About Boat Track and its GPS trackers

Our Marine Trackers are in use all over the world and have been for well over 15 years! If you are an 'amateur / weekend' sailor, we can supply a vessel 'Tracking Device' starting at £55, you then pay just £9 a month (that’s 29 pence a day) in UK waters. For this, you get all our services (including license, hosting, airtime, week and weekend support). That is it! No VAT, No excess charge because you accidentally cruised into foreign waters, or used the boat more than you should have! - In fact we guarantee no hidden charges ever.

Once fitted if you log onto the internet, our state-of-the-art servers will show you where your vessel is on your smart phone, pc or tablet. Loved ones back home (if you tell them how) can also see where you are and if you are on your way back yet! When you are back home and up to 3 months later, you can replay any route you took, with moving data fix points at least every couple of minutes. To use the system you don't even have to download unreliable and never updated 'Apps' before you can use it (offered by some suppliers just so they can sell advertising space on their App) - Our server is simply accessed with just the standard phone, or computer's browser like Chrome, MS Explorer, Opera, Firefox, etc.

At the other extreme even if you are a 'Professional Sailor', or are operating a 'Charter Fleet' in the Mediterranean, it will still cost the same to buy the unit, and £12 a month (that’s just 39 pence a day) for all our services.

'MARINE' Tracking Package - why do we emphasis Marine? Simply because that is how our systems differs from most other 'automotive based' trackers. Here are just a few of the areas where we are different from the rest -

1. The most important difference is battery consumption - Auto Trackers go in Cars and Trucks that are used regularly, many boats are not! Therefore, our units are designed to draw minimum current in use, while still being ultra-accurate. But it does not stop there, all our 4G trackers are programmed with a number of selectable sleep modes to extend the vessel battery life, if necessary for years.


2. The older Auto Trackers, often only work on the USA GPS system, that’s good enough in a car or a truck! All our units are configured for the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) which allows them to access multiple satellites systems including GLONASS and GALILEO (along with the old USA GPS system for backup). Thereby using less current, while supplying faster and considerably more accurate positioning at sea, all over the world.


3. Some companies supply standard SIM cards which work on a single carrier and sometimes in a single country! We use multi- network Data Cards that roam the networks so if you are far out at sea, or in a screened estuary and not in range of one supplier it will change to another. Also as we pay all your 'brought in charges' in advance and so no matter how much you use the system, you will never be cut off.


4. If the tracker in your car needs reprogramming it is easy enough to pop it into the local depot, not so easy when the boat is hundreds, if not thousands of miles away! All our 4G trackers automatically ‘Phone Home’ each day to see if there are any updates available. We can also completely reprogram just about all their settings over the air.


5. As you can see in the changing display below, like most tracker companies we offer our customers the standard Road Maps, but unlike many we also include (at no extra cost) the 'Open Sea' Chart, the OS Map and Satellite view, all of which can instantly be accessed from the drop down menu. Therefore when you decide to cruse into say Cowes (shown below), you can plan your trip safely.

Wait for the above image to change to see some of our different Map Styles

Using the GPS tracking map software -

The system allows you at anytime to just click on the program to see where your vessel is when it sent the latest fix, but as you can see from the image below you can also ask where your vessel was up to 3 months ago (longer if you download your history). Not only that you can set a start and end time and draw the exact route it took. The 'Screen Dump' of a report on a Mediterranean based vessel below, shows each point a location fix was sent all joined up to give the complete route. Clicking on a fix point on the route will as shown give the time and speed at that point. If the vessel remains static for a pre-set period of time, the times will be recorded and a 'P' will be shown to signify it "Paused" at that location.

Geo-fencing - The system has some concession to help with security most popular is to 'Ring Fence' your mooring. As you can see on the 'screen dump' below this user has ring fenced the whole of the harbour (shown in green), this is because his marina offers a layup and anti foiling service in the winter. What it means in real terms is he, or one of their staff can move the vessel around in the harbour, but if it leaves by sea (or road) a warning recording the event will both sound and appear on the map and can also be sent to any email address.