"Justin C" wrote

hmmm.... not enough profit in the product to afford the hardware and
bandwidth needed when family and friends of their customers want to use
the exact service they're selling?


No, it's a large company with a lot of resources. The tracking is a
non-critical service to let a larger group of people follow your route.
Email OK, Help, and 911 messages, which also have position information, are
still active. I'm not aware of any outages all summer. It was down
Memorial Day weekend, probably for last minute tuning. They then seemed to
wait until the main part of the boating and hiking season was over before
doing more maintenance.

The page is up again and seems to show S&L anchored off the breakwater but I
don't think it's updating yet because my page does not show the sail I took
yesterday.

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Roger Long