At least on B&G and I presume the same will be true for most Navico Chartplotters, there is a yellow wire as part or the
I have a B&G Chartplotter, a Zeus III. As soon as the NMEA power is turned on the Chart Plotter and all the instruments come
On Waiata we have a large battery bank and a large solar array. So Induction Cooking makes sense, right? Yes it does but you need
It’s not intuitive but makes perfect sense when you live through it. Late summer, hot muggy days with cloudy skies and brewing thunderstorms, can be
When getting ready to launch a spinnaker or Asymmetric sail, one of the first jobs is to run the lines along the boat. They normally
Sailors tend to live on myth, but there is science to seasickness and other motion sickness. The frequency of the motion counts. Scientists have known
We sail in a Lagoon 450 Sportop model. We call it our Condomaran and have no illusions about its performance. We are not hugely experienced
For those that do not understand MARPA is a Radar feature of alot of modern Radar. Its stands for Mini-automatic radar plotting aid which is
Watching boat after boat coming into an already packed dock the other day and then helping out as one boat squeezed into a space only
Marine weather apps like Windy or Predict wind are great and usually quite accurate, but they DON’T SHOW local short lived forecasts like thunderstorms. But