This C-Map POI data is the best available, but it’s still full of errors.It’s my good fortune that I get to spend many a fine summer’s day hanging around beautiful, bustling Camden Harbor, Maine. Often I’m fooling with some new charting wonder because that’s my job, and often I’m also scanning locally busy VHF channels because I’m
This C-Map POI data is the best available, but it’s still full of errors.It’s my good fortune that I get to spend many a fine summer’s day hanging around beautiful, bustling Camden Harbor, Maine. Often I’m fooling with some new charting wonder because that’s my job, and often I’m also scanning locally busy VHF channels because I’m
Garmin chose the huge Marine Electronics Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam to preview an entirely refreshed marine line that will roll out during the first half of 2007, and I wasn’t the only bowled-over observer. We saw 20-something new products all boasting a sleek, new casing design as well as an intriguing new interface platform. For example, the latest
While BMW’s optional Night Vision is winning raves for its ability to help drivers see obstacles beyond their headlights, I’d argue that the same thermal technology is even more valuable for negotiating a pitch-black channel or recovering a person overboard. So isn’t it nifty that BMW’s 70,000 cameras-a-year order is why manufacturer FLIR can now offer marinized
With its YTS model, Nautamatic is finally offering a conventional control head for its unconventional yet well-proven autopilot technology. In fact, the three buttons and dual-function knob (steering or course setting) are about as simple as it gets and a welcome contrast to its original ten-button wired remote. You still get the remote and its unique facilities
A Lauderdale line that rings true: “19-inch is the new 15-inch.” We want bigger displays, and bezels are getting thin enough that we can have bigger in almost the same helm space. Raymarine’s elegant G190 monitor is a good example, featuring nine video inputs with direct-access keys and flexible PiP (picture-in-picture) ability. Its front side is waterproof and,
All the new features of Nobeltec Admiral 9.0 may not be built into the Simrad GB60 yet, but I’ll bet they will be eventually. Simrad has clearly worked closely with Jeppesen Marine—why reinvent the software wheel?—in creating a complete high-end, PC-based navigation system. The setup shown costs $28,000, including the three specially developed,
The full name for this high-end $1,200 PC navigation package, Jeppesen Marine’s Nobeltec Admiral 9.0, has become a mouthful—and its $490 little brother, Jep…tec Visual Navigator Suite (VNS) 9, even worse—but I dare say that the similarly long list of “choice” new features, and especially new Plus Pack options, will be much appreciated. The left
Garmin offers so many plotters these days! The 32xx series—in 05, 06, and 10 models, i.e. screen sizes—is an update to the top-of-the-line networked 30xx series, still in production, the major difference being that all U.S. charts, in the new BlueChart G2 format, are now built right in. Shown is a $2,667 3210, which is running an optional G2 chart card that adds
Brunswick New Technologies Marine Electronics (BNTME), is calling its new Northstar and Navman radar units “the industry’s first High Definition (HD) Digital Radar solution.” Five available scanners, ranging from a 2-kW, 18-inch radome to a 25-kW, 84-inch open array, will work with either the 6100i or 8000i multifunction displays (and the smaller units will also
If Navionics charts come on standard CF and SD memory card formats, why do you need the special card reader shown to view them on a PC? The answer—that Microsoft operating systems would not provide the expected file security—supposedly played a large part in NavPlanner’s much-delayed release and its $129 price tag. But Navionics itself has to take
This article originally appeared in the May 2006 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
This C-Map POI data is the best available, but it’s still full of errors.It’s my good fortune that I get to spend many a fine summer’s day hanging around beautiful, bustling Camden Harbor, Maine. Often I’m fooling with some new charting wonder because that’s my job, and often I’m also scanning locally busy VHF channels because I’m
This C-Map POI data is the best available, but it’s still full of errors.It’s my good fortune that I get to spend many a fine summer’s day hanging around beautiful, bustling Camden Harbor, Maine. Often I’m fooling with some new charting wonder because that’s my job, and often I’m also scanning locally busy VHF channels because I’m
Garmin chose the huge Marine Electronics Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam to preview an entirely refreshed marine line that will roll out during the first half of 2007, and I wasn’t the only bowled-over observer. We saw 20-something new products all boasting a sleek, new casing design as well as an intriguing new interface platform. For example, the latest
While BMW’s optional Night Vision is winning raves for its ability to help drivers see obstacles beyond their headlights, I’d argue that the same thermal technology is even more valuable for negotiating a pitch-black channel or recovering a person overboard. So isn’t it nifty that BMW’s 70,000 cameras-a-year order is why manufacturer FLIR can now offer marinized
With its YTS model, Nautamatic is finally offering a conventional control head for its unconventional yet well-proven autopilot technology. In fact, the three buttons and dual-function knob (steering or course setting) are about as simple as it gets and a welcome contrast to its original ten-button wired remote. You still get the remote and its unique facilities
A Lauderdale line that rings true: “19-inch is the new 15-inch.” We want bigger displays, and bezels are getting thin enough that we can have bigger in almost the same helm space. Raymarine’s elegant G190 monitor is a good example, featuring nine video inputs with direct-access keys and flexible PiP (picture-in-picture) ability. Its front side is waterproof and,
All the new features of Nobeltec Admiral 9.0 may not be built into the Simrad GB60 yet, but I’ll bet they will be eventually. Simrad has clearly worked closely with Jeppesen Marine—why reinvent the software wheel?—in creating a complete high-end, PC-based navigation system. The setup shown costs $28,000, including the three specially developed,
The full name for this high-end $1,200 PC navigation package, Jeppesen Marine’s Nobeltec Admiral 9.0, has become a mouthful—and its $490 little brother, Jep…tec Visual Navigator Suite (VNS) 9, even worse—but I dare say that the similarly long list of “choice” new features, and especially new Plus Pack options, will be much appreciated. The left
Garmin offers so many plotters these days! The 32xx series—in 05, 06, and 10 models, i.e. screen sizes—is an update to the top-of-the-line networked 30xx series, still in production, the major difference being that all U.S. charts, in the new BlueChart G2 format, are now built right in. Shown is a $2,667 3210, which is running an optional G2 chart card that adds
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Brunswick New Technologies Marine Electronics (BNTME), is calling its new Northstar and Navman radar units “the industry’s first High Definition (HD) Digital Radar solution.” Five available scanners, ranging from a 2-kW, 18-inch radome to a 25-kW, 84-inch open array, will work with either the 6100i or 8000i multifunction displays (and the smaller units will also
If Navionics charts come on standard CF and SD memory card formats, why do you need the special card reader shown to view them on a PC? The answer—that Microsoft operating systems would not provide the expected file security—supposedly played a large part in NavPlanner’s much-delayed release and its $129 price tag. But Navionics itself has to take
This article originally appeared in the May 2006 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
