Anchor Alarm

Most likely you can not hear it. At least not very load if you have the dooor closed and your AC running. If you have a smart phone with the right app on it or a hand held GPS you can keep it near you at night and set it's anchor alarm function.

That's a smart one, any suggestions for a good working app?

What Pascal said. Cheesy name but good app.

Just wondering (since I have almost the identical boat, two feet longer but the same everywhere else that I can see).....

What about installing a remote alarm in the aft stateroom? It IS quite a distance from the flybridge once you have doors shut and AC units and/or music or a TV running.

I'm installing a bunch of water sensor alarms down in the bridge that are pretty loud even under the salon floor decking and overlying carpet and furniture.

Couldn't a separate and satellite anchor alarm of some type be installed to ring down in the aft stateroom as well as up top?

JMHO, but I'd rather have that then rely upon a phone app........but then my kids marvel at how I mostly use my iPhone 5s to make phone calls 99.9% of the time!

Thnx YF Friends, always great to lean on your experience!!

You can do that if you can tap into the alarm on you plotter.

Or you could just use a baby monitor. And no, I'm not kidding.

EXCELLENT suggestion! I think you just saved me from trying to run a cable for an engine room camera all the way up to the flybridge.

I use Dragqueen. Always generates interesting conversation when someone sees the app on my phone...

Good point. Another reason a baby monitor with camera can work well.

On the Hat I run we installed a remote alarm off the Garmin in my SR. It'll wake the dead.

As a bit of a change in gears here, but not all that much.....I mentioned earlier the idea of a baby monitor saving me the work of running a video line from the engine room, which as you know is under the salon floor of my boat, to the flybridge, where I could hook it up to an open video port on my Garmin 7215.

Is there a way to wirelessly get the cam signal up there (to the Garmin chartplotter, not the baby monitor which is a POS) without wi-fi available, which is when I'd need it, since the time to have "eyes" in the engine room is while underway, not at the dock where I have the marina's wi-fi to use for my dropcam's security system that I can monitor from home or anywhere else I happen to be.

Sorry if this constitutes some from of thread-hijacking which was not my intention at all.

Exactly right; and another vote for Drag Queen

A baby monitor is not what you want to use as a engine room cam.

The only way I know to run one wirelessly would be to hook it to an on board WiFi network and then feed it to your plotter. It could be done. But is it worth it. I mean how hard is it to run the wires?

Well......the problem I have is finding a way to fish those big suckers up the walls of the salon, but maybe, in thinking out loud here, I'm going backasswards.....maybe I should be looking up at the helm for where I can DROP wires DOWN the wall in the space between the inside wall of the flybridge area and the hull. The flybridge sits right above the salon, which sits right over the engine room. (Using the term "room" VERY loosely!)

Maybe there's a way to fish a line down the salon's inner wall between the hull and then just pick it up from wherever it appears and run it to a camera.

I already have a set of camera's (eight!), only one of which I used as a rear view cam pointing from the cockpit hardtop down to the swim platform so I can see how far I am from tapping into the dock as I idle back in. Getting that cable between the tightly sandwiched shell of the hardtop took my mechanic and a helper hours, and it was "real time" because I saw him do it. I can't do THAT again....pay several hundred dollars to get a line the equivalent of 12 or so feet from point A to point B.

I was told by several old salts I'd quickly learn how to employ my long retired motorcycle and home repair skills wherever I could, and I do indeed now find myself doing that so I can save the $$$ for the stuff I know better than to take a shot at. There's not a whole lot of damage I can do trying to run that wire, and those labor costs are better spent on things like my current HE and accompanying hoses replacement. (Although I actually think THAT job is easier! LOL!)


Anyway, maybe that's the way I should approach....top DOWN instead of engine room UP like I had been thinking........I know some of you guys are probably saying "duh.....!!!" but for ME this was a Quantum Leap! LOL!

8 cameras on a 38' boat!? What are you monitoring?

Some wires must go from the engine room to the upper helm. Is there a way you can use that run to get to where you want it to go?

LOL! Sorry....I didn't explain myself clearly! I bought a surveillance system that came with eight outdoor hard-wired cameras with 60 feet of cable each.

It's not my intention to use them all! (In fact so far I have only used one!)

But I bought an "open box" deal on the system that wound up getting me that set for less than 50% of the original price, so I think I'm just going to have a few spares for when/if the salt water/air kills the ones I'm using first!

I'm going to see if I can follow the lines running down from the helm, to maybe find a chase, but there is so little space where those current wires are I doubt I can track anything alongside them.