johnsilver2
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What are your recommendations based on ease of use and capability?
Regards.............Andrew
Regards.............Andrew
Anchor Watch iPad apps - any suggestions?
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duncan99210
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I use an app that appears in my list as Anchor but I think it's called Anchor Watch. I've found its a good bit of kit, easy to set. You can choose both a radius to swing in and guard zones if there's something you don't want to swing into. The important thing is that it averages the gps fixes, so a single bad fix won't set off the alarm. It will also send a message to a remote phone so you can be warned if the boat is drifting when you're not on board.
overstag
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Another vote for DragQueen.
That sounds like a useful distinguishing feature, is the message dispatched as an SMS text message?
Last time I looked I could not find an app that offered both a graphical sketch of recent swing movements at anchor plus a txt alert.
duncan99210
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Hmmm, just looked at the app, the message is sent as an email, so OK for a smart phone but no good for a dumb one.
Just checked on the App Store. The name of the app is Anchor!.
Just checked on the App Store. The name of the app is Anchor!.
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[70521]
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Mark one eyeball.
That means getting out of bed at 2am when the anchor chain is snatching, ones imagination construes an onshore F7 wind and those wavelets slapping on the hull could be 2m breakers at the beach shoreline.
GHA
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Mine looks like it will send an sms message, that's anchor pro, the paid version. Anyway, another vote, does what it says.
SeamanStaines
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Showing off now because its taken ages to get this to work
So this is me sitting in a bar in Marina Di Ragusa with the boats information transmited over the internet to my iphone and from there to a pebble watch. It also repeats all of the NMEA data so I can read any information on the iPhone. The pebble app also has an anchor watch built in and shows the distance from the anchor. You can set the anchor watch either when you drop the anchor, or afterwards by setting it from the dinghy on the way to the bar. This means I can sit in the bar and see the wind direction, speed, distance from anchor etc; from the watch. I can also set alarms on any of those.
All this thanks to the efforts of Cardo with boat remote and Keith with the Kplex NMEA server.
Techincally, its a rasperry pi that connects to the NMEA feed, conneted to a router on the boat that uses a 3G connection and goes via a permanant VPN to my office in the UK which has a fixed IP address (nightmare creating a VPN through double NATS!). From the UK office I port redirect back to the boat. Iphone or iPad can then connect to the UK office using any app that handles a TCP/IP NMEA feed, like boat beacon, drag queen etc: On the iPhone I then run boat remote to disply that infomation on the pebble.
This is soooooo coool!!!!
Apart from the boat remote anchor watch I reckon boat beacon is pretty good and I use that all the time
Of course, knowing the anchor is draggng and its blowing a gale may not be that helpfull if I am in the bar having drunk a bottle of Grappa!
So this is me sitting in a bar in Marina Di Ragusa with the boats information transmited over the internet to my iphone and from there to a pebble watch. It also repeats all of the NMEA data so I can read any information on the iPhone. The pebble app also has an anchor watch built in and shows the distance from the anchor. You can set the anchor watch either when you drop the anchor, or afterwards by setting it from the dinghy on the way to the bar. This means I can sit in the bar and see the wind direction, speed, distance from anchor etc; from the watch. I can also set alarms on any of those.
All this thanks to the efforts of Cardo with boat remote and Keith with the Kplex NMEA server.
Techincally, its a rasperry pi that connects to the NMEA feed, conneted to a router on the boat that uses a 3G connection and goes via a permanant VPN to my office in the UK which has a fixed IP address (nightmare creating a VPN through double NATS!). From the UK office I port redirect back to the boat. Iphone or iPad can then connect to the UK office using any app that handles a TCP/IP NMEA feed, like boat beacon, drag queen etc: On the iPhone I then run boat remote to disply that infomation on the pebble.
This is soooooo coool!!!!
Apart from the boat remote anchor watch I reckon boat beacon is pretty good and I use that all the time
Of course, knowing the anchor is draggng and its blowing a gale may not be that helpfull if I am in the bar having drunk a bottle of Grappa!
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sailaboutvic
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Very Cool D , but unless you unvelco that boat of your and move away from the Marina , it's is no use to you at all.
.Ps see you on Corfu some weeks down the line .
derekgillard
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And another but it will drain battery
snooks
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In that situation I'd rather get up than place my trust in an app.
When in doubt, get up and put any fears to rest.
dslittle
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It looks like I will have to get over there and buy Cardo a drink before they come back!!!:encouragement:
So this is me sitting in a bar in Marina Di Ragusa with the boats information transmited over the internet to my iphone and from there to a pebble watch.
Which is where you lost me
Of course, knowing the anchor is draggng and its blowing a gale may not be that helpfull if I am in the bar having drunk a bottle of Grappa!
Which is where I came back!!!
It looks like I will have to get over there and buy Cardo a drink before they come back!!!:encouragement:
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alexsailor
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I see that apps like anchor watch do not call automatically a number you've picked since there is a new "policy" that apps can not auto call anymore.
So leaving iPhone with anchor watch app on the boat while having another phone with you on the shore doesn't help...
Is that the case also on android (google play)?
So leaving iPhone with anchor watch app on the boat while having another phone with you on the shore doesn't help...
Is that the case also on android (google play)?
duncan99210
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Anchor! sends an email alert, so iPad on boat sending to iPhone in pocket will work.
alexsailor
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yes that is true but getting a phone call (like it used to be till now) is much more convinent that checking email...
sailaboutvic
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I remember a guy once telling me he left his boat at anchor and is wife and him when for a walk up this very steep hill , just as he got to the top the phone told him he was dragging , an hour later , out of breath and about to have an heart attack, he arrived back at the dinghy to find his boat was just where he left it .
I use anchor watch if it really blowing hard over night ,
but only while I am on board , other wise I don't leave the boat for long in any blow .
I use anchor watch if it really blowing hard over night ,
but only while I am on board , other wise I don't leave the boat for long in any blow .
SimonFa
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I use the anchor watch feature in iSailor but have also use a drag Queen and Boat Sentry. They're equally good but al suffer the same problem that they don't work in the background. To get round that I leave the iPhone plugged in and on the chart table with the brightness turned down and the screen auto lock off.
dolabriform
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I am suitably impressed!