TowPro The Advanced Tender Monitoring System For Towing Behind Your Superyacht
Want to tow at night?
Over 90 nautical miles?
In various conditions?
Fully insured with lower deductibles?
You can with TowPro
- Maintain constant monitoring of the tender on and off tow
- Battery levels, Bilge pump, Pitch, Yaw Roll
- Be alerted to problems before they arise
- Robust VHF connection (not Cellular) backed up by Iridium
Captain Paul Clarke on MY Loon. Explaining our system
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Tow at night, Reduce your risk of damage and loss of tender, Improve insurance terms, Complete monitoring under tow
The risks of superyacht tender towing and damage when either moored or left unattended are an industry problem: insurers are losing too much money, captains and owners are unhappy with the operational limitations caused by insurance restrictions, and when a tender is lost or damaged there’s disappointment for owners and guests. No-one’s happy – the older existing towing protection simply wasn’t working.
Cross-industry collaboration on ‘advanced tow protection’ created TowPro. TowPro“eyes in the boat” keep captains aware of issues day and night – preventing losses, reducing insurance claims, and already allowing leading insurers to reduce towing restrictions.
Tender towing best practice today
Insurers require captains to make regular observations of the towed tender from the yacht, but the challenge is that remote observations can only provide incomplete safety information about the tender, for example: whether the tender is there, and the stability of its surfing and yawing motion.
What a remote observer cannot do is:
- monitor key safety information inside the boat: how long bilge pumps are running for, level of charge in the battery, bilge water levels.
- maintain continuous observations to ensure early awareness.
- maintain clear observations of the tender by night.
The consequence is that by the time a watchkeeper can see a problem with the tender, it may be too late to take action to prevent an incident or loss.
The insurance market has endorsed our system
In the following video, TSM Systems, Pantaenius, and Boote Polche are discussing the topic of tender/chase boat towing and the insurance restrictions surrounding it. They are also exploring the capabilities of the TowPro system, which offers monitoring of the towing process, including on and off towing, and allows for flexibility in towing at night and in various conditions. Boot24 Dusseldorf
TSM Systems, Pantaenius, and Boote Polche are discussing the topic of tender/chase boat towing and the insurance restrictions surrounding it. They are also exploring the capabilities of the TowPro system, which offers monitoring of the towing process, including on and off towing, and allows for flexibility in towing at night and in various conditions.