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CV BUILDER · DOCUMENT FOLIO

Build the yacht CV your career deserves. In minutes.

Upload your existing CV and SeaPapers does the rest, importing your experience, structuring it into a professional yacht CV and evaluating it against the 100-point check, so you see exactly what to improve.

Add your certificates, visas and references once. We’ll organise them, track expiry dates and keep your documents ready when you need them.

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  • 13 department templates
  • 23 print-safe colours
  • 2-page industry format
  • Import your CV

DOCUMENT FOLIO

Every important document on deck.

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  1. Drop them in

    Certificates, passport, visas, medical. PDF or a photo from your phone.

  2. Dates read and filed

    Type the dates in and you see what runs out when. On Pro, SeaPapers reads the type and expiry date off each document and files it for you.

  3. Reminded before it runs out

    An email at ninety days, thirty, seven and the day itself, each saying what to do next. Upload the renewal and it resets.

  4. Counted toward your next ticket

    Your months at sea are counted from your vessel dates and the tickets in your folio. On the deck and engineering ladders, an email lands the day the sea time for your next ticket reads as served.

  5. One link to the boat

    Send the captain or purser a link. They see every document, what is valid and what expires, and download what they need. Revoke it any time.

Your papers sit in private storage behind your login. Share links are yours to revoke, and every open is logged.

  • CV
  • Passport
  • STCW
  • ENG1
  • Visas
  • References
  • Education
  • Additional certificates

CAREER PASSPORT · AUTOFILL

Now in beta

Every agency form asks the same things. Answer them once.

Your Career Passport is the standing set of answers an application asks for: name, nationality, where you are based, when you are available, the role you are after, and the expiry dates on your certificates and visas. It fills itself from the CV and the documents you already keep here, and you correct anything that is not right.

Then the Chrome extension puts them on the form. Open a recruitment site, press Fill with SeaPapers, and you get a table of every box it matched and what it would put there. Tick what you want, correct the rest, and press submit yourself.

It never submits an application for you. It fills boxes and stops.

Autofill is part of Pro.

The extension is in review at the Chrome Web Store. Your Career Passport is ready today.

See how Autofill works

DAY COUNT

Now on every account

Every tax year ends with the same question. How many days were you out?

Log each trip as one line: left South Africa on 3 May, landed in France on 4 May. The day count turns your crossings into the number the rule wants, in the rule's own unit, for the country you file in and the ones you spend a season in. South Africa's 183 and 60 day exemption tests, the United Kingdom's seafarers deduction, the United States 330 full days and the Schengen 90 in 180 are all in it. Each rule carries its source and the date we checked it.

It reads the days you were signed on from your Sea Service ledger, so the employment gate is already answered. Where your record cannot say which side of a border you were on, it shows those days as unresolved rather than guessing in your favour. One switch marks your list complete when it is.

Day countExample record

South Africa: 156 of 184 full days outside in the current 12 months. 28 to go. 3 days unresolved.

This can still be met up to 11 Sep 2027.

Day counts come from your entries. This is not tax advice. Confirm your position with your tax practitioner.

Day count is on every account. Log a trip, or one crossing at a time.

How yacht crew count their days

How it works

Guided from empty page to send.

  1. Ink drawing of an open cabin trunk packed with filed documents, more blank sheets fanning down into it.

    Gather

    Vessels, tickets, education, visas, references.

  2. Ink drawing of two hands folding a single sheet of paper along marked fold lines.

    Build

    CV lays itself out live; template/colour/typeface. See its CV check.

  3. Ink drawing of an antique brass signal cannon firing a paper plane along a dotted arc.

    Send

    Export the CV. Share the folio with one link.

THE CV CHECK

Evaluated the way captains read.

300

CVs can land for one captain's berth on a fifty-metre.

DOCKWALK

30 sec

is what recruiters say a first read gets.

CREW RECRUITERS

5 min

to send your papers over. Nobody expects that, and it shows you are organised.

