Repointing a crew when the weather turns
When weather closes a shoreline you repoint the deployment at different zones and the crew’s work list changes immediately, with nothing to reschedule, because jobs are never assigned to a boat in advance.
Wind comes up out of the west at ten in the morning and the shoreline you planned is unworkable. In most software that is an afternoon of rescheduling. Here it is one action, and there is nothing to unwind.
Why there is nothing to unwind
Work is never assigned to a boat in advance. A deployment points at a lake and some zones; the jobs in those zones form a pool the crew takes from. Change what the deployment points at and the pool changes with it — no job had to be un-assigned, because no job was assigned.
Doing it
Open the deployment — from the office or from the boat — and repoint it at different zones, or a different lake entirely. LakeOps tells you how many jobs are available where you have just sent them, which is the number the person on the radio actually wants.
Anything dispatch added to that crew by hand comes along. Those were specific requests — “swing by and look at the Miller lift while you are over there” — and a weather move should not lose them.
Repointing from the water
The crew can repoint themselves if their role allows it. Often they should: the person watching the whitecaps knows more about which side of the lake is workable than the person at the desk.
Pull a fresh day pack after a repoint if you still have signal — the pack you downloaded this morning reflects the zones you were pointed at then. If you have already lost signal, the work you can see is the work you downloaded, which is one more reason to repoint while the bars are there.
Half-finished work is not a problem
Leaving a shoreline part way through is a normal outcome, not a failure. Items already marked done stay done. The property reads as partly complete on the map, and the pending items sit in the pool for whoever gets back there — possibly a different boat, on a different day, with different gear. See why work is tracked item by item.
Closing the day
When the boat is back, close the deployment. That marks the day finished and closes out any stop the crew was still recorded as being at. It has no effect on the jobs themselves — unfinished work stays pending exactly as it should.
Why the model is built this way
Ice-out moves three weeks year to year, wind closes a shoreline with no notice, and half your customers ring the week they arrive. A route built in March is fiction by May. So LakeOps does not build one — it keeps a pool of open work with locations and gear requirements attached, and lets you point boats at water. Repointing is not a recovery from a broken plan; it is the plan.
Still stuck? Ask us — or go back to the help center.