I have now been trying to get our boats position in to the OCC Fleet Map since well over a year but am obviously incapable.
I have been trying to send the position to Marine traffic via email as described at
https://help.marinetraffic.com/hc/en-us/articles/205327427-Report-My-Position-Through-Email but it has never worked.
Now I have tried using the onCourse App but also with no obvious results.

Could some one who has managed to send their position by email maybe help. It really does not look difficult. But the map has us in Panama and we are in Tahiti.

Thank you
Neill
www.buruwang.org

Neill,
I agree that sounds strange unless they have (somehow) got me on some sort of register of reliable and approved senders as I have been reporting, albeit very sporadically, for many years.
Simon

+x

 

Neill.Hogarth - 18 Mar 2021

New information received from Marine Traffic.
There system requires me to regularly report my position every 15 minutes or so for maybe a few days. The reports need to show the vessel moving and be "realistic".
My problem is that when I am sailing I am out of email contact.
So it looks like I need to generate a "virtual voyage" and set up my email program to send "virtual positions" every 15 minutes.

Life should not be this difficult. And it also raises the question why you Simon can fire off one position a continent away and be believed.
Thank you
Neill

Finally! The problem is solved.
If you report an impossible latitude, the system ignores you.
As you can see in my sample report I mixed latitude and longitude and so was sending an impossible latitude.
I just managed to report our position here on the reef off Tahiti.
At last we can appear in the OCC fleet map.

Simon. Sorry to have wasted so much of your time. The problem is always this side of the screen.

That’s fantastic and I’m really pleased there is a logical and simple explanation - welcome to the OCC Fleet Map!
Simon

+x

 

Neill.Hogarth - 21 Mar 2021

Finally! The problem is solved.
If you report an impossible latitude, the system ignores you.
As you can see in my sample report I mixed latitude and longitude and so was sending an impossible latitude.
I just managed to report our position here on the reef off Tahiti.
At last we can appear in the OCC fleet map.

Simon. Sorry to have wasted so much of your time. The problem is always this side of the screen.