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I have collected together data on 35 boats that are popular some even legendary in Europe. The ratios calculated are those that are often quoted by magazine reviewers, and I was interested to try and get to understand what these ratios really meant – and also to see how boats that have a great reputation fare when compared to each other using these ratios. I would be happy to add your boat if you can supply the data that you can see on the ‘data’ tab. Just contact me to add your boat. You might think I am going off the point by talking about computers but they are really going to be a force to be reckoned with in the future. The marine electronics industry is going to have to withstand quite an assault on the high priced chart plotters and peripheral equipment that they are used to supplying, and the laptop I am referring to here is an early example of what is to come. As is the HTC 7501 I referred to before. Toshiba have also launched a new Portege R500
I presume that some of you will still remember the excitement of opening your Christmas presents and discovering something quite unexpected but greatly prised (not socks from your Great Aunt!) ….well this is one for you – go out and buy a PowerMonkey Explorer straight away…no if’s or but’s – go get one. It will charge your mobile devices when you are far from an electric power socket, even if you are rich enough to have a generator – your don’t have to switch it on – and it is a “green” product incorporating solar Anyone who has recently bought a laptop or PC with Vista on it may have discovered that there is no Hyperterminal software. You may also realise that this useful bit of software is needed to update configurations on marine electronics like multiplexers. Not to worry..Microsoft only bought the software from Hilgraeve any way and you can go and download the real thing from their site… An alternative piece of software is Poderosa which is open source and therefore free software. If you have had to configure a unit such as a multiplexer you will have come across the part in the manual where it says use Hyperterminal. This is a free communications program that you can use to monitor the signals going in/out of the serial port on your laptop and to send configuration commands from the laptop to the multiplexer. For example to set one of the ports on the multiplexer to a higher speed such as 38,400 baud suitable for connecting your AIS unit. Signals and data from the AIS would then be routed via the multiplexer to your |
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