The Marine Electronics Hub
It’s a lousy photo, but amazing once you understand it. Notice the piling somewhat hidden behind Navico Broadband Radar engineer Don Korte and right off the bow of yesterday’s demo boat. Then check out the Lowrance HDS 10 screen slightly obscured by my new colleague Chris Woodward (who writes for Sport Fishing). It’s delivering a clean target plot of the piling less than 30′ from the 18″ scanner dome! …
Many readers have commented on my Sailing with an Airmar PB200 entry. I enjoyed reading and responding to comments, and offer this diagram in response to some questions about mounting the PB200.
There’s an old thread at rec.boats.electronics on how to best install a plotter in an open cockpit so it can be easily removed. Sandy offered the interesting suggestion of using “finger cots” to protect the loose power and data plugs when the unit is put away. Finger cots? …
While these screenshots (click’em for full size) are spectacular examples of what Maretron’s new system monitors can do, they are also a bit deceptive. That’s because the underlying sensor technology can scale to much more modest yachts, which don’t need a PC monitoring program like N2KView to use it…
Aha, a worthy electronics-oriented blog I forgot in my “Resources” update (now fixed) is Tom Tripp’s OceanLines. Check out this week’s interesting project: Tom, who also blogs for MadMariner, got several major manufacturers to...
OK, it’s not NMEA 2000, not color, and not touchscreen—kinda homely really—but I’m liking the new Blue Sea DC/AC/tank/bilge monitor…
I am writing to share my excitement about a new product from Airmar, tested aboard my 39 foot sailboat this past October-November. The Airmar PB200 is a compact masthead sensor that includes an ultrasonic (no moving parts) wind sensor, solid state compass, GPS receiver and more, along with a 3-axis accelerometer…
I’ve had impressive results with the Tacktick Micronet system on the Annie G., but the gear is expensive. Good then that Tacktick has introduced an economy version of the
Is Super Bowl Sunday an appropriate day to announce that I’ve switched magazine teams? Well, I do have used game (boat show) uniforms headed to charity, a lot of new teammates to meet, and just might get booed in some parts of New York or Boston! I joke, but as of today I am Senior Electronics Editor for the Bonnier Marine Group, now a major Panbo sponsor. I’ll be writing for…