A CAPTAIN WHO HIRES

A captain reads the vessel facts first, then the tickets, then three lines of profile. The CV check evaluates your page in that order and names what to fix. Captain Ready is 90 and above. Get there before you send it.

Then the call goes well and they ask for your papers. One share link puts the whole pack on their desk in five minutes, while other candidates are still searching their email. Nobody expects that, and it is the first piece of work a captain sees you do.

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No account and no card. It takes about twenty seconds.

THE PROOFING WALL

The form on one side. Your CV on the other.

Type a vessel, watch it set itself on the page. Autosaved every few seconds, laid out by the same engine that prints the PDF.

The SeaPapers editor: the guided form and Template Studio on the left, a live-rendered example CV on the right.
Plate 01 / 03

The whole wardrobe, one tap.

Thirteen designs with your own CV rendered live inside each one. Twenty-three colours and four typefaces per template, all pre-tuned so nothing you pick can break the page.

The Template Studio panel: a gallery of live layout cards for deck, the recommended accent row, the full 23-hue colour board and the typeface toggle.
Plate 02 / 03

Tickets, with their expiry dates where agents look.

STCW, ENG1, your licence and every course, picked from the real ladders and dated. The details that decide yacht jobs, structured so they cannot be missed.

The certificates panel: the highest licence block, the STCW and ENG1 expiry fields, and the certificate list rendering with expiry dates on the sheet beside it.
Plate 03 / 03

THE DRYING WALL

Pick a look. Change your mind in one tap.

Thirteen templates designed from what crew agencies actually publish: from the classic single-column captains expect to the boldest paper on the dock. Twenty-three colours, four typefaces each, every combination print-safe. Shown here filled in, because that is how you will judge them.

Same CV. Twelve templates.

Change your mind in one tap.

Field icons, on or off.

The photo, plate or circle.

Waypoint, Slate grey

EVERY DEPARTMENT

Eight departments.

  • Ink drawing of a deckhand in sunglasses carrying a huge coil of rope made of rolled paper.Deck
  • Ink drawing of a yacht engineer wiping her hands on a cloth, a spanner at her belt.Engineering
  • Ink drawing of a stewardess carrying a tall stack of folded linen with a document filed among it.Interior
  • Ink drawing of a chef presenting a platter fish whose scales are folded paper.Galley
  • Ink drawing of an officer taking a sextant sight on a constellation of floating documents.Officers
  • Ink drawing of a figure with an open book for a head, a paper plane circling, a folder under one arm.Junior/Green Crew
  • Ink drawing of a purser reading a sheaf of ship's papers, a leather document folder under one arm.Purser
  • Ink drawing of a captain with a passage chart under one arm, his other hand on a ship's wheel made of rolled charts.Captain

THE THIRTY-SECOND READ

Captains scan a CV in under thirty seconds.

SeaPapers puts what they look for where they look first.

Ink drawing of a weathered yacht captain in sunglasses holding a rolled document, work gloves and an espresso beside him, masts behind.

PREVIEW AND PRO

Your price never rises.

Build your CV and read it on the page before you pay. When you export, you choose how to pay.

Preview

Try before you buy.

  • Import your old CV and the editor fills itself in
  • The full editor, every department, every template
  • All twenty-three colours and every font pair
  • Watermarked preview to check your layout
  • Five papers come with every account
  • An email before any paper runs out, at ninety days, thirty, seven and the day itself
  • Your days in and out of each country, counted against the rules that apply to you
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PRO

Pro

Founding price, first 100 crew.

  • Clean PDF export, unlimited, no watermark
  • The Document Folio: every certificate, visa and paper of your career in one place
  • Every paper rather than five, with the dates read for you
  • One share link when an agency asks for your papers
  • Rewrite suggestions for your profile and duty bullets, with a daily and monthly allowance
  • Every new Pro feature as it ships, at your price
Go Pro

7-Day Export

Pay once, no subscription.

  • Clean PDF export of one CV, no watermark
  • Seven days of unlimited exports and edits
  • Every template, colour and font you built with
  • Fix a date and export again, as often as you like
  • Your CV stays in your account when the window ends
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