Cutting the stuff which has continued to proliferate above all the digs...


"I_am_Tosk" wrote in message
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forget them, back to boating in the north east... Wayne's monitoring
program is pretty cool. I will have to attack him when I see his boat in
the CT River


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SPOT trackers are really cool for keeping family and friends updated as to
your travels. Not really a PLB, in that it doesn't call the emergency
system, and has some severe limitations WRT the ability to be used in a
marine emergency situation (antenna position, waterproof, etc.), but a neat
tool

To get tracking shown on a web page, you have to subscribe at ~150/year, but
if you're on a passage, it does allow folks to see where you are, the
progress you're making, and so on. Clicking the hybrid tab in the top right
of the screen gives you satellite views overlaid on a map view, too, so if
you're coastwise or islandwise, folks can see what you're going around if
there are nasty bits you needed to avoid, mostly of interest to marine-type
geeks/interested parties.

We use it on all our water-borne movements, and used to use it on land so
that those who were wondering how we were doing WRT getting to them could
see our progress, as well. The unit takes a GPS reading every 10 minutes or
so, and uploads them to SPOT's satellite(s?) whenever one goes over, so you
may not be able to see "real time" updates - but for the large view, it's
fine.

Highly recommended from this quarter :{))

L8R

Skip, currently ashore wrestling with a real estate loan disaster before
returning to the boat where we'll complete our refit and get under way
again, with hopes that our self-insured vessel isn't involved in a hurricane
where we now are, an unsafe yard for such conditions, before such event...


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