Sailing Vessel Junovia

About

Junovia is a Pearson 422 cutter-rigged sloop crewed by Nat, Kendra, Maya, and Morgan Powning.

We left our home port of Portland to cruise full-time in 2024, explored the entire coast of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska in 2025, and are sailing down the US West Coast to California and Mexico in 2026.

USCG Official Number: 904856
Hailing Port: Portland, Oregon, USA
Call Sign: WDH7259
Ship MMSI: 367646420
Tender MMSI: 367633290

Length Over All: 14.6 meters (48 feet)
Length On Deck: 12.9 meters (42 feet 2 inches)
Beam: 4 meters (13 feet)
Draft: 1.7 meters (5.5 feet)
Air Draft: 17 meters (55 feet 10 inches)

Live Status

PredictWind Tracker

Open PredictWind Tracker

A DataHub running aboard Junovia shares position and other information every 5 minutes. In addition to her current location and wind observations, you can see detailed history in this map view going back to May of 2025 before she departed Olympia Washington. The white track shows her path over time, you can click on it at any location to see details at the time she was there.

noforeignland

Junovia also shares her position through noforeignland. An onboard Signal K instance uses the noforeignland plugin to publish location updates whenever Junovia is moving.

Open noforeignland Boat Page

Automatic Identification System (AIS)

A Garmin Cortex Class B+ AIS transponder regularly broadcasts information over VHF radio to nearby vessels and other stations. The transmitted data includes her identification, position, heading, course, and speed. Click here for a good write-up about the Automatic Identification System if you would like to learn how it works at a high level.

There are websites that collect and share AIS data from various stations, including Junovia. Two of these sites are MarineTraffic and VesselFinder where you can see details for all vessels around the world who's AIS data is being picked up by these stations, including Junovia. Check them out to see how many ships are travelling around the world at any given time, you may be surprised at the amount of traffic!

Here are embedded views of Junovia's position on each of these sites: