Electronics That Can Save Your Life At Sea
Of course you can read this weblog to learn all about marine equipment that might save your life someday, but now there’s also a new three-part video series called “Taking the Search Out of...
Category: How-to
Upgrading Your Boat’s Electronics
Some advice on how to choose, install and upgrade you boating electronics, from sonar units to marine batteries. The article focuses on anglers, but some of this advice is relevant to all boaters. “The...
Installing A GPS Chartplotter
Boating World’s Chris Caswell has written a short how-to on installing a GPS Chartplotter. He uses Magellan�s FX324 Map GPS Color Plotter as an example. “Today, however, navigational accuracy with a GPS/chartplotter combo is...
Boating Season Resolution
Some real-life lessons on boat electronics to be found in the latest Ocean Navigator marine electronics eNewsletter by Chris Parker, sailing from Bermuda to Puerto Rico. “There�s often a deeper lesson, and here it...
A How-To On Inverters
In order to help you power all these great devices that are being presented on this weblog, Ocean Navigator has released a newsletter discussing the necessity of inverters and how to install them. “Inverters...
Boats & Wi-Fi: ‘Warboating’
A quite funny quote from a Netstumbler forum thread shows very well that the combination of Wi-Fi and boating is still in the early adopter stage, and that ‘wardriving’ has its equivalent at sea…....
The Manual Importance
Tom Isitt, in his editorial piece for the Motor Boat & Yachting May issue, confesses that he always reads the manual of the gadgets he buys. Lot’s of people do not, and that’s probable...
Battery System Wiring Hookups
I know a lot of the high-end electronics that are being presented here require power. Lot’s of it. So every time I come across an article or how-to-guide helping you to make sure this...
Automatic Packet/Position Reporting System
Tony Gutierrez pointed me at APRS, an Automatic Packet/Position Reporting System. ARPS is a real-time tactical digital communicatons protocol for exchanging information between a large number of stations covering a large (local) area. As...
