Siren Marine founder and CEO Dan Harper passes away
Many of us in the marine electronics industry got a gut-punch of an email yesterday afternoon. Dan Harper, the founder and CEO of Siren Marine, just died at age 51, and Siren sent a...
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Panbo classifieds forum launched
Several years ago we launched a new Panbo site based on all new software, but we did leave behind the old classifieds section. It’s been on my todo list since then to launch something new — and Ben Ellison has been persistently urging me to as well — so I’m here to tell you I’ve finally done it. The Panbo Classifieds forum is our fifth major forum category and available at the bottom of the forum list.
Finally! Raymarine SeaTalk NG to NMEA 2000 backbone adapters
Raymarine’s SeaTalkNG is Raymarine’s proprietary version of NMEA 2000 cabling. It’s compatible with NMEA 2000’s standard DeviceNet cabling through the use of adapters. But, until very recently, Raymarine has not offered an adapter to convert the blue-striped SeaTalkNG (STng) backbone cables, only the white-striped spur cables. Good news! Raymarine now offers cables that adapt STng backbone to male (Raymarine Part number A80674) and female (A80675) N2K connectors.
Garmin buys GEOS, good or bad for SEND distress services?
SEND is not a commonly used acronym, but it’s especially worth understanding because Garmin just acquired GEOS Worldwide, the company that runs “the only global Search and Rescue Coordination Center for Satellite Emergency Notification Devices (S.E.N.D.).” If you own a Garmin inReach this is almost undoubtedly good news, but what about boaters who use other SEND distress, tracking, and messaging systems like Globalstar Spot, Iridium GO, Inmarsat IsatPhone, Zoleo, Skymate Mazu, and others?…
Panbo Podcast #6 – Raymarine’s YachtSense with Josh Wilson
I had the pleasure of discussing YachtSense, Raymarine’s new yacht management and digital switching platform, with Josh Wilson. Josh is the global product manager for YachtSense and has worked on developing the product for...
Teledyne buying FLIR, what does it mean for Raymarine?
Teledyne Technologies and Flir have announced that Teledyne will buy FLIR for 7.36 billion dollars. This is certainly an interesting development given FLIR’s March 2020 announcement that they wanted to sell Raymarine. That was...
Where’d the watts go? Inverter/charger conversion losses mount up
I’m getting Have Another Day ready for a pretty major upgrade from her current flooded lead-acid GC2 golf cart batteries to a MasterVolt LiFePo4 lithium iron house bank. There were a few surprises along...
Panbo Podcast Episode 5 – Maretron MPower with Frank Emnett
Frank Emnett, Maretron’s Vice President of Monitoring and Control Software, and I sit down to discuss MPower. MPower is Maretron’s digital switching platform and it’s scheduled to be available in mid-February for both new...
Panbo Podcast episode 4 – Siren Marine 3 Pro with Dan Harper
Dan Harper, Siren Marine’s founder and CEO, joined me to talk about the Siren 3 Pro boat monitoring system. Siren’s latest boat monitoring products bring built-in NMEA 2000, bi-directional wireless sensors, 4G LTE communications,...
OSCAR: artificial intelligence at your masthead
The product name “OSCAR” is an acronym for the very valuable, though challenging, collision avoidance work attempted by the multi-camera masthead pod above, along with its processing unit and display apps. Which is Optical System Cognition And Ranging. But the developers also anticipated the usage I’ve noticed in videos showing extreme offshore racing sailors using the system: The skippers tend to call the system “Oscar” like he’s an extra crewman they’re really glad to have on board…
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