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05-21-2017, 07:46 PM
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Guru
City: st pete
Vessel Model: 430 Mainship
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 3,502
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Best emergency positioning and tracking device.
Hi,
Looking for a device that will track me that others can follow. DeLorme, Spot, whatever....
What are the good ones and the prices?
Thanks
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Seevee
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05-21-2017, 08:43 PM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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Try AIS.
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05-21-2017, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member
City: New Tazewell
Vessel Name: Saoirse
Vessel Model: 1983 Nauticat 44 Ketch
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 151
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Ais.
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05-21-2017, 09:42 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota/Ft. Lauderdale
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 5,438
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I find a SPOT works very well for that.
AIS will not do what you seem to want to do unless you always stay in an area with good voluntary AIS reporting/tracking. Which would be pretty limiting.
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05-21-2017, 09:49 PM
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Guru
City: North Vancouver
Vessel Name: Phoenix Hunter
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 42 (1985)
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,877
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The best emergency positioning device is still the EPIRB, but it must be properly set up, positioned and maintained.
The best tracking device is currently the Delorm Inreach, but...
We have recently had the unit freeze up, requiring a factory reset. It also occurred once last year. This action requires a firmware update and internet, which is a MAJOR PITA if you are in the middle of nowhere.
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05-24-2017, 07:10 AM
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Guru
City: st pete
Vessel Model: 430 Mainship
Join Date: Sep 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JDCAVE
The best emergency positioning device is still the EPIRB, but it must be properly set up, positioned and maintained.
The best tracking device is currently the Delorm Inreach, but...
We have recently had the unit freeze up, requiring a factory reset. It also occurred once last year. This action requires a firmware update and internet, which is a MAJOR PITA if you are in the middle of nowhere.
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The Inreach looks good. What service do you have? Looks like that survival would do but what's a tracking point and location pin? If thats every time you send a location, it would be brutally expensive.
And Spot is only one way communication.
Why can't a cell phone tracker of some kind work for just following friends?
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05-24-2017, 08:31 AM
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Guru
City: North Vancouver
Vessel Name: Phoenix Hunter
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 42 (1985)
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Best emergency positioning and tracking device.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Seevee
The Inreach looks good. What service do you have? Looks like that survival would do but what's a tracking point and location pin? If thats every time you send a location, it would be brutally expensive.
And Spot is only one way communication.
Why can't a cell phone tracker of some kind work for just following friends?
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The plan varies, depending on whether we have cell service or not but I like to drop down a tracking point every 20 minutes when travelling. When we won't have cell service for weeks at a time, we go with the unlimited plan for $75 (Cdn) a month. We send and receive a lot of texts. The admiral wants to stay in touch with the family.
Jim
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05-24-2017, 11:57 AM
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Guru
City: Columbia City, OR & Mulege, BCS
Vessel Name: Imagine
Vessel Model: Farrell 34
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 849
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See,
I have used "Share location" function in Google maps on my Android phone to share/keep track of locations on land, works fine for that. Haven't tried it on water, should work fine. Of course it will not function out of cell coverage area, so if you go offshore something else would be needed.
EPIRB and waterproof/floating VHF for emergency. I do not count on my cell phone working in an emergency/wet situation.
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05-24-2017, 07:48 PM
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Senior Member
City: North Port, FL
Vessel Name: Seven Tenths (sold)
Vessel Model: Mirage / Great Harbour 47
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 477
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I would NOT recommend the SPOT. We have it and the device turns itself off if we pause for a bridge opening or a lock. The customer service is terrible.
I would buy a Garmin/Delorme Inreach.
AIS is often delayed, and has no way to send an emergency message. I love my AIS for other things but not for this use case.
PLB and EPIRB should also be considered.
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05-24-2017, 08:00 PM
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Guru
City: Bellingham WA
Vessel Name: Hatt Trick
Vessel Model: 45' Hatteras Convertible
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 1,973
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We have both AIS and InReach. If I had to to pick one to allow following of your boat, it would be InReach. We've used it since it came out and the reliability is bullet proof.
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05-24-2017, 08:59 PM
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Guru
City: Seabrook, Texas
Vessel Name: Small World
Vessel Model: Defever 50
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 611
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After AIS (must have IMO), go with Inreach. We've tried Spot, etc. Inreach is much better.
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05-24-2017, 10:23 PM
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Guru
City: Gig Harbor
Vessel Name: Kinship
Vessel Model: North Pacific 43
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 9,046
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I have Spot and it has worked very well for us over the past year. It doesn't provide two-way communication, but that makes it MUCH cheaper than Inreach.
I'm a very cheap guy and hate to spend money however.
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