PCIO VIS Boat

Adds a Boat Register to PCIO VIS Member Event for sailing clubs and other

boat-oriented organisations.

Features

• Register boats with: home harbour, name, type, model, build year, sail

number and MMSI number.

• A boat belongs to a membership number. Everyone who shares that membership

number is crew on the boat, so the crew group and the subscription follow the

same number — there is no separate crew table to keep in sync.

• The home harbour is picked from the shared harbour list and stored by id, so

the same harbour name cannot drift across boats.

• Members can maintain their own boat and crew from the core member profile —

no administrator needed.

• When a core member is deleted their boat is removed only if they were the

last member on that membership number; otherwise the boat stays with the

remaining crew.

• Boat Register admin page at /vis/boats, access-controlled by the

vis_boat_manage capability (granted to Editor and Administrator on

activation).

• Harbours management page at /vis/harbours — list, create, edit, and delete

harbours on a map, with duplicate-name protection and delete-guard against

harbours still in use.

• Boat name appears in the core member list; clicking it opens a read-only

popup with the full boat details and the crew group.

This plugin stores all its data locally in two custom database tables. It does not

communicate with any external service, apart from the harbour map tiles listed

under External services below.

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from Plugins removes its pcio_me_boat_db_version option, so a reinstall rebuilds the tables from scratch.

The database tables are deliberately kept, because they hold your club’s boat register and harbour list. These tables survive:

• {prefix}me_boat_boats

• {prefix}me_boat_harbours

If you want a full wipe, drop both tables manually from phpMyAdmin or a SQL client. 1 upgrade.

External services

The plugin itself makes no outbound requests: all boat, harbour and member data stays in your local database, no analytics or tracking is included, and no account with any third party is required.

The one exception is the harbour map on /vis/boats and /vis/harbours, which displays map tiles in your browser:

• OpenStreetMap — https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png. Your browser’s IP address is visible to OpenStreetMap, along with the map area you pan to. No boat or member data is sent. Their tile usage policy applies.

• OpenSeaMap — https://tiles.openseamap.org/seamark/{z}/{x}/{y}.png, a transparent overlay of seamarks. Same conditions as above; see the OpenSeaMap site.

The map is only used in wp-admin and requires the vis_boat_manage capability. js with your own tile server or a local tile set if you would rather not contact them at all.