On Merrimac we carry a lot of NMEA 2000 equipment. The backbone runs the length of the boat and serves some two dozen physical devices —…
The Navico (B&G, Simrad and Lowrance) chart plotters running on NOS, so the Zeus, Vulcan, NSS, NSO, Carbon etc. devices have a little known feature…
For some reason our washing machine has a mind of its own and doesn’t listen to us anymore, it only runs a centrifugation cycle of…
Ricardo of KM did an excellent job in getting the troublesome thrust bearing into shape. It’s not perfect but good enough for us to go.…
Last Thursday a final check-up was done by one of the yard mechanics and he found an issue with the thrust bearing (Dutch: stuwdruklager) which is…
I just installed an Ecopilot device made by Lecomble et Schmitt from France. Let me tell you what this does and how much of a difference it makes to…
My Navico NAIS-300, like most other commercial AIS class B products that have been available for a while, uses the SRT AIS class B OEM board. I…
The server that CANBoat runs on was always designed to run 24 by 7. This means that it must be reliable and use little power.…
One of the first things that people ask me when I show them my app on the iPhone or iPad is where they can download…