Wondering if any of you have an opinion on the recent changes on ActiveCaptain. I've always found it to be really useful for checking out new destinations or changes to familiar ones. As you probably know, it was recently sold to Garmin, which is clearly serious about investing in it and taking it to the next level.
That level seems to involve making it more "social." AC started this trend a few years ago with something called Boat Cards. We don't want to be more "social" when we cruise -- our real friends know what we're up to and, if they care enough, they can track our AIS. And vice versa. I always ignored the Boat Card option.
I just went to AC to investigate some options for an upcoming delivery. There's a new sign-in procedure, which now requires you to set up a Boat Card, starting with including a photo of your boat and then adding all sorts of info. Some apparently can be kept private -- whatever that means these days -- but they do not show examples and they do not state explicitly what the required public info will be or if you have the option of not filling in some fields.
Once again, an example of Big Company making money off our data. Still, if the posted public info is minimal enough, I might be willing to make the trade off in order to have access to AC's excellent info. Otherwise.....well, I'll just make do.
Any experience with this? Thanks!
That level seems to involve making it more "social." AC started this trend a few years ago with something called Boat Cards. We don't want to be more "social" when we cruise -- our real friends know what we're up to and, if they care enough, they can track our AIS. And vice versa. I always ignored the Boat Card option.
I just went to AC to investigate some options for an upcoming delivery. There's a new sign-in procedure, which now requires you to set up a Boat Card, starting with including a photo of your boat and then adding all sorts of info. Some apparently can be kept private -- whatever that means these days -- but they do not show examples and they do not state explicitly what the required public info will be or if you have the option of not filling in some fields.
Once again, an example of Big Company making money off our data. Still, if the posted public info is minimal enough, I might be willing to make the trade off in order to have access to AC's excellent info. Otherwise.....well, I'll just make do.
Any experience with this? Thanks!