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New
Website Helps Sailors ‘Phone Home’
for Less
A new low-cost alternative to
satellite tracking and expensive mobile phone
charges is now available to sailors on cruising
voyages worldwide. Yachtplot.com enables secure,
personalized progress updates to be sent to loved
ones back home whenever desired for a low, fixed
fee.
Yachtplot can be used immediately
on any boat, as it requires no additional onboard
hardware. Operating via existing mobile communications
equipment and the Internet, the system receives
position data and personalized messages from crews
abroad and displays these on a dedicated, password-protected
mini-website.
Position reports and other information
can be sent from boat to Yachtplot in any written
form, including fax, email, SMS text and Inmarsat
text message. The boat’s position is then
plotted on an interactive map and any personal
messages are added to its private bulletin board.
Family and friends can gain password access to
view information about the voyage from any online
computer and send their own messages to those
on board. For security reasons, unlike some traditional
tracking systems, information is not accessible
either to the general public or to other users
of the Yachtplot service. As the two-way messaging
remains within the Yachtplot system, no external
email addresses are required, so unsolicited mail
is avoided.
Subscriptions to Yachtplot.com
cost from $2 per week per boat, and there is no
charge for users accessing the system.
For further information
about Yachtplot.com contact Mike Van-Gent at
mikevg@imtl.net;
T + 44 1582 522579; M +44 7770 914789.
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