You can also optionally mark the anchor on the map The track during swinging is drawn on the map, so you can see at a glance when the situation changes
Your ship's dimensions are shown to scale on the map An alarm tone that you won't miss (after the first opening of the app, a less obtrusive tone is configured so that you don't get too startled during your first tests)
Individual shapes as swing circles instead of just round circles Here's an overview of all the important features:
I have addressed and solved this problem with this app. For example, you have enough space to the south or north. Because the wind, for example, is coming from the west, but it will turn to the east at night, and maybe there is a shallow water area that you want to be warned about early on. You will surely know the problem when you want to set an anchor alarm after anchoring, you don't want the same warning distance in every direction. Now I have completely overhauled everything in Version 2, and I am convinced that your anchor watch will run differently with this anchor alarm app in the future. More and more features were added over time. (I would never wake up from the quiet, one-time alarm tone of my Garmin GPS handheld device)Īnd that's exactly what I already implemented in the first successful version of this app. I want to be really woken up by an alarm when the anchor is dragging. The swing circle should not be just a circle, but should take into account my individual free space, which can be different in each direction.Ģ. This is why fenders are not optimal and hard-shelled buoys are preferred.I had two simple requirements for an anchor alarm app:ġ. As a result, the pulling angle at the anchor shaft is negatively affected by this floating-chain approach.įor this to work, though, it is important that the buoys do not get compressed by the water pressure when getting pulled down. The only disadvantage of the buoy system is that the anchor stays at the seabed ( ) and so eventually, the chain still needs to get down there. So, it is all kind of flipped from seabed to water level. The chain needs to get raised to store more energy, the buoys need to get dragged deeper under water to store more energy. But when looking into it more closely, it started making sense: Normally, the chain with its weight is providing the potential energy storage needed, but when the chain floats with buoys, it is the buoyancy of these buoys that is taking over this role. I have never tried using a floating chain yet, and at first it seemed to me to it could not possibly work.
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