Three notes on the habit CommonSilo is built to keep: unfinished work on the ship, a contested undock hour left visible, and a monthly count that follows the record rather than the seat.
Unfinished work belongs on the ship, not on a yard master list
A planner at a repair yard often ends the day with two pictures of the same docking. One is the berth window: when the ship came in, and when she is supposed to leave. The other is a workshop sheet of jobs that will not be finished. By the undock meeting those pictures disagree, and the hour is spent finding which sheet is current.
The usual repair is a master list. Every open job from every ship goes on one board so the workshop can see the load. The list helps the shop plan a shift. It is a poor record of a ship. A sea chest grid that belongs to M/V Harting on Berth 2 becomes a row between two other vessels. Someone then has to copy the status back before anyone will sign an undock hour.
On DS-184 the workshop did the other thing. On 28 September the port sea chest grids were written onto Harting. On 11 October the rudder stock survey and the boot-top coating, frames 42-58, were written back onto the same slip as work still open at undock. There is no second board that can quietly close them.
That changes the argument. The superintendent who wants an earlier tide can read the open items on the ship he wants to move. The dockmaster can see that flood-up has not been signed. As of 21 October, those three items are still on Harting, and the undock on the slip is 24 October at 16:00. Nobody has to ask which spreadsheet won.
A yard that still wants a shop overview can export the open items. The export is a copy taken from the ship record. It is not a second place to close the job. Closing it, or carrying it out of the dock, happens on the record the planner will export with the undock packet. That is the habit the subscription is there to keep.
Writing a contested undock hour on the slip
Undock hours move. A coating cure runs long, a survey holds a stock, an owner wants the ship on an earlier tide because the next fixture will not wait. The planner's job is not to pretend the first hour was right. It is to keep every asked hour on the record the berth will actually use.
On paper this becomes a mess of crossings-out. The first undock is struck through. A new hour is written in the margin. Someone initials it, someone else does not, and the gate crew works from a copy that missed the last change. The dispute is real. The sheet on the dock wall is not.
Harting's slip shows the alternative. The record opened on 18 September with an undock asked for 20 October at 16:00. The ship docked on 6 October at 06:40. On 15 October the owner's superintendent, M. Leclerc, asked to keep that 20 October hour. On 16 October the planner, A. Pell, moved the slip to 24 October at 16:00 because the boot-top coating and the rudder stock survey were still open on the ship.
The 20 October hour was not deleted to make the slip look decided. It remains on the dispute timeline as the hour that was asked and declined. The reason sits in the margin next to the change. Flood-up, which the dockmaster has not signed, stays on the same record. A later reader can see who wanted which hour without opening a side file.
The timeline is not a chat channel beside the job. Each entry names the person, the hour they wanted, and whether the record accepted it. An undock packet exported from this slip includes that history, so the owner's file and the yard's file match. A shift sheet can still exist for the day's work. It is not the record that leaves with the ship.
What the monthly ledger counts as one dock record
Yards are used to prices by seat and prices by module. A docking does not work that way. One planner may touch three ships, and a quiet berth may sit with a single long stay. CommonSilo bills the subscription by dock record. A dock record is one ship's stay in one berth. The rate is $48 for each record that qualifies in the month.
A record qualifies in a month when someone opens it, revises the window, writes an open item, signs a row, or closes the stay. Reading it without one of those actions does not add a line. Several of those actions in the same month are still one line. A stay that nobody touches in a later month is not counted again just because it once existed.
Harting on Berth 2 is a plain example from this month. The planner opened DS-184 on 18 September. On 28 September the workshop wrote the port sea chest grids back onto that ship. Those are qualifying actions, and they are one September line, not two. If a later month revises the undock or adds a signature, the same stay can qualify once in that later month as well.
The floor is eight records at the same rate. A yard that qualifies only five records in a month is billed as eight, which is $384. There is no second price above the floor. A yard that qualifies fifteen records is billed fifteen times $48, which is $720. The fifteen are not a larger package. They are fifteen ships' stays that were actually touched.
The planner should be able to export the count with the records it names. Accounts should be able to point at a slip and see why it is on the ledger: it was opened, an open item was written back, or a window was revised. If a line cannot be explained that way, it does not belong on the count. The bill follows the records. It does not follow the number of people who can log in.
