SPOT MESSENGER - Tracking Wild Goose

[camaraderie]

Pam...just got back on line from a road trip and see you made it in safe and sound. Nice report and just about what we expected on Saturday but for that little jaunt into the stream! ... I knew you would be in way after dark to Beaufort...thank goodness it is a great inlet!
Anyway...you are a blue water sailor now!

[Pamlicotraveler]

Originally Posted by teshannon

When did you go by Atlantic City and how far out were you. I was about 10 miles off of there Saturaday and Sunday, very little air and lots of swells but with a long period thankfully.

Tesh, I think it was Sunday and Sunday night. Those Atlantic City hotels and their lights stayed with us for a long time since were 50 miles out (or so). And it was glass...and long swells.

[funsailthekeys]

I can't get them on the map?

[sailingdog]

So, basically, you're sending us all on an internet Wild Goose Chase..

Originally Posted by Pamlicotraveler

We have been using our SPOT tracker on our trips this summer. It is really a neat little gadget, especially for the money. It uses Globalstar's satellite system to relay a GPS position every 10 minutes or so and then sends the location – with a link to Google Maps – It misses a few transmits, but overall it has proven to be a great way to let family and friends know where you are.

We are leaving New York Harbor today and will have our SPOT messenger on. We are heading ultimately for North Carolina, and we may decide to go via Delaware Bay. For Sailnet friends....if you would like to watch our progress and see how the SPOT works, you can go to this site and see where we are:

VIEW OUR PROGRESS ON THE SPOT TRACKER


Just follow this link to see my Wild Gooses' location updates:

go to guest link
If the link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it to your browser's address bar.

[Pamlicotraveler]

The SPOT Tracker only maintains the tracking positions for the prior 24 hours...Since we finished on Wednesday, there is nothing there. I didn't do a screen print while it was active.

[labatt]

Pamlico - If you log into your FindMeSpot account and click on "Messages", you should be able to view your messages for the last bunch of days (up to 30). You can then export them as GPX or KML and import them into one of the many GPS visualizers (such as GPS Visualizer) to share them. It's disappointing that SPOT doesn't share them for longer than 24 hours - the amount of data is minimal and highly compressible. Perhaps they are waiting for a critical mass of signups before they invest heavily into storage. Thanks for sharing your trip though! Our family enjoyed watching your progress.

[Pamlicotraveler]

thanks labatt
I wanted SD and funsail to know the SPOT "share" page only lasts 24 hrs, so if they go there they wont see anything.

Re the route...We are trying to show the route we took, but one problem we are having is we would like to display a line instead of each track point individually. Any idea on that? We are trying GPS babel.. And I agree that there is no logical reason for SPOT not to just save the points for longer. We have them downloaded though, so we wont lose them.

[Pamlicotraveler]

I did find a way to display our route using Google Earth.

The Red file is our route on the way up to Block Island, RI, and through Long Island Sound to New York City. The Green is our route back from NYC. As you see on the route back we stayed much closer in to avoid the Gulfstream. I think we went into it some anyway between the Chesapeake entrance and Albermarle Sound. That's when we started seeing our SOG deteriorate and we tried to get out of it by heading east, even at a 260 degree course for a while.




http://www.sailnet.com/photogallery/....php?file=4513