Plotter anchor alarm

[wazza]

We have a Garmin plotter with Blue Chart Vision charts, works great. Now we've cruised further a field and have bought new charts twice and now intended on sailing further this summer. I'll most probably use the iPad for the areas when we're off the plotter charts temporally, but my question is simple. Will my anchor alarm still work even if I don't have that particular chart..? Surely the GPS signal would still work so I'm hoping someone out there has more info on this matter....
Thanks

 

[noelex]

I have not used your specific plotter, but yes it should still work.

 

[Pagetslady]

Far better to use an anchor app on your iPad it draws less amps and you can have it on your pillow, there are several great anchor apps available for iPhone or iPad also I think are also available for Android
Mike

 

[wazza]

Far better to use an anchor app on your iPad it draws less amps and you can have it on your pillow, there are several great anchor apps available for iPhone or iPad also I think are also available for Android
Mike

Anchor app?!?! I shall investigate, thanks.. Which one do you (or anyone else) use..?

 

[duncan99210]

Think mine calls itself Anchor..... Lots of them in the App Store, none expensive. Mine wakes me up even though I take my hearing aids out at night.

 

[NormanS]

Think mine calls itself Anchor..... Lots of them in the App Store, none expensive. Mine wakes me up even though I take my hearing aids out at night.

I have a decent anchor and chain combo, and sleep at night.

 

[Halo]

Used my son's Anchor app on his iphone for 3 years - really worked well and saved a lot of juice in running the instrument and GPS overnight
Last week I put "BoaT Sentry" onto my own iphone - free app and I picked it because it allows me to put alarms at different radii in different sectors - so it will go off quicker if dragging towards a hazard.
Martin

 

[LadyInBed]

Phone App - what a good thought.
I don't use an anchor watch as plotter too far from bed! but this winter I loaded Mad Mutt onto my phone. I've not used it yet, but have just checked, and it has an anchor watch alarm

 

[duncan99210]

I have a decent anchor and chain combo, and sleep at night.

So do I! But there's the odd time when the winds up a bit or the holdings a bit iffy when the alarm helps to get a good sleep. It's only ever gone off once, in a weedy anchorage in Sardinia in a sustained force 6.