The information needed while entering a harbour is different from the information needed while checking a charging system or standing an overnight watch. BoatKit lets each of those jobs have its own saved dashboard instead of forcing them through one fixed instrument panel.
Start with a guided layout or arrange a flexible grid directly. Available items include digital, sweeping, linear, and history gauges; charts; wind and vessel attitude; power history; radar and sonar; tides and weather; camera feeds; embeddable websites; and supported equipment controls. Each item can occupy the space its information deserves, from a small numeric gauge to a full-screen chart, camera, or web dashboard.
A compact Watermaker item can keep the next observed fresh-water flush and an active run in a hallway dashboard corner. A larger placement adds production, quality, pressure, and tank readings from the same operating card used on the Watermaker tool page.
A Website item keeps a selected onboard device page or web dashboard beside BoatKit data. Its optional compact navigation toolbar adds back, forward, and stop-or-refresh controls without taking over the view, while optional auto refresh can return to the saved page from every minute to every hour. When the browser exposes a loading or embedding failure, the item shows an explanation with retry and direct-open actions instead of leaving an unexplained empty frame. The page still has to be reachable from the display and permit iframe embedding; BoatKit does not proxy or cache it, and its saved URL should never contain credentials.
A Calendar item lays out today’s free/busy intervals in vertical columns for selected published calendars. Each column can have its own color, and the display follows the viewer’s local time zone. Calendar links are configured as integration secrets rather than saved inside the view.
A Status Light item shows a compact labeled rectangle for one sensor, with configurable colors, continuous-duration filters, and rolling duty-cycle conditions. Its monitoring continues aboard while the dashboard is closed.
Numeric gauges can show independent below and above warning and alert boundaries at the same time. That makes an acceptable operating window—such as AC voltage that must remain between low and high limits—visible on digital, sweeping, linear, and history presentations without reducing it to a single direction.
GPS speed gauges also follow active speed-restricted zones, even on a dashboard without a map. They turn yellow 0.5 kt below the limit and red at the limit, with no-wake zones treated as a 5 kt gauge limit. Overlapping zones use the lowest active limit, and leaving the zone restores the gauge’s saved thresholds. These visual cues use available restriction coverage and follow the display’s preferred speed units.
One layout, several displays
Saved views use the same named data sources, preferred units, and display conventions as the rest of BoatKit. They can be opened on browser-based screens around the boat and, when the vessel is connected, through BoatKit Cloud. The layout remains recognizable across displays while adapting to the space available; phone use can rotate a dashboard when its original composition was designed for a wide helm screen.