Author: Russ

There is more to ETA on a sail boat…

  The SailTimer GPS was launched in the US recently for around US374 amid a lot of very interesting claims. Having researched the various technologies…

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Getting a Polar Diagram for your boat…

Having researched the articles on optimal routing recently, one of the many avenues of related research that presented itself was of course to do with…

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Chart plotting software..

While researching my 7 part article on Routing Software I came across a number of packages that just amazed me in their sophistication or some…

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EPIRB Update

  Last year I did a quick summary of the EPIRB products then available because I had come to replace my old 121Mhz EPIRB. The…

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5in. All in one chart plotter + AIS receiver for less than £500!

The Digital Yacht SC500A GPS Chart Plotter with built in AIS Receiver is really the sort of thing that the ill fated Raymarine RC400 could…

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