How much money does Active Captain save you each year?

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How much do you think you save using Active Captain each year?

  • >$1,000 per year

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Between $500 and $1,000 per year

    Votes: 5 11.9%

  • Between $100 and $500 per year

    Votes: 8 19.0%

  • <$100 per year

    Votes: 2 4.8%

  • I don't save any money

    Votes: 18 42.9%

  • It's a conspiracy that increases my slip rent

    Votes: 6 14.3%
  • Total voters
    42
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semi-planing said:
Jeffrey goes out of his way to assure his freebee advocates that he will never impose a user fee. There's a reason for that. He wants outside funding so he can make that claim and at the same time spread the cost around over the entire boating community. Everybody thereby pays a little bit...whether they use the site or not. AC is not free...you just don't pay a direct fee for access. The tens of thousands of other boaters along with you are picking up the tab for advertising on his site....again whether they want to or not....and unbeknownst to most of them. You know it because you use the site. Obviously a similar marketing/funding methodology as used on this site.

When you buy a hard copy cruisers guide, you offset a chunk of the company's cost....the rest is picked up by their own advertisers. But you, the end user are absorbing a fair piece of the product cost as opposed to letting fellow boaters who have no interest in the product pick up that portion of the tab. Seems more fair and honest to me. Of course, there's no way of following the money trail. Jeffrey says show me proof that there's any cost to anyone anywhere. I'd say show me proof that there's not. Nobody is going to show you their books.
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With all due respect.....who cares!!!! It is a valuable resource. If I am paying a little bit to use it, so be it.
 
With all due respect, the issue is what I and other non-users currently pay for you to use the resource. You versus someone else paying for what you use is the point. Put a price on the service and compete with the hard copy folks, for example. Pay for play. Be up front about it.
 
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Baker said:
With all due respect.....who cares!!!! It is a valuable resource. If I am paying a little bit to use it, so be it.
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Please speak for your self and NOT for me....... Valuable resource.. i do not use the ActiveCaptain website and in the future i will not use it.. i am perfectly happy with www.noonsite.com
 
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I wish you all fair weather and following seas. Life is too short!
 
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semi-planing said:
With all due respect, the issue is what I and other non-users currently pay for you to use the resource. You versus someone else paying for what you use is the point. Put a price on the service and compete with the hard copy folks, for example. Pay for play. Be up front about it.
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Ok, so if we follow your line of reasoning, how much more is each boater paying for this AC nefarious plot? :eek: BTW, back in 2009 - 2012 when dockage prices fell, was that Jeff's fault also, or were there other forces in play such as the recession?

Ted
 
I admit confusion. So, are you two against all for-profit endeavors?

And, what about fire departments. I pay for them and I've never had a fire. I pay for schools and I have no kids.

There are many things about the world I don't like but I accept that I don't get to make all the decisions. Things I wish had never happened, but I can't reverse time.

Oh, and for the record, the Fat Cat loves the Evil Woman. So that's who we are and how you label us. Fine. We don't care. We'll accept those labels and move on.

And we're both sorry that we just don't understand all the anger. We never imagined a discussion of Dockwa and a post from Active Captain would bring such out. Now even a thread of how we've benefited from AC. There are so many things in this world that indirectly cost me and I don't benefit from. I'm sure there's far more behind the anger. I'm not going to use Dockwa but it doesn't make me angry. I do use AC. I use many resources. I certainly find nothing evil about AC.
 
O C Diver said:
Ok, so if we follow your line of reasoning, how much more is each boater paying for this AC nefarious plot? :eek: BTW, back in 2009 - 2012 when dockage prices fell, was that Jeff's fault also, or were there other forces in play such as the recession?
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This has all been very comical. Next thing you know, ActiveCaptain will be claimed responsible for brexit, lower diesel costs, higher prices of soybean, and the lack of spousal consortium among our critics here.

Thanks for giving me a good chuckle today...
 
BandB said:
I admit confusion. So, are you two against all for-profit endeavors?

And, what about fire departments. I pay for them and I've never had a fire. I pay for schools and I have no kids.

There are many things about the world I don't like but I accept that I don't get to make all the decisions. Things I wish had never happened, but I can't reverse time.

Oh, and for the record, the Fat Cat loves the Evil Woman. So that's who we are and how you label us. Fine. We don't care. We'll accept those labels and move on.

And we're both sorry that we just don't understand all the anger. We never imagined a discussion of Dockwa and a post from Active Captain would bring such out. Now even a thread of how we've benefited from AC. There are so many things in this world that indirectly cost me and I don't benefit from. I'm sure there's far more behind the anger. I'm not going to use Dockwa but it doesn't make me angry. I do use AC. I use many resources. I certainly find nothing evil about AC.
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We asked our governament to arange things in the public domain with our tax money, i can't remember i asked Jeffrey anything.

If you has one second the idea that AC is comparable with the fire department etc. then you obvious don't want to discuss this. So good luck and happy sailing.

You stay with AC and i with www.noonsite.com
 
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Jeffrey S said:
This has all been very comical. Next thing you know, ActiveCaptain will be claimed responsible for brexit, lower diesel costs, higher prices of soybean, and the lack of spousal consortium among our critics here.

Thanks for giving me a good chuckle today...
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The George Bush of marine products....everything is his fault ya know!!!!:rofl::rofl:

(It was a joke...please, y'all don't wander off into politics off of this post.)
 
