Tender tracking

Every tender,
on one chart.

Positions come from the Peplink routers already aboard — the mothership, the limo tender, the chase boat. No AIS, no new tracker to fit, nothing extra in the tender.

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Admin · the mothership, two tenders, both rings

Where everything is, right now.

Each vessel carries its speed, heading, distance from the ship and the age of its last fix. A tender at anchor says so. A fix older than five minutes is marked stale rather than drawn as though it were current — a position you cannot trust is worse than no position.

The tender tracker: the chart on the left with both rings, and cards on the right showing each vessel’s speed, heading, distance from the ship and how long ago it was last seen. — Admin · the chart and the vessel cards

Fresher than the AIS a tender carries.

Set the rate in the admin · What you need aboard

Every 2 secondsHow often the tender’s own GPS reports its position up to InControl while you are watching it.

Every 10 secondsHow often we can pull those positions down. Adjustable from 10 seconds to 5 minutes — polling harder costs more, so the bridge sets the trade-off.

Every 30 secondsWhat a Class B AIS transponder — the kind fitted to a tender, when one is fitted at all — gives you instead.

A Class A transponder on a commercial ship reports every 2 to 10 seconds under way. This is not faster than that; it is faster than what is actually in your tender.

Two rings, and a phone that tells you.

Set a proximity ring and an outer ring around the mothership. When a tender comes inside the first, the crew who need to know are told it is on its way in. When one crosses the second, they are told it has gone beyond where it should be. It goes to the crew who opted in — not to everyone aboard.

The Live Activity keeps the tender on the lock screen while it is out, so nobody has to keep opening anything. Muster Mate

Go dark, and still see your tenders.

Security aboard

Plenty of owners want the vessel off the public trackers — no AIS on passage, nothing for a website to plot while the family is aboard. The difficulty has always been that switching AIS off takes the tenders off the bridge’s picture too.

These positions never touch AIS. They come over the tender’s own connection, to your own account, and go nowhere else. The vessel can be invisible to the world and still have every tender on the chart.

Nothing new in the tender.

Most tenders already carry a Peplink or Pepwave router, because that is how they get a signal. If yours do, the tracking is a setting rather than a purchase: add an InControl API key in the admin, name your devices, and the chart fills in on the next poll.

1 · The keyAn API key from Organisation Settings in your InControl portal, pasted into the admin.

2 · The devicesName each router and say which is the mothership. Everything else is a tender or a chase boat.

3 · The ringsSet the proximity and outer distances, and who gets told when one is crossed.

No AIS transponder, no dedicated tracker, nothing fitted to the tender.

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