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Here Comes Class B, Part 2! Yacht-size AIS transponders are finally here, and they're worth the wait.

Autopilot Garminized The Kansas engineers put their touch on the TR-1 and enter the big leagues.

Early Adopter If you want the latest and greatest, you have to be smart about it.

Know the Flow Fuel management is getting more available, more sophisticated—and more important.

How's Your "Q"? Airmar manufactures the majority of depth- and fishfinder transducers in use.

Time Zero, Live On the water with Furuno NavNet 3D and one of its core architects.

Instruments, the New Generation A bounty of innovative NMEA 2000 gauges offer near-unlimited data-display choices.

Pocket Navigation It's amazing what they're squeezing into gadgets these days. Makes you wonder where it's all headed.

Down to the Wire Why 2008 is the ironic year of NMEA 2000.

iNavX iNavX is the work of the same development team that built the well-regarded GPSNavX and MacENC charting programs, and it shows.

Planar LX Mariner The global display company Planar has entered the little marine world with quite a splash.

ACR GlobalFix iPro ACR's new iPro GPS EPIRB earns its "next generation" marketing tag on three counts.

Cellranger STIX The seductive claim is that its microprocessor technology can analyze an arriving cell signal

Raymarine A-Series Raymarine has radically redesigned its A-Series of small plotters and plotter/fishfinders.

Cobra MR F300 BT The short-range Bluetooth wireless standard is now usefully making its way onto boats.

Standard BH-2 Standard Horizon’s BH-2 works with either the company’s new HX760S handheld or as an add-on to certain of its Quantum fixed VHF radios.

Callpod Dragon v2 When does an everyday Bluetooth cellphone headset become a desirable boating accessory? When a pair of them can also provide a captain and mate hands-free intercom capabilities up to 300 feet apart.

FloScan FloNet Hats off to FloScan for developing FloNet, one of the most NMEA 2000-friendly products tested.

Yanmar Smart Check Smart Check provides a complete virtual gauge set, monitoring some 40 engine, gear, and control functions.

Offshore Systems Pump Control and Tank Display Offshore Systems' new device offers some sophisticated management to those vessels set up with day tanks.

Lowrance Broadband Sounder This $799 black-box fishfinder networks to all current Lowrance displays.

Shine Micro RadarPlus AIS-BX You can now purchase Shine Micro's AIS-BX Class B transponder for $799 and use it as a high-performance, true dual-channel AIS receiver.

Bushnell ONIX 400 Bushnell's Onix 400 mapping GPS is designed primarily for hikers, but can deliver both XM Satellite Weather and Radio in a form portable enough to also go on the water.

Digital Yacht SPL250 Digital Yacht is expanding to the United States in a timely manner, given its emphasis on Class B AIS.

Simrad AI50 Simrad's AI50 is the most feature-packed Class B transponder available.

Furuno FA-50 Furuno's FA-50 is also an unusual Class B AIS transponder.

Icom MXA-5000 Is Icom a Johnny come lately for introducing the MXA-5000 AIS receiver just as Class B transceivers finally hit the market? I don't think so.