Monthly Archive: December 2006

Weekend weirdness, tis the season 1

Weekend weirdness, tis the season

Tis the season of wondrously weird marine electronics related holiday cards, and the indisputable winner thus far is EchoPilot’s elaborate goof on megayacht trends. The “New Super Maxtremetti 300 Baby Bling” (bigger here) is beautifully...

Mind your March tide table, new DST and T&C 0

Mind your March tide table, new DST and T&C

There’s something special about this Nobeltec Tides & Currents 3.5 screen shot, bigger here. Besides some sleek improvements to the interface, the program—targeted for release in early January—is corrected for the new Daylight Saving Time...

Jeppesen ECS, AIS to the max 7

Jeppesen ECS, AIS to the max

You really need the full screen above to see what’s going on, but that’s the “tow builder” feature in Jeppesen Marine’s new ECS product, which previewed at the WorkBoat Show. A tug captain can graphically build a...

Comment comment 6

Comment comment

A Panbo reader reports that TypeKey, needed to make comments here, does not work in Firefox 2, which I haven’t tried yet. As best I can tell, it does work fine in Firefox 1.5 and...

Weekend weirdness,  USCG fleet failure 8

Weekend weirdness, USCG fleet failure

I’m steamed this morning, having just read the New York Times detailed expose on all the problems plaguing the U.S. Coast Guard’s multi billion dollar fleet upgrade. It’s just unbelievable. Personally I’m neither anti-government nor anti-corporate,...