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OCC Fleet Tracker

rachelle.turk — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:25:10 GMT

Our Fleet Tracker is currently going strong with 750 boats registered (Sep-19) and more joining every week. To include your boat in the Fleet Tracker please ensure your MMSI is registered with www.marinetraffic.com.

Take a look at where the current registered boats are: https://oceancruisingclub.org/Fleet-Map

How it works.
There are three alternative methods to enable position reporting for your vessel. These are listed online here and below:

1. By AIS transponder. The vessel's transponder should be active and transmitting her signal. As soon as one of Marine Traffic’s antennas collects her signal, a record of the Vessel will be automatically created in their database.

2. By using the OnCourse: Android or iOS self-reporting app. Download the App and follow the instructions to open Marinetraffic.com account. The App sits on your smartphone and uses the phone's GPS to post the position. It will work anywhere there is a 3G or 4G Mobile data signal and your phone is switched on.

3. By Emails. This too requires a Marinetraffic.com account and this needs to be associated with your boat's MMSI number. Positions can then be sent in from anywhere where you have access to email provided you are using the email account that you used to register your Marrinetraffic.com account.

How to email a position report to the OCC Map:

1. Open an marinetraffic.com account and then register you boat and MMSI. Ideally upload a photo too.

3. Email your boat’s position to report@marinetraffic.com but you MUST use the following format:

MMSI=235027206
LAT=56.21915
LON=-5.548925
SPEED=0.1
COURSE=236
TIMESTAMP=2015-06-15 08:31

Latitude and Longitude should be in decimal degrees. Negative values for South or West coordinates. Speed in knots. Timestamp in UTC

You can find more details online here: https://help.marinetraffic.com/hc/en-us/sections/200726627-Report-Your-Own-Position

Rachelle Turk - Club Secretary
secretary@oceancruisingclub.org

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

simoncurrin — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:25:10 GMT

Peter There are some nifty new features coming soon.. The Fleetmap is being tweaked to accept updates from most of the common offshore tracking devices. There will also be a facility to form regional fleets for ocean crossings. That should give us state of the art offshore tracking (freely available to all members) as well as the the well established coastal AIS maps we have been using for nearly a decade. Simon.

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

Peter.Basilides — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:32:26 GMT

Hello Rachelle!
Good job so far, works nicely now.
I guess it's not feasible to put an automatic expiry on (it's possibly only manually added pos?) Positions? Often last summer I was happy to see a fellow OCC boat in the vicinity - only to later find out the position is weeks or months old....and was all by my sad self again! E.g. "MOONSHADOW" trundles at 0,7kts just north of Majorca for 3 months now....

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

simoncurrin — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:06:51 GMT

Peter
If you log onto the members only version of the Fleetmap https://oceancruisingclub.org/members/fleetmapmembers it displays those that are actively cruising by colour coding which, I think, achieves what you are asking for. Please also note that each position can be up to 12 hours out of date as we have configured the map to give the most cost effective solution.
Simon

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[b]Peter.Basilides - 4 Oct 2021[/b]
The new system works well! My only peeve are other club boats that aren’t where indicated. Time stamp is in the (at times quite distant) past. Are these manually entered positions that don’t get deleted? Perhaps an auto-delete after a week or so can be implemented?
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RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

Peter.Basilides — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 19:50:40 GMT

The new system works well! My only peeve are other club boats that aren’t where indicated. Time stamp is in the (at times quite distant) past. Are these manually entered positions that don’t get deleted? Perhaps an auto-delete after a week or so can be implemented?

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

Geir.Christiansen — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:16:01 GMT

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[b]Simon Currin - 15 Aug 2021[/b]
Geir,

We are in the process of moving away from MarineTraffic as our boat position provider and instead we are importing the data directly into our database so that the fleet data can be merged with member’s details, photos added and all displayed on a new members only page in parallel with the public facing page that does not link position to members information. The prime reason for change is because web browser security was making the old iFrame based system unreliable on some devices.

My guess is that we added your boat to the old MarineTraffic occ fleet but the box in your personal page in the the members details section of our website is not ticked so your boat has dropped out of the fleet. Rachelle will check this tomorrow..

We are testing the new system prior to release and here are the instructions for testers.

Simon

Test Instructions

Please help us test the new website Fleet Map pages (public and members only) with the following instructions:

1) The public web page can be accessed here: https://oceancruisingclub.org/Fleet-Map
Please click on this link and make sure your device takes you to the page and test the search tool.

2) Update your vessel details page including adding photos as appropriate for your vessel, crew, and current location. It is OK if you leave some of these blank, a default photo will be used. You may wish to use the "Preview" button to make sure your photos are cropped properly. The link to make these updates is here: https://oceancruisingclub.org/members/craftdetailsposition

3) Update your "Future plans aboard" here: https://members.oceancruisingclub.org/members/Myotherdetails

4) Access and test the members area Fleet Map. Click on this link and test the search tool: https://oceancruisingclub.org/members/fleetmapmembers

Please report back (Reply All) with a quick description of your experience.

