pen list gives you the outputs:

  • Report / PDF — the formatted close-out report, with the audit trail and photos.
  • Excel — the raw data.
  • Complete package — everything bundled.

Hand it to your surveyor. That’s the loop — and once your fire zones are set, most of it runs itself.