The Marine Electronics Hub
A couple of weeks a go I mentioned Ascend Marine’s Deep Blue Marine’s Anchor Alert, a wireless anchor monitoring system. To make the anchoring experience completely wireless (except for the anchor chain…), I got...
Instead of, or in addition to, using LCD displays all over the boat to display relatively simple, but important, instrument data, why not use a fiber-optics jacket that is wirelessly connected to the boat...
When I was going through the log-files of this website I noticed that many people come here searching for rugged cellphones. Fortunately, Siemens unveiled the ruggedised M65 this week. Not sure if it’s really...
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...
A detailed look (pdf) at current VSAT offerings by bdp1 Consulting, triggered by Boeing’s Connexion announcement. It is very much focused on the off-shore and cruising industry, but at the end comes a very...
It’s not because the are the best or the first, but the news that HP has introduced a rugged notebook (nr3600) and a rugged Tablet PC (tr3000) shows that these types of computers are...
Every now an then I will give you a glimpse into the electronic and communications heart of some of the most remarkable yachts in the world. Today we’ll have a look at Cheyenne (former...
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...
The concept of marinas offering Wi-Fi internet access will by now be clear to most. Fortunately, more and more service providers are popping up, all over the world. YachtMama’s YachtSpot is the latest, so...
A company called Marine Robotic Vessels (MRV) International has developed the Ghost Guard. This brilliantly named vessel (an Unmanned Surface Vessel or USV) uses some technologies that will hopefully be available to all of...
