Anchor alarm app6/21/2023 ![]() If the alarm was very loud we would probably set the watch with more drag allowed and therefore more dangerously in order to stop ourselves being frightened out of our wits at night. DragQueen is a smartphone app that’s an anchor alarm brought to you by Jeff Siegel, who also runs ActiveCaptain, the interactive online cruising guide. ![]() I wonder if there is some research which shows this tone and repeat rate to be a reliable alert even for sleepers, and even though not very loud? We have never dragged at night so the alarm only goes because of the tightness of the setting or being set off centre from the swinging circle. I have an organizer which has an alarm which is also not very loud but is almost the exact same frequency and repeat rate (several times per second) as the GPS and I rely on that when travelling to wake me for planes etc and have never slept through it either even when very tired. The anchor watch alarm on our GPS is not very loud but we have never slept through it (well as best as we can tell, of course, but it seems to wake us instantly even though we are sound sleepers). After you have slept many nights like this you will wonder why you ever trusted someone else's mooring with all the possible unknowns that will entail. All this is more critical up here on the West coast of Scotland due to deep water until about 20m off shore, this means anchoring very close inshore but well worth the effort. from the App we will mark the position of the anchor and the ship, alarm. This will alow for a rise and fall of 3m tide, about normal up here in Scotland but shoul I drar into deeper/shallower water the alarm will go. Normally the Plotter or Gps dragging alarms are ineffective for several reasons. The problem with my Furuno GP30 is that the alarm only sounds once but have never slept through it.even after a few drams!! I also set the alarm on the echo sounder so if I am in 5m I will set the deep alarm to 10m and the shallow to 2m. The GPS anchor alarm is set to 0.03nm that is sufficient that as the boat swings in the tide/wind the alarm will not sound unless you actually start to drag. ![]() I take every precausion necessary to protect my boat. The adjustable swing arc should assume every possible shape, as the maximum distance could be. Hi DOM, As I placed the original thread dont be affraid to go out and try. I had two simple Requirements to a Anchor Alarm App: 1.
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