Digital Yacht Nomad
Digital Yacht’s Nomad portable Class B AIS transponder received a DAME Special Mention and as someone who once did numerous yacht deliveries I certainly agree with the judges about its potential…
New in safety: Exposure OLAS Float-On, Vesper smartAIS deckWatch, and Digital Yacht Nomad portable AIS
The Exposure OLAS Float-On is one hell of a flashlight (or “torch” in Brit speak). That’s because it’s also an automatic water-activated MOB strobe light and a Bluetooth MOB alerting device that can network…
Ray marine MFD apps three ways: from drone control to sat comms to video streaming
MIBS 2018 saw the manufacturers putting the multi in MFD, with Garmin and Raymarine each introducing multiple new multifunction app and app-like display integrations interfacing to all sorts…
Touch Accuracy
As more data-driven and detailed applications are being developed for marine electronic devices and with the convergence of multiple devices, the user interface icons are becoming more densely grouped. The…
Sealability
Sealability is important since marine electronic devices are constantly exposed to salt and fresh water during use, not to mention inclement weather and the full wash down cleaning process. These…
Advantages of Surface Capacitive Technology for Marine Electronics Applications
Electronic devices have been used in the marine environment for decades and largely consist of navigation or global positioning system (GPS) devices, fish finders, chart plotters, and radar and video…
Cable TV
Cable TV is limited to working dockside because, well, there’s a cable connected to your boat. Cable is the easiest way for marinas to deliver TV to your boat but,…
Broadcast TV
If your boat primarily stays in a single area and you are interested in watching programs on the major networks or local channels, broadcast TV can make great sense for…
How to get TV on your boat, the choices expand
It’s no surprise that I get a lot of questions about the best way to receive and watch TV onboard. The traditional choices for homes were already more complicated on…
Social networking
Zoomed out view of all vessels on Lake Michigan Zommed in to just see Muskegon and Grand Haven Zoomed in even further to just Grand Haven Vessel details One of…
