Anchor AlarmGlossary
Marine and app terms used in this manual.
Active Vessel — the boat AnchorQueen is currently tracking as yours. Set
it by dragging a boat onto the active slot in
Captain → My Vessels; it survives relaunch.
AIS (Automatic Identification System) — live position broadcasts from
nearby vessels. Jules can list the closest traffic
on request.
Anchor watch — keeping check that an anchored boat is not dragging.
AnchorQueen automates this from the SafeAnchor tab.
Armed — the alarm state in which the anchor watch is actively
monitoring your position. The watch arms itself once the anchor commits —
there is no separate Arm button.
ATT (App Tracking Transparency) — Apple's first-run prompt asking
whether the app may track activity for ads. Declining does not limit any
AnchorQueen feature; a PRO subscription removes ads entirely.
Base map — the underlying chart style. Pick it in the chart's
Chart Layers → Maps panel, not in Settings.
Captain's Library — the unified manager for saved routes, waypoints,
captain's marks, and recorded passages. Opened from the side menu's
Capt's Routes entry — see [Chart → Captain's
Library](chart.html#captains-library).
Captain's mark — a position you saved on the chart. Marks appear in
the Capt's Notebook Pin Carousel and can carry
photos, voice memos, and a signature.
Chart region — a packaged offline map area you install from the
Store. The offline-first source of soundings and
vector charts.
Comfort index / score — a sea-state rating (e.g. Moderate Sea State)
shown in Meteo → Events. Tap it for the comfort
history and forecast.
Command Palette — the dual-mode search overlay opened from the search
icon: a Map Search tab (places, harbours, seamarks, saved waypoints,
with recent history) and a Features tab. See
Course Predictor — the dashed line drawn ahead of your boat showing
where you will be six minutes from now. A toggle in the chart's
Chart Layers → Navigation tab (on by default).
Crosshair / reticule — the on-screen target marker that reports depth
at the chart center; toggle in Discover.
Datum (tidal) — the reference level tide heights are measured from
(e.g. MLLW, Mean Lower Low Water). Shown as a badge on the
Meteo station card; subtract it to estimate
real clearance.
Depth-aware route — a route that is planned to keep you in safe water
for your boat. Jules plans these on request.
Direct It — nudging the set anchor a chosen distance ahead of the
boat along your live heading, using a slider — see
SafeAnchor. No bearing is typed.
Dock to Dock — the guided A→B route-build mode (departure and
destination slots) as opposed to free-form drawing. See
Document Vault — a private 50 MB store on the
Captain tab for certificates, insurance,
and ship's papers (PDF / JPEG / PNG).
DOP (dilution of precision) — a GPS fix quality number. Lower is
better.
Drifting — the alarm state when your boat has crossed the alarm
radius. The radar flashes and the alarm sounds.
EEZ / maritime zone — a sea-area jurisdiction (territorial sea,
Exclusive Economic Zone) belonging to a sovereign state.
Jules can tell you which one you are in.
Fishing effort — vessel-hours of active fishing, the metric behind the
Merconi fishing heatmap. Sourced from GFW.
Flotilla — multi-vessel remote anchor-watch, a MAX-tier feature that
lets you monitor several boats at once. See Store.
GFW (Global Fishing Watch) — the open source behind the
Merconi fishing-effort heatmap. The layer needs a
configured GFW token.
Ghost Fleet — the live positions of other AnchorQueen captains shown
on the chart (distinct from the Voyage Ghost vessel below). A layer in
the Region Button Bar.
Ghost vessel — the semi-transparent vessel marker that plays back the
route during Voyage.
Grace period — the window (up to 90 days) after a chart-region
subscription lapses: the region stays viewable but automated routing and
updates pause. See Store.
Grounding alarm — a warning that the water under your keel has dropped
below your safety margin. Shows a red chart banner with Silence /
Dismiss. Unlike the drag and man-overboard alarms it is visual only —
it plays no sound; see SafeAnchor.
Heading — the compass direction your bow points, in degrees (0–360).
Holding score — a rating of how well an anchor will grip the seabed
at a spot, based on the seabed type. Ask Jules.
