Remote — live boat sharing and flotillas
Remote is where your boat goes on the map for the people who care about
it. Share a live position, run a fleet together, and let watchers ashore
know the instant a boat drags — even when no one is aboard to hear the
siren.
At the top of the tab, a short "Ashore while she's on the hook?" card
explains what Remote does for you in plain terms: see your boat's live
position from anywhere, get your phone alerted the moment the anchor drags,
and let family or crew watch with one invite code. Below it, the Live
Beacon card shows your broadcast status ("Anchor Watch — Broadcasting"
while your anchor watch is armed), then the Channels section, and — if
you don't have Remote yet — a Get Real-Time Remote button that takes you
straight to the Store to buy it.
The deep, control-by-control reference lives on the
SafeAnchor → Remote page — Remote and the anchor
watch share the same live-broadcast engine. This page is the overview; it
cross-links there rather than repeating every detail.
Live Beacon — free for everyone
Whenever your boat is on the water — anchored or under way — AnchorQueen
broadcasts a live beacon with your position so others nearby can see you
in real time. This is free on every plan and turns on automatically; the
Live Beacon card shows whether it is active.
What you share is governed by your privacy setting — Social Captain
(boat and name visible), Safety Only (position shared, identity hidden),
or Ghost Mode (nothing broadcast). Change it any time in your
captain profile. Full behaviour, including how the beacon
switches to auto-monitoring while your anchor watch is armed, is described in
Private channels — watch one boat
A private channel lets a specific person follow your boat's live track:
that up to 2 people can watch. You get an invite code to share;
add an optional password to lock it.
password if the channel has one) to start watching. Joining never needs
a subscription — only creating a channel does.
Without a qualifying plan the two create buttons show an UPGRADE
badge — tapping one takes you straight to the
Store's subscription section, where the Real-Time Remote
yearly subscription (or any Pro/Max plan) unlocks channel creation.
Once you are in a channel it lists every connected vessel with its name,
captain, and a live / stale indicator, and shows the current invite code —
tap rotate (⟳) to issue a fresh code and instantly retire the old one.
The chart side of this — the row of vessel buttons and the fleet links — is
covered in SafeAnchor → the fleet strip.
Flotilla — track a whole fleet
A flotilla is a shared channel for a group sailing together — a rally,
charter fleet, club cruise, or regatta.
to 100. Everyone who joins sees every boat on one map.
roster with each boat's status, and the shared itinerary — the
day-by-day plan and overnight anchorages. Tap any boat to open its
vessel card (status, speed, course, distance from you, specs, and exact
position).
Organisers can manage the fleet and build the itinerary from the web portal
at anchorqueen.com → Flotillas. The full fleet-board and vessel-card
reference is on SafeAnchor → Flotilla.
Push-ashore drift alerts
Watching a channel is not only passive. When a boat you are watching starts
to drag its anchor, AnchorQueen sends a push notification to the people
ashore — every watcher in that channel is alerted the moment the boat
crosses its safe zone, not just whoever is aboard. That is the point of
Remote: the captain may be asleep below, but the partner ashore, or the crew
member out for dinner, finds out instantly and can call the boat.
dragging, not a stream of repeats while it sits past the line.
the same time, so a glance confirms which vessel it is.
channel, or a flotilla for a fleet). The free [Live Beacon](#live-beacon)
shares position but does not push a drift alert to watchers.
Watching from your own second device
To leave one device on the boat (say an iPad) and follow it from another
(your iPhone), sign the watching device into a different account and join
the boat's channel with the invite code. Two devices on the same account
would clash (each hides the other as "self"). The full recipe is in
If something goes wrong
(private or flotilla), not just the free Live Beacon, and that the watcher
has notifications enabled.
the captain profile; Safety Only and Ghost Mode
keep you off the public chart layer.