what do you use..........

[mac1]

for keeping track of the millage? been looking for something to down load onto android phone, but not sure which to use. advise please. thankyou.

[NB Lola]

I use e canal mapp app

[b0atman]

maps and a day per page diary

[Chewbacka]

I have a GPS bike computer that gives me speed whilst moving - good on river seven as if going too slow may arrive too late at the Gloucester lock.

It also records each trips miles - tends to slightly over calculate - and I write them into my paper log.

[Sea Dog]

I use an engine hours counter and a written log with sailing and mooring (plus engine on/off) times. Canal Planner will tell me mileage accurately enough should I feel the need, but I only seem to use miles for planning purposes rather than as a record. On the boat, it's the hours that count for me (and most maintenance tasks) rather than mileage, so I travel in or on something faster when covering miles is important. Last summer I'd been cruising for nearly a month when Google popped up and told me I was 70-odd miles and an hour and a quarter and from where I'd left my car!

 

'Course, that's not to say that you and others shouldn't be interested in the actual mileage you've done!

[Old Son]

I don't do anything other than enjoy my boating

[DHutch]

We have a a4 book, used a page per day that we are boating, primarily to log boiler operations but also boating.

 

We sometimes work out miles and locks for the day from the Nicolsons and or work out lockmiles per hour, sometimes not.

 

For longer trips or even just a day/weekend we use CanalPlanAC.

 

I have a plan to write an index to this, maybe a double spread per year, collating the last 26 years boating.

 

Our engine doesn't have an hour or revolution counter, sadly.

 

 

Daniel

[MtB]

Why does anyone need to track their mileage?

[Robbo]

for keeping track of the millage? been looking for something to down load onto android phone, but not sure which to use. advise please. thankyou.

Google has a online spreadsheet and I'm guessing theirs a app for it as well.

 

Here is some of the columns I have..

 

Date

Moored Days

Engine Hours

Trip Distance

Locks

Swing bridges

Fuel Consumption

Location

Nearest Canalplan location

CRT Locaton Code

Direction

Rating

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Edited December 28, 2016 by Robbo

[Athy]

Why does anyone need to track their mileage?

Quite agree, unless perhaps they want to know how far they have travelled. Yes, that could be it.

[Sea Dog]

Quite agree, unless perhaps they want to know how far they have travelled. Yes, that could be it.

Although, come to think of it, he said "millage" so perhaps it's for a reason known best only to producers of flour, rolled steel, or suchlike?

[Machpoint005]

I don't do anything other than enjoy my boating

 

 

Why does anyone need to track their mileage?

 

And even if they do, isn't a figure accurate to the nearest mile (or even ten miles) easily good enough?

The natural unit of distance on a canal boat is "a day"

[cuthound]

I have an Android app called "Ulysse Speedometer" I use it to measure speed occasionally, but it also has a journey tracking facility.

[Athy]

Although, come to think of it, he said "millage" so perhaps it's for a reason known best only to producers of flour, rolled steel, or suchlike?

Yes, I noted that, but I'm in a benevolently festive mood today (spent reading my new complete Molesworth book by the fire) so I decided not to grind on about it.

[twbm]

Mapmywalk might just do it. Same sort of speeds. And you'll know how many calories the boat's burnt off.

[blackrose]

Engine hours I understand, but I don't really get the need to monitor mileage either? Each to their own and if that's what people enjoy doing it's fine by me but life's too short and it just seems a bit pointless.

Edited December 28, 2016 by blackrose

[Alway Swilby]

We use the Water Explorer website and its Navvygator programme. However you need to run it on Windows.

[Pie Eater]

I have never bothered recording mileage either.

 

I do record the starting and finishing points plus number of hours run etc.

 

Steve

[zenataomm]

I couldn't give a tuppenny hoot about how many miles I've done.

[FadeToScarlet]

I blog whenever we're doing a long trip, so friends and relations know where we are and can meet up.

 

I normally include distances and rough timings, so if I go back in the future I know how long distances took last time, where we stopped, etc. which is useful when journey planning.

 

It's got to the point now that on certain bits of waterway I can predict our arrival time at a destination within 10 minutes, which is quite good.

 

Edit: when skippering the trip boat, I try and get the timings accurate to a minute or so. Arriving after a five hour trip, five seconds after I said I'd be there, was fun.

Edited December 29, 2016 by FadeToScarlet

[Jak]

I blog whenever we're doing a long trip, so friends and relations know where we are and can meet up.

 

I normally include distances and rough timings, so if I go back in the future I know how long distances took last time, where we stopped, etc. which is useful when journey planning.

 

It's got to the point now that on certain bits of waterway I can predict our arrival time at a destination within 10 minutes, which is quite good.

 

Edit: when skippering the trip boat, I try and get the timings accurate to a minute or so. Arriving after a five hour trip, five seconds after I said I'd be there, was fun.

Edit: when skippering the trip boat, I try and get the timings accurate to a minute or so. Arriving after a five hour trip, five seconds after I said I'd be there, was fun.

I'm very impressed. Regularly missed planned deadlines by hours rather than minutes

[blackrose]

Planned deadlines? I have enough of those at work so I'm certainly not going to plan my personal life around deadlines.

[Robbo]

Planned deadlines? I have enough of those at work so I'm certainly not going to plan my personal life around deadlines.

Ever heard of stoppages? If you want to be on the other side of a stoppage then you have a planned deadline.

[Athy]

Planned deadlines? I have enough of those at work so I'm certainly not going to plan my personal life around deadlines.

They can be useful if, for example, you wish to arrive at an event, such as a boat rally or a festival, before it starts rather than when it's about to end. Some of our trips have such "deadlines", others do not.

[BruceinSanity]

I'm very impressed. Regularly missed planned deadlines by hours rather than minutes

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