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Online Vessel Tracking — NOTES from 2006 trips. The tracking display online is new. The actual tracking page does not have a working Help file yet, so we offer these notes. Once you get to the tracking page, you will not see the boat underway till we leave on April 15, then it will be updated each time we send an email. That is how it works. Each email includes a header with Lat/Lon and COG and SOG, which are then reported on this web page. To see a few points from last year's AimeeO trip (the tracking system was just getting started then), just select vessel "db4" and select "All" positions, then press the Redraw button, then pan north by clicking the chart and then zoom in. The lines you see crossing land, simply meant no reports were made in between the dots shown. This year we hope to set up the email program to send in (via Globalstar sat phone) an email every hour or so, just to update the tracking. We will have a new vessel log then called AimeeO. Note you can also follow several other vessels that are involved with Starpath. We will be tracking the training rows of OAR northwest, our neighbors here in Seattle—the only American entry to the Trans Atlantic Rowing Race, which begins on June 10th. It goes from New York Harbor to Falmouth Harbor, UK, and is expected to take about 60 to 80 days. Once you have been to one of these pages and logged in with the links above, you can bookmark (favorites) the page and return to it directly for updates.
*Our goal is to communicate frequently with SV Windsway, single-handing skipper John Koon, and use the weather routing of the vessel as an example for our online marine weather course. The tracking link will be active as soon as he gets underway. ** They should also have at least one training row between now and then that will be tracked. # via west side of Prince of Wales Island |