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Dec
31
NavPak Pro review
Filed Under Practical Sailor, navigation, software | 4 Comments
NavPak Pro provides the most complete set of features for dead reckoning, however I didn’t recommend it for most sailors in this Practical Sailor review.
May
30
Armchair navigation on Windows with live AIS data
Filed Under NMEA0183, Practical Sailor, navigation, software | Leave a Comment
To help me test navigation software for an upcoming Practical Sailor review, I wanted a way to simulate NMEA 0183 data streams from a GPS and a wind sensor.
I discovered NemaTalker (29 euros) and the free open source com0com. This software combination allows me to simulate sailing through any area of the world, in [...]
Feb
24
At the Seattle Boat Show in February 2000 I had an opportunity to speak with Kevin Thompson of Maretron.
Maretron is a manufacturer of NMEA 2000 products. NMEA 2000 is an advanced standard which allows for marine sensors, displays and computers to be connected together. NMEA 2000 is based on CANBUS, which is performs the [...]
Jan
25
Animated weather forecast
Filed Under navigation, software, weather | 1 Comment
This is my favorite feature of all the products I reviewed for the navigation software survey I wrote for Practical Sailor Magazine and Power Boat Reports.
GRIB weather data is provided free of charge by NOAA. Newer navigation products can display GRIB weather data such as pressure isobars and temperature, as well as sea state. Coastal [...]
Jan
24
NMEA 0183 Multiplexers
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I am preparing a review of high speed NMEA 0183 multiplexers for Practical Sailor Magazine. Your chartplotter can act as your boat’s ‘nerve center’, but only if all your instruments can connect to it. NMEA 0183 is the most common standard for connecting marine instruments together, and a NMEA multiplexer is necessary to connect many [...]
Sep
5
Navigation Software Wars
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Maptech masters the art of making sense; at 15 years old, The Cap’n charts a new course.
I sold another feature article to Practical Sailor Magazine; my editor (Darrell Nicholsen) also put a lot of time into this monster review. Of all the articles I have written, this one took the longest to research by [...]