Boat Beacon AIS smartphone/tablet app - Aids to Navigation
Further to our website article on the Boat Beacon AIS smartphone/tablet app, one of many benefits of Automatic Identification System (AIS), is virtual Aids to Navigation (AtoN).
For the trial of the Boat Beacon app the ORCV is conducting during the 2015 Melbourne to Port Fairy ocean yacht race, Steve Bennett the CEO of Pocket Mariner (the Boat Beacon developer) has created some virtual AtoN. These AtoN only appear in the Boat Beacon app, not on global internet based AIS traffic sites like Marine Traffic.
To follow are some screen dumps of the Boat Beacon app that display the AtoN. NB. The dark line on these images is an approximate rhumb line for the Melbourne to Port Fairy ocean yacht race.
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Port Phillip Bay - Heads. Boat Beacon Hybrid display AtoN - Drapers Reef (starboard end of start line), ORCV Virtual Buoy, Point Lonsdale Light and Corsair Rock. |
Port Phillip Bay - Heads. Boat Beacon Map display AtoN - Drapers Reef (starboard end of start line), ORCV Virtual Buoy, Point Lonsdale Light and Corsair Rock. |
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Port Fairy finish. Boat Beacon Hybrid display AtoN - Nunn Buoy (port end of finish line) |
Port Fairy finish. Boat Beacon Map display AtoN - Nunn Buoy (port end of finish line) |
