CG66 scheme closing down?

[DJE]

Nothing here tempts me to start using the app. Think I will stick to transmitting class B AIS when offshore and sending text messages to my shore contact.

 

[[70521]]

Nothing here tempts me to start using the app. Think I will stick to transmitting class B AIS when offshore and sending text messages to my shore contact.

I've used it like the old CG66 form, recording the boats details, but won't be using the other features.

One advantage is it downloads the inshore shipping forecast when in range of a mobile phone mast.

 

[dunedin]

One advantage is it downloads the inshore shipping forecast when in range of a mobile phone mast.

That is a typical pointless App function - which means it uses your data allowance to gather information, whether you want it or not.
If want inshore waters forecast easily obtained directly (ideally in printable format as quicker/faster to download)

 

[[70521]]

That is a typical pointless App function - which means it uses your data allowance to gather information, whether you want it or not.
If want inshore waters forecast easily obtained directly (ideally in printable format as quicker/faster to download)

Oh I don't know. Data comes cheap these days and the User Interface is actually very good. Looking at the app I suspect that it only downloads the weather when you are logged in.

When you are miles from a printer for days/weeks/months on end I find I really, really want a forecast. I also use weather.mailasail.com facility to email weather or download GRIB files when I am in range of a mast as I gave up on that big rock on a bit of string decades ago.

 

[Glenlivet]

I used the app 4 times then checked my stats online. The result came as quite a surprise...

 

[[70521]]

I used the app 4 times then checked my stats online. The result came as quite a surprise...

Impressive, are you doing one of these virtual races?

 

[EastYachty]

Not sure if this has already been posted (sorry) but I have just downloaded the app and part of the registration process is to input my vehicle make model colour and registration number

Hmm.

Handy information to have to allow a Coastguard team to check if your car is still at the marina/launch site. Are you overdue, where did you launch from. Every clue helps in a search scenario!

 

[EastYachty]

So safetrx is just as useless as CG66 then. If it gives false alarms it may not be acted upon if there is an emergency. I take the earlier point that lack of mandatory updating of CG66 rendered it less useful, and accept that I was wrong in thinking CG66 was continuing in some form.

I think I will continue in the belief that I am responsible for my safety and out at sea cant rely on help.

So an owner pressed the emergency alert and it was checked out to confirm their safety - it would suggest that the system does work. “It may not be acted upon if there is an emergency” not sure I understand the logic there! Any information the Coastguard can use to confirm a persons safety has to help.

 

[Glenlivet]

Impressive, are you doing one of these virtual races?

No, but I am considering marketing engine tweaks!

 

[DJE]

Handy information to have to allow a Coastguard team to check if your car is still at the marina/launch site. Are you overdue, where did you launch from. Every clue helps in a search scenario!

Lots of scope for confusion too. Registered phone on a different boat or owner travelled to boat in a different car. Dangerous to make assumptions from phone and car data about what is happening offshore.

 

[EastYachty]

Lots of scope for confusion too. Registered phone on a different boat or owner travelled to boat in a different car. Dangerous to make assumptions from phone and car data about what is happening offshore.

No assumptions are made it’s just another line of investigation to take for someone reported overdue. Sometimes you have to start somewhere.

 

[prv]

So an owner pressed the emergency alert

According to the lifeboat report, he did not press the emergency alert.

Pete

 

[EastYachty]

According to the lifeboat report, he did not press the emergency alert.

Pete

According to the Lifeboat report ...

 

[Blue Sunray]

According to the lifeboat report, he did not press the emergency alert.

Pete

According the the report he said he hadn't - an important distinction.

 

[[70521]]

According the the report he said he hadn't - an important distinction.

Perhaps he did not, but my phone often "butt dials", as my daughter calls it, people. Perhaps he butt dialed from the app? They should be able to look at the data logs to see what happened.

 

[st599]

What happens with SafeTrx when using hired or club boats?

Say I hire a yacht and want to log a passage plan? Is there a centralised database of vessels I can search and assign myself as skipper for a week using my mobile? Or is the database going to be filled with thousands of slightly different registrations for the same boat?

 

[prv]

According the the report he said he hadn't - an important distinction.

True

Quite possibly it was user error, but it didn't seem right for EastYachty to state it as unambiguous fact. Maybe there was a bug somewhere in the SafeTrx app or their backend - an old record being accidentally reactivated during a database migration, say (I once had a long-closed bank account come back to life that way), or a routine-position report being somehow corrupted into, or incorrectly triggering, a "distress" one? Only the app developers with access to all the logs could say for sure.

Pete