Check out the full size screen shot. I took it here at my desk while designing a custom screen for Maretron’s N2KView monitoring and control application. I was picturing myself the master of a high-end cruiser putting together the screen I’d like to have accessible anywhere on the boat—and off it—when anchored.

I’m not sure what Raymarine’s rational is for creating its own proprietary NMEA 2000 cabling system, though I’ve been studying the brochures and manuals available (on Ray’s nicely updated site). Aside from the small diameter (11mm) of the connectors, the features touted in the ST70 brochure…

In addition to the tank/rudder adapters I tried, Maretron sent over  some new cabling parts of interest. Let’s check out the big picture, starting with the quadruple tee at lower right…

I recently added tank level and rudder angle info to the lab’s NMEA 2000 network. In both cases this involved wiring a Maretron Adaptor to a standard analog sensor. N2K skeptics will no doubt gleefully point out that the two sensors…