I 'ver just seen the Yellowbrick advertisement in the latest FF, so I looked at their website. It seems to have come of age. No longer a Big Yellow Brick, but a small, rugged device with minimal power consumption, and a sensible purchase price, monthly fee and usage structure. It would give me what I 'm looking for - the ability to keep the folks back home aware of my position, and to send and receive SMS-style messages, when out of range of 3G.
I 'm tempted.
Is anyone using one?
David.

[quote="simoncurrin" post=690]David,
Good to see you are broadcasting position. Do let me know if you want any weather information relaying when you are on passage.
Simon[/quote]

Simon,
I set off from Rangiroa towards Hawai 'i tomorrow. It should be very easy, but let 's give it a trial run. About the only thing that I might want to know is when I will enter and leave the ITCZ, otherwise it should be Trades all the way. I 've added your email address to my list of contacts, which makes it possible for you to send emails to tystie34-app@my.yb.tl but please be telegrammatic, and write SMS style. U got 2 cut chars 2 minm, 50chars=10p. I can send brief blog entries and say when I do actually meet the ITCZ.

In an ideal world, all the active cruising members would have trackers, and the website would have just one world map with a tangle of tracks showing, as we all go about our passagemaking. I suspect that that can 't be done, if we have different makes of tracker. However, we could each give you the html code for our own maps to be embedded somewhere on the website - in cruising information, perhaps?