Done deal, Navico never sleeps
Just a month after the announcement in Miami, Navico closed its deal to buy Northstar, Navman, and MX Marine. I attended the post-announcement press conference in Miami, and even had a few words with Navico CEO...
Category: The Trade
NDI, bye bye?
NDI, or Nautical Data International, just announced that it’s selling its exclusive right to produce and license digital versions of Canadian charts back to the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), effective on March 30. It sounds like that’s the end of...
Navico buys BNTME, hello Simrancestarman!
I was out on a FLIR demo cruise this evening, well worth reporting on, but at one point a lot of cell phones got busy, belonging mostly to people who had once worked for...
Almost 2007, still time to catch the Cluetrain
I just had the disheartening experience of having the Web version of something I once wrote censured because one the electronics companies involved—or someone who thought they had that company’s best interest in mind—didn’t like it....
Maretron & Carling, more N2K happiness, mostly
The screens above, bigger here , show Maretron’s prototype for N2KView, an engine (and more) monitoring program. Of course it handles most any raw NMEA 2000 data in a boat’s backbone, including J1939 engines...
The GPS universe in a box, a visit to ACR
I’m still on the road, friends, now in Ft. Lauderdale, and this afternoon I got an eye-opening tour of ACR’s production and R&D facility. I saw a lot of impressive stuff in terms of...
Simrad doesn’t do NMEA 2000, NOT!
“Such is the upsurge in demand for systems integration that any embedded system needs to communicate with both PCs and other equipment via open protocols such as the standard NMEA 0183 and/or the updated...
Panbo in Cape Town, so far away and yet…
Well, I’d figured that posting might suffer, but I had no idea how long a two day plane trip and a miserable hotel WiFi voucher card system could knock me off line (why is it so easy...
Navionics fixes ledge, comments on C-Map deal
I don’t know if it’s The Panbo Effect in action (grin), but Navionics is now shipping chart cards that include the infamous Burnt Coat Harbor back way ledge. The company also gave me an official comment...
Boeing/Jeppesen/Nobeltec buy C-Map, meaning ???
Intermittent WiFi in Cuttyhunk, fog in Fisher’s Island Sound, a greasy scallop and bacon pizza, one engine overheating…it was a hell of a cruise, really! I’ll share more later, but I’m tickled to arrive home and find that two...