Jeffrey S said:
This has all been very comical. Next thing you know, ActiveCaptain will be claimed responsible for brexit, lower diesel costs, higher prices of soybean, and the lack of spousal consortium among our critics here.

Thanks for giving me a good chuckle today...
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Wifey B: Guilty on all accounts. The election is all your fault. So are the Kardashians. Jordan Rodgers being chosen on Bachelorette too. Glad to see you finally confessing. :rofl:

Meanwhile I'm just an evil woman. :devil:
 
Baker said:
The George Bush of marine products....everything is his fault ya know!!!!:rofl::rofl:

(It was a joke...please, y'all don't wander off into politics off of this post.)
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Wifey B: This is the fault of Al Gore. After all, he invented the internet. :rolleyes:
 
I liked the anchor conversations more
 
I was considering purchasing a new Fiat and now I see it advertising on this site!!!!! That means every single one of you is potentially complicit in the scheme of raising the price of my new Fiat because they advertise on this site!!!!

HOW DARE YOU!!!!!:rofl: ;) :rofl:;)
 
Baker said:
I was considering purchasing a new Fiat and now I see it advertising on this site!!!!! That means every single one of you is potentially complicit in the scheme of raising the price of my new Fiat because they advertise on this site!!!!

HOW DARE YOU!!!!!:rofl: ;) :rofl:;)
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Wifey B: And now you're as much at fault as Jeffrey. I can't remember and I'm not looking back for the label they used for people like you. :banghead:
 
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I actually do see the tiny sliver of light of what is being said through a pretty good mass of darkness ( meaning no one here has a clue of whether it really adds and how much to all boaters).

I do see what is being said.....but the harder I try to identify what and where the costs are...but there could be so many what ifs....I doubt my marina manager and probably 50 more that run marinas that I frequent between NJ and Fl that couldn't possibly suggest what those costs are.

Theoretically they could be there...but totally unproven at this point.

If it is so self evident...then please explain it for the cheap seats.

I do work for a marina part time an am very friendly with both the owner and manager....so it won't be hard to get detail s and specifics...just in case
 
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First time I've heard of it. Meanwhile, my life isn't lacking due to my ignorance.
 
We use it all the time to choose marinas with higher ratings with lower costs. How do you quantify savings? By overnight stays not wasted on overpriced marinas? By anchorages chosen instead of marinas? Too subjective. What it saves me is my time not wasted making phone calls to marinas listed in cruising guides. So what is the price of my time? Impossible to calculate.
 
dhays said:
I am still trying to figure it all out with the iPad. My iPad is the cheap variety with no gps and no cell connection. I can't use the AC website with it because the iPad lacks flash support. I am sure that there are ways around it but I haven't pursued it to actively. I didn't bring my laptop this trip so am limited to Android phone and iPad.
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I use AC on an iPad with Garmin Blue charts Mobil
App is free $30 gets you all the charts for US and Bahamas
I down load AC data to the chart app so no internet connection is needed.
iPad is always on the bridge with a garmin gps puck hooked up to it Bluetooth style.

Works just like a chart plotter with all AC info icons visible as you cruise past
Would not leave the dock without it! Well ya I would but sure makes it nice to have a live guide at your fingertips.
And a back up plotter
By the way the charts are spot on in the Bahamas
 
Thanks for the suggestions on using the iPad. I have found that the Seaiq works OK, just not in Canada as it allows me to download the NOAA charts but those are only good for US waters. The idea of adding a plug in God is a good one and something I should do.
 
markpierce said:
First time I've heard of it. Meanwhile, my life isn't lacking due to my ignorance.
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According to these guys, your wallet is!!!! How do you like them apples. You're paying for a service we use!!!...wooohoooo!!!....muchas grassy ass!!!
 
ranger42c said:
Get a Bad Elf external GPS... and then install an iPad nav app (several to choose from) that integrates ActiveCaptain markers. No need to go to the AC website to see and expand markers. WiFi and cell not necessary.

(Not sure how you'd enter a review or your own comments; maybe apps permit that, but I've always entered reviews right on the AC website.)

-Chris
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Chris, I took your advice and just ordered a Bad Elf gps. It will be waiting for me when I get home.
 
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ranger42c said:
(Not sure how you'd enter a review or your own comments; maybe apps permit that, but I've always entered reviews right on the AC website.)
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Every app that has ActiveCaptain inside has the ability to submit reviews and hazard comments. It's a requirement of the license.
 
High Wire said:
We use it all the time to choose marinas with higher ratings with lower costs. How do you quantify savings? By overnight stays not wasted on overpriced marinas? By anchorages chosen instead of marinas? Too subjective. What it saves me is my time not wasted making phone calls to marinas listed in cruising guides. So what is the price of my time? Impossible to calculate.
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By that measure I think I have saved...
 

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Jeffrey S said:
Your life might not be lacking, but perhaps your memory might be.

You responded to a thread solely about ActiveCaptain on chartplotters in this link:
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s4/active-captain-information-older-plotters-24623.html

You've also responded to other threads about ActiveCaptain. Strange that this is the first time you've heard of it?
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This thread realy starts to be a joke, but Jeffrey you are completely right ...don't let escape a potential client...
 
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