Navigator Adventures

Marine Traffic is an app that is available on both Apple and Google devices.  The app shows the location of vessels that use the Automatic Identification System [AIS].   AIS uses electronic devices that send and receive a vessels location, speed and heading.   Vessels with an AIS receiver can see the sending vessels location in real time, displayed on your Chartplotter.  This greatly aids mariners in identifing other ship traffic that might be on intersecting (collision!) courses. The Marine Traffic app takes advantage of this system allowing shore based users to see where vessels are - anywhere in the world.  In it you can search for vessels you want to follow.   In the search field you can either type in the vessel name, or its VHF radio identification number [MMSI number].  Since Navigator is a fairly common vessel name, it is more expeditions to enter our MMSI number which is 338336006.   

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  January 2 , 2026 Happy New Year!   Since my last post in May, well, we have been busy.   Yes, we missed our adventures afloat, but we have had an incredible time ashore these past 7 months. We had left Navigator in Hilton Head back in May - because we knew the coming months would be full of events and that there simply was not enough time to bring her to Maine.   And while i t has been hard for us to leave her for so long s he was safely tucked away in a very well protected marina.  Now it is time to pick up where we left off.    We have many aspirations for Navigator and this hiatus has given us a chance to think about them more clearly.   We think about cruising the parts of Lake Champlain we have not seen.  Perhaps returning to Canada and doing the Trent Severn canal to Georgian Bay and the North Channel.  Bill and Otto have been trying to entice us to join them on Lake Superior.  Maybe continuing on the Gre...