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Anybody ever find a picture of their boat on Google or Bing maps? I found mine today. I was fairly surprised tho I guess I shouldn't be. Big Brother is definataly watching. Feel free to pan out, and north and south for a tour of the Upper Mississippi. This is mile 487 approximately Bettendorf Iowa This picture was taken in about August 2011. Mine is the boat in the middle.

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No, but Google maps photographed me unloading my Ford Explorer in the parking lot for K dock at the Vallejo Marina.
 
Anybody ever find a picture of their boat on Google or Bing maps?

Yes. Our boat is in its slip. The satellite photo is quite old, at least a year and a half. The docks are the old ones that were replaced over last winter, the boat pictured next to us has been gone since the early part of last summer.

The new docks are now in and populated.
 
That's pretty cool. In my boat pix, My old Jag is parked at the bottom of the steps over the levee. I was at the boat. I can't tell If I'm standing on the flybridge, maybe... I told the admiral I see her standing in the cockpit, but I'm not sure of that either.
 
Mine is in smugglers cove on on the SE of Santa Cruz island island in So Cal. Well a paranimeo up-loaded picture of in that location at least.
 
Out in the hinterlands, Google maps isn't as hi-def as in more populated areas. Still, I can find my boat in our marina.. farthest out on "D" dock, 4th from the left. Now you know why I got the damage from north winds in Irene last year.
 

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Anybody ever find a picture of their boat on Google or Bing maps? I found mine today. I was fairly surprised tho I guess I shouldn't be. Big Brother is definataly watching. Feel free to pan out, and north and south for a tour of the Upper Mississippi. This is mile 487 approximately Bettendorf Iowa This picture was taken in about August 2011. Mine is the boat in the middle.

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Craig, what colour is/was your jag, and which finger are you in the middle of - the boat that is...?

The resolution in our part of the world is not so good either, but here is our marina. My boat is the 6th in from the right (land) end of the finger nearest the sheds/travel lift, but the side furthest away. Too small for detail, sorry.
The marina got some unwanted publicity just last night, with a massive fire occurring in the dry stacking sheds to the top left of the picture. Many boats were burnt too far to repair - most others saved but with smoke damage - not good.
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Fire crews battle blaze to save 230 boats at marina
 
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Craig, what colour is/was your jag, and which finger are you in the middle of - the boat that is...?

The resolution in our part of the world is not so good either, but here is our marina. My boat is the 6th in from the right (land) end of the finger nearest the sheds/travel lift, but the side furthest away. Too small for detail, sorry.
The marina got some unwanted publicity just last night, with a massive fire occurring in the dry stacking sheds to the top left of the picture.
Glad to hear Lotus is unharmed, too bad for the dry stack boat owners.The fire guys did well to control the fire and limit the damage.
 
Out in the hinterlands, Google maps isn't as hi-def as in more populated areas. Still, I can find my boat in our marina.. farthest out on "D" dock, 4th from the left. Now you know why I got the damage from north winds in Irene last year.

Al are you on or near Blounts Creek?
 
Craig, what colour is/was your jag, and which finger are you in the middle of - the boat that is...?

Peter,

Glad to hear you stayed out of the fire. Boats burn hot, and they get packed together like cord wood. Scary thought.

My boat is third from shore on the farthest dock to the right. It comes up in the middle of the image at least on my 11" Netbook. My Jag was silver. If you pan the image to the left and up, It is the second car from the left. Parked facing the river.
 
Al are you on or near Blounts Creek?

We're about 5 miles west of Blounts Bay/Blounts Creek, also on the south side of the Pamlico River. The sat photo's of Cypress Landing Marina.
 
We're about 5 miles west of Blounts Bay/Blounts Creek, also on the south side of the Pamlico River. The sat photo's of Cypress Landing Marina.

Back in the 70s I did a home for the Pepsi bottler from Kinston on Blounts Creek. It had a pagoda roof with cedar shakes on it. Easily recognizable if you have been in there. I had friends with a house on the North side of the Pamlico across from Texas Gulf Sulphur near Arrora. Also had a neighbor with a home on Bath Creek. We had a lot of fun in that area.
 
I'm going to combine 2 threads. Here is a sat. photo of my boat but over 4 miles up. Haha
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How cool is that. I remember that day, the big boat next to me, a defever 44 was on his way to Mexico for two years with a reluctant admiral. Wonder if they made it.
 
This is what we look like in Google Maps. The first photo shows Mare Island Strait (Napa River) which empties into Carquinez Strait. Mare Island is on the west and City of Vallejo on the east. Our marina, barely visible, is centered. The second photo has Mahalo Moi centered. Mark's Carquinez Coot arrived after this image was published.
 

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Oh yea... I look for our boat all the time. We just had a new photo of our New Bern marina put up last year with our boat in her new slip.

Tom-
 
Google is using airplanes now to provide urban areas with higher details. You'll have to be careful soon... they'll be catching folks peeing over the side.

Amazing times we live in.
 
