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The best app for finding places to stop is navily. I browse marinas and anchorages I want to reach, or could use as ports of refuge. Google Maps satellite images let me see what they actually look like.
Then I plot the route in Navionics Boating. In manual planning mode, I set the start and finish, then intermediate waypoints to follow. First, though, I export the result as a GPX file.
I check the weather in the red windy. At €20 a year, it offers more than the blue windy and windhub at €100 each. I open the route planner, load the GPX, enter a speed of 3.5 knots, and see what conditions to expect along the way.
In December, I bought a Garmin inReach Mini 2 for €300. Matchbox-sized and attached by a carabiner, it uses the Iridium satellite network to:
– send an SOS
– send and receive forty included messages a month by SMS and email
– show heading error in degrees and cross-track error in metres for a GPX route
– track your position and send it to the servers by satellite every ten seconds
– provide a week’s marine weather forecast for €1
Besides the device, there’s €45 a year for life and search-and-rescue insurance, €40 a year for an Iridium account, and €40 for each month of active use.
Before leaving, it’s good to have someone ashore with a plan for what to do if I stop checking in. Alternatively, use SafeTRX. Enter the expected arrival time and route. If you don’t confirm arrival by that time, your details go to the coastguard.
After the passage, you can upload the recorded GPX from Navionics or Garmin Explore to the logbook in SailTies.
#equipment #notes
Then I plot the route in Navionics Boating. In manual planning mode, I set the start and finish, then intermediate waypoints to follow. First, though, I export the result as a GPX file.
I check the weather in the red windy. At €20 a year, it offers more than the blue windy and windhub at €100 each. I open the route planner, load the GPX, enter a speed of 3.5 knots, and see what conditions to expect along the way.
In December, I bought a Garmin inReach Mini 2 for €300. Matchbox-sized and attached by a carabiner, it uses the Iridium satellite network to:
– send an SOS
– send and receive forty included messages a month by SMS and email
– show heading error in degrees and cross-track error in metres for a GPX route
– track your position and send it to the servers by satellite every ten seconds
– provide a week’s marine weather forecast for €1
Besides the device, there’s €45 a year for life and search-and-rescue insurance, €40 a year for an Iridium account, and €40 for each month of active use.
Before leaving, it’s good to have someone ashore with a plan for what to do if I stop checking in. Alternatively, use SafeTRX. Enter the expected arrival time and route. If you don’t confirm arrival by that time, your details go to the coastguard.
After the passage, you can upload the recorded GPX from Navionics or Garmin Explore to the logbook in SailTies.
#equipment #notes
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