SafeTrx from the RYA

[Yealm]

The application is server based, you can access the data from the internet.

Personally, I am not using the tracking on the phone, but doing my usual call home when we arrive at a destination. We do transmit on AIS so family and friends can see where we are during our voyage.

If it’s as you’ve say, then if you are delayed but safe, and out of range, then your contacts will be notified to contact the coastguard who will then instigate a rescue operation. Not sure that’s a good system?

 

[[70521]]

If it’s as you’ve say, then if you are delayed but safe, and out of range, then your contacts will be notified to contact the coastguard who will then instigate a rescue operation. Not sure that’s a good system?

If you don't use the "tracking" or voyage functionality then the system won't alert anybody! But if they do call the CG then they have all the data about the vessel.

I've used a system for years where if I divert when I get somewhere with a phone signal I call my home contact and advise them what has happened. I transmit on AIS and they usually know what I am doing before I call them!

 

[Gin]

A quick scroll through this thread doesn't seem to have made the connection with the changes to CG66/ Safe TRX, about which I was informed recently when cancelling my CG66 registration (boat sold)
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Dear CG66 database member,
We are pleased to tell you that we have some exciting news about our voluntary safety identification scheme (currently CG66). In partnership with the Royal Yachting Association (RYA), HM Coastguard will be introducing the world-leading RYA SafeTrx as our new official safety identification scheme.

RYA SafeTrx builds on the advantages of the CG66 scheme to assist HM Coastguard with Search and Rescue in UK territorial waters and it provides enhanced functionality if used together with the optional mobile app. RYA SafeTrx is free, and you do not need to be a member of the RYA to register. You can get more information about RYA SafeTrx here.

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[Lucky Duck]

Separate thread

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?502957-CG66-scheme-closing-down

 

[blan321]

Saw this thread and had recent letter above from CG. Downloaded RYA SafeTRX app onto my Samsung galaxy S5 fine, entered all my yacht data and app crashed without apparently saving, twice! That's from my armchair with good WiFi.........not impressed at it's resilience so far.

 

[Mariner69]

Saw this thread and had recent letter above from CG. Downloaded RYA SafeTRX app onto my Samsung galaxy S5 fine, entered all my yacht data and app crashed without apparently saving, twice! That's from my armchair with good WiFi.........not impressed at it's resilience so far.

+1 Absolutely useless. Have now removed from my iPhone and shall drown like a gentleman.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I also had trouble getting the app working (ipad) but the website option was perfectly adequate for re-entering the information that was recorded on the CG66 scheme.

 

[[70521]]

I also had trouble getting the app working (ipad) but the website option was perfectly adequate for re-entering the information that was recorded on the CG66 scheme.

+1

 

[blan321]

OK, I have gone onto my desktop, logged onto RYA website, found app and checked in, to find my boat data had in fact been saved there (twice) which is good, but the app on android couldnt see that data. Anyway, thanks for that tip, data now there. As to whether app is resilient enough for a safety scheme i guess have to wait and see, hope my concern is unfounded.

 

[biscuit]

Most of my cruising is day sailing with my wife in & around the Hebrides. Poor to non existent internet connections, even in most harbours.
I do a radio check annually, routine traffic almost never. I carry an EPIRB, put a PLB in my pocket in heavy weather and have means of recovering a MOB.
I would fit an AIS transponder, for use in poor vis., but do have radar and jib at the extra cost. (not sure why they are so expensive?)
Judging by the radio traffic, I suspect that is the norm in these parts.
Risk assessment suggests that our maximum risk is in the car when driving to the boat and when using the dinghy, so we wear life jackets when appropriate. In emergency situations, I have called the CG once and done a mayday relay, both with excellent responses. I do not want to burden friends and relatives, or the CG with the chore of tracking our progress/ arrival/ non arrival, even if we could. I have completed the CG 66 which seems sensible.
I am not suggesting that any of this is OK, but it is our choice. I wonder if widespread use of this app (if it works), particularly in the Solent, might place extra burdens on the CG?

 

[RobbieW]

Having signed up to SafeTrx following discussion here and on the other thread, see post #44. I was surprised how little boat information was requested; simply name, length, draught, type and configuration - no callsign, MMSI, colour etc. I think CG66 collected those things as well ?

Also there seems to be a problem, on Android anyway, logging in using an existing RYA login if that login includes special characters

 

[Lucky Duck]

The website asks for all that once you have ticket a box called something like 'SAR information'

 

[RobbieW]

The website asks for all that once you have ticket a box called something like 'SAR information'

Thanks, I'll have a look

Edit: So it does :redface-new:

 

[RobbieW]

...Also there seems to be a problem, on Android anyway, logging in using an existing RYA login if that login includes special characters

The SafeTrx development team have confirmed that there is a problem with using special characters in passwords, certainly on Android. They've raised a defect report for it

 

[Mark-1]

I am not suggesting that any of this is OK, but it is our choice. I wonder if widespread use of this app (if it works), particularly in the Solent, might place extra burdens on the CG?

Extra burdens shouldn't be a concern because I suspect that a lot of these developments are aimed at unburdening the CG to the point where they can almost all be made redundant.