Terratima is equipped with AIS. This is an Automatic Identification System that reports a ships position, speed and heading as well as the name and MMSI number of the vessel. Someone sent me a link to a web site where you can track ships around the world by their AIS signal. I put in the name of our sailboat just for fun and it turned up in the web site's data base. Someone had taken a photo of the boat and put the name in the database. We have no idea who that was (it says Judy Findlay), but here is the photo: as near as we can tell, it was taken as we were approaching Nanaimo.
Terratima Approaching Nanaimo Harbour
(we think)
The photo can be seen (and our boat tracked when we are sailing) at MarineTraffic.com.
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