Jules Needs / Jules token — your daily AI allowance for
Jules. Buy bonus token packs (Deckhand / Navigator /
Admiral) in Store → Jules Needs.
Legend panel — a collapsible side panel that holds layer toggles on
the chart; minimize it to the Region Button Bar.
Live Discover — the sidebar tally of nautical objects (lights, buoys,
harbours, anchorages, wrecks…) AnchorQueen collects as you pan the chart.
See Basic UI.
Meteogram — a multi-day graphical forecast; the third sub-tab of
Meteo. Its 3-day and 7-day ranges are a PRO
feature.
MOB — Man Overboard. The button on every map tab that drops an
emergency marker, starts return guidance, and records a recovery track.
See Basic UI → MOB and
NMEA — the standard sentence format marine instruments use to share
data. Connect a Wi-Fi gateway or Bluetooth pod in
OBIS — the live Ocean Biodiversity Information System database behind
Merconi marine-life pins. Networked, with the last
viewed area cached.
Officer — one of Jules's expert personas (e.g.
meteorologist, navigator). Selected from the pill row at the top of the
chat.
Pin Carousel — the row of floating captain's-mark chips at the top of
the Capt's Notebook chart, sorted nearest-first
to the chart center. Its leading count badge opens the Pin Manager.
Pin Manager — the sheet opened from the Pin Carousel count badge to
list, fly to, and delete saved marks (including bulk delete). See
Port of entry — a harbour with customs and immigration offices where
you can clear in to a country. Jules can find the
nearest ones.
Pre-arm ("Locking GPS…") — the brief step after you tap Drop
Anchor while the watch averages accurate fixes before committing the
anchor position. See SafeAnchor.
Public Beacons — the opt-in live positions of other AnchorQueen
captains, shown on the chart with an amber ring (your own flotilla shows
teal; raw AIS has no ring).
Region Button Bar — the bottom-left vertical capsule of minimized
legend-panel buttons. Zero-count categories auto-hide; the bar collapses
to a chevron.
Rode — the chain or rope connecting your boat to its anchor.
Safety Profile — optional SOLAS SAR / ISAF details (blood type,
emergency contact) on the Captain tab,
used when you raise a distress alert. Its SAR Ready badge lights when
the three critical fields are set.
Scope — the ratio of deployed rode length to water depth. More scope
holds better but lets the boat swing in a wider circle.
Seamark — a charted navigation aid such as a buoy, beacon, or
lighthouse. Jules can list those near you.
Server / Client — the two roles in
Remote monitoring. The server stays aboard; the
client goes ashore.
Speed over ground (SOG) — your speed across the seabed, from GPS.
On the chart HUD the SOG readout colour-shifts as an early drag cue.
Sub-mode — a switch inside a tab, shown as a frosted pill bar at the
bottom. SeaTracker has Route / Discover / Voyage; Merconi has Diving /
Discover / Fishing; SafeAnchor has Anchor Watch / Radar / Remote.
Swing radius — the distance a boat moves around its anchor as wind
and tide change.
Tile Engine — the Settings → Chart
option that chooses how map tiles are fetched: a three-tier offline cache
or direct streaming.
Tile pack — a downloaded bundle of chart tiles for offline use,
either cached on demand from the Chart tab or as
part of an installed region.
Track Style — the Settings → Chart
controls for how recorded tracks are drawn (solid or speed-gradient
colour, line width, opacity, fade).
TSS (Traffic Separation Scheme) — IMO-designated one-way shipping lanes
divided by a no-go separation zone. COLREGS Rule 10 requires crossing
near a right angle and forbids anchoring in the zone (Rule 10(g)). AnchorQueen
draws schemes offline and alarms on violations — see
Turn card — the heading and distance instruction shown above the
ghost vessel during Voyage.
Under-keel clearance — estimated metres of water beneath the keel
(negative means aground). Drives the
Vessel Command Cluster — the fan-out floating button on
Voyage with My Vessel / Ghost / Go / Anchor / Depart.
Voice memo — a spoken note (up to 45 seconds) attached to a captain's
mark; plays back even with the silent switch on. See
WoRMS — the World Register of Marine Species, the taxonomy source that
enriches Merconi species pins with common names and
reference links.