Here's a unique website where you can search for individual ships at sea by name or vicinity (latitude/longitude) and see their position mapped. Click on the 'All ships worldwide' link and you'll see that it's busy out there on the water! If you don't want to see 'all ships,' you can restrict the display to such vessels as Tall Ships or cruising yachts or ocean liners. Check around the 'live tracker' map and it will bring up lists of ships in the vicinity, along with the time each one was last reported (UTC) and its latitude and longitude. Every ship name displayed is a live link that you can click-on to view where it's been and where it's going next. http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/

The associated YOTREPS http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps tracks small long-distance sail-yachts, who report in voluntarily for extra security.   

There is also http://www.yachtspotter.com which tracks only mega-yachts over 30m, fed by interested people ashore all over the world (the “spotters”).  These vessels are the ones which usually shun being reported as the owners prefer privacy.  

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