We’ve been sailing in the coast of Alicante, going from Altea to Ifach Rock. In the image above you can see some geolocalized photos of the trip.
The satellite transponder Spot behaved great. It works even under the cabin!
Atlantic Source sells Spot satellite trackers and develops custom solutions. Don’t hesitate to contact us to get more information or acquire your tracker. We ship internationally.
That’s the name of a truly nice initiative, in which its promoters will sail around the world 50.000 miles during almost 4 years. Their goal is to bring the attention to the people with the HIV virus and their integration problems into society.
You can read more about the project here (in Spanish).
We hope them the very best luck in this initiative 
We have updated the products description table to include after the satellite tracking devices, the Iridium 9555, the satellite phone you can buy or rent from us when you need to talk with great reliability from anywhere in the world. 100% coverage including the poles!
Iridium satellite phones, especially the last model, the 9555, are the best option to transmit voice via satellite economically, and with the reliability of the conventional GSM mobile phones.
In AtPosition we sell and rent out these equipment if you want to enjoy its advantages during a punctual journey. Although AtPosition is a website specially dedicated to the boating sector, we have rented these phones to a very wide audience, such as hikers, hunters or mountain adventurers.
In this Atlantic Source webpage, you can read the prices of an Iridium mobile satellite phone in case you want to purchase it or prefer to rent it. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you want to know more.
We spent the day sailling with the Jadic yesterday, carrying the Spot tracking device, with excellent results as the map below shows. Garbí wind (SW) with constant wind above 20 knots, reaching 27 at some moments of the journey. Sailing against the wind with two reefs on the main sail and self-turning genova. The sea condition was pretty rough, with short front waves at 1,5-2m.
And we had a great time!
Ayer estuvimos navegando con el Spot, teniendo unos estupendos resultados, como podéis ver en el mapa adjunto.
Atlantic Source is a Spot Dealer and solution provider. So don’t hesitate to contact us to buy your Spot unit. We ship internationally.
We are glad to track yet again Cris and Jordi’s journeys, this time onboard the beautiful Catamaran Unama.
You can currently track via satellite their journey, at present at Sicilia.
We have followed their journeys in the Med, in the Atlantic French Coast, crossing the Atlantic in several occasions, and during months in the Caribbean, so we are truly happy that the can still enjoy their boating dream, this time in Turkey.
Cris and Jordi are proffessional Yacht masters, with many thousands of miles behind them, sometimes taking boats from their customers wherever owners want them to be. Some other times they are skippers for yachts in charter worldwide.
We will be soon creating an index of charter companies among our customers, so that you can directly contact these companies, if you want to enjoy these very special experiences, such as scuba diving, learning to sail, visiting remote countries, knowing people with similar curiosity, in a completely different way.
Congratulations again to the team that is developing the OpenCPN software.
This program is used to manage everything related to the navigation needs on board. We can connect a GPS, and install almost any format of navigational charts (vector or raster( and enjoy a simple and powerful tool. Is also free and open source.
Among the most interesting features we can highlight:
- AIS information display
- GRIB weather files reader
- Complete management of routes, waypoints, giving us indicators such as Bearing, Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA), Distance to Goal (DTG), both as the total route or the leg we are sailing.
- The interface is very intuitive and fast, and although it is very well documented, there is no need to study a manual.
OpenCPN works for both PC, Linux and Mac, and really requires little power to operate at high speed, unlike most demanding programs such as MaxSea.
You can learn more and download it from here: http://www.opencpn.org/
Currently a beta is also available for the new version 2.1, with many additions and improvements.
Among the satellite tracking devices we work with, you can find the spot satellite messenger.
When you purchase it from us, it is automatically integrated in our system so that you can choose at any time the websites and social networks where you want your location to show up.
You can see a description of this device down here:
- SPOT is the world’s first and only satellite messenger
- SPOT sends messages via satellite to e-mail adresses and cell phones
- Each message contains two things:
1. GPS coordinates
2. A link to a Google Map
- There are three modes of messaging:
1. 911. When the 911 button is pressed, a message is sent to our international 911 response center. The proper authorities are then dispatched to your location.
2. OK. The OK message sends an all is ok message to friends and family.
3. Help. The help button is designed to be used in non-life threatening situations. The people on your contact list are notified of your position and request for assistance.
There is also a tracking feature. Every 10 minutes for 24 hours, your position is plotted. With your permission, anyone with an Internet connection can monitor your progress. The tracking feature is also an excellent personal trip log that is great compliment to photos or journal entries.
After the support given by the Caja Navarra Eurecan project to us when we started our project, we are very glad to announce that our AtPosition initiative has won the Bancaja’s young entrepreneur’s prize.
We are very grateful to the organization and members of the jury for understanding the potential of our initiative, and for giving us this push that gives us even more energy to keep working towards our goal of developing services that make boating more interactive and social from the internet.
It would be very interesting to analyze the impact of the boating tourism in the Balearic Islands.
In our satellite tracking webpage for boats, we regularly follow the frequent trips of our customers to the Balearic Islands, which significantly increases during the summer.
Besides, many Europeans choose the Balearics as the HQ for their boats. All this boats have to pay manteinance, equipment and mooring fees, that provide a significant flow of cash into the Islands.
Most of their owners are in tourist mode, so they spend on food, car rental and many others while staying in the Islands, and since their purchase power is medium to high, the impact of their stay is very significant.
Somebody should study whether the Islands suffer what economists call the dutch desease, i.e., the illness suffered by countries that specialize so much in a very succesful industry, that it stops the incentives or capacity to generate wealth in any other sectors.
In any case, the early recovery of countries such as Germany will surely have a positive impact in the economy of the Islands.
To make things clear, we have created a comparative table on different satellite location devices that we use for our satellite tracking solutions.
We hope you find it useful. Don’t hesitate to contact us in case you have any doubts.
Charter companies often rent out their boats without a skipper.
If the customer is not an usual one, the charter company manager’s may have the doubt of whether the boats maybe used for means other than leisure boating.
For that reason Atlantic Source has developed the AtPosition satellite tracking service. From a private access, the charter company can track at all times the location of their fleet, and know a historic track of their positions.
Besides, AtPosition offers devices that can’t be jammed, like other GPRS devices, and besides they don’t need an external power supply, so it means “charter companies can be ahead of the bad guys!”.
The position can also be published in other websites, giving external publicity to your charter services, and giving an extra service to your customers by allowing their loved ones to track their journeys.
Don’t hesitate to contact us to know more.
The Inmarsat devices are connected to the power supply from 9-32 V and will start transmitting with the program you desire.
They are installed permanently and it is the ideal solution if you just want to forget that you have a tracking solution onboard. Ideal for long distance boaters, long distance regattas or charter companies willing to monitor their fleet.
If you want a small autonomous device transmitting via satellite, ideal for short distance journeys or regattas needing satellite coverage, the Globalstar Smartone device is the perfect option where GPRS or AIS coverage does not exist.
And if what you are looking for is an autonomous device with semi-automatic transmission, low-cost transmission fees, that you can take with you in your car or when trekking, the spot messenger is an amazing solution:
All devices for all possible customer requirements. Want to know more? Contact us at info (@) atlantic-source (.) com!!
Satellite tracking services are based on three main different stages:
- Manufacturers of transmitting hardware
- Telecom operator which manages a constellation of satellites in orbit
- Companies providing tracking services
Frequently, stages 1 and 2 of the service are an alliance of both kinds of companies, since each device is specially designed to work in each constellation.
Stage 3 is where our AtPosition service is. We access the raw data transmitted by the satellite transponders, and develop services customized for the needs of our customers.
Usually companies in stage 3 provide a very concrete service for a kind of customer. One of the things that we believe makes AtPosition different, is that we have agreements with different operators, such as Inmarsat, Globalstar and Iridium in order to provide the most customized service to our customers needs in any case, whether they are regatta competitors on the coast, on long journeys, globetrotters, etc.
For example, Iridium is very strong because of its very reliable satellite telephone service. Its constellation has 66 low orbiting satellites. Chances of finding 66 satellites are very good, and that’s why conversations are unlikely to suffer sudden cuts.
