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Find any photo by day or place, choose the cover that heads the report, and download one photo or a zip.
Every photo taken during a check lands in the boat's gallery automatically. You do not file anything. This guide shows how to find a photo, how to choose the boat's cover picture, how to download one photo or a whole batch, and how to read the dates.
Open the boat, tap Menu, then Photos. It is in the boat's Records list, and the Menu describes it as "See photos by date taken." The heading counts the photos. With none yet, the screen says "Nothing photographed yet" and offers Start a check.
Photos are grouped under a heading for each day, with a count, and the newest day is first. Two chips at the top change the view.
The gallery keeps loading as you scroll, so there are no pages to tap through. If it cannot load more, tap the message to try again.
Tap any photo to open it full screen. Swipe left or right, or use the arrows, to move to the next one. The top bar shows where you are, for example "12 of 85," and has the buttons below. Tap the cross to close.
To go back to the default, open the cover photo and tap ★ On the boat's card again. With no cover chosen, the boat shows its most recent shot. Crew can choose the cover.
The cover now does two jobs. It is the picture on the boat's card, and it heads the report on screen. The top of a report your customer opens shows the cover with the date it was taken printed on it. A cover from an earlier year shows the year. So an old cover never reads as a picture from this visit. If no cover is chosen, or the chosen photo has no taken date, the report uses the last photo taken aboard during that visit instead. The printed and PDF report keep their own cover page. See how owners see what changed between visits for the rest of the report.
Tap Cancel or the cross to leave select mode.
Each photo carries two times: when it was taken, and when it reached YachtGrade. They are not the same, because a photo taken with no signal waits on the phone until it can upload (see how photos work with no signal). The gallery files a photo under the day it was taken, not the day it uploaded. A photo taken Tuesday that uploads Friday sits under Tuesday. A photo with no taken date lands under "No date recorded."
Some photos have a time stamp burned into the picture. Where an unstamped copy was kept, the viewer shows a Time stamp on or Time stamp off button, and you can switch it for that photo.
The gallery is the boat's whole library, not just the last check. Photos from earlier visits sit under their own days, further down, or at the top if you choose Oldest first. They are a record of how the boat looked on those days. A photo from months ago says nothing about the boat's condition today, which is why every one is filed and dated by when it was taken.
Where are the photos I took during a check?
Open Menu, then Photos. Every photo from a check is filed there under the day it was taken. If one is missing, it may still be waiting to upload on the phone that took it.
How do I change the picture on the boat's card and report?
Open the photo in the gallery and tap Use on the boat's card. Tap it again on the same photo to clear it.
Why does the report show an old photo at the top?
That is the cover you chose. It is printed with the date it was taken, and with the year if it is from an earlier year. Pick a newer photo to change it.
How do I download all the photos from a visit?
Tap Select, tick the photos, and tap Download. You get one zip, up to 300 photos at a time.
Why is a photo under the wrong day?
The gallery uses the day the photo was taken, not the day it uploaded. A photo with no taken date appears under No date recorded.
Can I sort the photos by room?
Yes, tap By day to switch to By place, once the boat's places are set up.
The photos come from running a check. That is covered in how to run a boat inspection on board.
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