CASSI0PEIA - Anyone know the owners?

[wonkywinch]

Just curious why they use a 0 (zero) instead of an O in their AIS ident?

CASSI0PEIA instead of CASSIOPEIA.

Trivial I know but we were moored up next to them in Lymington last week and I thought their boat name looked weird on my plotter's AIS.

Genuine mistake or technical error? That would annoy the crap out of me if it was finger trouble by the installer.

CASSI0PEIA Current position (Sailing vessel, MMSI 232054689) - VesselFinder

 

[ylop]

I’m guessing it was just a typo caused by some dreadful user interface - the sort of thing where you have to scroll through each letter?

Would be ironic if it was to make it hard to search for the boat online and find its location and you’ve just “doxxed” them! I think that’s not impossible - lots of teachers, doctors etc substitute some letters in their names or misspell stuff in social media to make it hard for pupils, parents, patients to stalk them in real life.

 

[wonkywinch]

I wondered if there was any safety implication but I thought it's really the MMSI and callsign that are important in an emergency.

The boat name written on the hull appeared to be the normal alpha spelling.

 

[Stemar]

it's really the MMSI and callsign that are important in an emergency.

How many of us have those to hand? I know a DSC red button call would give the call sign, at least, but apart from that?

Memo to self: put up a little sign with them near the radio

 

[dunedin]

How many of us have those to hand? I know a DSC red button call would give the call sign, at least, but apart from that?

Memo to self: put up a little sign with them near the radio

The Red button sends the MMSI.
Dont think the call sign has much relevance in 99% of distress calls.

 

[wonkywinch]

How many of us have those to hand? I know a DSC red button call would give the call sign, at least, but apart from that?

Memo to self: put up a little sign with them near the radio

In an ideal world you should have. CG are certainly going to ask for them if you put out a distress call. I have a completed card similar to this next to the radio. My chart plotter (B&G Zeus S) also displays the correctly populated dialogue when you press the MOB marker button.


Although this standard template from the chandlery is incorrect as it omits the callsign. Correct format -



Our chart plotter displays this if the MOB button is pressed.

 

[Lucky Duck]

An old favourite is inputted vessel dimensions which overstate its real size

Today's example but not the worst by far

Ship ARELI (Pleasure Craft) Registered in United Kingdom - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 0, MMSI 232008510, Call sign MBD09

 

[jamie N]

Cassi0peia's done a fair bit of mileage to get up here this morning .

 

[oldharry]

An old favourite is inputted vessel dimensions which overstate its real size

Today's example but not the worst by far

Ship ARELI (Pleasure Craft) Registered in United Kingdom - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 0, MMSI 232008510, Call sign MBD09

Can happen in verbal Comms too. I once got badly tangled in fishing gear in a 7m yacht, and had to call for assistance. RNLI turned out for me as I was only a couple of miles from the local LB station.

When they arrived they went to a much larger boat first. They had been told the casualty was a 17 metre vessel!

 

[Malish]

When I first set up my AIS transponder I missed out a decimal point, resulting in a very long but narrow boat seemingly spanning the width of Salcombe harbour ... spotted by a colleague on their AIS and rapidy rectified .....

 

[Lucky Duck]

Sometimes it reasonably obvious such as inputted dimensions work if feet had been used or a decimal point moved but others no idea