Inmarsat is very well known for its reliability in data transmission. The hardware that we sell with the Inmarsat service is completely programmable and can be set to transmit when certain events occur, such as when the boat leaves the harbour, or starts moving, so it saves a lot of money in transmission costs. But definitely its biggest advantage is that it is installed permanently and connected to the power supply, so no need to install batteries, and it transmits automatically, so you don’t need either to update your position manually by pressing a hardware button or similar. It is ideal for long journeys, charter companies willing to control a fleet, or simply private owners willing to control remotely their boat.
Globalstar has a very broad range of products. They are in most cases autonomous, with their own batteries and you can even take them with you outside your boat. They are ideal for short journeys close or far from the coast and you can update your position by simply pressing a button. Besides, rates of tranmission can be sent more frequently.
It is thanks to these agreements with the most important satellite players that AtPosition is able to provide customized satellite services for every possible boater: regatta competitors, private owners, charter companies, long journeys, etc…
Location positions are sent from our hardware in our customer’s boats via satellite and shared with other websites so that overall satellite tracking gains the broadest diffusion and media impact for regatta organizers and sponsors. Users have at any time full control of their privacy and may allow individually the websites or social networks were they want their boats to show up.
Very interesting site on boating in barcos de recreo, a site in Spanish explaining diverse information on leisure boating.
It is especially interesting the article about preparing a globe sailing trip and particularly about “Expedición por la vida” an expedition organized by people from Barcelona.
We’ll talk to them, maybe they’ll be interested in letting their friends, family and followers track the development of their boat trip real time.
In any case we really hope them the very best!
You can already track the ships of users in the AtPosition service in the localizatodo website.
Just visit it and go to satellite tracking, where you’ll find some of the current users and also participants from the Gran Prix regatta.
Besides in the regatta option you can track a replay of the whole journey of the participants.
Ship Finder, one of the most downloaded boat tracking applications, will be including soon among its tracked boats those from users in AtPosition, transmitting its location via satellite. The data will soon be integrated so that you can track boats from your iPhone.
You can find more info about Ship Finder from his authors website here and you can download from iTunes here.
Koke Contreras is a popular goalkeeper in the Spanish football. He has played in the National Football team and in several 1st division teams in Spain.
Still angry for the unfair expulsion of Spain in the Korea’s football championship in 2002, he decided to visit the referee responsible for that decision in his home country, but the journey was sailing the Atlantic.
He is already on his way back, and you can track him in the satellite tracking website, and his blog in the popular Marca newspaper here.
Telémaco is the name of the boat Rik has jumped on to start his journey. We still don’t know where exactly, but you can find information about it in his blog here. Check his current location here.
Fair winds!!
Alan, Ralph and Stephan are three adventurers that have jumped onboard Sinera Thumbelina to cross the world between Arenys de Mar (Barcelona) and Sydney (Australia). At the time of writing this post they are in the Canaries, check here to follow their track.
And here to check info on their journey.
All the best!
Atposition has been selected again as the technology provider for the prestigious Spanish Atlantic race Gran Prix del Atlántico
Summary in English of the article published in the weekly edition of La Razón.
Atlantic Source offers automatic satellite geolocation services especially designed for boats with an extremely easy installation procedure.
The idea originates from the need of boaters to share their trip with fleet managers, charter company customers or relatives of private owners willing to know the location of their loved ones while sailing around the world.
This initiative gave Atlantic Source’s founders the Bancaja Foundation Prize for Young Entrepreneurs.
The main difference with other services is that the device is programmed to transmit automatically with no need of any human intervention, and it can also be set to send other interesting information on board if you want to set fire alarms, water leak alarms, etc…
Atlantic Source expects many new web services in the near future around this technology.
AtPosition is a satellite geopositioning system especially designed for the boating sector.
Buy buying any of our satellite geolocation products, you can control from this website in what other sites you wish your location information to be published, either 100% private for you, or published in many other sites like in a regatta tracking event, in order to increase it’s media impact. It is an initiative winner of the Bancaja young entrepreneur’s prize.
It is operated by Atlantic Source s.l.
I have no doubt OpenCPN is the best navigation software currently in the market, and good news is it doesn’t stop adding more and more features!!