How to watch the "tracking." I was asked to explain it for the benefit of people like myself who have a hard time figuring this stuff out. So bear with me if I don't use the proper technical terminology.

When you go to our Tybee 500 page, click on "Tracking" in the box at the right side. It will show you a sort of map with a bunch of little bubble things all kind of clumped together. They are in groups of two -- a black round thing with a little orange pointer on the bottom and an associated, colored circle with a number in it.

The orange pointer on the bottom of the black thing tells you where the boat was at the last report, and they seem to be changing positions about every 10 minutes. Point your mouse hand finger on the black bubble, and it will tell you the time when that position was posted.

The color in the attached circle tells you which boat is reporting, and the number in the colored circle tells you the number of the report, the highest number being the most current.

The legend on the left side of the page beside the map tells you which color is which. Unfortunately, to add to confusion, the one designated as "yellow" shows up as green on my map. And the one designated as "white" shows up as light blue on my map. And orange, of course, is not there at all because of some malfunction, apparently.

Important: In order to better see what is going on, you need to spread out the gaggle of bubbles. So over to the left side is a ladder-type thing with a little bar on it. You can move that bar up on the "ladder" a rung or two at a time to expand the map and spread out the "bubbles."

And if you want to see what the shoreline really looks like, click on "Satellite," and it will give you a google view, which is sometimes more interesting.

Remember, though, that all those bubbles are only representing TWO boats, so we only know what is happening with those two boats, Marley's 2 (yellow, which displays as green), and Marley's 3 (white, which displays as light blue).

If you keep the tracking page open, refresh the page whenever you think about it, because it updates the positions about every 10 minutes.

Oh, yes, and you can use your "hand" pointer to move the map up and down by holding down your left mouse button.