OnCourse - boating

Improve your expertise at sea with OnCourse, the new boating and sailing navigation assist from MarineTraffic, the worldwide chief in vessel monitoring.

OnCourse helps you stay conscious of the traffic around you, plan your voyages, whereas sharing your position with your folks and family members through the MarineTraffic Live Map. Also, you can interact with the boaters’ group and have enjoyable with the brand new thrilling Virtual Reality feature.

Increase your consciousness while sailing

- Plan and monitor your voyage*

- Calculate the optimal route*

- Add your own customisable waypoints to the map

- Collision detection avoidance whereas sailing, with AIS

- Additional information during crusing (time to subsequent waypoint, next ETA, ultimate ETA, distance bearing to waypoint)

Share your place on MarineTraffic.com and have interaction with the boaters’ community

- Report your individual place even if your boat is not geared up with an AIS transponder, in order that your family and friends can comply with you in near real-time

- Track a selected boat in a race or keep in touch with friends’ boats whilst cruising

- Identify different vessels which are sailing in the area (provided that they transmit their positions)

- Upload photographs of your boat for all of the community to see

Have fun!

- Recognise vessels by using the Augmented Reality tool*

- Try out the model new Virtual Reality function and watch every thing from a different perspective (requires a VR headset)*

Very low information and battery consumption

All standard units of measurement supported

(*) Available only with OnCourse Plus subscriptions

Note: OnCourse is not AIS, OnCourse simulates the info transmitted by AIS transponders; nonetheless, it only transmits information by way of the Internet and never over AIS radio-frequencies. The data transmitted by OnCourse isn't visible by the AIS receivers of different vessels. It will solely be displayed on the MarineTraffic website and apps. As such, OnCourse is a self-reporting tool that doesn't substitute AIS transmissions and it isn't, by any means, associated to the security and navigation tools of a vessel.

Intended use

Provided that Internet connectivity is out there, the vessel's positions will begin being reported as soon as the OnCourse application is launched in your cell device. Note that the positions will proceed being reported even if the app is operating within the background! It is essential to be used only when the gadget is on board a vessel and it should be turned off each time the gadget leaves the vessel!

How to use OnCourse - Registration Required

Registration for a MarineTraffic account is required so as to start reporting your position by way of the application. The particulars of the vessel (such as vessel's identify, call-sign, dimensions, vacation spot, ETA, etc) should be additionally configured when utilizing the app.

Email notifications

In order to avoid unwanted place reporting, MarineTraffic will send e-mail notifications at your registered e mail tackle, every time your app is energetic. This serves as a reminder that place reporting ought to solely be active when you're at sea and have to be turned off when on land.

Disclaimer

This software is for use for informational reasons and as navigation help. This isn't a substitute for the great seamanship practices, the onboard navigation and safety devices required by relevant rules.

Continued use of GPS operating in the background can decrease battery life.