Steady at sea · calm within
Pressure training for superyacht crew.
Calm Crew is an iPhone app for the people who keep the boats running. A check-in that takes two taps, practical training by Libby Pickett, and quick resets you can use in a cabin, on watch or between guests. Built for crew who want to enjoy the job, and the life it gives them, season after season.
Two taps to check in · 5 to 10 minute sessions · Works offline
Your record
See how your season is going.
Every check-in adds to your own record of the mood and energy you rate. Tap View history on Today to see it by day, week, month or year, with check-ins made straight after a practice on a line of their own. 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
Only if and when you want them.
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?” Tap your mood, from Storm through Rough, Choppy and Steady to Calm, and your energy from Low to High. Two taps, and it is saved. Check in as often as you like.
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Learn
Practical training in four chapters. Each module of The Core Journey pairs a short teaching with a practice you can use the same day. 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, no alarm colours, nothing moving.
A few short practices to steady yourself, then routes to a person: someone on board, the bridge, and a seafarers’ helpline whose details are being confirmed before the pilot. There is a short page, too, for a crewmate helping someone else.
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
Four chapters. Practical from the first session.
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.
At its centre is The Core Journey. In the pilot, it runs for eight weeks.
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Chapter 1: What pressure does to your body
How your body shifts gear under pressure, how it reads a situation before you have had time to think, and how to spot the small good moments that bring you back to steady. Two short teachings to begin with.
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Chapter 2: The Core Journey
Pre-boarding, then seven modules, each a teaching with its practice: Welcome aboard Your body’s built-in brake Breath control on shift Sleep in a world that never stops Calm under pressure Quick resets for small spaces Your long game
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Chapter 3: The Leadership Track
For heads of department and captains: leading a crew through a long season, and staying sharp yourself. Six lessons, each a teaching and a practice. How it opens is still being decided.
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Chapter 4: Toolkit
Short practices in ten families, from breath and focus to rest, ready whenever you need one. Opens when you finish The Core Journey.
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 energy and mood, 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.
The pilot
A study, not a claim.
For the pilot, the app is iPhone only.
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. The Leadership Track is being built for you, and how it opens is still being decided. Join the waiting list to hear first.
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Vessels, fleets and management
Give your crew a practical tool for the pressure of the job, and see an anonymised picture of energy and mood 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.
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.