North Australian FISH FINDER TM forums

Ive been searching through a few old posts planning some fishing trips and have seen a few where its mentioned that it was a restless night sleep for the captain as was worried boat would drift and when it did not hear the alarm go off. I know the drift alarms on my gps's are very quiet and in my pontoon boat with the slapping of the waves no chance of hearing them.

So I use a application on mobile phone and it works awesome. Does not need phone coverage to work at all. I use the Lite Free version but will just pay the money for the full version for a few extra features.

beauty of it is you can set any sound or song for the alarm sound and my phone is loud and always wakes me. I put it a foot above my head when asleep and have no stress at all.

this is a link to the android version but im sure there is prob apple versions available too

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... rpro&hl=en

There are also apps for the iPad that do the same thing.

might have a go at this.... woke up 11KM away from my anchor point
once, the best night sleep ever without the waves slapping on the
side, but also forgot to set the drift alarm

Ive had similar jefffish, in South asutralia trolling for tuna off Kangaroo Island, I felll asleep on a 40 degree day in passenger seat, captain fell asleep while trolling and we proceeded to braid the lines out the back into a lovely mess over a 5km cirlce run

stuart wrote:Ive had similar jefffish, in South asutralia trolling for tuna off Kangaroo Island, I felll asleep on a 40 degree day in passenger seat, captain fell asleep while trolling and we proceeded to braid the lines out the back into a lovely mess over a 5km cirlce run

There you go Jeff ..... he went first.

only 5Ks