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GPS and Locks! How to Secure Your Dinghy
15 de fevereiro de 2025 · 8 min · 33K visualizações
O que este vídeo aborda
Dinghy theft and dinghy loss from poor securing are the two main risks Tim addresses, drawing on cruising experience in Miami and the Bahamas.0:04 In Miami, heavy dock traffic made a 15-foot chain and padlock necessary; in the Bahamas, the same chain provided peace of mind, though theft was rare due to severe local penalties.0:27 To stop outboard theft specifically, Tim uses a custom outboard lock — a machine-shop-cut pipe with a long-shank padlock — which he rates above anything found on Amazon.1:34 Spray-painting a new outboard to look old and worn is another deterrent he has seen cruisers use.1:00 For tracking a lost or stolen dinghy, Tim evaluates Apple AirTags and rejects them: AirTags depend on nearby Apple devices to report position and alert those same devices, exposing the tracker to a thief.4:28 He recommends instead the Air, Land, and Sea GPS tracker, a hockey-puck-sized device that costs $10 on Amazon, uses its own GPS chip to ping satellites every three minutes, and requires no nearby devices.4:55 The subscription runs $20 per month on a rolling plan or $10 per month on a two-year contract.5:58 The main practical limitation is battery life — without an onboard 12-volt battery, the unit needs manual USB-C charging roughly weekly, and a dead tracker is useless if the dinghy goes missing overnight.7:20
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