Map
The vessel's position on a sea chart, drawn from its AIS transmissions, together with its recent track and its past trips.
- Management
- Captain & crew
The Map shows where one yacht is. It plots the vessel's latest known position on a sea chart, lets you open its track to see where it has been, and lists the destinations it has recently reported.
Open it from the vessel sidebar under Map. It is available to the vessel's crew profiles — captain, crew and view-only — and no extra permission is needed. The page itself is there whatever the vessel is subscribed to; what the plan changes is how often the position can be topped up, which is covered in How current the position is.
Where the position comes from
Nothing on this page is typed in by hand. Everything you see is built from the vessel's own AIS transmissions — the signal a ship's AIS transponder broadcasts with its position, speed, navigational status and declared destination. Nauticare listens for those broadcasts and stores the latest one for each yacht it knows about.
The link between your yacht and those broadcasts is its MMSI, the nine-digit identity kept in Vessel Settings → General. If that number is missing or is not nine digits, the app has nothing to match the broadcasts against and the map stays empty — see When the map shows no position.
What is on the page
- The chart — an open sea chart with your vessel drawn as a pin at its last known position. Zoom in and navigation marks are drawn over the chart; zoom out and you get the wider picture.
- The vessel pin — click it to open a small panel with the vessel's name, when its position was last updated, its MMSI, its navigational status, its declared destination and its speed. See Reading the vessel pin.
- The track — clicking the pin also draws the vessel's recent path, dot by dot, with arrows showing the direction of travel. See Following the vessel's track.
- Past Trips — a table under the chart listing the destinations the vessel has reported and when each was first seen. It only appears once at least one has been recorded. See Past Trips.
What this page is not
The Map is a picture of where the yacht is, not a log of what it did. It records no distances, no times spent under way and no fuel figures, and nothing on it can be added or corrected by hand — if the vessel broadcast something odd, the map shows it exactly as broadcast.
Company-side users looking at every yacht at once use the separate fleet-wide map rather than this page.
Articles in Map
- Following the vessel's trackHow to show the recent path the yacht has taken, how far back it reaches, and why the dots are spaced the way they are.
- How current the position isHow often the vessel's position is refreshed, why AIS coverage has gaps, and how the Map (hourly update) plan tops it up.
- Past TripsThe table under the chart listing the destinations the vessel has reported, and what actually causes a row to be added.
- Reading the vessel pinWhat the pin on the chart tells you when you click it, and how to read each line of the panel that opens.
- When the map shows no positionWhat the greyed-out chart and its warning mean, and how to check the vessel's MMSI so tracking can start.