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 Northstar, Navman, or the “Brunswick New Technologies Marine Electronics” mouthful they became. Brunswick has been trying to sell this unit for at least a year, and tonight a buyer was announced: Navico, the conglomerate that already owns Simrad, B&G, and Lowrance. I’m pretty sure that makes Navico the biggest swinging you-know-what in marine electronics, but, my, that’s a lot of brands, a lot of development platforms, to make sense of.