Your Boating Buddy

Community visible smartphone based GPS tracking system to ensure safe, enjoyable recreational boating for everyone. Your Boating Buddy is an informal community visible smartphone based GPS tracking system to ensure safe, enjoyable recreational boating for everyone. Your Boating Buddy does not replace the role of Coastwatch or Marine Rescue services or remove the necessity to contact them when undertaking a boating journey. Your Boating Buddy can store important information about your travel plans eg. departure and arrival times and number of people going out with you etc. The profile page asks about your vessel's safety equipment while storing practical information about registration (if applicable) boat type, length and safety equipment on board etc. Your Boating Buddy creates a "neighbourhood" where boats operating in localities can see each other via the Your Boating Buddy GPS app and communicate casually with each other via the real time "chat" facilities. It even allows family at home to follow your progress. Your Boating Buddy is especially important for smaller craft like kayaks, canoes, surf skis, jet skis, small sailing dinghies and "tinnies", that generally don't carry radios or electronic equipment. Using your smartphone and the Your Boating Buddy website you can now have access to your boating "neighbourhood". In fact wherever your boating adventures take you whether they be on coastal waters or inland rivers lakes, dams or estuaries, if there is a phone signal and Your Boating Buddy members, you will have the community. But Your Boating Buddy doesn't end there. Write about and rate your next trip on Your Boating Buddy's "Places Worth Seeing, Things Worth Doing" page. The information members provide about their trips, what they liked or what they thought could be better, gives other members an insight into new adventures. Your Boating Buddy is a resource to help you get the very best from your time out on the water. There is even more to Your Boating Buddy but it is a story that only you can write as you bring your contribution to Your Boating Buddy community. Make it today. Because The World Is Waiting