Underneath the chart on Map, a Past Trips table lists the destinations the yacht has recently reported. The heading and the table only appear once at least one has been recorded — a vessel that has never broadcast a destination shows the chart on its own.
The columns
- # — the row's position in the list.
- Start Date — the date and time at which that destination was first seen.
- Destination — the destination text exactly as the vessel broadcast it.
The newest trip is at the top, and up to fifty are listed.
What counts as a trip
A row is added the moment the destination in the vessel's AIS broadcast changes to something different from what it was reporting before. The Start Date is the timestamp of the broadcast that carried the new destination.
That has a few consequences worth knowing:
- A trip is a declared destination, not a completed voyage. Nothing checks that the yacht ever arrived. There is no arrival time and no end date — only when the vessel started saying it was heading somewhere new.
- The destination is free text typed into the AIS unit on board. Ports appear however the crew entered them, abbreviations and all, and a spelling correction to the same port counts as a change and so adds a new row.
- Re-entering the same destination changes nothing. The comparison ignores surrounding spaces, so a destination retyped identically does not create a duplicate row.
- A voyage nobody declared leaves no row. If the crew never updates the destination field, the yacht can cross an ocean without a single new trip appearing.
- The table starts when tracking starts. Destinations the yacht declared before Nauticare began listening for its MMSI are not in the table, and nothing is filled in afterwards. The first destination the app sees may simply be recorded as the vessel's current one without a row of its own; rows build up from the changes that follow.
Rows cannot be added, edited or deleted by hand. The table is a read-only reflection of what the vessel transmitted.