The image for my boat slip was taken on 07/03/10. Nothing but any empty slip. :D

You all need to take your boats out more often. :rolleyes:

Ted
 
Point well taken. My only defense, I was on the boat when they took the picture.

I don't completely understand how to link to a GoogleMap image all centered up and zoomed in. When I try my link, I get an image that doesn't show my boat. this is zoomed out considerably. Then in about 3-4 seconds I get my original zoomed in shot with functional zoom and scan buttons. Did that work for everybody? It works for me. Ass/u/me ing that it works, Here is what I found for Swampu's boat. It took me a while to find the bottom image within the top image. I guessed the boat at 68' or what ever, it had to be biggest in view. Then I realized the boat is perfectly centered in both images.
Biloxi, MS - Google Maps

Does anybody get the zoomed image?
 
This is what we look like in Google Maps.

That's really good resolution. Bellingham is not that good yet. How did you do the screen grab to end up with a shot you could post?
 
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Google buys it’s overhead screen shots. The state of Fla is very active in overhead photography since we don’t have a income tax and they are looking for reasons to increase your property tax. The Google earth image of our house is just a few weeks old.

Google street view is a different matter. They got us with our new car just a few months ago. I saw their van driving down the street and just barely avoided being in the picture by ducking back inside.

You would not want to see my ugly mug.

Mike
 
How did you do the screen grab to end up with a shot you could post?

I snatched the images from my iPad. Once I composed the shot on Google Earth I held the "power" button on top of the iPad and pushed the "home" button on the bottom front of the iPad together. The iPad will capture the image and store it with your other photos in "camera roll".

Ray Muldrew
 
I had no idea the iPad could do that. I guess that comes from not reading the instructions. Thanks much, I'll try it.
 
Craig, what colour is/was your jag, and which finger are you in the middle of - the boat that is...?

Peter,

Glad to hear you stayed out of the fire. Boats burn hot, and they get packed together like cord wood. Scary thought.

My boat is third from shore on the farthest dock to the right. It comes up in the middle of the image at least on my 11" Netbook. My Jag was silver. If you pan the image to the left and up, It is the second car from the left. Parked facing the river.
Gotcha Craig. Yes, my boat was far enough away not to be affected. It will set the marina back fora bit thought.
What happened to the Jag..?
 
Okay, so tried what Ray suggested and here are the results.

Wide shot is part of Squalicum Marina in Bellngham. North is at the top of the screen. This shows the west basin which contains the larger commercial fishing boats on the right, the private boathouses in the middle, and open recreational moorage on the left. It also shows part of the newer and larger east basin which is all recreational moorage.

The long, half-empty dock inside the beakwater is G-dock, the outer half of which was badly damaged in strong northwest winds several years ago. Storm winds typcially come from the southeast-southwest.

The dock between the shore and the first row of boathouses is the Grand Banks charter/sales dock. They have GBs from 32 to 52 feet here.

The cluster of large, white-roofed buildings upper left is Bellingham Cold Storage and a couple of fish processing companies., BCS imports and exports all sorts of comodities, including fish and crab, to Russia and other countries on the other side of the Pacific. The ships come in to the pier outside the breakwater alongside the far left building.

The row of white-roofed buildings right of center are the "web lockers," two-story buidlings the commercial fisherman can rent space in for their nets, seine gear, crabpots, etc.

The boathouse farthest out on the main dock is the one that burned this spring destroying all 20 boats in it and burning a liveaboard couple to death who were trapped in their boat.

Our boat is near the end of F-dock which is the next dock in from G. We are on the bay side. In the closeup shot it is two slips in from the end with no boat sharing the slip. These shots show the old 40' wooden docks, the last ones in the marina. Over the winter F and G docks were removed, the entire area dredged, and new 45' concrete (floating) docks put in their place. F-Dock got a little longer but we are back in the same relative slip, two from the end.

All the slips on F-Dock are full now. They just opened G-Dock up the first of this month and it is filling up fast. I'm told the waiting list for 40' and larger slips is now about four years.
 

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Peter,
The marina I was at several years ago had a fire in the middle of winter that claimed several boats. That was caused by kids breaking into the first boat to have a pot party with candles. The pot must have been good because they didn't realize they set a fire with the candles until it was too late. Claimed 4 boats.

My Jag went away this past summer when I traded it off. It was a love/hate kinda car. When i got rid of it, it needed new catalytic converters that cost more than the car was worth. The air conditioning crapped out again. Last time was a bit over a year before. Problem was with the controls behind the dash then. Cost to fix $1800 including a salvage control module I bought on Ebay for $250 instead of $1700 for a new one. The cost of Jag parts made boat parts seem very cheap. During my 7 years of owning it, It more than its' fair share of issues. There was usually a cost effective fix if you knew where to look, but the time it took to find the cost effective route was huge. I loved the car styling but that only lasts so long. I don't miss it much. It was kind of like a Ex wife looking far hotter on your wedding day than the day the divorce is final.
 
I've seen satellite pix of both my boat and the back yard at my house. Good thing they didn't catch us naked in the yard! I certainly hope they edit those out.
 
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