"Justin C" wrote in message
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In article , Roger Long wrote:
"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.

Fair enough, it was just a guess. I do like the look of the product
though. Saving one the necessity of telephoning a whole bunch of
concerned people each time you touch land. I'm pretty sure I'll get
one... when I get a boat. For now I'll just enjoy the cruising life
through the likes of Skip, Lydia, Zac, and anyone else who's out there.


Thank you.

Wilbur Hubbard