Marina Wi-Fi As It Should Be
Located in Portland, Maine, DiMillo’s Marina at Long Wharf seems to have done everything right when it comes to letting boaters connect to the internet as easy as possible. They even took advantage of...
Category: Wireless & Apps
Bluetooth-enabled GPS
Lots of ‘gadget’ news today somehow…. A GPS/Bluetooth combination is not something new, but this implementation by Mobile Tracker is quite nice because the device is battery powered as well. Which allows for a...
More Wi-Fi At The Dock
Can you imagine that here are still marinas out there that do not offer Wi-Fi internet access…? It won’t be long before yacht owners expect to have it like they expect to have water...
B&G’s RemoteVision
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,...
Getting MP3s Into The Cockpit
I have been looking for easy ways to get the music from my MP3 player into the cockpit of my 21ft boat that I use to travel the Amsterdam canals. Here’s a good, and...
Harbormaster Mark II
I was talking about having problems with watching and securing my own boat the other day. Here’s another solution for those of you with similar problems (and a GSM cellphone…). “The Harbormaster Mark II...
Marina Internet Kiosks With Added Wi-Fi
If you happen to be a big marina operator, may be you will be able to develop a business case for this solution at $60K per installation. I’m sure you will please a lot...
Offshore Wi-Fi
An article on TeleSea, the company that provides Wi-Fi within 30 miles of the (US) coast. Still pretty expensive I must say, and it’s primarily being used by commercial ships at this moment. But...
First Wireless Fish Finder Wrist Watch
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...
Yachtwatcher
Not a first of its kind, but German firm NAVCOS has launched Yachtwatcher YW 5000, which sends a text message to a yacht owner’s mobile phone in the vent that it is broken into...
