Demonstration of AIS with a SafePassageAIS Receiver

To see how AIS worked during a day trip on a sailboat equipped with SafePassageAIS  you can use either Coastal Explorer (see www.rosepointnav.com) or Maptech Chart Navigator Pro (see www.maptech.com). 

Take the following steps:

1. Download the "Log" file from http://seacas.com/anacortes043006.log and save it to your hard disk. 
2. Start Coastal Explorer or Chart Navigator Pro
3. When it is running, hold down the left "Shift" key and click the right mouse button.
4. The following menu will show on screen:
5. Click on "Run NMEA Log File"
6. Browse to the anacortes043006.log file on your hard disk and click on its name

Notes:

• The AIS and GPS data were generated by a production version of SafePassageAIS 300 on April 30th 2006 on a day trip from Anacortes, Washington, USA
• The sail boat was a C&C 35 and SafePassage was installed on a rail mount ab-aft (i.e. not on any mast).
• We had a near-miss with SEASPAN PACER at 20:40 UTC (01:40 PM PDT) and had to start the engine to avoid a collision
• Please note that many times during the trip SafePassage "saw" targets that were more than 30 NM away. At one point in time we even "saw" a ship that was 56 NM away. (Select "Tools", "Navigational Objects", "AIS Ships" for a list of targets then sort them by range by clicking on the "Range" column heading)
• Please also note that we "saw" the ferry in Friday Harbor, even though it was shielded from us by several islands.