So, there are boats. They float on the water, mainly, and usually they’re driven by mankind, and most of them have motors and many of them carry things and one time, a few weeks ago, I saw a school of dolphins and another man there in the water told me one might kill me. He said Joe Rogan opened his eyes to that.
At some point, I think it was the day after the dolphins, I saw a boat and I said, “I feel like there’s an app that can tell me where that boat is going,” and sure enough, there was an app that could tell me where that boat was going. Memory was correct. MarineTraffic is the app, and it is a rush. You can follow boats on there, just like you can follow athletes on the sports apps and probably bears on some bear apps but less certainty on the bears.
I’ve been following the boat I saw on MarineTraffic. You can make “fleets” on there (like Twitter fleets except they’re collections of boats you follow), so I made one called, “Boats I Saw,” and put this boat in it. It’s called the Adria Ace, and it’s a vehicle carrier, and so far, since I saw it, it’s gone to Veracruz, Mexico; Brunswick, Georgia; Veracruz, Mexico; Brunswick, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Veracruz, Mexico. Evidently Veracruz and Brunswick are big boat ports. Things you learn when you pay $9.99 for the boat app.
Did I pay $9.99 to get more information about the Adria Ace? I think so. That was the goal. Annual subscription, I believe, and my impression is that the number of boats you can follow is unlimited but that the number of notifications you can get about those boats (midnight position, noon position, midnight position, noon position, etc.) is limited. It’s possible you can get a lot of the information on the free version, though, too. I have no way of knowing now. I already paid $9.99.
In the event you don’t have to pay to follow boats, we should probably make a fantasy boat league. How would it work? Beats me. I guess we’d just count up the port calls in a month? Or assign point values to different ports and let you score points when your boat or boats get there? This seems feasible. I think we’re getting somewhere.
In the event you do have to pay to follow boats, we shouldn’t make a fantasy boat league. What we should do instead is say, “Hey MarineTraffic, if you give us a discount and The Barking Crow a referral bonus, we’ll send like eight subscriptions your way.” Then, we should make a fantasy boat league.
