Steady at sea · calm within
Pressure training for superyacht crew.
Calm Crew is an app for the people who keep the boats running. A quick check-in, practical training by Libby Pickett, and quiet practices you can use in a cabin, on watch or between guests, without anyone noticing. Built for crew who want to enjoy the job, and the life it gives them, season after season.
A quick check-in · A few minutes a day · Works offline
Your record
See how your season is going.
Every check-in adds to your own record of the mood, energy and capacity you rate. Tap View history on Today to see it as bars by day, week, month or year, with your averages, and check-ins made straight after a practice kept apart from the rest. How many of the last seven days you checked in sits at the top of Today, and Learn shows where you are in the course. Look across the three: anything that seems to move together is a pattern, not proof of a cause.
Made for life on board.
Works at sea, with or without signal.
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No signal needed
Everything works offline. You only need internet for the optional iCloud backup.
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Back up to iCloud
Optional, and always your choice.
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Day and Night
Easy on your eyes, on deck in the sun or on night watch.
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Reminders
One gentle reminder a day to check in, only if you switch it on, at a time you choose.
The app
Three tabs. Quick to use, easy to come back to.
Today, Learn and S.O.S. sit along the bottom of the screen. Your settings are under the gear in the corner.
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Today
One question: “How are you now?” You’re on duty unless you say you’re off. Tap how you feel, from Very low to Great, your energy, from Low to High, and your capacity, from Overloaded to Plenty. Three taps, and it is saved. Check in as often as you like. Then there is your Daily practice: a few minutes of slow, easy breathing, chosen for you each day.
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Learn
A course to start you off, opening one week at a time, with short teachings and practices you can use the same day, on duty or in a shared cabin. Everything you learn stays here afterwards, ready whenever you need it. The recordings are in production.
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S.O.S.
A separate tab for the tough moments. More about it below.
S.O.S.
For the tough moments.
The third tab is a quiet corner of the app. No streak, no settings, nothing moving. Calm inside.
A few short practices to steady yourself, then routes to a person: anyone on board you trust, of any rank, the captain or the bridge, or someone ashore, such as your company’s crew contact, a seafarers’ helpline whose details are being confirmed before the pilot.
Calm Crew is not a crisis or emergency service. In an emergency at sea, go to the bridge. Ashore, call the local emergency number.
The practices are being recorded now.
The course
A few minutes a day, for life on board.
Short teachings and practices by Libby Pickett, built around the real demands of yacht life: long hours, tight spaces, broken sleep and guests who expect the best.
Each day, check in, then press play on the Daily practice: a few minutes of slow, easy breathing. It is the same breath every day, with a little less guidance as it becomes yours.
It starts alongside a course in Learn, one week at a time, with practices you can use the same day, on duty or in a shared cabin. When the course ends, the practice carries on.
Start with the course
Eight weeks, opening one at a time. Not on a boat yet? Start here gives you two short teachings on what pressure does in your body, and three practices to take with you.
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Week 1
Welcome aboard
How it works, that what you share stays yours, and a few quiet minutes to settle.
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Week 2
How your body shifts gear
Up when it gets busy, down again to rest, and the small good moments in your day.
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Week 3
The slow breath
A proper look at the breath you do each day: slow, easy, about six breaths a minute.
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Week 4
Finding your own pace
Making it yours, and tying it to something you already do, like the kettle or lights out.
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Week 5
Under pressure
The busy moments, and coming back afterwards: a docking, a tender run, a hard call.
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Week 6
Sleep in a world that never stops
Winding down when your hours keep changing, and what to do if you wake in the night.
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Week 7
Quiet practices for small spaces
Practices nobody can see you doing, in a shared cabin or on duty.
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Week 8
Keeping it going
Choosing the two practices you would like to keep, and a simple plan in your own words.
The course ends. The practice doesn’t.
And it keeps going
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Every day
Your Daily practice
A few minutes of the same slow breath, now yours. It does not stop when the course does, and it goes with you from boat to boat.
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Over time
Your own record
Every check-in adds to your record of mood, energy and capacity, across rotations, charters and seasons. The longer you use it, the more it shows you. No one on board sees your answers.
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Yours to keep
Your toolkit
Every practice you learn is kept here, ready whenever you need one: before a busy service, after a hard day, or in the middle of the night.
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For anyone who looks after people
Leading under pressure
For heads of department to captains. Six lessons, each a teaching and a practice. It opens after the course, by choice, and is never reported to anyone.
The pilot
A study, not a claim.
The app is on iPhone and Android. The pilot runs with crew on working vessels over about three months, starting in November.
Who the Calm Crew app is for
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Crew
For the deckhand, stew, engineer or chief who wants to be good at this for a long time, and to enjoy it. Join the waiting list and you’ll hear first.
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Captains and heads of department
You carry the vessel’s load and your own, and the whole crew reads you for the weather. You start with the same course as everyone on board. After that, Leading under pressure is there for you, by choice.
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Yachts, fleets and management
Give your crew a practical tool for the pressure of the job, and see an anonymised picture of mood, energy and capacity across the boat. We are looking for a handful of vessels to join the November pilot: founding partners get named founding status, the programme at no cost for their participating crew, and a first look at the study’s overall findings. No vessel or company sees any crew member’s own answers.
Privacy
Yours, and nobody else’s.
Your captain never sees your answers.
Anonymous. Now, and later. By design.
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Anonymous
Your name and anything that identifies you are never shared.
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Your data. Your iCloud.
You own your data. Always.
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What management sees.
A combined picture of how the whole crew is doing on mood, energy and capacity, never anyone’s own answers. The more of the crew who use the app, the clearer that picture becomes. Your check-ins only count towards it if you say yes when the app asks.
About Libby
Why this, and why me.
Calm Crew comes out of seven years of one-to-one practice, group work and retreats, with yacht crew and industry people among them.
I’m Libby Pickett. I train people to handle pressure using the body’s own systems for staying steady, and I live on the island of Mallorca.
What I kept hearing was not people asking for help. It was people asking how to keep going at this standard — how to still be sharp in month seven, and still be themselves at the end of a season. The answer, again and again, is capacity: the room you have inside to take the pressure in your stride. Calm Crew is how I help crew build theirs.
Get in touch
Tell us a little about you.
Whether you’re crew, a partner, or someone who wants to shape this — start here. I’ll reply myself, usually within a couple of days.