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NOAA’s free chart policy strikes again! Maptech will no longer sell Outdoor Navigator, the nifty PDA (both PocketPC and Palm) and Smartphone charting program sort of shown above. The developer, Jeffrey Siegel, has decided to go independent, largely because he...
I would have posted earlier today, except that fooling with this Garmin 376C vividly reminded me (above, and bigger here) that the spell of dry, sunny weather was about to end. So I spent some hours...
Above is output from a free program developed in France called GPSActionRelay. It is written in Java, and will suppossedly run on any operating system. Features include replay of several boats in a regatta, polar...
Heck, let’s make this Jeffrey Siegel day at Panbo. You see what I didn’t mention below is that Siegel is also the developer of Maptech’s Outdoor Navigator, an excellent PDA (Palm and PPC) charting program...
ACR sent out a press alert about the first rescue credited to its relatively new GPS equipped Personal Locator Beacon. I can’t find any other Web references to the incident, which involved a pair of divers...
Truly ruggedized PDA with lots of features you would like to see in such a device when using it aboard a ship. “A company in UK called Node has developed the world’s first consumer...
IBI News reports that B&G will demonstrate its RemoteVision wireless autopilot/instrument control system at the Southampton International Boat Show in September. Can’t find anything about it, except for a short quote from Conrad Humphreys,...
Motor Boating Magazine takes a look at one of the ships participating in the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally, a high-seas adventure from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., to Gibraltar. There’s a lot of electronics stuff on board...
The early adopters of marine electronics can be found in the competitive fishing scene. Here’s a story on a guy who outfitted his boat to the fullest extend. Like the article says: “he’ll be...
Humminbird’s SmartCast Fish Finder Watch has been out for a while, and I’ve written about it before. But here is another link to it since a new weblog called Wrist Dreams has found out...
AIRMAR unveils new TriSonic Smart Multisensor
CarPlay arrives at the helm: Crest Marine and Balise Pontoons partners with Savvy Navvy on industry first
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