Coverage where there is no station

Most boats are covered by the station at their marina. A Nomad is for the rest: the boat that lives somewhere nobody runs a station yet, the boat on a mooring ball, the boat that moves. It is the same small box the marinas use, on the boat's own power and internet, and it hears every DockNeighbor sensor aboard.

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Two ways to connect

The M2 ($99) uses the boat's Wi-Fi or a wired connection. The M2-4G ($149) adds cellular with your own SIM, so it needs nothing from the dock. Wired first, then Wi-Fi, then cellular, switching on its own.

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Every sensor, anywhere on the boat

Bilge, batteries, shore power, the tracker: the same sensors, reporting through your own station from the bilge to the bow. The station never counts against your plan's devices.

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Keeps watching through an outage

Lose the connection and the Nomad keeps listening. When the link comes back, it sends what it heard. The alarm still reaches you first and your neighbors after.

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Private to your boat

A Nomad carries only your own sensors. Nobody else's boat reports through it, and nobody sees your readings but you and the crew you choose.

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Let them follow along underway

With a GPS tracker aboard reporting through your Nomad, the people you choose see where the boat is as you go: a partner meeting you at the next harbor, family watching a passage. You pick who, and for how long.

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The boat's Wi-Fi router and firewall, too

The Nomad is a router underneath. Use it as the boat's Wi-Fi and firewall, with the 4G model putting the boat online on its own SIM, so one box does the job of two.

Where the boat is covered, with and without a Nomad Four places: a marina with a station, a marina with no station, a mooring, and at anchor or underway. With sensors only, the boat is covered at the marina with a station and nowhere else. With a Nomad aboard, the boat is covered in all four, and at the marina with a station the marina's station is the backup. 🏢 Marina with a station 🏚️ Marina with no station 🛟 Mooring ⚓ At anchor or underway Sensors only covered where a station is ⛵ ⛵ ⛵ ⛵ ✓ covered not covered not covered not covered With a Nomad aboard covered everywhere the boat goes ⛵ ⛵ ⛵ ⛵ ✓ covered · marina is the backup ✓ covered ✓ covered ✓ covered
Sensors alone are covered where a station is. A Nomad aboard covers the boat everywhere, with the marina's station as backup where there is one.

Still backed up by the DockNeighbor Network

Pull into a marina with a DockNeighbor Station and both stations hear your sensors. Yours carries them; the marina's is the backup. If your Nomad loses power or its connection, the marina's station picks the sensors up without you doing anything. Leave, and your Nomad carries them again. You can still name a home station at the place you keep the boat, so its host earns the credit.

Your Nomad carries the sensors; the marina's station is the backup The boat's sensors are heard by both the Nomad aboard and the marina's station. The Nomad carries them to the cloud. If the Nomad goes dark, the marina's station takes over on its own. Both reach the same cloud, which reaches you. ⛵ Your boat 🌊 bilge sensor 🔋 battery sensor ⚡ shore power Nomad aboard 📡 Marina's station hears the same sensors stands by as the backup ☁️ DockNeighbor Cloud one record of the boat, whichever station carried it carries your sensors if the Nomad goes dark 📲 You first, anywhere Cast off and the hand-off reverses itself: out of the marina's range, the Nomad is the only station that hears the boat.
At a marina on the network both stations hear the boat. Yours carries the sensors; the marina's steps in only if yours goes dark.

How the network works, and who runs the stations →

Setting it up

  1. Buy the station. The M2 or the M2-4G, from the exact product pages on Supported Devices. Put a SIM in the 4G model if you want cellular.
  2. Plug it in aboard. Power and, for the M2, the boat's internet. The app sets it up in a few minutes and adds it to your boat.
  3. Scan in your sensors. They report through the Nomad from then on.
  4. Go. Nothing to do when you arrive somewhere new, and nothing to undo when you leave.

Your boat, watched wherever she is

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