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[b]Geir Christiansen - 15 Aug 2021[/b]
Hello Rachel, can you please check wether our boat Ocean Viking is listed in the OCC fleet tracker. We are OK on Marinetraffic, MMSI is 257565350

Kind regards
Grete & Geir
S/Y Ocean Viking
in Camaret-Sur-Mer
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Thanks Simon. Updated according to your description and boat is on the map :) Thank you very much

Geir

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

simoncurrin — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:05:29 GMT

Geir,

We are in the process of moving away from MarineTraffic as our boat position provider and instead we are importing the data directly into our database so that the fleet data can be merged with member’s details, photos added and all displayed on a new members only page in parallel with the public facing page that does not link position to members information. The prime reason for change is because web browser security was making the old iFrame based system unreliable on some devices.

My guess is that we added your boat to the old MarineTraffic occ fleet but the box in your personal page in the the members details section of our website is not ticked so your boat has dropped out of the fleet. Rachelle will check this tomorrow..

We are testing the new system prior to release and here are the instructions for testers.

Simon

Test Instructions

Please help us test the new website Fleet Map pages (public and members only) with the following instructions:

1) The public web page can be accessed here: https://oceancruisingclub.org/Fleet-Map
Please click on this link and make sure your device takes you to the page and test the search tool.

2) Update your vessel details page including adding photos as appropriate for your vessel, crew, and current location. It is OK if you leave some of these blank, a default photo will be used. You may wish to use the "Preview" button to make sure your photos are cropped properly. The link to make these updates is here: https://oceancruisingclub.org/members/craftdetailsposition

3) Update your "Future plans aboard" here: https://members.oceancruisingclub.org/members/Myotherdetails

4) Access and test the members area Fleet Map. Click on this link and test the search tool: https://oceancruisingclub.org/members/fleetmapmembers

Please report back (Reply All) with a quick description of your experience.

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[b]Geir Christiansen - 15 Aug 2021[/b]
Hello Rachel, can you please check wether our boat Ocean Viking is listed in the OCC fleet tracker. We are OK on Marinetraffic, MMSI is 257565350

Kind regards
Grete & Geir
S/Y Ocean Viking
in Camaret-Sur-Mer
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RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

Geir.Christiansen — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:42:53 GMT

Hello Rachel, can you please check wether our boat Ocean Viking is listed in the OCC fleet tracker. We are OK on Marinetraffic, MMSI is 257565350

Kind regards
Grete & Geir
S/Y Ocean Viking
in Camaret-Sur-Mer

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

tomfb630 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:27:08 GMT

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[b]rachelle.turk - 21 Jul 2021[/b]
Hi Tom, looking at the boat record for Bonny she was not opted into the Fleet Map. I've changed this and added her in.

Regards,
Rachelle

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Many thanks Rachel.

Tom

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

rachelle.turk — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:54:32 GMT

Hi Tom, looking at the boat record for Bonny she was not opted into the Fleet Map. I've changed this and added her in.

Regards,
Rachelle

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

tomfb630 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:43:39 GMT

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[b]tomfb630 - 21 Jul 2021[/b]
Hi Rachel

I have 'Bonny' registered on Marine Traffic with her MMSI but she does not appear in the OCC fleet map. I assume there is something else i need to do on the OCC site but not sure what. Can you advise? Currently in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Azores. Thanks. Tom.
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Ah, just realised, not transmitting

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

tomfb630 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:36:01 GMT

Hi Rachel

I have 'Bonny' registered on Marine Traffic with her MMSI but she does not appear in the OCC fleet map. I assume there is something else i need to do on the OCC site but not sure what. Can you advise? Currently in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Azores. Thanks. Tom.

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

geir_ove — Wed, 06 May 2020 16:51:15 GMT

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[b]rachelle.turk - 5/6/2020[/b]
Hi Geir Ove, I added Careka to the Fleet Map and can see her in Egersund. You may need to re-scale the map to show Norway.

Rachelle
Yes. i se it now, thanks.
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RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

rachelle.turk — Wed, 06 May 2020 09:09:08 GMT

Hi Geir Ove, I added Careka to the Fleet Map and can see her in Egersund. You may need to re-scale the map to show Norway.

Rachelle

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

geir_ove — Wed, 06 May 2020 05:56:41 GMT

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[b]Simon Currin - 5/5/2020[/b]
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[b]Geir Ove Bø - 5/5/2020[/b]
i can easy se our boat on MT, but i dont show on fleet map, what do i need to do ?
Geir, I just added you to the fleet map (in Eggersund)
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RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

simoncurrin — Tue, 05 May 2020 20:16:09 GMT

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[b]Geir Ove Bø - 5/5/2020[/b]
i can easy se our boat on MT, but i dont show on fleet map, what do i need to do ?
Geir, I just added you to the fleet map (in Eggersund)
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RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

geir_ove — Tue, 05 May 2020 19:20:16 GMT

i can easy se our boat on MT, but i dont show on fleet map, what do i need to do ?

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

simoncurrin — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:28:52 GMT

Gavin Your browser is probably set to block third party websites. If you enable this the the iFrame view of the filtered MarineTraffic website will work. Simon

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

rachelle.turk — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:16:44 GMT

Hi Gavin,
I've tested the page and it is working correctly so you must have a localised problem. I suspect your security settings are blocking the pop-up. Have a play with the settings and see if you can fix this. Perhaps try on a different device with different settings?
Regards,
Rachelle

RE: OCC Fleet Tracker

Gavin.French — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:50:58 GMT

I must be don't something wrong, if you can advise?

Each time i try to view the fleet map i go to the page but just get a blank section, no map?

Thanks so much,

Gavin